Ok, couple reasons why this video is kinda weird... 1. First, the guy works for an insurance broker, as it says on the window. Then, suddenly he's designing shoes?!? 2. When does a drawing EVER look that good when its drawn on a computer. 3. Why is everybody so relaxed?
Companies literally killed each other in a bloody war, and almost only the evil prevailed, (there have been exceptions, but they're being exploited by the blood suckers all the time).
they had almost all those features that we use today back then in the 80's ? wow microsoft has been shamelessly stealing the apple technology it seems.
@rajithaify I have to imagine the folks at Xerox PARC, at least the ones that didn't get hired away by Apple, would have problems with Apple being given all the credit.
Talking about the fan cooling. I did find this Jobs quote online, from Fortune Magazine, January 24, 2000. "On our latest iMac, I was adamant that we get rid of the fan, because it is much more pleasant to work on a computer that doesn't drone all the time." He goes on to clarify engineering work was done to compensate.
You have to remember this was back in 1984. Back then all personal computers did not have fans to help cool then. From the 1980s came the necessity of adding a fan due to how powerful personal computers came.
Please name your source to where exactly 1/2 of Macintosh personal computers failed from 1984. Otherwise I will have to count your posting as a troll posting just to drum up an argument without facts. Thank you.
Yes, they actually had the capability of doing fan cooling, it's just that Steve Jobs didn't want one in the Macintosh, for sakes of it being attractive, meaning quiet. Also, my dad was a humongous mac fan, and he owned so many macs you couldn't count them. And, almost half of them failed. So it turns out, he had two of almost every mac that he used to have.
I still have my cost sheet for my first Mac. The 128 Mac cost me (with student discount from CMU) $1050. That came without programs. $110 for Write/Paint. For fun, "Microsoft Basic" $99. A subscription to MacWorld: $24. "Transylvania" $38. And of course, 20 disks $64. Later, I bought a printer and carrier.
The IBM 5100 was not a personal computer. It was a portable business computing device that could run either IBM APL from the System/370 mainframe and BASIC language from IBM System/3 mini computer (later morphed into the AS/400 series after Systems 34, 36, 38.) If you did not have an IBM mainframe or IBM minicomputer the 5100 was basically useless.
Like I said before there were computers before hand. But if you are refering to the computer that was released in 1975 that could hardly be counted as a personal computer! It was waaaaay to expensive for anyone but scientists to afford, the apple 1 only costs $666.66. The true consumer targeted IBM PC was released in 1981.
Ok first of all I am not an apple fanboy, but I am a history buff. In 1976 Apple released the apple 1 personal computer. Before then there were other hobbyist computers such as the Altair but they came in kits, the apple 1 was the first fully assembled circut board. In 1977 they relesed the apple 2 which I would personally consider the first truly expandable, open architecture, mass produced personal computer. IBM did not release the IBM PC until 1981. So those are the facts.
??? Lol, do you hate Macs that much? To go on a video about Macs and try to down the fans and people who want to learn about Macs? Mature up, there is always gonna be people who diagree with you, and if can't deal with that you fail at life.
And P.S. i'm using a Gateway (so you can't get hissy pissy at me).
Its amazing to see just how revolutionary this was. This is proof that Apple is always moving forward without us even realizing it at the time (GUI, the mouse, the clickwheel, multi-touch, they changed the music industry forever in less than 5 years, they changed the phone market forever in less than 2 years)
@pixelr0 And sat on the technology and did nothing with it. If it was not for Apple and Microsoft the personal computer revolution would never have taken off.
@SlightyDisturbedNBK you think so? do some more research then. It was inevitable to happen. Only a matter of who's gonna lead the market and make tons of money.
I used my first mac in Kindergarten. We used Apple II's to play Oregon Trail. I remember how fun it was to load the 5 1/4" floppy disks and push the power button on the back of the computer.
Ok, couple reasons why this video is kinda weird... 1. First, the guy works for an insurance broker, as it says on the window. Then, suddenly he's designing shoes?!? 2. When does a drawing EVER look that good when its drawn on a computer. 3. Why is everybody so relaxed?
jlaps1998 2 weeks ago
Interesting video of the history of apple and the computer that set the stage for the modern day iMac , which i am watching this on right now :)
Creepingdeathx81 2 weeks ago
@slugnbozo i know...right? Also, when does a drawing EVER look that perfect when its drawn on a computer? Lol
jlaps1998 2 weeks ago
Why do execs in these old computer ads always seem to be so relaxed when they sit down to work?
slugnbozo 3 weeks ago
We take the mouse and GUI for granted now, but back then it was revolutionary. I can't believe the advances in computing I've seen in my lifetime.
