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Rare Apple / Mac Videos - DVD 5 is now ready

Subject: Rare Apple / Mac Videos - DVD 5 is now ready
From: Apple History <apphist@cos.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 14:28:21 -0700
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This may interest some. Lost in time Videos from the early Apple/Mac 
era. Description is below. They are rather entertaining, enjoy!

Link is here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5145731399

A full set is here, if you buy the other 4, it will include DVD 5.

http://stores.ebay.com/applehistorystore

Historical DVD 5

http://snipurl.com/b4rh  (screenshots)

Chapters Include:

 Apple introduces the popular PowerBook 100, 140, 170. A look into the 
complex engineering that went into these models... mockups, pencil 
drawings, comments on SONY building the PowerBook 100. Items like the 
introduction of the palm-rest, keyboards we use today are discussed. 
Employee Intro where new features are shown. Funny!

 Macs in Space. A quick clip of how the SuperDrive reacts in Space. 
Great stuff!

 Early Mac Animations. In 1988, Apple was eager to show off the graphics 
power of its 68020 line of computers. First up, a group of talented 
artists produced "Pencil Test," an animated short created entirely on a 
Macintosh II. Animations: Tempest, Her Majesty's Secret Serpent, Pigment 
Promenade, The Audition and Splash Dance are also shown. John Lasseter 
and Andrew Stanton of Pixar fame are listed in the credits.

 Steve Wozniak along with David Cram discuss ESD, (electrostatic 
discharge), in a rather entertaining video about how static electricity 
can harm Service Parts. Good for teaching on this subject, one of the 
BEST. Not as boring as it sounds!

 Mac vs. PC. In a well done feature, Apple goes head to head with OS/2 
and early Windows. Many of the comments hold true today. It's quite an 
eye opening video, fun to watch.

 Macintoshes building Macintoshes. Apple's pride and joy, the 
$20-million, ultra modern Fremont facility where many early Macs were 
made. Shows the Mac SE and Mac II being built, tour of entire plant. 
Processes and testing to make each logicboard, etc. This factory can 
produce one Mac every 27 seconds. Interesting! 

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