chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) (08/10/87)
I stumbled upon the following on Delphi recently: MacWorld Expo/Boston Daily Summary Report / Preview Sunday, August 9, 1987 by Team BMUG members John Heckendorn, Raines Cohen, Ty Shipman, and Tom Santos Sources: Visiting the show site, reading the show guide, and reading the on-line networks. Disclaimer: This is all rumor, hearsay, and guesses. Do not treat this as fact until verified. Weather report: partly cloudy this morning, but now raining heavily, and expected to continue to do so until tomorrow. Tuesday should be sunny and cooler though, highs 75-80 but breezy at Bayside Expo. Travelers advisory #1: Get to the airport early! Most flights to Boston are overbooked. It's OK to be bumped, so long as you are prepared! Travelers advisory #2: The Red Line (the subway line that runs to the expo) is under construction, so there may be substitute shuttle bus service to the JFK/UMass station. Allow extra time for travel, and pay attention to MBTA officials to find your way around. Show-site report: It is *BIG*! Lots of folks are moving in early, two days before the show. The show takes up ALL of BaySide Expo this year. Lots of "tower" type booths (Lotus, MicroSoft, Centram, Ann Arbor, SuperMac, etc.) but lots of smaller ones too. Mitch Hall associates expects 45,000 total attendance. HIGHLY HYPED: LetraSet's ReadySetGo 4.0. LOTS of big ads with a product under wraps, big feature lists, etc. We'll see at the show if it is any good and if it is really done. CONFIRMED: SuperMac Technologies, makers of the DataFrame hard disks, bought LevCo, maker of a number of upgrades and accelerator cards. SuperMac will market LevCo's products, while LevCo will concentrate on research and development, according to key sources at SuperMac. The companies have not yet determined the logistics of the deal. CONFIRMED: The long-awaited Spring/Summer 1987 BMUG NL's have just rolled off the presses, and they will arrive at the Expo Monday morning. The 350-page "newsletter" (more like a book, most say) contains tips, tricks, reviews, advice, and other miscellany. It will be available for sale and pickup by BMUG members at booth #1538. RUMORED: HyperCard (sometimes called WildCard), will SHIP at the show. This is a new product from Bill Atkinson that Apple is expected to bundle with every Mac sold. We did notice that in the show guide, the following appeared in the description for Bantam Electronic Publishing, booth 657: * THE COMPLETE HYPERCARD HANDBOOK by Danny Goodman. A comprehensive guide to using and programming HyperCard. Includes the only documentation available on HyperTalk, the program generating language for HyperCard. * BUSINESS CLASS by Danny Goodman. HyperCard stackware Hmmm.... can you say "seeded author", boys & girls? NETWORK NEWS: * DataSpace will be introducing the TeleNode, a device allowing modem connection to AppleTalk networks. * Farallon will show real-time voice mail on AppleTalk nets using the MacRecorder. * LaCie (formerly Kammerman Labs) will be there with some incredible remote-Mac-software over phone lines, needing no additional hardware besides modems. * FastNet, A SCSI network, from Dove, will be shown in booth #952. * Internal 2400 baud modems for the Mac SE & II have been announced by Epic Technology, booth #942. HARDWARE: HARD DISKS: * LaCie will show some really neat, small, fast 60-megabyte drives, including some internal Mac SE drives that let you KEEP BOTH FLOPPY DRIVES installed. * SuperMac is shipping the XP60, for about $1600 retail. It runs fairly fast [they're loaning drives to most exhibitors during the show] and quietly. SuperMac has also upgraded their manager software to be easier to use and more reliable. Booth #1434. * FWB Software, booth #705, makers of Hard Disk Utility and Hard Disk Partition, have announced the Hammer line of drives. They are EXTREMELY fast, according to first-hand reports from last week's BMUG meeting. We haven't seen better DiskTimer II results anywhere else. * Software that lets you use several drives as one virtual volume will be out at the show. SOFTWARE: STILL NOT YET SHIPPING: FullWrite Professional from Ann Arbor Softworks, booth #1346. TO BE ANNOUNCED: A PostScript Editor, written in MacForth, from Creative Solutions Incorporated, booth #621. * More 1.1c (Color) is shipping, and MORE (from Living VideoText Corporation, a division of Symantec, booth #529) now includes a special version of David Dunham's ACTA desk accessory with every copy, as a sort of "portable MORE". * Paragon Concepts will be showing "InAWord", a full word processor, different from QUED/M, their popular Macro text editor for programmers, at booth #1220. PARTIES: MONDAY: Apple's at the Developer Conference Guy Kawasaki's "RoboCop & Prime Rib" party (see: MACUS on CIS) TUESDAY: Macintosh Today [unknown] - Commonwealth Brewery MacWorld Awards Dinner - Copley Plaza - small, exclusive, you know the winners. VersaCad cruise - you need an invitation Apple CoDevelopers - try to find someone who heard of this one! MAUG(tm), CE Software, Dreams of the Phoenix - Bostonian, 10 PM. Good food. The User Group party: BMUG, BCS, ICONtact... Desserts & drinks, 9:30 PM --- Christopher Chow /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Internet: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (128.84.253.35) | | Usenet: ...{uw-beaver|ihnp4|decvax|vax135}!cornell!batcomputer!chow | | Bitnet: chow@crnlthry.bitnet | | Phone: 1-415-643-2953, USPS: 2299 Piedmount Av, Berkeley CA 94720 | | Delphi: chow2 PAN: chow | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/
