Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!derek From: derek@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Derek J. LeLash) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Report on the Expo Message-ID: <9808@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 15 Aug 88 23:49:14 GMT References: <639@stech.UUCP> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: derek@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Derek J. LeLash) Organization: Software Development, Kiewit Comp Ctr, Dartmouth College Lines: 33 Here are some of my subjective impressions, based on one day (Friday) of hoofing around in the exhibition areas. What was good: - VideoWorks demos on giant Mitsubishi monitors. - Colony, a game from MindScape (a must-buy for II-owning game players) - SuperPaint 2 - the MegaZot card from MegaGraphics, which generated amazing Mandelbrot plots - RasterOps' 24-bit color monitors (even if I couldn't bear to look at them :-) - Symantec in general, and for an effective booth and neat contest. - MacConnection, where you could buy all the neat stuff you saw everywhere else. What was not-so-good: - Microsoft's booth - it was not conducive to the small-group demos they wanted - Many of the people staffing booths, especially of the larger companies, who acted more interested in selling things than in answering detailed questions. - The person who demo-ed SuperPaint 2 (If only I'd had 5 minutes with it... :-) - The weather...ACK! At least the air conditioning worked all day. - Apple's presentation - I'd have rather seen more announcements of new stuff as opposed to celebrations of old, but I guess that can't be helped much. Overall, I found the show to be much better put-together than I'd expected, considering its size - congrats to the organizers. And special repeated kudos to Rich Siegel and the Symantec people. The folks in our development team had a number of questions and concerns about Symantec products, which I'm told were well answered. Derek // Derek J. LeLash /|\"Every male in the Urga family has gone\\ // Derek.LeLash@Dartmouth.EDU //|\\ mad before the age of fifty. It's the \\ // Mercenary TechWriter, &c. // | \\ reason we make such good kings." (DE) \\ // "Welcome to BlitzNuke!" //dj|88\\ ==> DISCLAIMER: Oh, get real. <== \\