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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Best Mirror.

[sjrstory]

"They could probably use more mirrors for the 22MB movie."

The best mirror would be a torrent. Anyone have one yet? I'm sure this is going to get /.'ed real quick. At least the site has a sense of humor about it...

http://industrial-technology-and-witchcraft.de/vid eo.php
Patience, honey.
The next download slot will be free

in 0 minutes and 18 seconds

And the countdown seems to repeat over and over again :/

PC competition for the Mini-MAC?

[Anonymous Coward]

When MAC announced their "Mini", it caught my eye. Wanting to buy/build a small computer for my already cramped breakfast bar, I started pricing out similar hardware. The results startled me. Most of the configurations I found were more than the humble US$499 of the "Mini", often much more. To match price I had to configure with a much bigger shuttle-style case.

My question is this. What PCs are currently on the market to compete with this? When my wife asks for the "cute little MAC", what real computer can I buy instead?

Re:PC competition for the Mini-MAC?

[SoTuA]

When my wife asks for the "cute little MAC", what real computer can I buy instead?

Do you take your wife to McDonald's when she asks you to take her to dinner at the cute french bistro downtown?

Get her the "cute little MAC" or get her nothing, but don't get her a clunky PC case and say "It's a real computer, honey". That will get you a week's worth of couch-sleeping at the very least ;)

Re:Moderators - shame on you.

[michaeldot]

Get over it. Everyone knows most Slashdot moderators simply rate up or down posts that they agree or disagree with their cause.

Metamoderate if you want to encourage people who do it properly.

hmmm

[XO]

It's pretty egotistical of geeks everywhere to think that the original Macintosh computer ad has only one surviving copy, and that's from a computer geek.

Hello, it was on during the freaking SUPER BOWL.

There's GOT to be a bazillion people out there with tapes of some kind of the entire super bowl probably for every year since there's been something you could farkin record it on!

Think about it!