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- TheGorn, on 03/23/2008, -3/+41"And because we're Apple, we'll be sure to toss in a few great games". Apple...gaming...apple...gaming... something does not compute.
- clesch, on 03/23/2008, -0/+35Heh, loved Gates' statement.
- Hitpoint, on 03/23/2008, -4/+37"We have a dream. To design a computer that actually works."
EPIC WIN. - smashingmonkey, on 03/23/2008, -2/+27What sane person could deny that these people were visionaries?
- SGTS3XY, on 03/23/2008, -5/+30"And make it cheap so that everyone can afford it!" I lol'd.
- OneLess, on 03/23/2008, -0/+23I liked that they were defending actually having different fonts. Oh how far we've come :)
- Regulator980, on 03/23/2008, -0/+21Bill Gates @ 6:25
- quelcertoleo, on 03/23/2008, -2/+20My god.
This video isn't just about Apple, that's a whole generation of hackers that actually built the new electronic frontier. - barroni, on 03/23/2008, -0/+15Lets relive Steve Ballmer's glory http://youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE
- brutimus, on 03/23/2008, -3/+17I think the majority of MS fanboys would digg you down for that, too.
- smashingmonkey, on 03/23/2008, -0/+14That gave me a chuckle. I love Apple to death, but there's a reason I have an Xbox 360 next to my Mac. Thanks, Bill!
- zephc, on 03/23/2008, -1/+13Oh god, 7 and a half minutes of Windham Hill piano noodling.
- usingpond, on 03/23/2008, -2/+14"... other environments won't be interesting."
Hit the nail on the head, Bill Gates! - laelfrog, on 03/23/2008, -0/+11"In the software business volume is everything. You want to be able to sell into/onto a large set of machines.
Microsoft is choosing this apple macintosh environment because over time other the environments won't be interesting." -Bill Gates - ScottyDelicious, on 03/23/2008, -1/+10What an incredible time to be a part of something like that. Not just apple, but the whole scene in the early 80s making the computer a tool for people. Any modern computer does these things like GUIs, word processing, data storage and retrieval... but to think about making those simple things happen on (buy contemporary standards) such modest hardware! It must have been like solving this really great puzzle.
Now there are so many f***ing patent trolls I have to be afraid to try and come up with something that might be useful to the planet. - inactive, on 03/23/2008, -0/+8Research into graphical user interfaces started long before Xerox PARC. Professor Jef Raskin's 1967 masters thesis argued that "computers should be all-graphic, that we should eliminate character generators and create characters graphically and in various fonts, that what you see on the screen should be what you get, and that the human interface was more important than mere considerations of algorithmic efficiency and compactness"
And in 1973 he designed a method of selection-based modeless text editing with cut and paste, which describes how we all edit text on computers today.
This research existed mostly in academia until Xerox started funding their research facility, PARC. Jef Raskin never worked at PARC, but many of his students did, and he would regularly visit PARC to lecture. Xerox funded this state of the art research because they were worried about losing their photo copier business to the computer. Unfortunately, Xerox had no idea how to turn this research into a sellable product. They, like most companies of the time, did not believe the personal computer would amount to anything.
For this reason, most PARC engineers jumped ship, many followed Jef Raskin over to Apple and would create the Apple Lisa and Apple Macintosh.
- thebriz, on 03/23/2008, -1/+9Did I hear the phrase, "Make it affordable" from a Mac developer?
- Charlotte_Web, on 03/23/2008, -0/+7Man, I remember a lot of late nights in college typing papers on my Mac Classic. What a great little machine that was.
- otis12, on 03/23/2008, -4/+10Who wants to play Crysis!
- GiJoeBob, on 03/23/2008, -0/+6They don't make start up chimes like they used to.
- clesch, on 03/23/2008, -0/+5It would be weird — if the Youtube view-counter was counting in realtime, which it is not.
- Konstantino, on 03/23/2008, -0/+5"And because we're Apple, we'll be sure to toss in a few great games."
Well, times certainly have changed. :( - deadbaby, on 03/23/2008, -0/+5Awesome mustache.
- bjornski, on 03/23/2008, -0/+5You knew what you were getting into when you got your machine, stop bitching.
- ch4os1337, on 03/23/2008, -3/+8Look how passionate they were about it back then...
- usingpond, on 03/23/2008, -4/+9What, not enough explosions for you? Go download Transformers off of BitTorrent you ***** idiot.
- immortalloom, on 03/23/2008, -1/+6awesome! its cool to see people explaining how things work (like a mouse and cursor) when we've totally taken those things for granted now. It's like watching a video about the invention of silverware.
- Raian, on 03/23/2008, -0/+5Is your boss around?
- chkdg8, on 03/23/2008, -1/+5Holy *****, I did not expect 6:25!
- ch4os1337, on 03/23/2008, -1/+5HA! its funny every time I see it.
- 0xC0FF33, on 03/23/2008, -0/+4awesome video! i really like those old little macs... ;)
- usingpond, on 03/23/2008, -1/+5Dugg up for unintentional hilarity
- limbikity, on 03/23/2008, -0/+4why would they digg you down for that?
- Proteus1935, on 03/23/2008, -0/+4Agreed! I wish for a world of Open Hardware more than ever...
-A fellow Computer System Engineer - usingpond, on 03/23/2008, -2/+6Oh come on. Same here, but clearly Apple doesn't give a flying ***** about it.
- bjornski, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3Hehehe, I love that video.
- gnorville, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3Yeah, I laughed too. When these things came out they were pretty steep as I recall. I have an SE30 that was given to me when my company upgraded (to PCs) and it had the receipt in the box. 1 disc drive, 1 tiny HD and it cost around $3300. It would certainly have been pretty far beyond anything I could have afforded back then.
- bjornski, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3I loved my Commodore. I could never quite afford the Amiga I kept drooling over though.
- ahuxley, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3"The Dream Machine"/"The Machine That Changed the World" was a BBC documentary had great info like this, from xerox parc to the Mac.
- ahvi, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3OH, you let up on the button when you find the command you want to execute.
- binorgog, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3Proof a good hair cut can make dreams come true.
- Charlotte_Web, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3I wonder what ever happened to that acrylic Mac the developers put together? I bet it's worth quite a bit these days.
- bjornski, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3Because it draws attention to the wrong Steve.
- cdubd, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3Great background music.
- WoahPuppets, on 03/23/2008, -0/+2dugg for just that reason
- inactive, on 03/24/2008, -1/+3...says the guy who uses the windows logo as his personal icon.
- inactive, on 03/24/2008, -2/+4LOL.
Apple invested most of their engineering into the human factors of computing. Commodore (and Atari and other dead companies) invested their engineering into graphics hardware. Apple's R&D investment only gained value and importance over time, while Commodore's investment only lost value as graphics hardware became a commodity.
Two years after the Amiga is released the Macintosh gains the ability to plug in graphics hardware capable of 256 colors at 640x480, becoming the first personal computer able to display photo-realistic images and blowing away the Amiga's 32 color 320x200 graphic capabilities. The Amiga becomes obsolete, and Commodore folds like so many other 80s computer companies that got it wrong. - york2600, on 03/23/2008, -0/+2Go watch a video of the Alto's UI. It was graphical, but it's not anything like Apple's original Mac interface. Apple took the concept of Windows that you keep work in and rolled with it.
- Namo4184, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2You know those rap sogs. I think you are what they call a hater.
You're sipping on "hateraid." - d4ni, on 03/23/2008, -1/+3You have no sense of humour, do you?
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