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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?
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.
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!?
The same could be said for Adolf Hitler.
I grew up in Westminster. Bustling in 1984? It wasn't bustling in 1994, even, unless one was from say, Taneytown.
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.
Whooa! Godwin's law in just three comments! This must be some kind of a record.
Anyway, the same could not be said for any AC! (Including this one)
after the article comparing san fransisco to the nazis, rightfully or not, i think ive had my fill of godwin for the day
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
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
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
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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.
Well, in 1984 indeed nobody had problems with Windows. Which may be because the first Windows version had not yet released yet. And the first memory extender hadn't yet been released either, therefore nobody had problems with those either.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Anyone else remembers the immutable section "Protect your freedom - fight Look and Feel" in all GNU manuals?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
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.
"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.
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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.
Did you know that Edison assigned many of his patents to his assistants? I had a dear friend whose family had benefited from the assignment of several of them. Edison took care of his own.
Did you know that Goebel approached edison and attempted to sell him the patent for the lightbulb, but Edison refused, allowing Goebel to fall into destitution and die penniless. He then went to his destitute widow and offered her a fraction of the original asking price, effectively screwing Goebel's estate out of any royalties of the invention that Edison is most well known for? That's my whole issue here; people who steal other people's work, or who lie and cheat to get their hands on it. Edison was an asshole, if you don't believe me, just look at how he treated Goebel.
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?
Did you know that Edison assigned many of his patents to his assistants?
Did you know that many of Edison's patents were actually developed by his assistants? It would have been inappropriate at best not to name them on the application, and probably illegal in at least some of the cases.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Too bad Goebel wasn't the patent holder. You're post show you lack any real knowledge of Gloebel (Göbel's ). I also find it hilarious that you blame Edision for Gloebel dying penniless. He didn't make any money form his actual patents either, is the also Edison's fault?
anyways:
Heinrich Göbel, later Henry Goebel (April 20, 1818 – December 4, 1893), born in Springe, Germany, was a precision mechanic and inventor. He emigrated in 1848 to New York City and lived there until his death. In 1865 he received the American citizenship.
In 1893 the public in the USA and in Europe took notice of Henry Goebel. Magazines and newspapers reported that Henry Goebel had developed incandescent light bulbs comparable to those invented in the year 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison 25 years earlier. Henry Goebel did not apply for a patent.
In 1893 the Edison Electric Light Co. brought suit against three manufacturers of incandescent lamps for infringing Edisons patent. The defense of these companies claimed the Edison patent was void because of the same invention of Henry Goebel 25 years earlier (Goebel-Defense).
Judges of four courts raised doubts; there was no clear and convincing proof for the claimed invention of Henry Goebel. A research work published in 2007 concluded that the Goebel-Defense was fraudulent.[1]
After the death of Henry Goebel, in some countries, the legend came into being that he was the true inventor of the practical incandescent light bulb.
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