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From: shiffman%basselope@Sun.COM (Hank Shiffman)
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Subject: Re: MacWorld Expo?
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Date: 12 Dec 89 21:29:59 GMT
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In article <17960@netnews.upenn.edu> meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Paul Eric Menchen) writes:
>In article <8149@cs.yale.edu> jellinghaus-robert@yale.UUCP writes:
>>In article <24895@cup.portal.com> Armadillo@cup.portal.com (Russ Armadillo Coffman) writes:
>>>Why is MacWorld in April instead of January? Beats me. But this date has
>>>been set for some time. -Russ
>>
>>Aw, c'mon, y'all!  We've all seen Apple do this expo-delaying thing before,
>>and it always means the same thing:  New Product Introductions.  They've
>>got something up their sleeve that won't be ready for January, but will be
>>by April.
>
>As I recall reading on the net a few days (maybe a week) after the
>earthquake hit San Francisco, the Expo was delayed because of this.
>Apple lost a lot of machines, had some problems, MacWorld lost two
>writers, and all other sorts of hell broke loose, so quit trying to
>blame Apple - it's not their fault.
>

Nice bit of revisionist history.  Actually, the April date for the San
Francisco MacWorld has been advertised for many months, since long
before the quake.  The explanation I heard involved Moscone Center
being booked during January.  It may have something to do with the
major construction going on at Moscone these days.


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