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Good News, Bad News (7/12/98)
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From our point of view, a Boston Globe article about MacWorld Expo's return to Boston next year includes good news and bad news. Of course, your opinions may differ, but regardless, the info is interesting to note.
The good news is, when we heard that the '99 Expo was to be held only at the World Trade Center instead of both there and at the larger Bayside Expo Center, we hadn't heard that the show will actually be held at the World Trade Center and the brand-spankin'-new Seaport Hotel, right next door and with plenty of extra exhibit space and meeting rooms. We originally had a panic attack when we'd heard that the whole '99 Expo was going to be contained in the relatively small World Trade Center; that fact would imply that the show would shrink dramatically, when the probable success of the iMac should instead cause attendance to grow. So that's cool.
The bad news is, the move back to Boston may not be permanent; IDG officials are apparently considering changing the show's location every year, which we consider to be almost as bad an idea as using a web browser as the default interface to one's filesystem. Without a stable location, MacWorld's many parties and events won't be able to attract a regular groove of attendees. Not to mention the fact that another trip to New York would most likely bankrupt AtAT, but hey, that's entirely a subjective deal, y'know? Whatever.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 7/12/98 episode: July 12, 1998: Further info on the Return of the Prodigal Expo yields both reason to celebrate and cause for concern. Meanwhile, Uncle Bill demonstrates just how well-trained one can keep one's customers, when one holds all the cards, and the real reason for last week's flubbed Allegro network demo shows that the guts underlying even Apple's failed demos are technically sound...
Other scenes from that episode: 848: Pulling the Strings (7/12/98) With monopoly comes muscle, and lots of it. Remember how last week several PC manufacturers were strongly cautioning their customers about potential problems that could occur if they upgraded to Windows 98?... 849: Shoelaces Untied To Start (7/12/98) Faithful viewer Matt Steinecker wrote in to clarify what went wrong during last Wednesday's network speed test, which pitted a Mac running Allegro (soon to ship as Mac OS 8.5) against a PC running Windows NT...
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