Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "West Coast Computer Faire" in English language version.
Personal Computing magazine sponsored three shows called the Personal Computer Show! in 1977. The First Western Show was in Los Angeles in March, The First Eastern Show was in Philadelphia in April/May and The First New England Show was in Boston in June... COMDEX was a show organized by a company called The Interface Group Inc., which was founded by Sheldon Adelson in 1973. COMDEX is an acronym for COMputer Dealers' EXposition. The show is oriented to computer manufacturers, dealers and distributors. The first show was held in December 1979. COMDEX has become one of the largest computer shows in the world. It holds two major shows a year. In winter the show is in Las Vegas and in the spring it is in another major city such as Atlanta, Chicago or Toronto.
Fourth Personal Computer Faire San Francisco, Sept. 25-27. Contact: The Interface Group, Registration Department, 300 First Ave., Needham, Mass. 02194.
The exhibition for personal and business computer users was to have been held last Thursday, Friday and Saturday but "the way things are going with the computer industry at this time, 1985 was not the time to hold a new computer show," said David Small, a spokesman for Computer Faire Inc. The Newton, Mass.-based company, a subsidiary of Prentice-Hall, stages computer shows on both coasts.
May 11–13: At the 4th West Coast Computer Faire, held in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium & Brooks Hall, in a booth as elaborate as those seen at Consumer Electronics Shows, Atari demonstrated its new 400 and 800 series computers.