TheQuindecillion 1 month ago
Companies literally killed each other in a bloody war, and almost only the evil prevailed, (there have been exceptions, but they're being exploited by the blood suckers all the time).
perplexedmoth 3 months ago
@javier29m90 Hah, what are you all mad about?
SlightyDisturbedNBK 4 months ago
Probably didn't want to confuse anyone by showing how to double-click. ;-p
zfoxfire 4 months ago
revolutionary ..where have i heard that before?
freaker126 5 months ago
Still true today!!!!!!
SuperDave61164 1 year ago
"blahblahblahblah... and it's done."
"blahblahblahblah... and it's done."
16mmDJ 1 year ago
The guy's voice is so dull
MacDaddy635 1 year ago
If only we could take those people from that generation and take them to the Mac store nowadays to see how far Apple has evolved.
gibsonMPN 1 year ago
I miss how simple computers where back then
Pinkishbass91 1 year ago
"I can't really describe it in words, but if I can get you to sit in front of it and play with it, you won't let go of it." LOL
8bittrauma 1 year ago
Is this the same narrator from "Texas' Chainsaw Massacre"? :D Great upload, I love the 80's ;)
oskoret 1 year ago
The Paint looks exactly the same as today's MS paint. Bill Gates did not steal ideas, he stole the whole source code I believe.
vivekantogmailcom 1 year ago
they had almost all those features that we use today back then in the 80's ? wow microsoft has been shamelessly stealing the apple technology it seems.
rajithaify 1 year ago
@rajithaify I have to imagine the folks at Xerox PARC, at least the ones that didn't get hired away by Apple, would have problems with Apple being given all the credit.
Talking about the fan cooling. I did find this Jobs quote online, from Fortune Magazine, January 24, 2000. "On our latest iMac, I was adamant that we get rid of the fan, because it is much more pleasant to work on a computer that doesn't drone all the time." He goes on to clarify engineering work was done to compensate.
nwajoe 1 year ago
wow , apple still great since it appeared until now!
MotweraCity 2 years ago
Comment removed
Ffiti2 2 years ago
You have to remember this was back in 1984. Back then all personal computers did not have fans to help cool then. From the 1980s came the necessity of adding a fan due to how powerful personal computers came.
Please name your source to where exactly 1/2 of Macintosh personal computers failed from 1984. Otherwise I will have to count your posting as a troll posting just to drum up an argument without facts. Thank you.
mac512guy 2 years ago 6
Yes, they actually had the capability of doing fan cooling, it's just that Steve Jobs didn't want one in the Macintosh, for sakes of it being attractive, meaning quiet. Also, my dad was a humongous mac fan, and he owned so many macs you couldn't count them. And, almost half of them failed. So it turns out, he had two of almost every mac that he used to have.
Ffiti2 1 year ago
@mac512guy The only apple computer that failed was lisa
matthew65536 1 month ago
got a source for that "fact"?
mule1974 1 year ago
What fact?
Ffiti2 1 year ago
@Ffiti2 actually only lisa failed. idiot
matthew65536 1 month ago
apple rules the computer market!
dionisapple 2 years ago
Not quite, but that would be nice.
redrider2318 2 years ago
when did they start calling them "macs" instead of just macintosh?
JustinTW995 2 years ago 2
Grate macintosh.. :)
amirnoman 2 years ago
wow! it actually opens windows faster than my notebook! (almost) Xd
LauxRO 2 years ago
2:45 -32-bit micro processer in 1984 in amazing
juju6182 2 years ago
Wow the early Macintoshes were very beautiful. I am restoring a Mac Plus. I want a 128 so bad.
Beaustoioff 2 years ago
Today, Macs are STILL easy to use. Even if you have a lot of items or something like that. :P
BoogsterSU2 2 years ago 3
I didn't know that once computer looked that scary... ;p
nook3y 2 years ago
no the new mbp is 68bit
samgoddam 2 years ago
yes and now 68bit procesor and a coustom 4terra bytd can be added to a LAPTOP!
samgoddam 2 years ago 2
they should make a mighty mosue in the design of the original!
RileyRichardz 2 years ago 2
Had "double-clicking" not been "invented" yet? I noticed that nothing was opened via double-clicking icons.
bassistguy 2 years ago
On the Mac today, all apps are opened with a single click as well.
MetaStrangerOnATrain 2 years ago
On my Mac - a 128K - I did have to double click. In that shot, the video uses magic instead of physics. By the way, my Mac still works.
touristinthecity 2 years ago
why are they so expensive now?
