3 Aug
2005
3 Aug
'05
7:36 p.m.
>> hey kept inflating the published numbers.
Interesting... I guess they lied.
Of course, fun as Comdex was, it's no VCF! :)
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Fred Cisin
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:23 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Comdex (Was: WCCF (Was: VCF Midwest update?
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, 'Computer Collector Newsletter' wrote:
Conversely, I -- like many of you, probably -- was too
young for the
original WCCF but attended Comdex during the dot-com heyday. I went
every year from 98-2003 (or maybe it was 2002, whichever was the final
year).
Along with CES in January, Comdex filled up every
hotel room in Vegas,
had mutliple hundreds (thousands?) of exhibitors, and probably neared
100,000 attendees in its biggest years of the late 1990s/early 2000s.
Working for
Comdex's peak size was in about 1989.
By 1994, it was starting to shrink, but they kept inflating the published
numbers.
2003 was the end. I attended from 1983 - 2002, and exhibited 1986 - 1992
PC Week/eWeek, I got to attend a few of the famous
Spencer Katt parties.
But in those last two or three years, we all joked that could gauge
the show's success by the size of the cab lines, which went from
intolerable to a breeze.
Sorry for the OT, just reminiscing...
It's too bad that you missed the years with parties in the UNLV stadium
(Temptation, Mitch Rider, etc.)