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Round 2 of Apple's Lost '1984' Series

Posted by timothy on from the nostalgia-smells-like-beige-plastic dept.

webertk421 writes "The second set of lost 1984 videos has been released. This set again needs more mirrors (I still can't download the torrent files). According to the descriptions, the clips include Steve Jobs reciting some Dylan, showing the well known 1984 commercial, and 'Manuals,' another commercial that almost aired instead."

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  1. NeXT Cube Introduction? by green+pizza · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does anyone know of a video of Steve Jobs' original NeXT Cube introduction from 1988? I read about it in the book, "Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing" and it sounded like it was just as impressive as the original Macintosh introduction.

    Another cool video would be the Pixar Imaging Computer, which, naturally, was also cube shaped!

    1. Re:NeXT Cube Introduction? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      The intro was only shown on clips on the evening news as far as I know. There were even problems with the video afterwards at the press-table showing. I have (somewhere) a tape of all of the news broadcasts and the video that was shown of the assembly line during the intro. It was dubbed from a 3/4 inch broadcast master so it's not a bad VHS copy. I also have a couple of origonal VHS tapes from NeXT of the NeXTstation intro as well. I worked for a NeXT OEM/reseller as a marketing weasel and it was part of the warchest, although the cube-stuff I got from the NeXT rep when I took delivery of my own slab in 1991.

      I'll post to slashdot when I find them and get them uploaded and processed with final-cut-pro on the g5.

      may take a little while though, I'm in the middle of a move so EVERYTHING is in boxes.

    2. Re:NeXT Cube Introduction? by kalleh · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Not sure if you mean this one, but here is a long video of Stevie doing a demo of NeXTSTEP 3.0:

      http://www.openstep.se/jobs/

  2. neat by NMerriam · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I've got to say, Slashdot and torrents go together like peas and carrots. By the time I finished clicking on the 4th torrent link and closed the window, I'd already finished downloading the first file.

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  3. PIXAR Imaging Computer by green+pizza · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For those who are curious, here's a photo of the beast:
    http://www.3dnews.ru/documents/8124/pic-16.jpg

    And another photo with a Sun E450 and Sun SPARCstation 5 for reference:
    http://www.nenv.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/bis/kaoru/kizai01/ images/pixar.jpg

  4. Piece of memorabilia by LiquidMind · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Certificate for gift mac

    anyone still have one of these? i'm sure *some* slashdot vet will have one stached away somewhere. I'm sure they'd be worth quite a bit to a collector.

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  5. Re:Dylan by stand · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wondered: Bob Dylan or Dylan Thomas? Do I need to get out more?

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