Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh

the applause for the eraser at 30:44 almost brought a tear to my eye. the shit we take for granted today.

I actually attended this Boston Computer Society meeting when Jobs and his team introduced the Mac to the East coast. The atmosphere was electric because we all could tell we were witnessing history. It changed my life and pointed me in a career direction that I could not be happier about. Steve Jobs had a profound impact on a lot of people's lives. 🙂

Jobs is so eloquent he can make me excited about a 30 year old computer. It feels like this is a fresh, new, exciting machine.

Who's here after reading Steve jobs by Walter Isaacson. How this event was described in the book, I thought Damn I had to see it

This mans microphone in 1984 was better than most small YouTubers' microphones today.

How incredibly proud he is. Like a father seeing his child doing his first steps.

I just love how they instantly nailed the paint program in example. That was basically the standard for a decade

Who is here after reading Steve jobs

The elegance and charisma of this guy is flawless

30:14 Somehow this makes me happy. These people were witnessing history, ABSOLUTELY GOBSMACKED over features we take for granted like an eraser tool, zooming in, and region cut and paste. Listen to them gasp! It was a stunning thing to experience for the first time as a consumer raised on text interfaces.

Still using my 1984 Macintosh as my daily driver for my computer. Great machine..

You don't need a full series of lessons to teach you how to be a good presenter, just watch a few Steve Jobs Video

40 years later, it was still a extremely touching moment watching that video demo on Macintosh. And I'm watching this video on the newest MacBook. How technology has evolved, I mean, I'm now able to train my own GPT on my MacBook.

What an incredible time this was: To see the first demonstrations of features that we have taken for granted for years. And to see such a slick presentation by a team that were totally switched on. Fantastic piece of history here.

Genius move to have the soft-spoken software engineer who designed the paint program actually demonstrate it. The audience is completely smitten, and now all the digital artists are fantasizing about how they will use these new features.

54:53 Is this the first time SJ mentioned a Mac and a 'book' openly? Fascinating comment. Just goes to show how far ahead he was thinking, and that the eventual MacBook branding was true to the original vision.

I had the privilege of meeting Steve twice in my lifetime: once in 1980 at the Monterey Tech Fest where he and Steve Wozniak pushed their Apple 1. Then in 1994, I was working for Quadrus in Menlo Park, California, on Sand Hill Dr, where our clients included Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield, and Beyers, SDG, Pilkington Vision, Sierra Ventures, Kolberg Kravis Roberts, Informix, and NeXT. We set up for a Steve Jobs luncheon and he comes out to see what we're doing, invites us to stay and watch their meeting. He was truly a personality to reckon with. But super friendly.

12:23 "There are about 235 people in America"

1:05:55 OMG, He hinted at the easter egg they left in the ROM chip, the picture of the team that built the macintosh. This feels so special.

Steve Jobs was the GOAT of product release presentations.