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On “Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh (1984)”
The post-show is my favorite part0. It's just so personal. Almost feels like a meetup! 0 1:06:38 ( link to this video )
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Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh
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Steve Jobs unveils the original Macintosh computer in 1984, followed by a Q&A panel with the core Macintosh development team.
Apple Macintosh premiere with Steve Jobs and the Mac team, Boston Computer Society General Meeting, January 30, 1984. Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh, followed by a panel including Steve Capps, Andy Hertzfeld, Randy Wigginton, Bill Atkinson, Bruce Horn, Burrell Smith, Owen Densmore, and Rony Sebok. Recorded: January 30, 1984 Catalog Number: 102739983Why it's here
1 person recommends thisWhat people say. Highly recommended as a historic demonstration of the Macintosh launch and a rare look at the original engineering team.
i336_on Hacker News • Mentions
On “Ask HN: Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?”
…used to officially report that 300 hours are uploaded per minute, back in 2014. link says we're likely at 700hr/min now. OK. (Been wanting to do this math for a while, actually...) Let's see. This is all back-of-the-envelope and I wouldn't mind some more concrete numbers to work with! YT reencodes all videos into several formats. I'm looking at link to this video , which is 1:20:58 long. It was uploaded fairly recently so has the full complement of encodings. I see: - 5 DASH audio bitrates: 51k (27.53MB), 66k (31.93MB), and 120k (58.02MB) for clients that can decode OPUS, 89k Vorbis (46.67MB), and 132k M4A (73.16MB) - 6 DASH video sizes in both WebM/MP4 (so 12 total formats): 256x144 (43.09MB / 63.5…
Twisellon Hacker News • Mentions
On “iPadOS”
…"discoverable shortcut". It’s just that "drag to the trashcan" gimmick was present since first Macintosh introduction keynote in 1984 and is still usable as of today so no surprise it’s the first answer on every Q/A. I can’t yet skim through the footage but it might even appear in the 1984 LIVE DEMO (more emphasis needed) of the first Macintosh : link to this video…
uniqueidon Hacker News • Mentions
On “The Macintosh Way (1990) [pdf]”
I didn't notice anything one wouldn't expect, given how different first-hand accounts tend to be. Kawasaki is a marketing guy so his knowledge is weaker than an engineer's in many areas; stronger in a few others. For anyone interested, here's the demo in question: link to this video
Someoneon Hacker News • Mentions
On “A checklist for doing live demos”
…me. 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 link to this video , I immediately thought “that copy of MacWrite is rigged to always paste that fish”…
breckon Hacker News • Mentions
On “The Intelligence Age”
> Back then, were executives writing such grand proclamations about the future ? Yes. And the good ones (like SamA and SJ) deliver. link to this video