The Lost 1984 Mac Video

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The Lost 1984 Mac Video 636

Posted by michael on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:41PM from the chariots-of-fire dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Never seen video footage of the introduction of the Macintosh in January 1984 was published for the first time on the Internet today. Renowned Mac user Scott Knaster kept that Betamax video tape for 21 years, and German media agency TextLab has unearthed this only surviving video tape of the launch." They could probably use more mirrors for the 22MB movie.

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Patience, honey. (Score:5, Funny)

by maxdamage ( 615250 ) * writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:42PM (#11460177) Journal

Patience, honey.
The next download slot will be free

in 0 minutes und while(01); seconds

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Insult to injury (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:42PM (#11460185)

Saying "They could probably use more mirrors for the 22MB movie." as you post it to Slashdot's frontpage mid-day is like walking up to a guy after a fight, knifing him in the stomach and saying "You could probably use more bandages for your wounds."

Here are some magnet/edonkey mirror links:

magnet:?xt=urn:bitprint:CGUXHDIRWXFK362VRT63RMU6VA ZJPNAS.VSUEDMAYUMKDSRKBIA6TDCW6DIZ5MTYD26FOONQ&dn= 1984macintro_2.mov [magnet]

ed2k://|file|1984macintro_2.mov|21939485|c72b7ecf8 d3dc495ee743d7c54f5e29e|/ [ed2k]

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Hold Your Horses! (Score:5, Funny)

by fembots ( 753724 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:42PM (#11460192) Homepage

After Lord Of The Rings, I have learnt to wait for the extended director's platinum cut version before committing myself.

Wait for the 33MB version!

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never seen? (Score:5, Funny)

by seanadams.com ( 463190 ) * writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:42PM (#11460194) Homepage

Never seen video footage [...] Renowned Mac user Scott Knaster kept that Betamax video tape for 21 years

And he never watched it?!?! What about the camera man? Was he blind?

I'm afraid to watch this - I heard about that world's funniest joke. Sounds like they've taken special precautions here.

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How do you say... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:42PM (#11460199)

Slashdotted in German?

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Betamax? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:43PM (#11460210)

Does anyone else find it oddly fitting that this was preserved on a Betamax tape?

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Oh man.. (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:43PM (#11460211)

Apple is really gonna sue him!

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Patience honey... (Score:2, Funny)

by Tenebrious1 ( 530949 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:43PM (#11460216) Homepage

CGI-limits reached, please try again later!

Oh well, guess I waited for 21 years, I can wait a few more hours until it's mirrored elsewhere.

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I can't believe I'm asking for this but ... (Score:2, Funny)

by dcarey ( 321183 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:44PM (#11460223) Homepage

I can't believe I'm asking for a mirror for a betamax tape ...

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BETAMAX (Score:3, Funny)

by zenneth ( 767572 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:44PM (#11460233)

Renowned Mac user Scott Knaster kept that Betamax video tape for 21 years, and German media agency TextLab has unearthed this only surviving video tape of the launch.

1984 called... it wants its technology back.

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Re:Hold Your Horses! (Score:2, Funny)

by superpulpsicle ( 533373 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:45PM (#11460238)

Please, this is Apple. Wait for the Mini version.

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22MB in 1984 (Score:4, Funny)

by Hosting Geek ( 851934 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:45PM (#11460256) Homepage

That must of been the biggest file ever, how could they loose something so big?

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Re:How do you say... (Score:2, Funny)

by phyruxus ( 72649 ) writes: <{moc.oohay} {ta} {knildnapmuj}> on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:46PM (#11460270) Homepage Journal

fleigende kindersheisse!

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Re:Betamax? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:48PM (#11460291)

Does anyone else find it oddly fitting that this was preserved on a Betamax tape?

Quality from day one.

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Amazing... (Score:5, Funny)

by angst7 ( 62954 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:48PM (#11460296) Homepage

This is just a pathetic attempt to overshadow the *real* 20 year old mega-story: Bill Gate's 1983 Teen Beat Spread [slashdot.org].

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http is such a great transfer mechanism (Score:5, Funny)

by 91degrees ( 207121 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:50PM (#11460328) Journal

Although wouldn't it be a antastic revolution if we could download from people who had already dowloaded it, thus allowing us all to share bandwidth. The data would arrive at such a high speed that one might consider it a torrent. A bittorrent, one might say. If only such a technology existed...

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Slashdotted? (Score:5, Funny)

by delta_avi_delta ( 813412 ) writes: <dave.murphy@g m a i l.com> on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:53PM (#11460379)

If der linken ist geslashdotted, relaxen und watchen der blinkenlights

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Re:How do you say... (Score:5, Funny)

by easter1916 ( 452058 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:54PM (#11460397) Homepage

Slashdotted in German... how about "upgefuckt"?

