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Watch Steve Jobs Demo the Mac, In 1984
VentureBeat is one of the many outlets featuring recently surfaced video of Steve Jobs doing an early demo of the Macintosh, 30 years ago. I remember first seeing one of these Macs in 1984 at a tiny computer store in bustling downtown Westminster, Maryland, and mostly hogging it while other customers (or, I should say, actual customers) tapped their feet impatiently.
...Steve Jobs take credit for other people's work in this video, just like always.
How about a demo of Jay Miner demoing the Amiga 1000?
Scumbag or not he's done far more than any of us could ever dream of and his name will be remembered a hell of a lot longer than mine or yours.
I keep pushing for legacy support of especially software but also hardware and formats and some people claim it doesn't matter. Well this is a beautiful example of why it does matter. Without legacy support we lose access to old data. Pretty soon we'll be repeating history on big things, not just some presentation.
It's weird to see Steve Jobs wearing a suit.
VentureBeat's story appears to be nothing but a re-writing of the original, which is
http://techland.time.com/2014/01/25/steve-jobs-mac/
Geez, this was news like what, 30 years ago!?
I grew up in Westminster. Bustling in 1984? It wasn't bustling in 1994, even, unless one was from say, Taneytown.
To be fair, can we watch him dem the Next as well?
That's not Steve Jobs! Where's the black turtleneck? And what's with all the hair?
(Sigh...)
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I'm really nostalgic for the days when Silicon Valley was an innovative hotbed when some sharp brash kid could not only make it big, but provide a product that has some value.
Now, Silicon Valley is a bunch of whiny bitches who are trying to get ever cheaper labor for their social media/advertising app/user-data pimping service in order to market crap to a population in a downward spiral of their living standard.
This submission really isn't about the news article at all. It's about the most important Holy Day in the Religion of the Hipster. It's a celebration of His Graceful Holiness, Steve Jobs. It's a tribute to The Creation of The Master Of All Creation, the Macintosh. It is The Most Important of Days. Please show some respect.
Damn it this is really annoying. The Mac was good for a few tasks and crapped itself if you looked at it wrong. The Mac is now reliable thanks to BSD, but it is still only good for a few tasks. The only reason it survived was publishers love it.
the breakening of the gnu dawn of open honest communications & commerce is on again? MANufracturing relays? http://www.globalresearch.ca/weather-warfare-beware-the-us-military-s-experiments-with-climatic-warfare/7561 gad zooks (or zeus) beware falling gargoyles etc...
Silicon Valley used to be a truly remarkable place. It was where industry and the future truly did collide head-on. And because of this, great things happened there.
Hewlett-Packard. Fairchild Semiconductor. Xerox PARC. Intel. Sun Microsystems. Cisco Systems.
Those were the kind of names we came to associate with very advanced technological achievement. They earned our respect with the tremendous advances they made.
But then something happened. Silicon Valley ceased to be about a productive, beneficial future. It became about a shitty, rotten future. It became about "social media". It became about advertising. It became about a disturbing level of data collection and mining.
The Silicon Valley of today is a mere shell of what it once was. Clad in fedora hats and rampant hipsterism, Silicon Valley of today is a sissified, degenerate place. Gone are the real scientists and engineers who advanced technology for all of mankind. Gone are their advances. Gone are the hope they brought.
I weep for Silicon Valley. It truly does make me quite distraught to think about what has happened to it. One of the greatest intellectual creations ever to existed has been crushed by men who wear tight jeans and glasses without lenses. It has been dragged through the mud by overweight, unshaven manchildren wearing stained shirts with shitty Japanese drawings on them. It has been shit upon repeatedly by self-styled "entrepreneurs" and "engineers" whose only talent is unjustifiable self promotion.
It is too late to save Silicon Valley. But other technologically-inclined regions should take note of what happened there. Keep away the hipsters. Keep away the bearded manchildren. Keep away the "entrepreneurs" and "engineers" who spew forth about Ruby on Rails. These people are an infection, and this infection will destroy even the most robust of technological and industrial communities. Do not let them ruin your community like they ruined Silicon Valley's.
..."Steve Jobs take credit for other people's work in this video, just like always", scubamage
1:18:20: "Remember when you use a Macintosh, these are the people that did it and they're sort of hiding out in that ROM", Steve Jobs
Waterloo is becoming such a place.
