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I didn't see any other replies, so I'll post briefly what I saw.

The booth is in the West Hall; it seems like it's near where past
Atari booths have been.   It's not huge, but it was pretty good
sized.

I didn't see everything, but here are the things that stick out:

* Spectre GCR, running on a Moniterm Viking monitor.  Very nice.
It also was running from a removable cartridge.   This is the
area in the Atari booth that seemed to attract the most
attention.

* There were a number of TT systems, running simple demos mostly.
(It reminded me of those early days of the 520 before there were
any real programs).  The CPU portion was a small flat type box,
with some humps on it.  They all had color monitors, many of
which were really blurry. The package isn't as ugly as I had
heard; it looks OK.  It was hard to tell the real performance
with just the demos running.

* A European company was showing an "Industrial Mega".  They
have basically put a Mega on a couple of small boards and
packaged it for an industrial card cage.   The guy said that
it costs about $2000.

* There was a demo of PageStream.  The output looked nice, but
I really don't know too much about the program.

* An assortment of CAD programs were shown, nothing that really
stood out.  They had a pen plotter hooked to one of them.

* A few DTP programs.  Usual stuff.

* Turbo16.   Fast.

* SGSnet.  A MIDI based network.  I have this now.  It looks
pretty real.  MIDI isn't very fast, but it does seem to work
pretty well.  It uses BNC type cables between nodes and has
a box at each node which connects to MIDI.  $169 for 2-user
and $109 for each addl. node.

* JRI was showing GenLock and other boards.  John now has
a board with GenLock, 4096 colors, and some other stuff
all in one.   He was also showing a setup for GenLock
directly on your color Atari monitor.  This looked really
nice.

* Some games were also shown.  I didn't look that close.
One was another F16, one was a Ferarri driving game.

* MIDI stuff - the usual as far as I could tell.

The general mood regarding Atari around the show was sort
of glum.  It's hard to describe.   It seemed like a lot of
people were looking at the Atari booth as if they were looking
at somebody lying in a hospital bed with a terminal disease.

There was a get together put on by Atari Wednesday night.
I must say it was very nice.  They have a new guy (well
actually a couple of new guys) - big surprise huh?

One of the new guys is handling Developer support.  He
gave a speach saying how he knows things are bad and that
they are going to be better in the future.  The thing is, 
it was a little different than some of the similar speaches
made in the past.  They mentioned specific things they
are going to do and the new guy Charles Cherry seemed a
lot more sincere than Sig ever did.  I will still wait for
actions to back up these words - but I must say I am a
little bit encouraged by what he said.
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