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Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:27
Apple History DVDs - Interesting!
Author: Apple History
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:27
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:27
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See below for the details, but here are 5 DVDs full of lost Apple History that hasn't been widely seen before. They can be shipped worldwide for $5 US. Pass this on to people interested in the Mac or Apple II History. Thanks! http://stores.ebay.com/Apple-History-Store http://idisk.mac.com/amcintosh/public/lostappletapes1.jpg http://idisk.mac.com/amcintosh/public/lostappletapes2.jpg http://idisk.mac.com/amcintosh/public/lostappletapes3.jpg http://idisk.mac.com/amcintosh/public/lostappletapes4.jpg http://idisk.mac.com/amcintosh/public/lostappletapes5.jpg Apple Historical DVDs - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Apple Historical DVD 1. 90 minutes of truly interesting video covering the Late Apple // and Early Macintosh years. Chapters Include: Time Capsule recorded in 1987, looking into the future of 1997. Woz, Yocam, Sculley, Spindler. (funny, interesting!) Our Engineers, behind the curtain, circa 1989. Personal Best: The Macintosh in Business, College, Elementary Settings. Golden Age Mac Advertisements. Golden Age Apple II Advertisements. Joke by Jean Louis Gassee. Additional Knowledge Navigator Clips Apple II Business Graphics - A real eye opener! Hinduism and the Macintosh. Apple Europe - The Picture Show - Mac Classic, LC, Early PowerBook Era - Interesting! Clips by John Sculley, Alan Kay. Slick Flat Panel Macintoshes, Speech Based OS Ray Bradbury on the Future of Computing. Apple Historical DVD 2. 70 minutes of truly interesting video covering Early Apple to Futuristic Apple Visions. Chapters Include: Apple's Moment of Birth... An emergency call from Cramer Electronics to Paul Terrell owner of the budding "The Byte Shop", wanting to know if it was okay to sell raw components to "Two Guys" to build 50 Apple /'s. One reason Apple got it's name, "it put us ahead of Atari in the phonebook" says a laughing Steve Jobs. Colored Apple //s - Apple never shipped them, but had plans for colored //s similar to the iMacs. Why we created Macintosh by Burrell Smith, Andy Hertzfeld, George Crow, Mike Murry and Bill Atkinson. (interesting!) Demonstration of the 128K Mac from 1983. The Macintosh Factory Macintosh joins our 32-Bit Family, by Steve Jobs A very young Bill Gates proclaims: "Macintosh will be half our retail sales next year" and "Microsoft doesn't work with new hardware very often". Apple Electronic Binoculars Extended Version of Knowledge Navigator Early Flat Panel Macintoshes The Fabled Macintosh Tablet Touch Screens and Object Based OSes Apple Historical DVD 3 has 80 minutes of truly interesting video covering the Early to Middle Macintosh years. Chapters Include: Macintosh User Interface Philosophy. Comments and Video Examples by Don Norman, Bruce Tognazzini, Larry Tesler and Alan Kay of Apple's Human Interface Group. Quite interesting, these same ideas live today in a Modern Macintosh. Beginner's Luck: A large number of Families and Individuals give their views on first experiences using an Apple // or Macintosh. Funny! Introduction of the Mac Portable: Just as the Apple / and Lisa paved the way for later Apple innovations, the Mac Portable laid the ground work for today's iBook and PowerBook. Colorful Jean-Louis Gassee builds a Portable LIVE on stage, explains "Battery Paranoia" and design choices needed to build the first "luggable" Macintosh. Macintosh on the Move: A funny spoof on the complexities, trials and tribulations of creating the first battery powered Mac. Inside Jokes Galore. Apple 1989 Product Review: A very fast look at every product Apple introduced that year. Some inside jokes, can you figure them out? The History of Publishing told by BBC's James Burke. A mini documentary on how Apple fits into the latest stage of Publishing using a timeline based from the 1430's. Very Well Done. Programming: A polished looked at the Mac Toolbox, API's, Networking, AppleTalk, etc. Comments from the Inventor of AppleTalk. If you write software for the Mac, these early clips explain the core of programing on the Macintosh. Introduction of HyperCard in a "News Flash" style report. Bill Atkinson is interviewed and tells of his vision for HyperCard. Chris Espinosa makes an appearance as HyperCard Product Manager. Ideas on possible 3D HyperCard interfaces are shown. Apple Historical DVD 4 has 98 minutes of truly interesting video covering the Middle Macintosh years. Chapters Include: A/UX: The Introduction of UNIX to the Macintosh world, circa 1988. Sculley gives a somewhat dry speech, but foretells Apple's OS strategy some 12 years before OSX appears. He mentions the work of Ted Nelson, talks about SketchPad, HyperText, SmallTalk and the idea of HyperCard for Unix believe it or not. Macintosh + Mathmatica = Infinity: Steven Wolfram of Mathematica fame shows and talks about how the Macintosh will transform Mathematics. Fairly Geeky, but interesting to some. Design and the Macintosh, Domino's Pizza and the Macintosh, ABC News and the Macintosh. Various Clips showing unique ways to use a Mac. Gil Amielio talks about Apple 1 month into his tenure. Love him or hate him, this approx 10 minute clip will give you a new perspective on the difficulties Apple experienced some 8 years ago. John Sculley answers User Group Questions, such as: "What is the future of the Apple II in Education and the Home?" Kinda fun. Alan Loren, on Macintosh Marketing. Full length version of John Sculley's Knowledge Navigator. The Business of Education: How Macs can work in School Administration. Apple II Video Overlay: VERY early look at where programs like iMovie originated. Yes, the Apple II could produce Videos. Introduction of the Mac IIcx & Full Page Monitor: The ever funny Jean-Louis Gassee hosts another building of a Mac on stage, Sculley is there to show his pride and joy, the first single page Mono Monitor. Larry Tesler of the Advanced Technology Group speaks on the Design Principles behind Macintosh Hardware. Interesting! Apple Historical DVD 5. 102 minutes of truly interesting video covering the Early to Middle Macintosh years. Chapters Include: Apple introduces the popular PowerBook 100, 140, 170. A look into the complex engineering that went into these models... mockups, pencil drawings, comments on SONY building the PowerBook 100. Items like the introduction of the palm-rest, keyboards we use today are discussed. Employee Intro where new features are shown. Funny! Macs in Space. A quick clip of how the SuperDrive reacts in Space. Great stuff! Early Mac Animations. In 1988, Apple was eager to show off the graphics power of its 68020 line of computers. First up, a group of talented artists produced "Pencil Test," an animated short created entirely on a Macintosh II. Animations: Tempest, Her Majesty's Secret Serpent, Pigment Promenade, The Audition and Splash Dance are also shown. John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton of Pixar fame are listed in the credits. Steve Wozniak along with David Cram discuss ESD, (electrostatic discharge), in a rather entertaining video about how static electricity can harm Service Parts. Good for teaching on this subject, one of the BEST. Not as boring as it sounds! Mac vs. PC. In a well done feature, Apple goes head to head with OS/2 and early Windows. Many of the comments hold true today. It's quite an eye opening video, fun to watch. Macintoshes building Macintoshes. Apple's pride and joy, the $20-million, ultra modern Fremont facility where many early Macs were made. Shows the Mac SE and Mac II being built, tour of entire plant. Processes and testing to make each logicboard, etc. This factory can produce one Mac every 27 seconds. Interesting!
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