Ancient? 30yrs? Oh come on I know the world moves fast but that is totally inappropriate use of the word.
Ancient video of Steve Jobs launching the first Apple Mac found
Long-lost footage of Steve Jobs launching the first Apple Macintosh in 1984 has been dug out of storage and shown in full for the first time in 30 years. The video shows the Apple godhead addressing the Boston Computer Club just days after his famous speech to shareholders at Cupertino. Time magazine journalist Harry …
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Monday 27th January 2014 12:36 GMT Amorous Cowherder
"belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence"
It's relative, in IT terms 30 mins is a bloody long time! Ha ha! And "no longer in existence"? Pretty much sums up the illustrious cult(*) leader.
( * cult - "devotion directed towards a particular figure or object" before you start! )
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Monday 27th January 2014 14:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
It's perfect
I love videos like this, they give us a sense of how far we've come in a relatively short time (it also shows how Apple has changed its ethos in a relatively short time as well, but that's another topic).
And to top it all off, it's made the news just around the 30th birthday of the Mac! I love coincidences like this - they're what makes life perfect.
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Monday 27th January 2014 17:43 GMT ThomH
Re: Enjoyable watch
It's possible Wozniak preferred that. It's also possible he's speaking with hindsight but per e.g. http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-thought-the-first-macintosh-was-a-lousy-computer-that-failed-2013-6 he wasn't a big fan of the original machine.
His most specific gripe: not enough memory to get anything done, leading to endless disc swapping. I guess he wasn't the only one who thought so as the motherboard, despite using soldered RAM, contained the logic to drive 512kb (four times the 128kb it came with) and the Mac started shipping with 512k within a year or so after launch.
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Tuesday 28th January 2014 10:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
Link to the interesting bit of the video
I found the linked page wouldn't load properly (after a long time-out, I eventually got a page devoid of formatting and no video). However, I did see the link to YouTube, and managed to find the point of introduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YShLWK9n2Sk#t=2166
Pretty remarkable what they managed to cram into 128kB RAM.