Macworld Expo
Sydney Morning Herald
Monday December 12, 1988
NEXT month will see the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco's Moscone Center and Brooks Hall. Last year the show was so packed you couldn't get in to the opening speeches and you couldn't easily see all of the stands.
This show will see a change of emphasis. No longer will the Macintosh be pushed as "the machine for the rest of us". Instead it will be put forward as"the machine for the workplace", which seems logical.
At the Expo there will be a series of seminars, demonstrations and conferences.
The sessions cover such topics as:
* Getting the most out of Mac databases.
* Excel Macros.
* Desktop Presentations.
* Desktop Publishing.
* The MS-Dos-Mac connection.
Head man John Sculley and the charismatic diamond ear-studded Frenchman, Jean-Louis Gasse, will be principle speakers at the expo.
There will also be HyperCard sessions for users and developers. As well there will be seminars and workshops for beginners and advanced users, business and education users and developers and programmers.
They will all be over subscribed. The only way to get in will be to arrive early.
Other Mac news:
XTree hard disc manager - a long time favourite with PC users - is now available for the Macintosh. XTree/Mac provides Macintosh users with a comprehensive, tree-like display that allows for quick evaluation of a hard disc's contents and easy access to specific files and folders.
Steve Jobs, the man who co-founded Apple, has told a software developer to stop development on an interface for the Macintosh which appears similar to one on Jobs' NeXT workstations. Developer Rick Scherle designed an interface similar to NeXT's interface which is called Browser.
Like Finder on the Macintosh, Browser displays files, allows users to launch applications and open folders, but displays the information in vertical columns starting on the left with the root directory.
Scherle put it up on a Berkeley Macintosh user group bulletin board as a public domain product. He then received a personal call from Jobs.
This program is now cancelled.
© 1988 Sydney Morning Herald