KRMPKNGZ 2 years ago
I still have my cost sheet for my first Mac. The 128 Mac cost me (with student discount from CMU) $1050. That came without programs. $110 for Write/Paint. For fun, "Microsoft Basic" $99. A subscription to MacWorld: $24. "Transylvania" $38. And of course, 20 disks $64. Later, I bought a printer and carrier.
touristinthecity 2 years ago
Super interesante video, pero no entiendo nada de inglés...
Marcuino 2 years ago
I don't understand Spanish, so maybe we are even?
mac512guy 2 years ago 4
learn lol
coonie1 2 years ago
Es muy necesario / is very necessary
Marcuino 2 years ago
So Macintosh was made for "creative", "motivated", AND "success-oriented" people? No wonder they have less than 10% market share.
Nephronial 2 years ago 13
@Nephronial say that again :P
CelineVision 1 year ago
The IBM 5100 was not a personal computer. It was a portable business computing device that could run either IBM APL from the System/370 mainframe and BASIC language from IBM System/3 mini computer (later morphed into the AS/400 series after Systems 34, 36, 38.) If you did not have an IBM mainframe or IBM minicomputer the 5100 was basically useless.
mac512guy 2 years ago
Like I said before there were computers before hand. But if you are refering to the computer that was released in 1975 that could hardly be counted as a personal computer! It was waaaaay to expensive for anyone but scientists to afford, the apple 1 only costs $666.66. The true consumer targeted IBM PC was released in 1981.
silenthk47 2 years ago
Ok first of all I am not an apple fanboy, but I am a history buff. In 1976 Apple released the apple 1 personal computer. Before then there were other hobbyist computers such as the Altair but they came in kits, the apple 1 was the first fully assembled circut board. In 1977 they relesed the apple 2 which I would personally consider the first truly expandable, open architecture, mass produced personal computer. IBM did not release the IBM PC until 1981. So those are the facts.
silenthk47 2 years ago
1:59 - "A standard that will set the pace for the entire personal computer industry". They definitely got that part right on the dot.
bassistguy 3 years ago
Great reflection of where we were in the PC/ MAC history. Still very educational.
leeperez06 3 years ago
Great blast from the past with a bit of commercialism involved in it but it lets you see where the mind set was then.
vrpcworld 3 years ago
How were you able to put all those pictures together? I want it to have a background like that, but I can never seem to get it together like that.
chick5581 3 years ago
Wow! I remember this video! Apple ftw!
judahhertz 3 years ago
??? Lol, do you hate Macs that much? To go on a video about Macs and try to down the fans and people who want to learn about Macs? Mature up, there is always gonna be people who diagree with you, and if can't deal with that you fail at life.
And P.S. i'm using a Gateway (so you can't get hissy pissy at me).
shift9303 3 years ago
Surprisingly not much has changed...
aleshg 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
wow amazing idea, u guys gotta check it out for yourself, watch?v=j4T55kOVzgs
dantheman945 3 years ago
Select the text, move the pointer to Style, then down to BOLD, and there it is.
creativepath1 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
the sickest idea i've ever seen, check it out guys! watch?v=j4T55kOVzgs
dantheman945 3 years ago
I love my MacBook!
stitso1 3 years ago 3
This has been flagged as spam show
the sickest idea i've ever seen, check it out guys! watch?v=j4T55kOVzgs
dantheman945 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
OMG is the crapintosh!!!
spungii117 3 years ago
Its amazing to see just how revolutionary this was. This is proof that Apple is always moving forward without us even realizing it at the time (GUI, the mouse, the clickwheel, multi-touch, they changed the music industry forever in less than 5 years, they changed the phone market forever in less than 2 years)
macuser08 3 years ago 13
@macuser08 you should check Xerox Park you'll be amazed by how they invented all those things and more years ahead of Apple
pixelr0 1 year ago
@pixelr0 And sat on the technology and did nothing with it. If it was not for Apple and Microsoft the personal computer revolution would never have taken off.
SlightyDisturbedNBK 1 year ago
@SlightyDisturbedNBK you think so? do some more research then. It was inevitable to happen. Only a matter of who's gonna lead the market and make tons of money.
perplexedmoth 3 months ago
"The balance of power is going to shift from companies running people, to people running companies".
If you look at what's happened with editing and Final Cut, mission well and truly accomplished.
lyris1 3 years ago 3
Rare video, it's so nice when you find something like this. I'm so in a evergreen mood right now :-)
LazMarko 3 years ago 2
I used my first mac in Kindergarten. We used Apple II's to play Oregon Trail. I remember how fun it was to load the 5 1/4" floppy disks and push the power button on the back of the computer.
AnimTV 3 years ago 2
omgimonfire
twgoldwood 3 years ago