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Round 2 of Apple's Lost '1984' Series
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."
Damnit. Saw Dylan, thought of the programming language. I need to get out more.
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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!
For those who are curious, here's a photo of the beast:
/ images/pixar.jpg
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
Hard to tell, but are you being ironic, or moronic?
Dell Dimensions and HP LaserJets didn't put a dent in the universe.
This product did.
If nothing else, it started Microsoft scrambling to put something very similar on everyone's desktop... 1 billion computer users and growing.
No Mac...?
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> Where are the videos of Michael Dell demonstrating
> the latest Dimension Desktop?
> Where are the videos of Carly Fiorina showing off
> the latest HP LaserJet?
> Better yet, where are the videos of Xerox
> demonstrating the $36,000 Alto?
The difference is Apple actually makes some real innovations in their products and they take some pride in their product. Steve Jobs isn't just a guy in a suit reading off a list of PowerPoint bullet items.
Did you know that when the Macintosh came out that the second generation Xerox Star still didn't support overlapping windows and still lacked any sort of uniform style. That machine cost something like 6x as much as a Macintosh and even without its external monitor its tower case was still twice as large as a Macintosh. If you read the folklore.org website it says the Macintosh had fewer chips on its motherboard than the IBM PC had on its black and white graphics card alone.
Thats a bit rich coming from someone who is worshipping a COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT for a FOR-PROFIT company. I mean come on, folks, Apple doesn't give a rats ass except that you buy their products.
Good point! We should all sell our BMWs and buy used Kias. Then we should sell our PowerBooks and ThinkPads and buy used Avertecs.
Oh, but wait, Kia and Avertec are in business to make money too! Ack!
Quick, who has the detailed instructions for building an EasyBake Chip Fab??
For fear of slashdotting someone's webpage (over 100MB of QuickTimes there,) and to curb some mindless clicking, I present the unlinked URL. www.uriah.com/apple-qt/index.html
Someone, mirror it quick.
Let's see, according to the submitter of the story, the page is already suffering from heavy traffic usage... yeah, let's put that on the front page of slashdot! That'll help. :-)
- Proofs of Sturgeon's Law Delivered Daily -
In a gun community, ads for the Winchester repeating rifle would garner similar interest (as it was a milestone product), or the first ads for the Model T in a car community.
Ford, Winchester and Apple are all for-profit companies, but they advanced the art of their fields greatly in a single leap by releasing products that redefined their industries. Of course it's interesting.
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Evan
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