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There was no blotting the bleary enthusiasm of the quarter-million conventioneers who overwhelmed Las Vegas last week for the annual computer hype-athon known as COMDEX. Teetering local phone systems that tumbled nightly at 7, double-booked hotel rooms and taxi lines that lasted longer than a Siegfried and Roy show seemed much less inconvenient when viewed as proof of the rightness of the computer revolution. Surely, the logic went, this many people can't be wrong. Even the sobering news that cash-starved CompuServe (which carries TIME online) was scrapping its failing Wow service didn't spoil...
INCREDIBLE SHRINKING PC COMDEX's hottest technology appeared to do the impossible--import the legendarily clunky Windows desktop operating system to handheld computers from the likes of Casio, Compaq and Philips. The NEC Mobile Pro HPC runs fist-size versions of Microsoft Word and Excel on a 5-in. screen...
FASHION FORWARD No surprise that COMDEX attracted folks who are really attached to their computers. But literally attached? Yup. Rockwell, VIA and Xybernaut each offered "wearable" PCs. Xybernaut's Mobile Assistant II weighs 2 lbs., slips around your waist and runs on battery power...
...more TIME reporting from COMDEX, visit time.com/comdex
...odds, Syncronys still has one group of loyal supporters: those legions of customers who continue to report their satisfaction with SoftRAM 95. And the indomitable Poertner remains unbowed. He can be seen regularly on the Internet fiercely debating his critics. He also turned up last week at the giant Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas to announce new versions of SoftRAM, including one for the Macintosh...