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I stumbled upon the following on Delphi recently:


MacWorld Expo/Boston Daily Summary Report / Preview

Sunday, August 9, 1987

by Team BMUG members John Heckendorn, Raines Cohen, Ty Shipman, and Tom Santos

Sources: Visiting the show site, reading the show guide, and reading the
on-line networks.

Disclaimer: This is all rumor, hearsay, and guesses.  Do not treat this as fact
until verified.

Weather report: partly cloudy this morning, but now raining heavily, and
expected to continue to do so until tomorrow.  Tuesday should be sunny and
cooler though, highs 75-80 but breezy at Bayside Expo.

Travelers advisory #1: Get to the airport early!  Most flights to Boston are
overbooked.  It's OK to be bumped, so long as you are prepared!

Travelers advisory #2: The Red Line (the subway line that runs to the expo) is
under construction, so there may be substitute shuttle bus service to the
JFK/UMass station.  Allow extra time for travel, and pay attention to MBTA
officials to find your way around.

Show-site report: It is *BIG*!  Lots of folks are moving in early, two days
before the show.  The show takes up ALL of BaySide Expo this year.  Lots of
"tower" type booths (Lotus, MicroSoft, Centram, Ann Arbor, SuperMac, etc.) but
lots of smaller ones too.  Mitch Hall associates expects 45,000 total
attendance.

HIGHLY HYPED: LetraSet's ReadySetGo 4.0.  LOTS of big ads with a product under
wraps, big feature lists, etc.  We'll see at the show if it is any good and if
it is really done.

CONFIRMED: SuperMac Technologies, makers of the DataFrame hard disks, bought
LevCo, maker of a number of upgrades and accelerator cards.  SuperMac will
market LevCo's products, while LevCo will concentrate on research and
development, according to key sources at SuperMac.  The companies have not
yet determined the logistics of the deal.

CONFIRMED: The long-awaited Spring/Summer 1987 BMUG NL's have just rolled off
the presses, and they will arrive at the Expo Monday morning.  The 350-page
"newsletter" (more like a book, most say) contains tips, tricks, reviews,
advice, and other miscellany.  It will be available for sale and pickup by
BMUG members at booth #1538.

RUMORED: HyperCard (sometimes called WildCard), will SHIP at the show.  This is
a new product from Bill Atkinson that Apple is expected to bundle with every
Mac sold.  We did notice that in the show guide, the following appeared in the
description for Bantam Electronic Publishing, booth 657:

  * THE COMPLETE HYPERCARD HANDBOOK by Danny Goodman.  A comprehensive guide to
using and programming HyperCard.  Includes the only documentation available on
HyperTalk, the program generating language for HyperCard.

  * BUSINESS CLASS by Danny Goodman.  HyperCard stackware

Hmmm....  can you say "seeded author", boys & girls?


NETWORK NEWS:

* DataSpace will be introducing the TeleNode, a device allowing modem
connection to AppleTalk networks.

* Farallon will show real-time voice mail on AppleTalk nets using the
MacRecorder.

* LaCie (formerly Kammerman Labs) will be there with some incredible
remote-Mac-software over phone lines, needing no additional hardware besides
modems.

* FastNet, A SCSI network, from Dove, will be shown in booth #952.

* Internal 2400 baud modems for the Mac SE & II have been announced by Epic
Technology, booth #942.

HARDWARE:

HARD DISKS:

* LaCie will show some really neat, small, fast 60-megabyte drives, including
some internal Mac SE drives that let you KEEP BOTH FLOPPY DRIVES installed.

* SuperMac is shipping the XP60, for about $1600 retail.  It runs fairly fast
[they're loaning drives to most exhibitors during the show] and quietly.
SuperMac has also upgraded their manager software to be easier to use and more
reliable.  Booth #1434.

* FWB Software, booth #705, makers of Hard Disk Utility and Hard Disk
Partition, have announced the Hammer line of drives.  They are EXTREMELY fast,
according to first-hand reports from last week's BMUG meeting.  We haven't seen
better DiskTimer II results anywhere else.

* Software that lets you use several drives as one virtual volume will be out
at the show.

SOFTWARE:

STILL NOT YET SHIPPING: FullWrite Professional from Ann Arbor Softworks, booth
#1346.

TO BE ANNOUNCED: A PostScript Editor, written in MacForth, from Creative
Solutions Incorporated, booth #621.

* More 1.1c (Color) is shipping, and MORE (from Living VideoText Corporation, a
division of Symantec, booth #529) now includes a special version of David
Dunham's ACTA desk accessory with every copy, as a sort of "portable MORE".

* Paragon Concepts will be showing "InAWord", a full word processor, different
from QUED/M, their popular Macro text editor for programmers, at booth #1220.

PARTIES:

MONDAY:
Apple's at the Developer Conference
Guy Kawasaki's "RoboCop & Prime Rib" party (see: MACUS on CIS)

TUESDAY:
Macintosh Today
[unknown] - Commonwealth Brewery
MacWorld Awards Dinner - Copley Plaza - small, exclusive, you know the winners.
VersaCad cruise - you need an invitation
Apple CoDevelopers - try to find someone who heard of this one!
MAUG(tm), CE Software, Dreams of the Phoenix - Bostonian, 10 PM.  Good food.
The User Group party: BMUG, BCS, ICONtact...  Desserts & drinks, 9:30 PM



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Christopher Chow
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