Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!rutgers!iuvax!purdue!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!ack From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Random notes from MacWorld Expo Keywords: MacWorld Message-ID: <15073@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 17 Aug 89 14:57:05 GMT References: <1696@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Reply-To: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) Organization: Kiewit Computation Center, Dartmouth College Lines: 57 In article <1696@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> leue@galen.crd.ge.com () writes: >Gee, it's been almost a week since MacWorld folded its tents in Boston, >and there's hardly been any net chatter about it! Come on, people, let's >talk it up a little! :-) Or was it just too boring/overwhelming/expensive/ >rainy for everyone? :-( Please, don't say "Rain" when we tried to go from WTC to Bayside, we got on the wrong bus. So, we got stuck in the middle of Boston in the rain. And with all that paper we got... ;-) >Biggest case of techno-lust brought on by a new product: for MacroMind >Director. It's just miles better than VideoWorks II, and Sagans more >expensive, too. More realistic for us on finite incomes is Studio 1, which >does real neat animation, but it's only monochrome, sob. Hey, I have a plus. Studio/1 is impressive! I bought it a few days before the Expo and went to the Electronic Arts booth with beaucoup de questions. They were very helpful and were able to answer all of them. Biggest case of techo-lust for me was the Pixar movies. All I need now is a IIcx and Renderman... *sigh* >Favorite tiny company: Imagine That! software, with their (only) product, >"Extend". How about the Computer Giftware (I think that's their name) with the Graphic Mouse pads, disk coasters etc? And of course, did everyone get their Smack-a-mac? I did and I am glad. I got a system bomb over something or other and beat the living crap out of that stuffed mac. Saved myself at least $1000... :-) >Best giveaways: shopping bags from MacUser and Addison-Wesley. Farallon too. In fact, it took three bags stuffed one in the other to keep all the stuff dry in the rain... >Biggest disappointment: All the book sellers kept running out of >Guy Kawasaki's book; I couldn't get one anywhere. (Of course, if I had >been able to read it, that might have been the second-biggest disappointment >:-). Yes! Actually, the show itself was a disappointment. There was nothing really new or exciting. Oh well at least it was cool this year. Last year was a nightmare... >-Bill Leue >leue@ge.crd.com -ajw Andy J. Williams '90 || ack@dartvax.dartmouth.edu 31 North Main Street | set $NAME='inigo_montoya' | Systems Programmer Hanover NH, 03755 | You kill -9 my ppid | Kiewit Computation Center 603-643-2177 | prepare to vi | Dartmouth College