If you didn’t register early for free entry into the Paris Apple Expo, you can still head over but you’ll have to pay 12 euros to get in. It just started a few minutes ago and goes on until the 16th. They call this expo the premier Mac event in Europe but Steve Jobs rarely shows up for a keynote anymore. This year, he’s set up a special media event in California (why didn’t he do this in Paris??) to introduce new products: the second-generation iPod nano, an updated 5G iPod, and upgraded iMacs, sources from Think Secret report.
Will there be mobile phone, an iphone perhaps??, an iCamera? What, already??! While the announcement will be carried by a private satellite feed to a central London location for members of the European press, it will not be fed to the Paris expo. However, the new products will be on display at the Paris exhibition. The new 24-inch screen iMacs will also be on display. In any case, Apple Expo is a good opportunity to buy Mac equipment, peripherals and software. It’s a huge marché aux puces (pun intended) à la pomme.
I get a feeling that the Paris event is sort of like the neglected, adopted son of Apple.
Apple Expo – September 12-16, 2006
Hours: 10am – 7pm
Porte de Versailles
M: Porte de Versailles
Bus: line 39, 49, 80, and PC
Car: take exit Porte de Versailles or Porte de Vanves
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Not sure if your blog accepts images – but as we are talking about Macs here I thought you’ll like to see my “blast from the past”. Generally I’m a PC user, but I started on Macs as a student back in 1989.
Then from 1990 onwards I worked solely on a PC, till an old friend of mine who was working for Cisco Systems in Paris gave me a “Mac”.
Comment by Braunstonian 09.12.06 @ 4:36 amLooks like it doesn’t accept images.
Ah well… my “Mac” is a 1994 Mac Powerbook 520 complete with black & white screen
Despite the fact that it’s old, the screen needs an occasional tweak, the disquette drive is knackered and I broke the SCSI plug for the external CD ROM drive – I love it to bits.
I’m awaiting an ethernet conversion plug so that I can hook it up to my router – just so I can access an ftp server to move files from the Mac to the PC. Generally Excel & Word files.
BTW – if anyone is looking for a similar age external CD drive without the connection cable (which is, alas, also broken) I have one… 
“Buy my products…make me rich…but don’t expect me to care enough about you to be there.”
Comment by PretzelBug 09.12.06 @ 6:08 amYippee… I received my ethernet adapter (bought on Ebay) for my ancient Powerbook 520. After an afternoon messing about it now shares my Cisco router with PC running XP. (Powerbook is running OS 8.1)
If there are any users of old Macs out there I’d be interested in chatting.
Comment by Braunstonian 09.13.06 @ 4:46 pmwow. your powerbook is ancient 
my oldest mac is 6 years old and ran on os 9 untili upgraded to 10.
do you know low end mac there might be a community of mac ppl for you using os 8.
Comment by ptinfrance 09.14.06 @ 3:06 amThanks for the link.
It **looks** ancient too – but it still hobbles along. I have Excel and Word 6.0 installed on it, along with AOL Messenger, Adobe Acrobat, iCab and Fetch FTP.
Low End Mac is a good site – it’s where I’ve got some of my software. I also have a few things found over the years on CD, which I now have on my FTP server for easy installation.
I also have another old Mac, which is perhaps older than the Power Book. An LCIII, which resides at my Mum’s place in the UK. It was my first after arriving in France. When I was last over there in October it still worked like new – although it’s not really used a whole lot these days.
There is no way of transfering stuff onto it other than by diskette so it all becomes a lot of trouble.
At least with the ethernet on the Powerbook the transfer rate is quite acceptable.
Comment by Braunstonian 09.14.06 @ 8:16 amLeave a comment
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