Steve Jobs showcases Macintosh 24-JAN-1984

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Jobs setups up computer and turns it on to show the ease of setup, demostrate the speed, and "insanely great" display.


Specs:
- $2,495
- Introduces the 32-bit 68000 CPU
- Memory: 192k
- ROM 64k
- RAM: 128k
- Introduces the 3.5" (400k) floppy disc as the "disc of teh 80s"
- RS232, RS422, and AppleBus Interconnect ports.
- Built-in voice and sound speech
- "HD, super-crisp, bitmap, 9" screen"

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: January 3, 2007 at 11:24 am
Author: solipsism1000

Length: 00:10:00
Rating: 4.81
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Tags: Steve Jobs 1984 Macintosh Mac

Video Comments:
guspowercube (December 23, 2008 at 10:54 am)
does anybody know whats the name of that song??
simakuutio (January 6, 2009 at 5:08 am)
This song is called "Chariots of fire" by Vangelis.
screemin22 (December 22, 2008 at 12:16 pm)
NO one knows, i read somewhere that apple designed somthing that was never released called "MACINTALK".
themaritimeman (December 19, 2008 at 7:35 pm)
6:51 - Steve looks damn proud of that machine to his left, and he should be. The Macintosh would go on to change computers forever.
themaritimeman (December 19, 2008 at 7:29 pm)
Steve said himself that it had 128K of RAM. And music CD's in 1984? The beginning of the music definately sounded like something that was computer generated. I know a friend who has a Mac Classic with a 68000 processor and it plays computer-generated music like a dream.
screemin22 (December 22, 2008 at 12:09 pm)
YES but after the team had put it all together, it was wayyyyy to big for the macintosh 128k and the sound wasn't good enough for jobs, so they used a prototype 512k macintosh (1 of only 2 in existence) and used the cd for the music, it may have even been a higher quality digital file, thats pretty much all i know.
themaritimeman (December 22, 2008 at 12:16 pm)
I doubt they used a CD. CD's were invented in 1982, and weren't really used until the early 1990's. A cassette, maybe?
zettaishonen (December 15, 2008 at 11:01 am)
well, that was 1984. :D
gabebagel51 (December 13, 2008 at 6:59 am)
awesome
EdBBandMM (December 9, 2008 at 4:51 pm)
$2495, to be exact