SillyDog701

[Antony]

Last year, we had [sdt=4326]a small review on 1984[/sdt].

On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce the Macintosh and you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984."
One of the most expensive advertisements made in history, and aired only once, during the Super Bowl.

Screen captures of the original 1984 advertisement.






The Original 1984 TV ads (in QuickTime movie, 13.11MB)

Last year, Apple released a 2004 version of the 1984 advertisement. (QuickTime movie)

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[Antony]

On the 21st birthday of the Macintosh, a German Mac site has digitized the only surviving video of the public introduction, titled "The Lost 1984 Mac Video" (mirror) (20.9M) Presented by then, young Steve Jobs.

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[Mandrake]

The original page was Slashdotted this morning, I downloaded the movie at a rather 2.05 kb/s, it took 2 over two and a half hours.

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