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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.
They could probably use more mirrors for the 22MB movie.
You could do something useful and make a torrent before posting the story to slashdot.
-Colin
WTF? If you saw that in 1984, you'd be cheering too.
Does anyone else find it oddly fitting that this was preserved on a Betamax tape?
They likely mean Betacam not betamax. But who knows.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
"They could probably use more mirrors for the 22MB movie."
I have 5 words to say about this statement:
BitTorrent, BitTorrent, BitTorrent, BitTorrent, BitTorrent.
People said I was dumb, but I proved them.
YES, you limp dipshit. "Do Macs support torrents" indeed.
now just imagine if every major ISP in the US didn't give us all such rediculously low upload caps in hopes of making "businesses" pay more for the exact same line with an increased upload speed. The world may very well come to an end!
No, not corny at all. Remember that this was 1984. This was back when the C64 was considered state of the art. The PC programs were text only. Most people in the audience had never seen anything like that before.
You can't find a more real computer that has aseperate video card, tiny form factor, rock solid OS, includes software to get productive, and comes with a warranty.
If you really want to impress your wife, try listening to her.
Yeah yeah, it's a troll. He posted a whole topic about it last week.
PLease link me to an article stating that Betamax is better for long time archiving than VHS.
Then the record companies could call open season and track all the ips of people downloading as some excuse that they might have downloaded other illegal things with it by using their open connections... sigh...
Because I made the torrent, I'm hosting the torrent, I'm providing the tracker for the torrent, and I'm seeding the torrent with three servers.
You're just inviting the ignoramous tools who don't know the difference between BetaMAX and BetaCAM.
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"Me, I'd prefer not to spend $500 for a machine whose specs are met by the three year old laptop I'm using right now." You have a 1.25 GHz G4 on your 3 year old laptop?
Where Macs Belong in the Living Room
Since then, has there been anything else as revolutionary as the Mac was at the time? I can't think of any. It really *was* something to get excited about.
Random is the New Order.
You do realize that these kids are too young to get this joke? BITNET is probably meaningless to them.
Most people would probably agree with you, even those who know Jobs personally.
And yet, without Jobs to goad people into stroking his ego, there would have been no Mac, no NeXTSTEP, no Apple post-1997, no iMac, no iPod, no standards of excellence in GUI computing.
Sometimes it takes an asshole to make a dent in the universe.
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... the fact that it got rated "insightful" is amusing in its own way.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
Even in the 80's, Macintosh was (generally) only significantly more expensive than the cheap brands. If you compared it to the better built and more expensive brands fitted with comparable video and sound, there wasn't much difference (in most cases).
The 5 year typical service life of a mac compared to 3 years for dos/windows typically made it less expensive than even the cheap brands over the long term.
And once you factored in support costs in a business, the mac made up for the purchase price difference in the first year or two (there was about a 4:1 factor there!)
hawk