Steve Jobs demos Apple Macintosh, 1984

Demo of the first Apple Macintosh by Steve Jobs, January 1984, in front of 3000 people. Andy Hertzfeld captured the moment quite well in his retelling: "Pandemonium reigns as the demo completes. Steve has the biggest smile I've ever seen on his face, obviously holding back tears as he is overwhelmed by the moment. The ovation continues for at least five minutes before he quiets the crowd down."

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[darkstar9971]

Greatest product launch ever!! No one could have done it the way Steve did it.

[JFAcoustic]

Still faster than Windows.

[Ava Makris]

wow, thank you so much for postiong this video. it shows how amazingly far apple has come, and how amazing technology really is. i personally love apple products, its all i use,so to see where it all came from is amazing.

[MrMrsteve01]

Look where we came in the last 30 years. Imagine another 30 years.

[Simon Berdes]

you're funny! ._.

[Yusuf Yalım]

is song also used on carl sagan's cosmos?

[Meadhbh Mc Guinness]

That old thing loads faster than my laptop! :P

[guitarfire1633]

whaa

[C43908]

remember apple hired Microsoft to PROGRAM their computers so you have to give credit to Microsoft also

Microsoft = the programmer

apple= the designer

i like them both equally

so if you say windows is slow you are saying the same thing about OS

[GitarStu]

LOL! You're talking about two completely different things! Windows USED to load with a few kilobytes of data too - Windows 3.1 was only about 10Mb installed. Windows 2.0 was smaller again and would load off a single floppy.

MacOSX is no small OS either. In fact, it probably requires similar disk space to Windows 7.

LOL. Applefanatics are a hilarious bunch.

[erfan iravani]

I appriciate you from your products

[Stefan Cao]

he is so awesome, i miss him.