1999 MacWorld Expo San Francisco - Steve Jobs Keynote - Apple VHS Archive 

cough cough cough

For real.

He has water there idk if he was sick or something

@@Jushwa he was sick. It was so long ago but it was covered in the UK MacUser magazine at the time.

@@RichsRandomRetroReviews oh true makes sense

Yeah I wish we got more time with Steve it’s a damn shame.

Apple would never have gone down their current route with him in charge.

You are absolutely right about today’s keynote’s! I love the FireWire demo how incredible Steve was! The products were so ahead of their time.

42:50 The easy-access was really nice. I used the PowerMac 8500 for years and it was quite a chore to get to the RAM etc. They really improved things years later. 1:03:10 Scene you mentioned where he brings out the 50 Macs served by the server.

Just that cough freak tho

Yeah the Power Mac G4 Graphite is one of the most reliable Macs ever

@@ferrreira reliability . what an odd design concept

I was a pure PC user and little to no Mac experience. I worked as a game dev in 2000 and we had to do a RAM upgrade and IT let us do it ourselves. I cut my hand opening my PC, since I was the only PC dev on the team and then had to do the 3 mac people. 1 G3 like this and 2 G4s and they both opened like this. Opened my eyes to how much better Mac hardware was back then.

This had NOTHING to do with his health condition. Talk about adding 2 and 2 and coming up with 5!

@@TUUK2006 It really does. Yours body is smarter than you. And it gives you a sign

Or he was fighting a cold.

Now they're doing it again by depreciating OpenGL for Metal. :D That being said, I'm not sure how Microsoft is with DirectX licencing and how well it would integrate with Mac OS if they did get it. I tell ya, it's a not nicer gaming on a PC now that I switched away.

Well I wasn't going to mention metal because this is all ancient history, almost two decades. The difference is that Microsoft fully own DirectX (although they didn't originally develop it) whereas Apple never had much say over OpenGL's development. QuickDraw 3D was Apple's competing technology but it wasn't really designed for games and only Apple's own GPUs supported it.

Kiyoshi Kirishima You mean the Gerbils demo doesn't count as a QuickDraw 3D game?! :) I still have my PCI QuickDraw 3D card from Apple - it made Havoc look so sweet. Haha

Hahaha that brings back memories! Apple was pushing QD3D hard in the late 90s and even baked it into the OS. It was just gaining traction when it was killed off. I'm an C++/OpenGL developer and OpenGL is probably the worse API I've ever had to use but I've also learned to be cautious of ANY new tech Apple introduces and that goes for metal. Glad I never bought into the OpenCL type.

Yep. The list of canceled stuff is practically endless. Everything from OpenDoc to Copland, System 7 Application Linking (which as far as I know was never used). Goes on and on.

Same here in August 2023 😂😭

Right?? I even have one next to me, and yet for a minute I felt the need to go buy one.

Fixed, just grabbed the text from the wrong video. Thanks! (can you guess what the next one is? haha)

Just watching that video now. Thanks for posting it too. A great trip down memory lane.

In what way is the quality "great"? There looks to be two instances of lossy digital compression (on the capture side and the RU-vid side) which has visible and audible artifacts, so is worse than the VHS quality?

@@RWL2012I guess “great” is always relative. Before this copy of the keynote came online I only had one where I recorded the stream via 56k modem myself onto VHS. It buffered a few times in places and I would have to manually start and stop the stream to get it going again.

Shit this is what every Desktop design should be like. lol

Yeah Steve was a real showman, them coughs tho 🤣

I think it rises to the top of all stunts for me. Possibly dethrones the iBook wifi moment, but both: contenders.

@@Jushwa yeah I know but points for never letting the coughs get into the speeches. Must've taken all the willpower.

​@@whophd ​ I didn't realize just how sick he was when I wrote that, not sure why i thought it was funny, I totally agree with you, it is impressive that he never let it interrupt his speech. I think the first time I missed that he had water with him on stage. I really miss his showmanship.😭 Sure the new events are very polished, edited, and NOT live and I'm sure more people watch them now more than ever, but seeing the curtain reveal the custom built rack that effortlessly slides forward even with 49 heavy iMacs cable managed and all set up to play, is genuinely impressive even today. I haven't seen any live on-stage demo that comes anywhere close to that since his passing. ☹

In some ways. Those performance demos were very biased though.

@@kirishima638 Not at all, you idiot. Apple uses industry standard benchmarks.

LOL. That overpriced junk had half the performance of the same priced Windows computer at the time. Yes I lived it.

Macs cost a fortune vs PCs back then.

@@TechRyze "back then" if you were talking 1989 not 1999, I'd agree, though a ton of examples could still find PCs with top specs in the same league. It's just that when you get into 5 figures, you probably wouldn't want the other brands? Especially later on when it goes from being a tool into nostalgia.

macbook still 8 :) and 1 port :) but 1600£ + monitor 1000£ this was super expensive even now! almost 3k :/ in 2000 people work for 3£ per hour now 11 and 2.5k i masive amount

I wasn't but I sure as hell spent other people's money on one as soon as it came out. I carried the damn box with my bare hands for 20 minutes (normal walk: 5 minutes) it was so damn heavy but I was determined to get this weird-ass miracle to the server room.

Hair

Are you sure it's Steve? I can hear it while Steve it talking so I don't think it's him.

@@OldAussieAds it’s definitely him

Waren es schon leichte Anzeichen von Steve's verhängnisvolle Krankheit? 🤔🙄

“Our commitment to make Mac the best gaming machine in the world” oh boy, he had no idea..

Who is it that's constantly clearing his throat? It's horrible.

Fuck, I didn't even notice until you mentioned it. Now I can't hear anything but his constant throat clearing.

@@keaton718 sorry 🙈

@@OldAussieAds Steve was the one coughing.. he was sick at the time, I think.

This was a third party product. VGS was a pretty solid emulator with a very user-friendly interface, although it didn't enhance visuals at all

for real!

I caught that, too

I know, so annoying!

Far out! I can't watch anymore. It's too much for me to handle. I wish who ever it was would drink a glass of bloody water or piss right off.

That was Steve.. He was sick at the time.

Lol that was Steve coughing 😭

This is very likely a Freudian slip. First rumors of an Intel transition already popped up in 2000. Today we know that there were late Rhapsody builds that could run on x86 in '97. We also know that in 2002, there was an entire team at Apple that continually worked on internal x86-compatible builds of OS X. It is highly likely that OS X was x86-compatible from the beginning and it's also likely that Jobs wanted to switch the Macs to Intel already when he came back to Apple. But because of several reasons they weren't able to pull this off directly with the release of OS X and also, PowerPC architecture looked like it was going somewhere for a couple of years.

He's trying to clear his throat without doing it all at once loudly

@@youdontseeanoldmanhavinatw4904 new product iVape some hidden test :)

Steve, he must have been sick or something

Estebe

Poor Outlook team, though. He didn’t demo not a single feature of it, must have been painful for the devs.

Oh boy, that didn’t age well at all..

Do you have a higher quality original for the Smithsonian?

It kinda lived on. There was a Firewire 1600 and I think 3200 spec created, but I don't think anyone really adopted it. By then USB was way faster and although it had its own limitations it didn't matter when it was 5x the speed.

Thunderbolt is sort of the descendant no? Firewire was so much nicer to use than USB back then since it offloaded protocol negotiation to dedicated hardware... it also had licencing fees attached I think... hence the prices.