SIMO TCI was a computer expo held every November in

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, Spain from 1961 to 2013. Its name stands for ''Salón Internacional de Mobiliario de Oficina / Tecnologías de la Comunicación e Información'' (International Trade Fair of Office Furniture / Information and Communication Technologies), due to its origin. From 1991, it took place in Madrid's Exhibition Centre

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History

It was conceived as a trade fair devoted to

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and its first edition was held in 1961. In 1962 the

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and

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Gamma 60 where showcased, and as electronic, computer and telecommunications equipment were being introduced, the trade fair was gradually turned into a computer expo, to the extent that it would end up moving office furniture to a separate fair. Since 1969, there was more space devoted to computers that to office furniture, but until the late 1980s there was some exhibition space devoted to office furniture. In its most successful years from late 1990s to early 2000s, it was considered the second largest computer fair in Europe after

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, as more than 900 exhibitors were present, distributed in 65,000 m² taking up eight IFEMA pavilions, and reaching up 300,000 visitors. In the late 2000s the number of exhibitors started to decline. This led to the cancellation of the 2008 edition. In 2009 was resumed as ''SIMO Network'', devoted exclusively to business-oriented computing and IT professionals, but this approach wasn't successful and the last SIMO TCI took place in 2013. Taking advantage of the name, ''SIMO Educación'' (SIMO Education) was started in 2014 by IFEMA, devoted only to educational technologies and a much smaller scope (taking up only one pavilion and reaching up about 10,000 visitors).

Sectors (early 2000s)

Information technologies Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data and information processing, and storage. Information technolo ...

: computers, terminals, peripheral devices, components, consumables, audiovisuals, electronics **Reproduction **Office technology **Macworld Exposition **

Digital photography Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors interfaced to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film. The digitized image is ...

*Professional software:

operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

s and programming languages, vertical and horizontal applications. CAD/

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/ CAE,

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as Text (literary theory), writing, Sound, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. T ...

. **Architecture Software **

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area *Telecommunications: communications, mobile telephony, local area networks, interconnectivity, services, servers and operators *

E-business Electronic business (also known as online business or e-business) is any kind of business or commercial activity that includes sharing information across the internet. Commerce constitutes the exchange of products and services between businesses, ...

-Internet *

Consumer electronics Consumer electronics, also known as home electronics, are electronic devices intended for everyday household use. Consumer electronics include those used for entertainment, Communication, communications, and recreation. Historically, these prod ...

* Domotics

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Sectors (early 2000s)

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