Via TechCrunch, Steve Jobs’ first public presentation of the Mac on 24th Jan 1984. And the crowd goes wild 
I was 10 years old when this happened, and still using BBC Micros in school, so I guess I would have gone nuts over this too at the time, had I the chance to see one.
January 24th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Maybe that’s the reason why Apple is is keeping back an update for the iMac…it would make a perfect sense to hype an update as some kind of anniversary-special-edition-great-features-and-totally-awesome-edition
January 25th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Steve Jobs… qlways the showman huh? Back in ’84 my dad had already invested in an Oric-1, the baby brother of the Atmos that also did that whole speech thing: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-7974860455467320376&hl=en
Of course Oric never did that well, but it is the first thing I ever programmed so has a special place in my heart.
It is amazing to think how far things have come though huh. Eventually I hope to be wealthy enough to afford one of those Mac book pros
January 28th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
That video reinforces my happiness at choosing an Amiga instead.
Amiga will never die!
January 30th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
“Amiga will never die!”
I think I still have one .. I believe A-600 with 1 MB of Ram and a 100 MB HD ( I think).
I wonder if it still works …
January 30th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Yeah, I had an Amiga too, although not quite that early – the very first one didn’t come out until 1985 (a year later), and it was far too expensive for mere mortals like me. The Amiga 500, the one I eventually got, didn’t come out until 1987, and it wasn’t until 1989 that I could afford one (had an Atari ST a year earlier though). So for 1984, Jobs had a winner.
January 30th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
I got mine (an Amiga 500) later too.
Around 84 was when I was given a TRS-80. With no computer coverage on tv and only buying trs-80 related computer magazines (since I was 11 and had no cash), I didn’t even know what an amiga, atari st or mac was until years later.
My Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 (and TRS-80 CoCo2) are all still in working order (barely).
I wish I could have gotten my hands on an Acorn Archimedes, but things like that never made it to retail stores in Aus where a teenager could buy them.
January 31st, 2009 at 12:07 pm
We had 2 Archimedes at my Grammar school – at the time schools had a tendency to buy British-designed computers (ah, those were the days
) so we had BBCs, Acorns and even a Sinclair QL, which was pretty cool but never went anywhere.
One of my fondest memories from school was perfecting the controls of Zarch on the Archimedes (later renamed Virus for other home computers). The Archimedes version was the most impressive because it had lighting, Virus on the Amiga/ST didn’t.