graifer@net1.ucsd.edu (Dan Graifer) (08/13/87)
In article <1947@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes: > >I stumbled upon the following on Delphi recently: > > >MacWorld Expo/Boston Daily Summary Report / Preview > >Sunday, August 9, 1987 > >by Team BMUG members John Heckendorn, Raines Cohen, Ty Shipman, and Tom Santos > >Sources: Visiting the show site, reading the show guide, and reading the >on-line networks. > >Disclaimer: This is all rumor, hearsay, and guesses. Do not treat this as fact >until verified. > >CONFIRMED: SuperMac Technologies, makers of the DataFrame hard disks, bought >LevCo, maker of a number of upgrades and accelerator cards. SuperMac will >market LevCo's products, while LevCo will concentrate on research and >development, according to key sources at SuperMac. The companies have not >yet determined the logistics of the deal. >Christopher Chow >/---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ >| Internet: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (128.84.253.35) | >| Usenet: ...{uw-beaver|ihnp4|decvax|vax135}!cornell!batcomputer!chow | >| Bitnet: chow@crnlthry.bitnet | >| Phone: 1-415-643-2953, USPS: 2299 Piedmount Av, Berkeley CA 94720 | >| Delphi: chow2 PAN: chow | >\---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Quoted without permission from the Wednesday, Aug. 12 Business section of the San Diego County edition of the L.A. Times (page IV-3): San Diego Levco Corp., a closely held manufacturer of accessories for Apple Macintosh personal computers, has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Scientific Micro Systems Inc., a publicly held computer peripherals company based in Mountain View. [...stuff about size of companies, and their officers ...] San Diego Levco president Roger Phillips said his company, which he described as basically an engineering company, saw the acquisition as attractive because of SMS's marketing and distributiion capabilities. ---END QUOTE--- Hmmm. Either the Delphi posters or the Times got their stories scrambled. I haven't seen Scientific Micro Systems in any of the Mac rags... anybody know who these guys are? Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MacWorld Expo Rumors... Summary: Expires: References: <1947@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: Reply-To: graifer@net1.UUCP (Dan Graifer) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: UCSD Office of Academic Computing Keywords: In article <1947@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes: > >I stumbled upon the following on Delphi recently: > > >MacWorld Expo/Boston Daily Summary Report / Preview > >Sunday, August 9, 1987 > >by Team BMUG members John Heckendorn, Raines Cohen, Ty Shipman, and Tom Santos > >Sources: Visiting the show site, reading the show guide, and reading the >on-line networks. > >Disclaimer: This is all rumor, hearsay, and guesses. Do not treat this as fact >until verified. > >CONFIRMED: SuperMac Technologies, makers of the DataFrame hard disks, bought >LevCo, maker of a number of upgrades and accelerator cards. SuperMac will >market LevCo's products, while LevCo will concentrate on research and >development, according to key sources at SuperMac. The companies have not >yet determined the logistics of the deal. >Christopher Chow >/---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ >| Internet: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (128.84.253.35) | >| Usenet: ...{uw-beaver|ihnp4|decvax|vax135}!cornell!batcomputer!chow | >| Bitnet: chow@crnlthry.bitnet | >| Phone: 1-415-643-2953, USPS: 2299 Piedmount Av, Berkeley CA 94720 | >| Delphi: chow2 PAN: chow | >\---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Quoted without permission from the Wednesday, Aug. 12 Business section of the San Diego County edition of the L.A. Times (page IV-3): San Diego Levco Corp., a closely held manufacturer of accessories for Apple Macintosh personal computers, has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Scientific Micro Systems Inc., a publicly held computer peripherals company based in Mountain View. [...stuff about size of companies, and their officers ...] San Diego Levco president Roger Phillips said his company, which he described as basically an engineering company, saw the acquisition as attractive because of SMS's marketing and distributiion capabilities. ---END QUOTE--- Hmmm. Either the Delphi posters or the Times got their stories scrambled. I haven't seen Scientific Micro Systems in any of the Mac rags... anybody know who these guys are? Dan Graifer graifer@net1.UCSD.EDU Disclaimer: Nobody ever listens to me anyways; Why should they start now?