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"Renowned Mac user" (Score:2, Funny)

by Dr. Dew ( 219113 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @04:56PM (#11460430) Homepage

Renowned Mac user Scott Knaster

I'm not arguing the accuracy of this description, but it's an odd turn of phrase. "Look at the way he presses that Apple command key! Astonishing!"

Imagine instead "renowned spoon user Dr. Dew."

"Renowned telephone user Mrs. Dew."

Pithy enough to fit on a headstone, too.

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Stylish! (Score:3, Funny)

by sulli ( 195030 ) * writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:04PM (#11460542) Journal

Steve never should have given up the bow ties.

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Re:Patience, honey. (Score:1, Funny)

by aichpvee ( 631243 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:07PM (#11460582) Journal

developers developers developer dev... oh, sorry. Wrong video.

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Re:Betamax? (Score:5, Funny)

by Bob McCown ( 8411 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:12PM (#11460660)

Time to switch to decaf, dude, or were you scared by a Beta camera at an early age?

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6th word? (Score:3, Funny)

by WormholeFiend ( 674934 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:12PM (#11460663)

Exeem.

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OMG (Score:3, Funny)

by Sophrosyne ( 630428 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:17PM (#11460742) Homepage

I WANT ONE!!!

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Re:Betamax? (Score:2, Funny)

by yiantsbro ( 550957 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:23PM (#11460847)

So, you are just to young to remember. I remember having "our" side of the video rental store and looking over at all the rich kids on the Beta side. Of course, there were also the videodisk freaks in the middle.

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Re:Corniest.video.ever.. (Score:3, Funny)

by valkraider ( 611225 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:25PM (#11460873) Journal

Most of Slashdot readers weren't born yet in 1984.

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Re:never seen? (Score:4, Funny)

by neonstz ( 79215 ) * writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:28PM (#11460918) Homepage

Wenn ist das Nunstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beierhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

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Typical.. (Score:2, Funny)

by StikyPad ( 445176 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:30PM (#11460968) Homepage

And now that the US are with us, you guys could back us up with some mirrors. Thanks bunches to all the folks who are helping us out!

I see how it is.. when in need, call on the US. When everything's fine, screw the US. Why does that sound so familiar?

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Corniest ever? Not hardly! (Score:4, Funny)

by macdaddy ( 38372 ) * writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:33PM (#11461003) Homepage Journal

Young one, obviously you've never seen the music video of "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins".

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applecare, laserwriter, hyperdrive videos (Score:2, Funny)

by -DeeT ( 165386 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:37PM (#11461074) Homepage

I still have my mid-1980s Apple videos about Applecare, Laserwriter repair, and Hyperdrive installation. I get no points for exoticness, though, because they're VHS, not beta.

My favorite moment is in one of the repair videos, where it shows the technician crossing fingers behind the back before discharging the CRT anode.

-DeeT

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bow tie (Score:4, Funny)

by sometwo ( 53041 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:38PM (#11461086)

I'm glad Steve doesn't wear bowties anymore.

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Re:How about a bittorrent? (Score:4, Funny)

by Leo McGarry ( 843676 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:43PM (#11461169)

About 15 years ago, I had a job as a PC repair monkey at the computer center at my university. As was often the case with student jobs, people came and went all the time. We were hiring new kids every couple of weeks.

About halfway through my senior year, we hired this freshman. Nice kid, but a little on the clueless side. Not only had he never worked on a Mac before, he'd never even seen one in person.

One day he had to go to one of the computer labs to pick up a Mac and bring it into the shop for service. (The analog board needed replacing, or something like that.) He hauled it in, set it on the bench, and proceeded to dig through all the bins in the shop.

"What are you looking for?" I asked him.

"A Mac power cord," he said. I just kinda stared for a minute. "What?" he demanded.

Without saying anything, I reached down into the bin by my bench, grabbed a power cord, and threw it at him.

"You mean Macs use regular power cords?" he asked.

Your question wasn't quite that stupid. But man, was it ever close.

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Re:Corniest.video.ever.. (Score:5, Funny)

by Leo McGarry ( 843676 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:50PM (#11461249)

People are cheering on various screens shown on a Macintosh. Quite corny.

Yeah, thank God nobody ever does that any more.

