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Never seen video footage of the introduction of the Macintosh in January 1984 was published for the first time on the Internet today. The German media agency TextLab (http://www.textlab.de/) has unearthed the only surviving video tape of the launch. Renowned Mac user Scott Knaster (http://foodisworse.typepad.com/this/) kept that Betamax video tape for 21 years.

21 years ago today, on January 24th 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh. And we've seen that 1984 wasn't like 1984.

What we've never seen indeed, was the big day itself. Lots of historic stuff has been preserved - images, texts, even sounds, and the saga has been told on and on. However only very few people have actually seen how Steve Jobs pulls the first Mac out of this bag, how the Mac introduces itself to the public, Steves biggest grin ever, and how he is obviously overwhelmed by this moment in the Cupertino Flint Center.

Fear not, faithful Mac believers. We have found it. We have found what seems to be the only copy of a public TV broadcast on that very day. It was recorded and preserved by Scott Knaster, the "legendary Mac hacker", as Amazon puts it. Scott kept the tape (a NTSC Betamax III longplay) for 21 years since he keeps everything. Andy Hertzfeld saw it when he wrote the story "The Times They Are A-Changin' (http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Times_They_Are_A-Changin.txt)" on folklore.org. From there we followed the hints, and that's how we found it.

We worked with Scott to convert it from NTSC to PAL, we've polished it, cleaned it, huged it and digitzed it. Here it is. It goes back to the people who've made the Macintosh, and to the world. The complete material of about 2 hours is returned to Scott, Andy and the folklore.org people, and this weblog will report the story of the "missing 1984 video" in detail. We'll release other clips in the coming days, so bookmark and check back.

But now, Ladies and Gentlemen: please welcome - the 1984 Macintosh introduction video. A travel back in time...

You can try a time sliced download here (http://www.industrial-technology-and-witchcraft.de/video.php), and if this is overloaded (it probably is), there are mirrors at macnews.de (http://www.macnews.de/news/58099), php-schmiede.de (http://www.php-schmiede.de/1984macintro_2.mov), ppcnux.de (http://www.ppcnux.de/pub/MacOSX/1984-macintro/), ftp.ppcnux.de (http://ftp://ftp.ppcnux.de/pub/MacOSX/1984-macintro/), MacTechNews.de (http://www.mac-software-updates.de/1984macintro.mov) and elbewerk (http://homepage.mac.com/sdomanske/.Movies/The_First_Mac.mov).

Ah, the Macintosh is finally legal to drink alcohol in the country it was born in.  ;)

Happy 21st Birthday Macintosh!!!

Direct links would be nice since the majority of the viewers here dont speak German.

alright, no problem:

http://81.92.6.144/1984macintro_2.mov

http://www.php-schmiede.de/1984macintro_2.mov

http://www.cluecoder.org/~bene/ppcnux/1984_macintro/1984macintro_2.mov

http://www.mac-software-updates.de/1984macintro.mov

http://homepage.mac.com/sdomanske/.Movies/The_First_Mac.mov

*sniff*

Steve hasn't changed a bit.

Scary when you think about how far we've come since then...

Progress can be a beautiful thing.
 :)

Ill Drink to that hehe ... Tollins Care to join me?

from suit to trainers... from um hairy to bald as a babby hehe.

Wow that crowd puts the modern day macworld crowds to shame heh, that is serious enthusiasm!

*sniff* ;)

They would still do it more if steve had more hair.

A lot of people don't know this...that Mac in the video wasn't an original 128k Mac.  It is a special 512k Mac...the 128k didn't have enough RAM to run the program.  But alas, I still love my original 128k Mac.[/size]  ;D

GS you get ripped off every time you get a mac, first that then the single 1.8?  ::lol::

Hey, at least my 128k Mac is a collector's item![/size]

Whilst the 1.8 is now worth 1499. :-X

Well, maybe a little more than that...I do have 2.5GB RAM and an ATi Radeon 9800 Pro in it now.[/size]

you still get bumped down for it being a Rev A and used.

