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The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh
youtube ^ | 1984

Posted on 08/26/2011 2:21:03 PM PDT by aquila48

A seminal moment of Steve Jobs' career that defined what he's all about - insanely great!

See video at source.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; History
KEYWORDS: apple; computers; jobs; mac

1 posted on 08/26/2011 2:21:10 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Pontiac

bump


2 posted on 08/26/2011 2:24:30 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: aquila48

I am still a PC guy but I have to give props to him~!

Last year, my wife won a IPad for excellence at her hospital.

Great product

First Apple product we ever had...it did not work out of box, went thru Apple Geni with BS but we still love product.

Yesterday, my birthday, my wife bought me a Samsung Tab 10...even better than Ipad IMHO but Jobs is/was the man, no question about it....stuff that made our country great!

Where APL will go from here will be interesting.


3 posted on 08/26/2011 2:39:21 PM PDT by Seeking the truth
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To: aquila48
Shocking picture on Drudge supposedly from the last few days-looks like a death camp survivor.
4 posted on 08/26/2011 2:39:32 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: libertylover

Just saw those. How sad, hopefully he is spending the last days with his kids.


5 posted on 08/26/2011 2:43:27 PM PDT by svcw
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To: aquila48

End of the 1970s, my husband and I went to an electronics show and Apple had barely dressed women with baskets of Macintosh apples at their booth. Who knew what was about transpire.


6 posted on 08/26/2011 2:50:12 PM PDT by svcw
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To: libertylover

It’s really sad to see such a genius wither away. But even now in his condition, he shows a lot of class and grace.


7 posted on 08/26/2011 2:53:29 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Pontiac

I still have my first Mac, bought it is 86 or so, for school... I boxed it with the hope that it may be worth something some day... even if it’s worth nothing, I’m keeping it.


8 posted on 08/26/2011 2:56:16 PM PDT by dps.inspect (the system is rigged...)
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To: aquila48

He was a cutey!


9 posted on 08/26/2011 2:57:06 PM PDT by PROTESTBYPROXY (Today I am a terrorist!)
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To: aquila48

Originally sold with 128K of RAM, and a Motorola 68000 CPU having a clock speed of 8Mhz.


10 posted on 08/26/2011 2:57:44 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

“Originally sold with 128K of RAM, and a Motorola 68000 CPU having a clock speed of 8Mhz.”

...and no hard drive, everything was on a 400KB floppy disk drive (that was one of its achille’s heels).


11 posted on 08/26/2011 3:04:07 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

Well, I stuck with the computer that 90% of the rest of us bought, The PC.

My neice is being forced to buy a Mac for school this year.
Ain’t that special. Makes me feel all warm and cuddly.
Well, we all know what type runs the “schools”.
90% of corporate america uses PC and she HAS to be taught “MAC” for 20+ Grand a year.


12 posted on 08/26/2011 3:12:12 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: dps.inspect
I was a technical writer in 1985. I was writing procedures for a nuclear power plant.

I would do my revisions by hand and submit them to word processing group that input the changes in Word Perfect on a mainframe.

A consultant that worked near by me had a Mac that he purchased for his own use that filled me with envy but there was no way that I could afford the price.

My brother-in-law had a Lisa. That I think will someday be worth some cash being one of the few Jobs failures.

13 posted on 08/26/2011 3:19:43 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: aquila48

Just think, if Job’s friend Hussein Obama was President in 1984 instead of Reagan, would the computer revolution ever have had the freedom to happen?


14 posted on 08/26/2011 3:21:29 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: mowowie
90% of corporate america uses PC and she HAS to be taught “MAC” for 20+ Grand a year.

You don’t mention what your neice is to study at school.

But I will guess that it is graphic arts or some similar discipline because MAC dominates the graphic arts fields.

15 posted on 08/26/2011 3:24:22 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: mowowie

Not all mac users are liberals.School systems run on mac’s mostly because there is n overhead with needing an IT dept.The have one guy who takes care of the whole system and usually he’s just pat time.


16 posted on 08/26/2011 4:21:34 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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