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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. Thanks for the help by CGP314 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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

  2. Re:Corniest.video.ever.. by therevolution · · Score: 3, Insightful

    WTF? If you saw that in 1984, you'd be cheering too.

  3. Re:Patience, honey. by Rei · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "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.
  4. Re:Corniest.video.ever.. by lokedhs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  5. Re:Man We were easily impressed back then. by Drakonian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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    Random is the New Order.
  6. Re:It strikes me that Jobs was an asshole his whol by michaeldot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  7. Amiga by Ostie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.