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Re:How do you say... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:54PM (#11461296)

They must have hosted the site on the 1984 Mac!!!!1111

LoLzors

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Re:How do you say... (Score:5, Funny)

by hunterx11 ( 778171 ) writes: <hunterx11@g3.1415926mail.com minus pi> on Monday January 24, 2005 @05:54PM (#11461297) Homepage Journal

It's easy. Take the sentence, "This website no longer operates due to excessive traffic caused by being linked to from Slashdot." Translate it into German. Remove the spaces. You now have a valid German word.

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Re:Lesson: (Score:5, Funny)

by soft_guy ( 534437 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @06:03PM (#11461403)

What master of business administration is going to go around (in the USA) using English that makes him look like a hillbilly

You mean besides the Preseident?

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Re:Hold Your Horses! (Score:2, Funny)

by techwolf ( 26278 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @06:04PM (#11461420)

Hmm, I would have expected the i1984 version

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Re:Insult to injury (Score:3, Funny)

by Me-The-Person ( 852147 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @06:23PM (#11461639) Homepage

Wait for it.... Wait for it.... /.'d!!!!!!

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Re:How do you say... (Score:3, Funny)

by 3dr ( 169908 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @06:48PM (#11461921)

kaput?

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Re:Betamax? (Score:5, Funny)

by EulerX07 ( 314098 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @06:57PM (#11462037)

Hot and wet is great when you're with a lady, but not when you're storing media. ;-)

I think you lost half of the /. audience at that sentence.

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Watch Out!!! (Score:3, Funny)

by vwjeff ( 709903 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @07:01PM (#11462086)

Not really, A VHS would not have survived as long. Beta was a significantly more robust format.

And the VHS vs. Betamax wars begin. Keep it clean. Fight!!!

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Re:Who has a copy of the SLASHDOT-L Mac intro thre (Score:5, Funny)

by Ohreally_factor ( 593551 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @07:17PM (#11462299) Journal

I'll always remember this:

Apple's new Macintosh.

Smaller than a PDP-11. No wireless. Lame.

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Oooh. That IS a good one. (Score:3, Funny)

by ccmay ( 116316 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @07:33PM (#11462492)

Mod parent funny. I'm a Bush man, but I know when to say 'touché.'

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Re:How do you say... (Score:3, Funny)

by dswensen ( 252552 ) * writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @08:05PM (#11462865) Homepage

And to save work for people who will actually do this:

DieseWebsiteläßtnichtmehrwegendesübermäßigenVerk eh rslaufendervonSlashdotdurchverbundenwerdenverursac htwird

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Re:Betamax? (Score:5, Funny)

by Patik ( 584959 ) * writes: <.cpatik. .at. .gmail.com.> on Monday January 24, 2005 @08:28PM (#11463073) Homepage Journal

Hot and wet is great when you're with a lady

+1 Informative

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Re:Oooh. That IS a good one. (Score:3, Funny)

by Alan Partridge ( 516639 ) writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @08:47PM (#11463275) Journal

Do you know when to say 'sorry'?

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Re:Betamax? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 24, 2005 @09:05PM (#11463423)

That's why the video was so well preserved. No one could find anything to play it on since the 80's.

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Patience, honey. (Score:5, Funny)

Insult to injury (Score:5, Funny)

Hold Your Horses! (Score:5, Funny)

never seen? (Score:5, Funny)

How do you say... (Score:5, Funny)

Betamax? (Score:5, Funny)

Oh man.. (Score:5, Funny)

Patience honey... (Score:2, Funny)

I can't believe I'm asking for this but ... (Score:2, Funny)

BETAMAX (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Hold Your Horses! (Score:2, Funny)

22MB in 1984 (Score:4, Funny)

Re:How do you say... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Betamax? (Score:1, Funny)

Amazing... (Score:5, Funny)

http is such a great transfer mechanism (Score:5, Funny)

Slashdotted? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:How do you say... (Score:5, Funny)

"Renowned Mac user" (Score:2, Funny)

Stylish! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Patience, honey. (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Betamax? (Score:5, Funny)

6th word? (Score:3, Funny)

OMG (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Betamax? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Corniest.video.ever.. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:never seen? (Score:4, Funny)

Typical.. (Score:2, Funny)

Corniest ever? Not hardly! (Score:4, Funny)

applecare, laserwriter, hyperdrive videos (Score:2, Funny)

bow tie (Score:4, Funny)

Re:How about a bittorrent? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Corniest.video.ever.. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:How do you say... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:How do you say... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Lesson: (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Hold Your Horses! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Insult to injury (Score:3, Funny)

Re:How do you say... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Betamax? (Score:5, Funny)

Watch Out!!! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Who has a copy of the SLASHDOT-L Mac intro thre (Score:5, Funny)

Oooh. That IS a good one. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:How do you say... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Betamax? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Oooh. That IS a good one. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Betamax? (Score:1, Funny)

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