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Macworld Expo May Return to Boston
Anonymous Being of Power writes "According to a New York Post Article, Macworld New York may be held once again in Boston due to rising costs and lower attendance."
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Ah yes; that takes me back. :-) One other notable piece of software was Megamax C, and the amazing debugger whose name now escapes me...
I got Stephen Chernicoff to sign my copy of "Macintosh Revealed."
Me too! :-)
Someone was demoing software that created a small amount of RAM cache for the floppy drive. If you had a whopping 512K of memory, that RAM cache actually could speed things up a bit.
OK, so was MacBottom (hard-drive that fit under your Mac) at that first Expo?
What else was there? Overvue, from Provue Development, I think... Filevision from Telos, which was really mindblowing at the time.
I believe that RecordHolder may have had or shared a small booth.
I believe it was the 1986 MacWorld that had the huge inflated Macintosh outside promoting MacPublisher, a very early desktop publishing product.
I think 1986 was also the debut of Fontographer; Aldus PageMaker was out in 1985, but I'm not sure if it was out in time for the Expo.
In the first few years, MacWorld was really great. You could belly up to a booth and really try out and learn about new software. The people exhibiting the software generally knew a lot about it and were often developers.
In either 1985 or 1986, a weird British bearded guy was demo-ing this wild and nutty computer algebra system for the (not so large) masses. Guy's name was "Wolfram", like the element, and his software was called "Mathemagica" or something like that. :-)
Also in 1986 I believe was the introduction of this wild and crazy product called "HyperCard", a product that was so important but so ahead of its time that many younger people i talk to these days can't believe there was anyting like this in the bad old days.
But my favorite early MacWorld was 1987, since I basically had to sneak out from under my soon-to-be-inlaws in order to attend the thing...3 days before I got married in another state. I randomly ran into a Boston Globe reporter who made me part of her story in the paper on how...hyper-dedicated macophiles were in those days.
Ah, well... MacWorld may come back to Boston, but it will never be like 1985.
No, but neither you or I will ever be the same, either.
Babar
I think Apple just wants to hear people try to pronounce Jaguar in a funny Boston accent.