Thanks for uploading these; most of them are harder-to-find spots from Apple's purgatorial days with the ad agency BBDO, between the Jobs-TBWA\Chiat\Day eras.
i so love these old macintosh ads. im gonna go buy one when i get money. and i like the sound quality. i makes you really feel that the ads are old, on a vhs tape that has aged...
3:42 Ed Grover, who was the voice of Apple in the 80s. He also voiced all those memorable "Visa... it's everywhere you want to be" commercials. He was an actor ("Serpico" and "Baretta") who then became an all-time great voice-over talent.
thanks! yes ive been getting all of this off the internet. i found a whole websight with a whole page of quick time files of these and i downloaded every single one of them LOL :) i have allways been pritty good at finding spacific files and stuff i need on the internet. i normally can find just about anything i need on this vast world of bits and bytes :)
Tyler! Good job. I remember most of these adds. Now, here is some trivia, just for you and your viewers. The commercial with the floppy transfer from the PC to the Mac - that was made possible by a single chip designed by Wozniak, called into the project. The chip was called SWIM - for Super Wozniak Integrated Machine - and it was the core for PC floppy compatibility - which was CRITICAL to Mac's success! - Alfred (5 Stars + fav on your vid!)
Wow - I just realized the carry bag I still use for all kinds of stuff is a leftover original mac bag - just like the bag in the first ad! I used to carry my KIDS around in that thing...
Hey thanks Alfred i have 2 more sets of thease online and many many more comming :) i have a bunch of old apple adds.. and thanks for that info! i never knew that.
The last one, the 20th anniversary one was terribly expensive but so far ahead of it's time. It had television and all sorts of neat stuff on it. and it was soooo far ago!
This is really interesting. The first mac commercials really parallels the one that is running today. Except the mac is coming out of a huge box-like-bag instead of a manila envelope. They've really come a long way But their goal to make computers so everyone can use then remains the same.
The funniest commercial of all of them here was the commericoal from 3:10 - 3:40 where there is one dude at the end that yells "Get a Macintosh!" XD haha so funny
Haha. My dad had a Mac SE when I was little, which was the first computer I ever used. When I was in first grade I couldn't understand why the DOS-based computers they let us use didn't have mice...
Apple and NEXT were two companies who really started pushing aesthetics. Both of which were started by Steve Jobs... Just look at the 20th Anniversary Mac or the iMac, their influence on later machines has been very clear.
I haven't tried any Macs. But I've tried PCs all my like, and I don't need convincing that there's anything better. I know there is. Macs are beautifully designed, programmed, and developed. If software law had been more stringent in the early 90s we wouldn't have been living in the dark ages for the past two decades. Macs rock.
Some normal high-end PC laptops would cost around $1500+ base price, but a new Macbook does, however, cost under $1000 base price. Apple is going greener right now. New aluminum, glass, and no harmful plastics.
I remember back in elementary school, they had someone come in and show us how to use the computers, and the teacher was like, "So, does anyone want to click 'The Mouse'" One girl went, "does it squeak?"
i cant help but think that apple doesnt think too highly of their consumers...but then again thats wonderfully clever...playing on the abundance of simple minded people in the world...im so glad ive always used PCs...
Yes they do keep going on about it because. Most personal computers did not use a mouse prior to the Macintosh. Most computers weren't that easy to use prior to the Graphical User Interface, and the main way to navigate the GUI is a mouse. It was a big deal back then because it was a break through in the way we used computers.
@iWorld00 Correct. Apple wanted to use an LCD display to show how innovative and how great the company is. (I think) it was the first computer with a color LCD display.
Modern mice all implement the USB HID standard. They work flawlessly on any desktop OS. Unless you're going back in time or something, it doesn't really matter who invented it.
Yeah, why did they quit using their slogan, "The computer for the rest of us" It sums up their mission so well. I love my iPad, but i have to have a PC too because there are limitations to what a mac can do.
the color logo it was really nice, like the computer with a smile. Apple is now only an ipod compagny. The rent of computer is not the most important source of money since few years.
Truly was the computer for the computer user who knew nothing of command lines, detaching and reattaching cables and the such. Steve Jobs must have gotten tired of using his own DOS based PC and decided to simplify the common PC. The result was the Macintosh, which I still think some of the SE/30's are still used as servers in a few parts of the world today.
"Mac hasn't advanced at all." I'd like to remember you that the mighty mouse is a four button mouse since 2005. So you are the one who hasn't really advanced.
Macs were never cheap, and in this day and age, you get what you pay for... if you're lucky. Back when I was an Amiga developer (~88-92), everyone had to raise the price whenever they ported something to the Mac (from PC or Amiga). People wouldn't buy it otherwise.