chow@monet.Berkeley.EDU (Christopher Chow) (08/13/87)
In article <3657@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU| graifer@net1.UUCP (Dan Graifer) writes: |In article <1947@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu| Christopher Chow writes: ||CONFIRMED: SuperMac Technologies, makers of the DataFrame hard disks, bought ||LevCo, maker of a number of upgrades and accelerator cards. SuperMac will || ... | |Quoted without permission from the Wednesday, Aug. 12 Business section of |the San Diego County edition of the L.A. Times (page IV-3): | |San Diego Levco Corp., a closely held manufacturer of accessories for |Apple Macintosh personal computers, has signed a definitive agreement |to be acquired by Scientific Micro Systems Inc., a publicly held computer |peripherals company based in Mountain View. | |Hmmm. Either the Delphi posters or the Times got their stories scrambled. |I haven't seen Scientific Micro Systems in any of the Mac rags... anybody |know who these guys are? Isn't Scientific Micro Systems the manufacturer of IBM PC peripherials who recently bought out SuperMac Technologies? Chris.
mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw) (08/13/87)
in article <3657@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, graifer@net1.ucsd.edu (Dan Graifer) says:
[ in response to a rumor from BMUG that SuperMac had bought Levco ... ]
-> Quoted without permission from the Wednesday, Aug. 12 Business section of
-> the San Diego County edition of the L.A. Times (page IV-3):
->
-> San Diego Levco Corp., a closely held manufacturer of accessories for
-> Apple Macintosh personal computers, has signed a definitive agreement
-> to be acquired by Scientific Micro Systems Inc., a publicly held computer
-> peripherals company based in Mountain View.
->
-> [...stuff about size of companies, and their officers ...]
->
-> San Diego Levco president Roger Phillips said his company, which he
-> described as basically an engineering company, saw the acquisition
-> as attractive because of SMS's marketing and distributiion capabilities.
->
-> ---END QUOTE---
->
-> Hmmm. Either the Delphi posters or the Times got their stories scrambled.
-> I haven't seen Scientific Micro Systems in any of the Mac rags... anybody
-> know who these guys are?
According to a report in the San Jose Murky News, SMS bought SuperMac a while
ago. SMS is an established company formerly known for DEC Q-Bus peripherals.
Mike Khaw
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USnail: Teknowledge Inc, 1850 Embarcadero Rd, POB 10119, Palo Alto, CA 94303dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry) (08/14/87)
In article <3657@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> graifer@net1.UUCP (Dan Graifer) writes: >In article <1947@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes: >>CONFIRMED: SuperMac Technologies, makers of the DataFrame hard disks, bought >>LevCo, maker of a number of upgrades and accelerator cards. SuperMac will >>market LevCo's products, while LevCo will concentrate on research and >>development, according to key sources at SuperMac. The companies have not >>yet determined the logistics of the deal. >>Christopher Chow >Quoted without permission from the Wednesday, Aug. 12 Business section of >the San Diego County edition of the L.A. Times (page IV-3): > >San Diego Levco Corp., a closely held manufacturer of accessories for >Apple Macintosh personal computers, has signed a definitive agreement >to be acquired by Scientific Micro Systems Inc., a publicly held computer >peripherals company based in Mountain View. > >Hmmm. Either the Delphi posters or the Times got their stories scrambled. >I haven't seen Scientific Micro Systems in any of the Mac rags... anybody >know who these guys are? Actually, both are correct. Unless my memory fails me (possible but not likely) SuperMac Technologies was recently bought ought by SMS. -- David W. Berry dwb@well.uucp dwb@Delphi dwb@apple.com 293-0752@408.MaBell
rbl@nitrex.UUCP (08/15/87)
In article <3657@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> graifer@net1.UUCP (Dan Graifer) writes: >In article <1947@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) writes: >I haven't seen Scientific Micro Systems in any of the Mac rags... anybody >know who these guys are? > Dan Graifer > graifer@net1.UCSD.EDU >Disclaimer: Nobody ever listens to me anyways; Why should they start now? SMS has been in the peripheral controller business for a long time. I recall admiring the design of their disc controller board about 1973! As I recall, they were owned by a much larger business (Corning, Signetics, maybe C owned S and it was :"Signetic Micro Systems" at one time ??? ) and spun free. Good business sense, little hype -- even in the wild days of the late '70s. EXCELLENT match with a Mac drive company, given the openness of the new systems. Look for move into IBM's new architectures (not just MicroChannel, but the unannounced network-of-servers stuff). Disclaimer: All this is speculation and NOT endorsed by my employer, who has other people who are paid to worry about truth. Rob Lake