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Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh

Computer History Museum · 1.6M views · 2016-11-02 · 1:20:30

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Overview

Recording of the January 1984 Boston Computer Society meeting where Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. It is followed by a panel Q&A with core Mac team members such as Andy Hertzfeld, Bill Atkinson and Steve Capps.

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HN points to it as the primary source for the original Mac demo and the personal post-show Q&A with the team.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2016–2024

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willmeyers · 2021-02 · Recommendation

The post-show is my favorite part[0]. It's just so personal. Almost feels like a meetup! [0] 1:06:38 ( [VIDEO] )

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breck · 2024-09 · Reference

> Back then, were executives writing such grand proclamations about the future ? Yes. And the good ones (like SamA and SJ) deliver. [VIDEO]

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Someone · 2021-12 · Reference

> 4. Minimize everything else I would say there shouldn’t be anything else. Create a local ‘demo’ account, if needed. That also avoids getting any embarrassing message pop-ups. Also, if your software isn’t that stable and you can get away with it, switch machines all the time. If your demo requires multiple actions foo and bar , demo foo , then switch to a machine where foo was done beforehand to demo how bar works. Look at some of Steve Jobs’ demos and try figuring out how many machines they used to demo some of the prerelease software. Also, don’t be afraid to cheat. For example, when seeing the copy-paste demo in [VIDEO] , I immediately thought “that copy of MacWrite is rigged to always paste that fish”

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