MacWorld Expo in Boston

[Timothy Mark Collins]

I was just looking through the June 92 MacWorld and saw the stuff about
the MacWorld Expo in Boston August 4-7. I was just wondering, What are these
things like? I have never been to one despite owning a Mac for years. I am
sure someone has been to one or two. I am definitely going, since I only live
45 minutes from Boston, but I was wondering what to expect. I know this is
sort of early, but classes end soon and I have limited access to the net at
home in Maine. I am thinking of accelerating/adding more RAM soon and was
wondering if vendors had special prices or anything at these events.

Thanks for any info...

fir...@wpi.wpi.edu

[& Wise]

What is MacWorld like... Hmm...

MacWorld is like 60,000 people filling both the Boston World Trade
Center and Bayside Expo Center to talk to vendors pushing everything
from remanufactured Apple Lisas to Color Linotronic Printers...

MacWorld is like having all of those vendors doing anything they
possibly can to attract your attention to them instead of everyone
else. That means everything from clowns to brass bands (my favorite
last year, was the VideoToaster people using Pen&Teller to hawk their
product), giving away everything from silly knick-nacks (my favorite
was Seagate had business cards printed on hard-disk platters) to
sports cars (LaCie was raffling off a Mazda Miata).

MacWorld is also like a huge Mac-only flea market. Most vendors have
show-specials, and usually, the MacConnection, MacWarehouse, etc crowd
comes. They all backed-out last year when the State Department of
Revenue decided that all out of state vendors had to get special MA
tax-ids for the show (in past years, you haven't needed to pay sales
tax for out of state vendors).

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[Carl J.M. Alexander]

In article <SANDY.92M...@beeker.cs.umass.edu> wi...@cs.umass.edu writes:
>
>What is MacWorld like... Hmm...

>....

>MacWorld is also like a huge Mac-only flea market. Most vendors have
>show-specials, and usually, the MacConnection, MacWarehouse, etc crowd
>comes. They all backed-out last year when the State Department of
>Revenue decided that all out of state vendors had to get special MA
>tax-ids for the show (in past years, you haven't needed to pay sales
>tax for out of state vendors).
>

Well, not quite. Out of state vendors have always been required to
pay state sales tax on sales made at their temporary physical location
in Mass. What the Mass DOR decided last year was that any vendor that
had had such a temporary physical presence would thereafter be liable
for Mass. sales tax on their mail order sales from out of state into
Mass. To the best of my knowledge, Mass. DOR hasn't altered their
position on this (someone please correct me if I'm wrong), & so those
vendors are likely to be absent this year as well.

Carl Alexander
ca...@silver.lcs.mit.edu