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                              IFA FAIR REPORT
  Sergio Ruocco                                ruocco@tac.sm.dsi.unimi.it
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[Taken from comp.sys.amiga.misc, in response to a third-hand account of the
show]

When I was there (Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 Sept.) I was able to find the
AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES booth simply asking to IFA personnel at the Info kiosks
for "AMIGA": tha girl said "Oh, yes, it's hall nr.  xx" without browsing
the huge index)

When I arrived to the right place (browsing the entire fair) I saw a large
booth located in a angle of the showroom, very well laid out, in elegant
black with giant labels: AMIGA (with the small red square), Commodore (in a
different font), I-Glasses and ESCOM.

On the boot there was a big screen displaing real time AMIGA 4000 24 bit
animations and SCALA presentations.  On display there were a number of
A1200 and A4000T, three CD32 with FMV cards, ESCOM and Commodore PCs, and
the Virtual I-glasses connected both to the Amiga and to the PC.

Representatives at the stand were numerous (maybe 20) and from all the
companies: AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES, VIRTUAL PRODUCTS, ESCOM/COMMODORE and also
from external companies, like SCALA and Macrosystem, which were showing
their presentation program and the DRACO (Amiga clone without custom Amiga
chips, AMIGA OS 3.1 MC68060 @ 66 Mhz, 48 Mb ram, Retina & VLAB MOTION). 

I personally met and had a long talk with Mr.  Gilles Bourdin and Mr.  
Hohmann, both from AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES, with three people from SCALA, the
guys of MACROSYSTEM and Electronic Design.  All of them were very excited
of the feedback they got from the people attending the fair.  In
particular, Mr.  Bourdin was continously asked "When the AMIGA will be
available ?" by Video professionals from german and international TV
stations.

The booth was always filled with people looking at the computers, and
trying the i-glasses (very exiciting experience, indeed !).

Sergio Ruocco - ruocco@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it
Via Di Vittorio, 4
I-20019 Settimo Milanese Milano    Phone: 0039-2-3283896