Hello, I’m a long time listener and occasional poster here on this forum. As you’ll see from this post, I’m also a very long time Mac developer.
Today (Feb 21) is the exact 40th anniversary of the very first MacWorld Expo at Brooks Hall in San Francisco. 
It was usually in January, but that first one was the weekend of February 21. (By the way I didn’t remember that, had to look it up.) Of course it’s a milestone for the entire community, but for me personally it’s a big day because ProVUE exhibited there, it was my first big time professional trade show booth. I found an article in the SF Chronicle with a picture of the show floor, and my booth was in the picture! As far as I can tell I’m not personally in the picture, but I recognize at least one of my employees. I’m pretty proud to have managed to stay in the Mac software business continuously since then, as far as I know the only other company that has done that is Microsoft. Perhaps you’ve heard of them.
Last night I wrote up a post about this anniversary on the ProVUE forum, with some more detailed thoughts I had about it and about developing native Mac software for 40 years. It also includes the picture I mentioned, and links to the SF Chronicle article and to some of the software that was on display at that original show. I probably should have written this up some time ago instead of at the last minute, but hey, I’m a programmer not a PR expert. I guess that’s why hardly anyone these days knows that ProVUE is by far the longest running indie Mac developer. Ooops, I spilled the beans. Anyway, here’s the link to that post in case anyone is interested:
There is also a coupon for a 40% off discount on the first year of Panorama X, good thru the end of February.
Jim Rea, Founder, ProVUE Development