The Lost 1984 Mac Video

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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Patience, honey.

[maxdamage]

Patience, honey.
The next download slot will be free

in 0 minutes und while(01); seconds

Insult to injury

[Anonymous Coward]

Saying "They could probably use more mirrors for the 22MB movie." as you post it to Slashdot's frontpage mid-day is like walking up to a guy after a fight, knifing him in the stomach and saying "You could probably use more bandages for your wounds."

Here are some magnet/edonkey mirror links:

magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:CGUXHDIRWXFK362VRT63RMU6VA ZJPNAS.VSUEDMAYUMKDSRKBIA6TDCW6DIZ5MTYD26FOONQ&dn= 1984macintro_2.mov

ed2k://|file|1984macintro_2.mov|21939485|c72b7ecf8 d3dc495ee743d7c54f5e29e|/

Hold Your Horses!

[fembots]

After Lord Of The Rings, I have learnt to wait for the extended director's platinum cut version before committing myself.

Wait for the 33MB version!

never seen?

[seanadams.com]

Never seen video footage [...] Renowned Mac user Scott Knaster kept that Betamax video tape for 21 years

And he never watched it?!?! What about the camera man? Was he blind?

I'm afraid to watch this - I heard about that world's funniest joke. Sounds like they've taken special precautions here.

How do you say...

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdotted in German?

Re:How do you say...

[easter1916]

Slashdotted in German... how about "upgefuckt"?

Re:How do you say...

[hunterx11]

It's easy. Take the sentence, "This website no longer operates due to excessive traffic caused by being linked to from Slashdot." Translate it into German. Remove the spaces. You now have a valid German word.

Betamax?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone else find it oddly fitting that this was preserved on a Betamax tape?

Re:Betamax?

[Bob McCown]

Time to switch to decaf, dude, or were you scared by a Beta camera at an early age?

Re:Betamax?

[EulerX07]

Hot and wet is great when you're with a lady, but not when you're storing media. ;-)

I think you lost half of the /. audience at that sentence.

Re:Betamax?

[Patik]

Hot and wet is great when you're with a lady

+1 Informative

Oh man..

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple is really gonna sue him!

22MB in 1984

[Hosting Geek]

That must of been the biggest file ever, how could they loose something so big?

Amazing...

[angst7]

This is just a pathetic attempt to overshadow the *real* 20 year old mega-story: Bill Gate's 1983 Teen Beat Spread.

http is such a great transfer mechanism

[91degrees]

Although wouldn't it be a antastic revolution if we could download from people who had already dowloaded it, thus allowing us all to share bandwidth. The data would arrive at such a high speed that one might consider it a torrent. A bittorrent, one might say. If only such a technology existed...

Slashdotted?

[delta_avi_delta]

If der linken ist geslashdotted, relaxen und watchen der blinkenlights

Re:Corniest.video.ever..

[Leo McGarry]

People are cheering on various screens shown on a Macintosh. Quite corny.

Yeah, thank God nobody ever does that any more.

Re:Lesson:

[soft_guy]

What master of business administration is going to go around (in the USA) using English that makes him look like a hillbilly

You mean besides the Preseident?

Re:Who has a copy of the SLASHDOT-L Mac intro thre

[Ohreally_factor]

I'll always remember this:

Apple's new Macintosh.

Smaller than a PDP-11. No wireless. Lame.