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AmiWest 2008, the banquet will be Friday evening the 17th. The Show will be October 18th.


We have set up a blog -"amigaprez.wordpress.com" for the AmiWest 2008 news.

This news I have to post here also.

Did you guys read the news today?
Link: http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz:8080/news/2008-09-17/index_html


Exhibitors List 2008. You can click on it above or read it here.

This year’s co-sponsors:
Amigakit (Matthew Leaman) and
Individual Computers (Jens Schoenfeld)

> http://www.amigakit.com - Matthew Leaman - sales ( at ) amigakit.com -

Please check out Amikit's web site and request items you are interested in.

> Individual Computers - Jens Schoenfeld

Achim Dahlhoff, author of the Amiga-Catweasel drivers (multidisk.device) will be at the show.

Rich Drummond, presentation of OS4.1 ( on Sam440 ) on behalf of Hyperion.

> http://www.pagestream.org - DTP - Deron Kazmaier

> AMUC - Steven Solie

> AUGN - Bill Borasri - tekmage ( at ) tc3net.com - http://ugn.amiga.org

> www.discreetfx.com - Bill Panagouleas - ( DiscreetFX - panagouleas ( at ) gmail.com )

> Computer Connection - Louie Dituri

> Sacramento Amiga Computer Club

David Morris with Amiga.org will be bringing, EFIKA running a registered MorphOS2.1 to AmiWest & GBA1000 projects board.



Admission to the AmiWest 2008 show floor is on Saturday October 18th, from 9 AM until 4 PM. The banquet will be Oct. 17th, 2008 at 7 PM.

  • Door Prizes
    Hourly raffles will be held on Satuday AmiWest 2008 show where prizes will be given away. The prizes will be donated by the vendors and other sources. These can include hardware as well as software. You must be present at the raffle to obtain your prize. We will not ship prizes.
  • Dinner Reservations
    There will be a buffet banquet ( Price $29 ) on Friday evening, October 17th, starting at 7:00 P.M.
  • Our main speaker for 2008 will be Jens Schoenfeld.
    Information for AmiWest 2008
    c/o Chuck Washburn
    7051 Dolan Way
    Citrus Heights, CA 95621

    (916) 723-9846
    chela@calweb.com E-mail - Chuck Washburn - or
    theprez@infostations.com E-mail Brian Deneen - or
    clay@calweb.com E-mail - Web organizer -

    We have had reports of e-mail bouncing. We are having AmiWest 2008. Please try a different e-mail address if Chuck's e-mail bounces.

    Please put Amiwest in the subject line or Amiga. Spam is out of control & we don't want to miss wanted e-mail.

    Contacts if you have trouble with the forms.
    Please put Amiwest in the subject line or Amiga. Spam is out of control & we don't want to miss wanted e-mail.
    theprez@infostations.comE-mail Brian Deneen
    chela@calweb.com E-mail - Chuck Washburn

    Capital City Hotel   - Please note the name change (was Clarion )
    2600 Auburn Blvd.   - ( same address, only name change )
    Sacramento California 95821

    Hotel reservations:
    salesmgr@capitalcityhotel.com
    Reservations Phone 1-916-487-7600
    and by snail-mail at the above address.

    The transfer of names caused confusion with reservations. If you made reservations with the Clarion before 9-9-08, Capitol City Hotel will most likely not know about it. Make arangement with Capitol City Hotel because the main Clarion can NOT help with reservations with Capitol City Hotel.
    Capitol City Hotel web site
    Tell them you want the AmiWest Show price ( w/free breakfast )
     
    map to hotel -only Amiga browsers
    (not as pretty) for other than Amiga browsers
    link to www.mapquest.com
  • Get on our mailing list for the AmiWest 2008 and watch this site.

    Information for AmiWest 2008 &
    Chuck Washburn
    7051 Dolan Way Citrus Heights, CA 95621
    (916) 723-9846.  E-mail - Chuck Washburn

    Please put AmiWest in the subject line. Spam is out of control & we don't want to miss wanted e-mail.

    If you are a west coast Amiga user or an Amiga users group, and would like to help get the word out about AmiWest 2008, please help yourself to any of the text, graphics, banners, or links and include them on your web site. Feel free to use these banners to link your page with the AmiWest 2008 page.

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    A big thanks goes out to Jens Schoenfeld from Individual Computers for sponsoring the AmiWest 2007 show. The AmiWest committee thanks all the vendors for making AmiWest possible and for making it free admission for attendees for Amiwest 2007.

    Steven Solie wrote a very good article on AmiWest 07 posted on Amiga World .net.
    Here is a link to it.

    Steven Solie, AmiWest 2007 show report

    AmigaKit has pictures from AmiWest 2007 Take a look around, they have great things for our Amiga's.

    Amiga RoundTable audio and video link 2007


    These are some links about Sacramento that may be of interest to attendees of AmiWest 2008.

  • Links to more Sacramento & California sites
  • the Sacramento Business Directory site  for both Yellow and White pages
  • KXTV Channel 10 has Tower Cams and Doppler radar, etc
  • the Sacramento Bee newspaper web site
  • Historic Old Sacramento web site has links to attractions in Sacramento.
  • the Sacramento International Airport's web site
  • Super Shuttle the Sacramento International Airport's Super Shuttle web site
  • Currency Converter page for our Amiga brethren from other lands
  • For more information on AmiWest 2008 contact: Chuck Washburn, SACC Vice President
    Brian Deneen SACC President

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