Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!husc6!lloyd!kent From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: So what happened at MacWorld? Summary: Nothing Message-ID: <479@lloyd.camex.uucp> Date: 15 Aug 89 23:34:37 GMT References: <1989Aug15.112144.23099@aucs.uucp> Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA Lines: 70 Peter Steele asks: "So what happened at MacWorld?" Answer: Nothing. 1) Apple had nothing to say or announce, except that MultiMedia is real cool. 2) Boston wasn't sweltering this year. Nice early in the show, rained towards the end. 3) Symantec was there upgrading Lightspeed C to Think C. Faster than waiting for UPS/whomever. (No one's posting show reports because they are too busy reading the new Think C manual.) The Objects are coming! The Objects are coming! 4) The Friday night Apple party was very hard to get invitations to, and many of those who did manage one, were turned away at the door (as early as 11pm) by a bouncer who said it was over, that the times on the invitations were a misprint. The one third-hand report I have had from the inside of the party is that the food was skimpy, nothing special all around. 5) The Microtech booth was busy selling SIMMs for $109. A booth at the World Trade Center site (sorry, I forgot the name) was selling high-profile, slow SIMMs for $99; $109 for the low-profile, 100 ns flavor. I bought 4 Microtech megs for my Plus at home. Makes it a respectable machine again. 6) LaCie was selling Fujitsu-based 180 Meg drives for $1100 !?!? Didn't see it with my own eyes, but my source in this one is usually accurate about such things. 7) I got to see Adobe's new font manager spit out nice fonts to a CRT. Looked about the same speed as Apple's coming outline fonts. If you need outline fonts before Apple makes it, buy Adobe's (assuming it really works, really ships, and doesn't need to own your machine), if you can wait for Apple to give it to you for free, wait. 8) DOW Chemical had a really nice color printer--if you have an extra $75000 sitting around, you like special paper, and you like buying QMS-ish ribbons. "Thermal sublimation" they call the process. Only color photography and the best art reproduction printing can stand up to it--to my eye. 9) QMS has a cheaper version of their hot wax color printer. Looks about as good as their earlier printer, but won't take as large paper. 10) One company had voice recognition hardware for the Macintosh. Looked to me like it would work very much like a voice driven QuicKeys. Needed to be trained for the speaker. Not cheap. 11) Kingsley ATF Type Corp is going to be producing some kick-ass fonts. Of all the type types (sorry) I talked to at the show, they were the only ones who knew anything about the 7.0 outline fonts. In the mean time, their about-to-ship PostScript fonts are going to have optical scaling (so big point sizes don't look too bold/small sizes too light), hinting, no copy protection, and cost about the same as Adobe faces. ATF owns zillions of traditional fonts, so they have a lot to draw upon. Adobe might sink fast folks. Following Apple's lead: now might be the time to sell all your Adobe stock. OK, I can only think of 11 things worth a comment. Total. A challenge to all who went to MacWorld: Can you come up with a top-ten list? kent@lloyd.uucp or ...!husc6!lloyd!kent