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    COMDEX (an abbreviation of COMputer Dealers' EXhibition) was a computer expo trade show held in the Las Vegas Valley of Nevada, United States, each November...
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  • Commissions (IOSCO). iCOMDEX series consists of iCOMDEX Composite, iCOMDEX Base Metals, iCOMDEX Bullion, iCOMDEX Gold, iCOMDEX Copper and iCOMDEX Crude Oil. Subsequently...
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    and Microsoft Word for Windows would both make their debut at the 1988 COMDEX in Atlanta, Georgia alongside their respective booths. Like the Mac version...
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    entrepreneur. In the late 1970s, Adelson and his partners developed the COMDEX trade shows for the computer industry, beginning in 1979. It was one of...
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  • Visi On (section COMDEX demo)
    new VP of marketing, pushed for the system to be demonstrated at the fall COMDEX show in 1982. Others in the company were worried that the product was not...
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    heavily upon the older Voodoo Banshee product. Voodoo3 was announced at COMDEX '98 and arrived on store shelves in early 1999. The Voodoo3 line was the...
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  • version of the Office suite, announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX, contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint — all...
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  • Bill Gates, saw a demonstration of a similar software suite, Visi On, at COMDEX in 1982. The operating environment was showcased to the public in November...
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  • was a re-engineered version of Windows. First publicly demonstrated at Comdex 1991, NT 3.1 was released in 1993 in two editions: Workstation and Advanced...
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    prototype device, code named "Sweetspot", on November 16, 1992, at the COMDEX computer and technology trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States....
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  • 1991 and won over 30 awards the first year, including "best of show" at Comdex.[citation needed] The program was considered the first "end-user relational...
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    announced in 1984 and introduced by Denon and Sony at the first Japanese COMDEX computer show in 1985. In November 1985, several computer industry participants...
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    the West Coast Computer Faire, refusing to exhibit at any show other than COMDEX that also had PC-based exhibits. In 1983, Warren sold the rights to the...
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  • in personal computers and trade shows, founding the computer trade show COMDEX in 1979. They opened the 1.2 million square foot Sands Expo and Convention...
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    July 2021. Bill Gates (1994-11-14). "Information At Your Fingertips, 1994 Comdex Keynote". Archived from the original on 2007-11-10. Retrieved 2008-01-02...
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  • transition generator (stand-alone) called TransJammer. Byte "Best of Comdex" award at COMDEX. Similar to SGI version 1.3 plus some compositing features of the...
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    hands-free mobile headset that earned the "Best of show Technology Award" at COMDEX. The first Bluetooth mobile phone was the unreleased prototype Ericsson T36...
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  • Pavilion at COMDEX 1990 Interview with Dick Pick in the Pick Pavilion at COMDEX 1990 Interview with Jonathan Sisk in the Pick Pavilion at COMDEX 1991 Pick...
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    based on the 'Pearl' interface from Symbian Ltd. S60 was introduced at COMDEX in November 2001 and first shipped with the Nokia 7650 smartphone; the original...
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    flat panel monitors. ClearType was first announced at the November 1998 COMDEX exhibition. The technology was first introduced in software in January 2000...
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    compatibility with PC DOS 1.1 (and MS-DOS 1.1). This was shown publicly at COMDEX in December 1983 and shipped in March 1984 as Concurrent DOS 3.1 (a.k.a...
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    Tramiel product of the past. Atari unexpectedly displayed the ST at Atlanta COMDEX in May. Similarities to the original Macintosh and Tramiel's role in its...
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  • version of the game was also shown at a US demonstration at Las Vegas for COMDEX in November as well in a presentation done by Phil Harrison of Sony. This...
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    Transputer Workstation. The machine was first introduced at the November 1987 COMDEX with the name Abaq. Two versions were shown at the time; one was a card...
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    was entirely unofficial but was inadvertently demonstrated at the 1984 Comdex show, in Las Vegas, by an Apple employee whose mission was to demonstrate...
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    its Asian counterpart COMPUTEX and its no-longer held American equivalent COMDEX. CeBIT is a German language acronym for Centrum für Büroautomation,...
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    branding it the "NewsPad"; the project ended in 1997. During the November 2000 COMDEX, Microsoft used the term Tablet PC to describe a prototype handheld device...
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    developer, Gene Mosher, at the Atari Computer demonstration area of the Fall COMDEX expo in 1986. 1987 CAPACITANCE TOUCH KEYS - Casio launched the Casio PB-1000...
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    Eugene 'Gene' Mosher photographed by Barbara Mosher at the Atari Booth, ComDex, Las Vegas, Nevada on 17 November, 1986. Shown in the photograph is ViewTouch®...
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    computer operating system produced by The Software Link (TSL), announced at COMDEX in November 1986 for February 1987 release. PC-MOS/386, a successor to PC-MOS...
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