Ah, this brought back such memories. Try explaining to your 17-year old what some of these devices were ("Oh, Dad, come on. Why would anyone make a computer that big?"). Thanks, adiblasi! (By the way, for those who don't remember, Apple licensed the song "Flashdance What a Feeling" for this video.)
Wouldn't it have been far simpler to 'render' (can't think of a better word) down to 35mm film and have that projected with something equivalent to a movie theatre projector? It must have been complicated to achieve shots like the motion trails and the section with the grid-of-9-pictures section, and to get it to all stay in time with the music. How was synchronization done (with control voltages on tape?) and how does 35mm film compare with 1080p?
@@Bustycat Actually, it was the 1984 Apple Shareholders Meeting which is publicly available on RU-vid to watch if you search “1984 Apple Shareholders Meeting”
@derspearheart Hey, I'm glad! From time to time, I do answer these F-Tards that leave asinine comments -- so that the rest of you get a laugh or two. I hope you continue to enjoy the content - Alfred.
Oh man, those double sided floppies were real stinkers - you just didn't know where to put your fingers when you held it because you would always touch the actual media! Thanks for the offer on the installers - I might hit you up for that!!
Hey Comp - do you still have your Lisa? Does it still boot? I have a few of those double sided floppies... somewhere. I have to find them -- did you ever see those?
Doyle, that's a great story. I too went to the Apple ][ user group meetings, back in the day. The big thing was stuffing two (2) Disk ][ controller cards into a system and duping shareware library disks - with the 2 controllers under DOS 3.1, the software powered up BOTH drives which expedited copy speed by avoiding the 'spin up and spin down' cycle. Neat trick, back in the day.
Cathy Schleussner and her partner at the time. I can't recall the name of their production company right now, but I have one of their t-shirts somewhere! 🙂
@@SteveSharpPDX I was a slide programmer in the multi image slide show business at that time, and lately have been spending time restoring pieces like that - though nothing so high profile! Please take a look at my collection of 6-to-15 projector slideshows, that I have captured to video recently here... ru-vid.com/show-UCdGRNxsrsI-efMFSjFDmzvg
Hi Jordan - I saw this live, for the first time, at the 1984 Macintosh introduction in New York City. I have to tell you that we all laughed our assess off when they showed the person carrying the LISA under his arm!
Great job in restoration and digitizing, Alfred! Thanks a lot! I could imagine this was a time with much discussion within Apple and the Apple community, 'cause the Apple II and the Macintosh team had strong rivalries? Maybe this video should serve as a tool for showing "we are both: Apple II and Lisa+Mac". It's not by accident that they also produced a similar styled video "Apple II forever".
Agreed - a total 'Flashdance' rip-off. This was just an 'internal' video. I saw it at the Apple Authorized Dealer meeting in 1984, when they introduced the modified "Lisa" system and then announced the Macintosh 128. Wow. Time flies!
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Thanks for sharing those moving memories. For an old guy like me, who knew and even used some of these machines and (that's less glorious) has been young in the 80's, that's a luxury digital "madeleine de proust" ! Is it possible to get the video file in full quality ? It would make me very happy.
Hahah - I always prompt my viewers watching my live stream (Thursday nights starting at 9 PM) to "hit the dislike button -- I don't care." LOL! All good, and thank you!
Jochen - yes, it was total cheese, but we didn't really 'notice' at the time, because we were being 'blown away' by the Mac introduction. Some fellow Apple Dealers got out of their chairs, headed to the pay phones, and called their stock brokers to place Apple stock orders. Smart. - Alfred
@evanellis Evan, let me tell you something. When I saw this for the first time back in 1984, at the Apple Dealer meeting in Manhattan, when they launched the Macintosh, we all CRACKED UP in the audience when they showed the Lisa under the guys arm. We were like 'Yea, right...' That boat anchor was over 60 pounds!
at 2:19 it looks like the two monitors that are turned on from first row far left and second row far left are AppleColor RGB Monitor 100's. Not many of them made.
This advert is great. It is very clever how they show everyone using the 'computer' for practical applications. Any user could realise how it could help them in their work. I'm sure even the song worked very well at the time that it came out.
Also, FYI, the audio and video don't quite sync. That bridge between the 1st chorus and the 2nd verse, with the 9 screens popping up, in is supposed to sync with the music, but it's not quite there... Just letting you know if you ever get around to re-releasing this. Thanks!
