Steve Jobs showcases Macintosh 24-JAN-1984

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"

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Steve
• Jobs
• 1984
• Macintosh
• Mac

[11rdub11]

RIP Steve Jobs. Thanks for giving us a lot of cool stuff. 

[LionheartCloud]

steve jobs is more awesome than bill gates

[shadowMason]

Read about the production of the Mac in his biography... I appreciate being able to see the video. Very cool.

[lilflurt2]

@LionheartCloud yea, all gates is doing is saving African kids from hunger and starvation. maybe its time u reevaluated your definition of awesome.

[bsballfn1721]

@ 8:30 - "235 people in America..."

It looks like the entire nation is in that building then. That would also mean America's been growing at over 11million people per year... Look out China

[wahyualfian13]

@theanthony345 i can do it in windows, i create the program in Visual Basic, than i set it as start up! we olso can change the welcome sound, shutdown sound and over all.

[valonT1]

Got, i Love My iMac.

[mahdyfouad]

عبقرية  والاعلان فى الدقيقة 09:00 تحفة بحد ذاته موسيقى وكلمات وطريقة الالقاء

[theanthony345]

does anyone know how to make a slideshow like that when your computer starts?

[jjs777fzr]

@LionheartCloud given the fact that bill and melinda lead the largest philanthropic foundations the world has ever seen - Bill is arguably the most awesome person on the planet. He is truly a reall person that cares.

[sinistertim101]

Amazing and a very powerful machine in 1984. The mac was 10 years ahead of its time and was the first semi modern PC (before the internet). For the kids today who complain it was garbage? I have to say you have no idea what life was like back then. Computers were a privilege if you had rich parents. You got a butt-ugly green screen. No sound with no fonts. Maybe a 4 color screen if you are lucky. (today's screens are 16.7 million colors).

[sinistertim101]

@Jeffersonwazright

Try $5700 and worth every penny back in 1984! As a child what I knew then were ugly green screen IBMs and terminals with no fonts and speaker that did bleeps and blops that sounded like a door bell. Notice the ad had fonts galore and this was a VERY BIG deal in 1984. Junk?? Go watch a video of lotus 123 for dos on youtube with green screen goodness and then tell me that mac is still junk? It was 10 years ahead of its time. Kids today ... sigh