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The Lost 1984 Mac Video

Posted by michael on from the chariots-of-fire dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Never seen video footage of the introduction of the Macintosh in January 1984 was published for the first time on the Internet today. Renowned Mac user Scott Knaster kept that Betamax video tape for 21 years, and German media agency TextLab has unearthed this only surviving video tape of the launch." They could probably use more mirrors for the 22MB movie.

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  1. You guys... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You guys are real bastards, ya know that?

  2. "Renowned Mac user Scott Knaster ..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Only in the Apple fanboy world could someone be considered "renowned" just for being a user...

  3. Corniest.video.ever.. by British · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    People are cheering on various screens shown on a Macintosh.

    Quite corny.

    Now I'm watching people cheer while the Macintosh is doing this Steven Hawking-like voice.

    Kids, you might want to watch this with the sound off.

  4. How intuitive! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    ' How about choosing the menu-item that says "eject"? '

    That is much less intuitive than just ejecting. Besides, if it really worked, there would not be a paperclip hole (and piles of paperclips on the tables in the old Mac "Classic" labs).

    A pinhole is easier to use than a large eject button only in the mind of the Apple fanboy who can't admit that Apple was capable of making design goofs.

  5. WTFM by yabos · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Watch the fucking movie no it's not.

    1. Re:WTFM by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Did you watch the movie? Point me in the direction of a mirror that's not a smoking pile of rubble, fucktard.

  6. Re:Betamax? by AstroDrabb · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    (even so that is changing with the Mac mini)
    No it is not, and if you really think about it, I am sure you will agree. The Mac Mini is not upgradeable at all. You can stick in a bigger stick of Ram and that is it. You can get tons of better value from a $500 PC. A lot of people try to compare a $500 Dell to the $500 Mac Mini. However, there are even better deals out there then Dell, for example E-Machines.

    I am not busting on the Mac Mini since I just placed an order for one. However, the Mac Mini still doesn't position the Mac to compete with a PC. A typical Mac Mini comes with a puny 256MB of Ram, a sad 40GB hard-drive and a _dog_ slow laptop hard-drive to boot. It is missing speakers, keyboard, mouse and monitor.

    For that same price you can get a decent PC that included a _real_ hard-drive, monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers and usually a printer or scanner.

    The Mac Mini is really only a good deal to Mac geeks that are used to paying a premium for a computer. Joe User will continue to look to a PC and sadly MS WinXP to meet their needs.

    --
    If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
    it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
  7. Re:Behold the speaking computer! by dsanfte · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why the fuck can't they provide binaries? Not everyone puts a C++ compiler on their win32 box.

    Devs who only provide sources but "claim to support" win32 should be shot.

    --
    occultae nullus est respectus musicae - originally a Greek proverb
  8. Re:Amiga by robnauta · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't see what's amazing about Macintosh classic when 1 year later Amiga came with colorful graphics(up to 4096 colors), a real preemptive multitask OS and all the hot stuff. You could actualy format a disk drive while printing and doing some other stuff while on Mac you had to wait in front of a black & white screen. Yeah I remember that. Amiga owners were always bragging about multitasking, which to them meant formatting floppies while doing something else. I guess some people just kept several floppies by their machine and formatted them over and over and over again when they got bored, to make them feel better about the superiority of their machine.