The Lost 1984 Mac Video 636
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.
Thanks for the help (Score:5, Insightful)
You could do something useful and make a torrent before posting the story to slashdot.
-Colin [colingregorypalmer.net]
Re:Corniest.video.ever.. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Betamax? (Score:3, Insightful)
They likely mean Betacam [wikipedia.org] not betamax. But who knows.
Re:Patience, honey. (Score:4, Insightful)
I have 5 words to say about this statement:
BitTorrent, BitTorrent, BitTorrent, BitTorrent, BitTorrent.
Re:How about a bittorrent? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:http is such a great transfer mechanism (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Corniest.video.ever.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:PC competition for the Mini-MAC? (Score:3, Insightful)
If you really want to impress your wife, try listening to her.
Yeah yeah, it's a troll. He posted a whole topic about it last week.
Re:Betamax? (Score:1, Insightful)
Unscrupulous (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Mirror (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Betamax? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:How do you say... (Score:2, Insightful)
A: Slashdotted
Re:PC competition for the Mini-MAC? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Man We were easily impressed back then. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Who has a copy of the SLASHDOT-L Mac intro thre (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:It strikes me that Jobs was an asshole his whol (Score:4, Insightful)
And yet, without Jobs to goad people into stroking his ego, there would have been no Mac, no NeXTSTEP, no Apple post-1997, no iMac, no iPod, no standards of excellence in GUI computing.
Sometimes it takes an asshole to make a dent in the universe.
Amiga (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Who has a copy of the SLASHDOT-L Mac intro thre (Score:3, Insightful)
mac cost (Score:3, Insightful)
The 5 year typical service life of a mac compared to 3 years for dos/windows typically made it less expensive than even the cheap brands over the long term.
And once you factored in support costs in a business, the mac made up for the purchase price difference in the first year or two (there was about a 4:1 factor there!)
hawk
Re:Amiga (Score:3, Insightful)
Another difference is that while Amiga focused on flashy hardware, Apple focused on a solid user interface. It's a lot easier to be backwards compatible with software than it is with hardware. Amiga was pretty much doomed to have to re-implement the same chipset and video modes in every future version, where Quickdraw on the Mac, and discouraging direct writes to the video hardware (which was just a simple bitmap to begin with), allowed Apple the flexibility to change the graphics hardware.