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title: "1999 West Coast Sinclair Show"
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# 1999 West Coast Sinclair Show

Organized by [Tim Swenson](http://localhost/indiv/tim-swenson/), the West Coast Sinclair Show was held in Union City, CA, on 5 June 1999, one week after the East Coast Sinclair Show.

### Vendors

- Tony Firshman ad his present QL controlled LEGO robot
- Roy Wood demoing software on a Q40
- Jochen Merz and Marcel shared a table with their wares
- Jack Boatwright, selling the last of the stuff from RMG
- John Rish (the sole US QL, Z88 dealer) had mostly Z88 stuff on his table
- Don Walterman, who had a Spectrum 128 set up

The key visitor to the show was the renowned author [Stan Kelly-Bootle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Kelly-Bootle), writer of many computer books, including the “Devil’s DP Dictionary”, and the holder of the first post-graduate degree in Computer Science (from Oxford).