NERD ALERT NERD ALERT

GS just out of curiosity what do you use your macs for? Other than gaming (AA etc) , forum whoring and other essential matters ;)

Pagemaker.. U looked at the new 'Pages' from apple -seems like a very nice simple DTP for newsletters etc, very user friendly (surprise surprise)

Howd u do the VHS to DVD - I mean how are you hooking your player to your Computer etc...


That explained a lot ;)

....now we have to wait a whole 9 years before we can celebrate Macintosh's 30th birthday.

whole 4 years till the 25th, 29 years till the 50th, 79 years till the 100th... ::)

I just cant wait for the 22nd, that will be a PARTY!   ::applause:: ::applause:: ::applause::  then there will be  ::beer:: ::beer:: ::morecider:: and   ::dj::  which then causes  ::banana:: ::banana:: which turns into  ::ass:: ::ass:: then more  ::beer:: which causes  ::stupid:: then lastly you get  ::lieb:: ::lieb:: ::lieb:: ::bussi::  Ahh isnt it great!  Then we will all be like  ::sleep:: then more  ::knutsch:: ::knutsch:: and  ::shot:: damn you killed kenny, you basterd!







Look a dancing banana! ::banana::

Apple has no respect for odd numbers!

such numberist people

I mean, do you see them honoring the 21st anniversary ?

or the 23rd, OUCH i JUST POKED MYSELF IN THE EYE!~

silence you, this thread is dead.

Never!  But really the 25 year celebration should bring some cool new techs

Admins, merge last page with spam drop box.

I agree with myst!  wtf am I saying...


Look a dancing banana ::banana::

Enough is enough. Why aren't there more admins?

Because Mauti wouldn't let me be one.[/size]  :(

Perhaps they don't enjoy being ordered around and will do as they see fit? Just an idea...

They should learn their job then.

Shut up you...Lets wait for 25. They have to celebrate that...don't they?

I would imagine that they should, If it was me Id be celebrating it!

The mac cube to be 1 inch x 1 inch x 1 inch. That would be soo MUHAHAHHAHAHAHa

1 inch squared that would be so small I would lose the bloody thing.

Maybe it will be the PS9 from the PS2 commercial (original intro one).

They would have to use ubermini disks then...

Disks? Try a evolved form of iDisk, that would allow uber fast connections. That is actually the future!

Im talking about games...

So am I. You can download games legally you know. It just takes awhile.

I think not having games for sale non via the internet will increase pirating

That's possibly the most retarded thing ever. You can't hack into servers like that, and it's no harder to upload a CD to someone than a simple file. One way you get it when you want it, and you don't have to get up :D

The CD takes manual labor and dowloading a nocd image and getting a registration code, you have to go get the cd or have your forgetful friend give it to you, rather than downloading it off the internet then easily finding a no cdimage and code off the internet.

1.) No CD images are for the people who don't have toast. (A application, reading your stuff I bet you you wouldn't know)

2.) Registrations codes would be included in the transaction. (not the CD image)

3.) Say what?

they would be included in the pirated game? I dont  think so, and I have toast, it tastes good with jelly and honey,  anyway toast, do you me roxio toast? the app that burns cd's and such?

The app that mounts images that get recognized as CDs.

CD keys are always included on the stupid torrent trackers....not that i use them.

You know what's fun?  This went from Macintosh's introduction in 1984 to pirating software in the present day and age.  And the entire conversation has been hijacked by pretty much two people.  Why dont you two (Myst & dark) just PM each other, so everybody else doesnt have to read it?

I think that's a fine idea.

-Lone

He asks questions to me I answer questions from him. There's nothing stoping other people to post along the topic lines of the post. We went from 1984--->2004---2009 and what would be there. This isn't truly off topic.

This was a civil conversation about new technologies and such  I dont think we were off topic.

Disc are already being phased out. I believe it will have a application that will work like the iTMS that lets you purchase a game and DL it through only that application using a secure format. for removable media there will be things like sony's memory card.

prob with that is peoples internet connection, 56k would take DAYS to download (legally) a game like RvS:AS  That is why I dont see the disc being phased out quite yet.

I wasn't aware people still used 56K.