Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 22, no. 5, September-October 2000, pp. 72-80; 83-91.
Apple’s booth showed AppleWorks 6 running under Mac OS X. Note the Apple logo in the center of the menu bar at the top of the screen. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)Canon’s remarkable Digital ELPH camera, with an all-metal case, is about the size of a pack of playing cards. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)Given its remarkably small size and rugged case (at least it looks rugged), with a zoom lens that retracts behind a metal shutter, the Canon Digital ELPH is a “go anywhere” camera. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)Apple is obviously fond of the Canon ZR10 digital camera; their booth had dozens of them. This one is capturing an image of the photographer capturing the ZR10’s image. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)NuSpectra’s remotely controlled cameras elevate Web cameras to a whole new level. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)The ixla Photoeasy is a complete USB digital camera kit for $149. The vendor claims it can also double as a Webcam. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)Kodak’s PalmPix allows almost anyone with a Palm to turn their pocket computer into a digital camera. The camera is shown here attached to the bottom of a Palm III. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)MacWorld always offers some unusual innovations, such as this spill-proof cupholder that attaches to the side of an iMac. Starbucks coffee not included. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)Guitar Center had their usual booth packed with music and sound software and hardware. One of the exhibitors used this MIDI-based clarinet to transcribe music directly into the iBook on the counter. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)To appreciate the incredible quality of Hewlett-Packard’s large-scale DesignJet inkjet printers, you need a bigger photo, so double-click on the thumbnail. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)It may look funny, but the Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet G85 combines an inkjet printer, scanner, and fax machine in one unit. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)IBM had, of course, one of the most impressive displays at MacWorld: this Plexiglass disc filled with a wafer of PowerPC chips. The PowerPC 750, by the way, is the “real” name for what Apple calls the PowerPC G3. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)If it didn’t have the most blinky lights at the show, it was at least in the running: the MicroNet Genesis is a RAID storage unit of enormous capacity and flexibility. If you need 1,700 billion bytes of error-correcting storage, and you have a fat checking account, this will do nicely. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)Marathon sells metal brackets that replace the plastic handles on G3 and G4 towers, allowing them to be mounted in standard LAN racks. This particular stack of five G4 Macs, complete with a liquid crystal display, attracted lots of attention from networking personnel. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)You’ve no doubt seen the Power Mac G4 commercial that features tanks. This iMac is ready for a tank commercial, too. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)The MicroNet SANcube offers up to 270 billion bytes of storage in an attractive box that can be hooked up, via FireWire, to four Macs. The unit sitting on top is a separate tape backup unit. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)Mounted on its stand, the OnStream Echo30 is a 30 gigabyte ADR tape drive that connects to a Macintosh via FireWire. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)As Robin Williams (a Peachpit author) mentions in her introduction to the latest Little Mac Book, the Mac is no longer quite so little, nor quite so simple. Peachpit’s booth was always packed with people checking out the latest books on hardware and software. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)RoboLab offers students an opportunity to learn about electricity and programming with a variety of Lego-based kits that can be controlled by a Macintosh. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)NetStation, a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet hub with built-in, self-coiling Ethernet cables, allows almost anyone to set up a small network with little to no advanced preparation. (Photo by Lawrence I. Charters)
