Heh...Mac fans, you will love this...

[Solon]

This is the first introduction of the Mac in 1984, it is NOT the famous '1984', but the introduction of the Mac to the world press conference. Its 22 megabytes, and has discovered on a Betamax tape by a guy in Germany who forgot he had it(Ironic isn't it?).

Here's a link:

http://cm.math.uiuc.edu/~staffin/1984macintro.mov

ON EDIT: Forgot the orginal story, where I found it at, its /.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/24/1945223&from=rss

[parasim]

1. that's awesome, thanks!

I think I remember seeing footage from that introduction before, perhaps that Robert Cringely documentary... still, it's great to see early footage of the showman of showmen.

Gee, I wonder what Gates was doing around that timeframe:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=272750&st=0&#entry585309992

(found that gem from /. as well: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/18/1510248&tid=133&tid=109 )

[Solon]

2. How about this...

Steve Ballmer sells Windows 1.0:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/sellswindows.php

[parasim]

3. Yikes!

That's completely nuts! I was expecting him to say, "So, come on down to Craaaazy Steeeeve's!!!!" and that developed into this:

http://www.tarmo.fi/arc/monkeydance.mpeg

[Solon]

4. I know, it sounds like he watched one too many...

used car commercials, and I laugh at those.