Video Shows Steve Jobs Demoing the First Mac Way Back In 1984 | |
Video Shows Steve Jobs Demoing the First Mac Way Back In 1984 Apple's Steve Jobs gives a demo of the first Mac to the public, which has remained unseen for 30 years -- until now. Way back in 1984, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off the first iteration of the Mac at a company shareholders meeting. However, what most people didn't know is Jobs made a second presentation to the Boston Computer Society at Boston's John Hancock Hall. The clip, which runs 96 minutes, has not been seen publicly for the better part of 30 years -- until today. Now, while the shareholders managed to be the first ones to witness the unit's unveiling, the video gives us a look at how actual users and consumers reacted to the computer at the time. After the reveal, Jobs even participated in a Q&A session with members of the Macintosh team which includes Bill Atkinson, Steve Capps, Owen Densmore, Andy Hertzfeld, Bruce Horn, Rony Sebok, Burrell Smith and Randy Wigginton. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, which was not a Mac team member, crashed the Q&A panel and talked about the "Apple II" line of computers. Though the first part of the presentation follows the same script as the Cupertino event, Jobs goes on after the initial script concludes and compares text-oriented computers such as the IBM PC to telegraph machine and the Mac to telephones.
For most people today, Steve Jobs was seen as an entrepreneur and inventor who ushered in Apple's dominance of the mobile smartphone and tablet market before his passing in 2011. Source: Time Techland via Engadget | |
It is unreal seeing people call 800kb disks that fit in a shirt pocket revolutionary. Hearing and joking about times long past is one thing, seeing it is something else entirely. | |
Look at how excited those people were for paint. 1984 wasn't that long ago when you think about it. And look how far we've come with computer tech. | |
I don't really like how idolized the guy is after his death. It's a little questionable just how much of that devotion was truly justifiable. However, listening to him speak in front of a crowd is almost mesmerizing and you can really understand how he managed to rise to the top like he did. And also, spectacularly crash down for over a decade. Fascinating man, who will definitely be remember for a very long time to come. Thanks for sharing this piece of history! | |
People were a lot more cheerful and willing to laugh openly back then. | |
now that is an impressive find. also "high definition" | |
As I recall people were a lot less cynical too back then. | |
And that was during Cold War. Kind of makes you think about the state of the world today. | |
As far as I can see the state of the world is rather clusterfucked, not really as nice today as if any time during history was nice as someone will no doubt remind us of. | |
Jobs always that charisma most salespeople would die for. Too bad when he came back to Apple to get them back up from near bankruptcy, they went from successful underdog keeping IBM on its toes to another big, pushy, full of itself corporation in just a few short years. I guess his behind the scenes attitude rubbed off on all the other board members. | |
That was really interesting to watch, it's basically the same as today, just higher numbers. That paint demonstration was kinda funny, as it's hard to think how it would be to see this for the first time. Something so basic, a program hardly anyone use anymore as there are far better ones. And the question about using commands or the mouse. Makes one wonder though, what will people in the future laugh about that we did? | |