(Fort Lee, NJ, July 9) -- The Tenth Annual PC EXPO in New York, the computer industry's premier show for corporate volume buyers and resellers, celebrated a decade of excellence by setting records for number of exhibitors and attendees. PC EXPO in New York, which was held June 23-25 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, boasted 735 exhibitors of computer hardware, software and services and 81,464 attendees. PC EXPO in New York affirmed its reputation as the premier forum for new technology. The PC EXPO product spotlight focused on smaller portables, pen-based PCs, multimedia, desktop publishing, graphical systems providing ease-of-use, and sharp price cuts in a competitive PC marketplace. Companies making product announcements at PC EXPO included: Acer, Adobe, Aldus, Apple, Borland, Compaq, Core International, Digital Equipment Corporation, Everex, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Logitech, Lotus, Micrografx, Microsoft, NCR, Sharp, Sony, SunSoft, Symantec, Toshiba, WordPerfect, Zenith Data Systems, and hundreds of other companies. For the first time, PC EXPO attendees accessed an official show network, ShowNet, designed, installed and maintained by Lante Corporation, a Chicago-based systems integration firm. In a unique Presidential election poll, more than 1,500 PC EXPO attendees cast their votes electronically on ShowNet, with 42 percent selecting Ross Perot, 28 percent favoring Bill Clinton, 17 percent favoring President George Bush, and 19 percent selecting "other." Attendees also obtained on-line information on PC EXPO exhibitors, products and special events, plus sent E-mail messages to other attendees and around the world . PC EXPO opened Tuesday with a keynote address by Gilbert P. Williamson, chairman and CEO of NCR Corporation, describing his vision of, "The Revolution in Information Technology; Its Implications for Business in the 90s" The first PC EXPO plenary addresses were delivered by Leland Reiswig of IBM Corporation presenting, "OS/2 Strategy Briefing -- OS/2 Live," on June 24, followed by Fernand Sarrat of IBM exploring "OS/2 -- The Next Dimension." Microsoft Corporation also presented daily Windows Technical Workshops. This year, PC EXPO featured the largest conference program ever, with 70 seminar sessions, including an expanded Windows conference track with nine sessions. Six PC EXPO Tutorials -- intensive, all-day sessions, were held on Monday, June 22. In 1993, PC EXPO in New York will take place June 29, 30 - July 1, again returning to the Javits Center. PC EXPO in New York is produced by Bruno Blenheim Inc., a part of Blenheim Group PLC, the worldwide producer of conferences and exhibitions with 250 events. The firm also produces PC EXPO in Chicago, NetWorld Dallas, NetWorld Boston, NetWorld Europe (in Frankfurt, Germany) and UNIX EXPO. +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | From the America Online New Product Information Services | +===============================================================+ | This information was processed with OmniPage Professional OCR | | software (from Caere Corp) & a Canon IX-30 scanner from data | | provided by the above mentioned company. For additional info, | | contact the company at the address or phone# indicated above. | | All submissions for this service should be addressed to | | BAKER ENTERPRISES, 20 Ferro Drive, Sewell, NJ 08080 U.S.A. | +---------------------------------------------------------------+