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From: STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: AppleFest
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Date: 21 May 88 22:19:08 GMT
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My very brief report on AppleFest, which I went to yesterday.

I didn't notice too much that was new and exciting, but there was a
good crowd and plenty of vendors, with some specials for Festgoers.
I was hoping to get a steal on a HD, but the best price I saw was
$499 for a 20M Sider.  Some of you who get there on the last day
may get lucky.

The only thing I bought was the Orca/Desktop, which runs APW languages
under a mouse interface and includes debugging aids (thank god).
Unfortunately, although the packaging doesn't say so, for a full
implementation, you need version 1.1 of Orca/M (which I don't have yet
even though I just bought Orca/M about two months ago) for the assembler,
version 1.2 for Orca Pascal.  APW apparently doesn't work under the
desktop yet.  It also claims (inside) to require two 3 1/2" drives or
a HD for a full implementation, but I hope to get by with one 3 1/2"
drive and a couple of 5 1/4" drives.

There were quite a few GS's running GSWorks, which looked good to
me.  I never got to play around with it myself because I didn't have
enough time and patience to wait my turn.

The same thing happened with AppleLink -- Personal Edition (I guess
that's the official name).  It uses its own software, which is ready
for the Apple II series now and is scheduled to be out for the Mac
next Fall.  (It's hard to believe that Apple actually did something for
the II before the Mac, but apparently they have.)  It looks like
an imitation of CompuServe and the like, but with graphics and
support from Apple, including things like, hopefully, their tech notes.
I'd be happier if they simply transferred the information their sending
to AppleLink to CompuServe and other networks -- how many do we need to
join?

ARPA:   stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu        Alan H. Stein
BITNET: STEIN@UCONNVM                          University of Connecticut
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CompuServe: 71545,1500  Genie:  ah.stein       Department of Mathematics