@Gubru Hi G - actually, it was NOT a commercial. Not at all. This was just something they played at the Apple Authorized Dealer meeting -- the meeting when the Mac was announced. I was there -- we all LAUGHED when we saw the fellow holding the LISA system under his arm. It was just something that was 'fun' and a diversion between the product announcements.
Hey RJ - I think the Lisa clocked in at about 40 pounds. I'll have to research that! Oh man, it's heavy - and the guy carrying it under his arm in this video - WHAT A JOKE - NO WAY! He carried it like a laptop! LOL! Thanks for watching!
I want the lyric of the song... can anybody help me? I search in google and cannot find anything...also I did the same here, in youtube,but there isn't any video with the lyrics in english or spanish... Please, contact me if you could help me ^^
I was part of the french apple sales team. We saw this video during a worldwide sales meeting at the Hilton in Honolulu.. everybody was singing in the amphitheater ... The corporate t-shirt was "pride in performance'. Was 26 years old. "insanely great" memories ;=)
I remember back in the early 80's we had a "HAAUG" user's group meeting at the Royal Coach Inn here in Houston. I got there early, seated in the 2nd row. It was getting close to the start of the meeting and I asked someone I wonder if Steve Woz was here yet. To my surprise he was seated in front of me, he turned around and said he just made it. It was a cult following back then as it is now. Thanks for the memories !
@Xzeleous Unfortunately, from a system and software sales point of view NeXT was a failure. The purchase by Apple saved both companies. Apple desperately needed a modern OS as well as the branding of Steve Jobs, and NeXT needed Apple's branding to sell hardware. Overall, good for both parties, as well as the AAPL shareholders.
I don't know what has me more nostalgic, the "legacy" Apple hardware (I still own an Apple /// and a Lisa 2 along with countless Macs) or the synchronized slide projector presentation. Seeing the characteristic "wiggle" as other elements are brought in sent me right back to the National Park Service shows I enjoyed as a child growing up in the 70s! :) Today's Powerpoints sure could benefit from studying the techniques of the professional sync-slide presentations of yesterday!
@snake2006 Yes, the Amiga was way ahead of it's time. Too bad Commodore went bust with piss-poor management. And with Apple, you have a highly profitable US based company - what's wrong with that? If you purchased the stock when it was at 80 about six months ago, I bet you wouldn't be so angry.
I just about started crying at that little sequence while playing the video to a coworker, as I'm pretty certain we used to have the final frame in poster-form at the Apple Authorized Dealer I worked at back in the 90s (and I'm guessing they got it a decade earlier). Amazing how this video just brings back an avalanche of memories. (And I'm thinking it's a guy with big foofwave-y 80s hair, too btw..)
Tommy... I have no idea, but it seems that 'corporate music' and 'jingles' is a nice business - hey, good to keep in mind as you develop your music career! - Alfred
He gives us the iPhone and the first tablet pc. He changed the world and he changed the meaning of the word: "Phone". He's not a geek or a freak, he's a good of I.T! thank you steve! | --+-- | |
Darwin/XNU is not Linux. Darwin/XNU is based on the Mach microkernel, while Linux is a monolithic kernel. Also the Darwin/XNU POSIX implementation is based on BSD (Mach can run many different servers, even theoretically Win32). When it comes to userland components, linux does not have them (linux is kernel, not an OS, what most people think of as linux is GNU/Linux), while OS X, I am not sure about this, but I think it uses a combination of BSD, and GNU.
I didn't say it was a BSD derivate, they use BSD to achieve POSIX-compitability in the kernel without rewritting everything, but Darwin/XNU is more like a merge of Mach 2, Mach 3, and BSD, plus some Apple addons, like Core*, Quicktime, Cocoa*, Carbon. Much of Darwin was actually part of NeXTStep, which was the OS of NeXT Computers (Now part of Apple Inc.), which was ran by Steve Jobs, after leaving Apple.
The only problem with this video is that once you hear that song, it's really hard to get out of your head -- like that damn "Oh oh oh Ozempic" commercial!
I love this video... we're still leading the way guys! anyone else notice the very weird irony of 2:45 into the video... at&t in the background??? THE IPHONE!
C, I actually played the one I restored to the one that is posted on RU-vid. Holy crap - no comparison. I am glad I was able to salvage this little piece of history! Thanks for watching! - Alfred
Playing this on my brand new (and also my first) mac :)! Mac that is really not just a piece of metal, silicon and wires.....that`s a god talking to us through technology :)!
LOL! Paul, but you have to do a search on RU-vid for the following keywords "Steve Ballmer Sells Windows" - OMG, it's amazing. Thanks for watching - Alfred