It was the last door stop that I owed. C'mon guys, those old Macs couldn't even multitask. Think I'm lying. Open a session with a modem and then start any other application. The modem would close. Even Winders 3.0 could run a modem in the background.
This demo video proves that Apple & Steve Jobs always have been marketeers from day 1... I finally understood why geeks started working on the linux kernel 8 years later :D
(r)evolution is nearly unbreakable http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stem%20cells&sm=3
Holy crap, you write this stuff about hipsters ruining silicon valley every single time this comes up. You really need to get a life.
Funny that. I remember looking over an original Mac, and asking "does this actually do anything?"
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It's tough to describe how space-age that stuff was in the 1980s, where 4k and 8k home computers with 8 bit processors was the norm. The 32 bit Motorola 68000 series were used as workstation processors in Sun Microsystems' Sun 1 and Sun 2 workstations & servers, so it was quite surprising to see one in a personal computers.
Note also how Jobs hammers away at IBM, the evil empire who had held foul dominion over computing at that time for longer than MS has existed today. My, how times change.
Does anyone have a direct link to the video? I can't figure out what I have to enable to be able to see it.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Waterloo is becoming such a place.
But who would want to work on a loo, even if it is a water loo?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
just like a used car salesman - over-inflating the value of something that is really valueless
"We think Unix is a pretty lousy operating system to put inside a workstation. It's old technology and it's really big and you need a Winchester so you can never make the workstations cheap..."
I'm glad that Jobs was open minded enough to recognize the value of Unix, and to eventually migrate MacOS to BSD Unix.
(I watched the video and typed this post from a laptop running Linux.)
I've heard Apple people describe this with the too-kind phrase "tradition of demonstrating a wolf in sheep's clothing." That is to say, the Mac he was demonstrating was different from the Mac Apple was selling: it had 512K of RAM. The only Mac available for purchase at launch had 128K and was not capable of running the MacInTalk speech synthesis software.
This was indeed a Steve Jobs tradition; I recall him demonstrating a NeXT in Boston--brilliant demo, brilliant showmanship--and the NeXT he was demonstrating had an internal hard drive, which delivered much better performance than the product available for sale which ran entirely off a read/write optical drive.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
Link: here
The Bricklin post is I think a lot more interesting than the video itself. (well, I guess the video is interesting from a historical perspective).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If Jobs were wanting to wholly take credit would he have wanted everyone's signatures embossed on the inside of the case? I don't think so.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
There's no denying the Mac was a game-changer, but it's also important to note that when it was released it cost $5600 in today's dollars - Adding a printer pushed you well north of the $6000 mark.
No wonder nobody I knew had one.
Dangling any kind of Apple-related story around here immediately causes a tsunami of hate. What the fuck is wrong with you people? So the Mac was released 30 years ago and Steve Jobs did a little speech. It's still true even if you don't like it. Go back to working on whatever linux box you're building out of cardboard scraps for free out of the dumpster and best of luck to you.
But no, we can't let any kind of Apple story pass without upbraiding the founders, discrediting every feature as unoriginal, loudly airing our grievances with Apple that might have occurred since the dawn of time and affirming our commitment to never purchase an Apple product for the rest of eternity. Apparently you get bonus points here for mentioning in passing what distro of linux/android you're using at the moment too. And by "in passing," I mean like "passing" wind.
Like it or not, Apple set the standard for the GUI. Without Apple, maybe somebody else would have invented something similar eventually, but that's not the way it worked out.
Does it make all you haters feel superior in some way to rip on a 30 year old historical announcement? Is your current sense of self identity so pathetically shallow that a 30 year old product announcement is a threat to it? Maybe you're all feeling a little uncomfortable that the standards that Apple set are still reflected in the GUI of whatever precious homegrown flavor of linux you're using to read this. I suggest you transfer your feelings of inadequacy to more conventional means of vicariously bolstering one's ego, like a football team, what kind of pickup truck you drive, or maybe alcoholism.
sorry who is steve knobs
Isn't this just a copypasta? I know I've seen this exact post this week.
The Mac was seen as too "out there" by the board so Apple came under control of a soft drink salesman for a while.
Is there a reason many such videos are kept secret for decades?
If you watch the Steve Jobs video, you do not hear anything about HP unlike a previous story on Slash dot. Digital Equipment Corp, Apple, Xerox, and IBM are represented. Sorry HP, you are only relevant because you bought Compaq who in turn had bought DEC.