Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / October 2004

Quite a bit of interesting Apple History is at the link below.
HyperCard, Programming, Early Web, etc. Fun gift idea for Apple Fans.

Enjoy!

http://snipurl.com/a3rw

LOST Apple / Mac Videos - Volume 1.

Chapters Include:

Time Capsule recorded in 1987, looking into the future of 1997. Woz,
Yocam, Sculley, Spindler. (funny, interesting!)

Our Engineers, behind the curtain, circa 1989.

Personal Best: The Macintosh in Business, College, Elementary Settings.

Golden Age Mac Advertisements. Golden Age Apple II Advertisements. Joke
by Jean Louis Gassee.

Additional Knowledge Navigator Clips

Apple II Business Graphics - A real eye opener!

Hinduism and the Macintosh.

Apple Europe - The Picture Show - Mac Classic, LC, Early PowerBook Era
- Interesting!

Clips by John Sculley, Alan Kay.

Slick Flat Panel Macintoshes, Speech Based OS

Ray Bradbury on the Future of Computing.



LOST Apple / Mac Videos - Volume 2.

Chapters Include:

Apple's Moment of Birth... An emergency call from Cramer Electronics to
Paul Terrell owner of the budding "The Byte Shop", wanting to know if it
was okay to sell raw components to "Two Guys" to build 50 Apple /'s.

One reason Apple got it's name, "it put us ahead of Atari in the
phonebook" says a laughing Steve Jobs.

Colored Apple //s - Apple never shipped them, but had plans for colored
//s similar to the iMacs.

Why we created Macintosh by Burrell Smith, Andy Hertzfeld, George Crow,
Mike Murry and Bill Atkinson. (interesting!)

Demonstration of the 128K Mac  From 1983.

The Macintosh Factory

Macintosh joins our 32-Bit Family, by Steve Jobs

A very young Bill Gates proclaims: "Macintosh will be half our retail
sales next year" and "Microsoft doesn't work with new hardware very
often".

Apple Electronic Binoculars

Extended Version of Knowledge Navigator

Early Flat Panel Macintoshes

The Fabled Macintosh Tablet

Touch Screens and Object Based OS

LOST Apple / Mac Videos - Volume 3.

Chapters Include:

Macintosh User Interface Philosophy. Comments and Video Examples by Don
Norman, Bruce Tognazzini, Larry Tesler and Alan Kay of Apple's Human
Interface Group. Quite interesting, these same ideas live today in a
Modern Macintosh.

Beginner's Luck: A candid look at families and individuals who give
their views on first experiences using an Apple // or Macintosh. Funny!

Introduction of the Mac Portable: Just as the Apple / and Lisa paved
the way for later Apple innovations, the Mac Portable laid the ground
work for today's iBook and PowerBook. Colorful Jean-Louis Gassee builds
a Portable LIVE on stage, explains "Battery Paranoia" and design choices
needed to build the first "luggable" Macintosh.

Macintosh on the Move: A funny spoof on the complexities, trials and
tribulations of creating the first battery powered Mac. Inside Jokes
Galore.

Apple 1989 Product Review: A very fast look at every product Apple
introduced that year. Some inside jokes, can you figure them out?

The History of Publishing told by BBC's James Burke. A mini documentary
on how Apple fits into the latest stage of Publishing using a timeline
based from the 1430's. Very Well Done.

Programming: A polished looked at the Mac Toolbox, API's, Networking,
AppleTalk, etc. Comments from the Inventor of AppleTalk. If you write
software for the Mac, these early clips explain the core of programing
on the Macintosh.

Introduction of HyperCard in a "News Flash" style report. Bill Atkinson
is interviewed and tells of his vision for HyperCard. Chris Espinosa
makes an appearance as HyperCard Product Manager. Ideas on possible 3D
HyperCard interfaces are shown.



LOST Apple / Mac Videos - Volume 4.

Chapters Include:

A/UX: The Introduction of UNIX to the Macintosh world, circa 1988.
Sculley gives a somewhat dry speech, but foretells Apple's OS strategy
some 12 years before OSX appears. He mentions the work of Ted Nelson,
talks about SketchPad, HyperText, SmallTalk and the idea of HyperCard
for Unix believe it or not.

Macintosh + Mathmatica = Infinity: Steven Wolfram of Mathematica fame
shows and talks about how the Macintosh will transform Mathematics.
Fairly Geeky, but interesting to some.

Design and the Macintosh, Domino's Pizza and the Macintosh, ABC News
and the Macintosh. Various Clips showing unique ways to use a Mac.

Gil Amelio talks about Apple 1 month into his tenure. Love him or hate
him, this approx 10 minute clip will give you a new perspective on the
difficulties Apple experienced some 8 years ago. John Sculley answers
User Group Questions, such as: "What is the future of the Apple II in
Education and the Home?" Kinda fun. Allan Loren, on Macintosh Marketing.

Full length version of John Sculley's Knowledge Navigator.

The Business of Education: How Macs can work in School Administration.

Apple II Video Overlay: VERY early look at where programs like iMovie
originated. Yes, the Apple II could produce Videos.

Introduction of the Mac IIcx & Full Page Monitor: The ever funny
Jean-Louis Gassee hosts another building of a Mac on stage, Sculley is
there to show his pride and joy, the first single page Mono Monitor.
Larry Tesler of the Advanced Technology Group speaks on the Design
Principles behind Macintosh Hardware.

These DVDs are Regionless and will work Worldwide in most any DVD Player.