From the YouTube.com description:
"This is an excerpt from Apple's 1984 Annual Shareholders Meeting. Just before John Sculley and Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh and the new Lisa's, this video was played. It was the company theme song at the time."

Watch it now:
Apple Theme Song

A brief article by Robert Rosenthal in a series titled "Killer Campaigns" at the Passaic Parc, Inc. website. (Now www.themothersofinvention.com) It begins:
"This was one of Apple Computer's first ads.
Curiously, we found it in the May, 1978 issue of 'Playboy' after having read that Apple ran some of its earliest ads in America's skin magazine of record.
Apple's more sophisticated work would come a little later. But check out this little ad's prophetic opening sentence: 'The era of the personal computer is here.'"

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A Man and His Apple

A new article by the talented Tom Hormby at Low End Mac. It begins:
"Despite an enormous launch campaign, the Macintosh was a failure.
Steve Jobs had predicted that Apple sell 500,000 Macs the first year alone, but by March 11, 1985 the company had only sold 10% of Jobs' original prediction.
What's worse, Jobs was misbehaving. After Apple's 1984 reorganization, the Macintosh and Lisa teams were merged into a division called SuperMicro. Inexplicably, Jobs was given control."

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The NeXT Years: Steve Jobs Before His Triumphant Return to Apple

Now available as a Dashboard Widget, Apple][Go by Marc S. Ressl is a cool Java Apple ][ emulator! From the Apple][Go page:
"AppleIIGo is an Apple //e emulator written in Java. It is available as a Mac OS X widget, a webpage Java applet, and a mobile phone midlet."

Try it today!
AppleIIGo

This article from May 2006 by Charles Webb at Low End Mac, examines one of our favorite PowerBook's of all time.
It begins:
"In this modern age, we have become accustomed to high powered computers capable of running any app we could imagine and more. But let's analyze the other end of the spectrum for a moment.
No, I'm not talking about the PC market, but rather the aged, yet still useful, PowerBook 3400c.
Several months ago, I wrote an article about the "MainStreet" PowerBook G3 and how it was still good for basic use despite its "underpowered" CPU and abysmal screen. In this article I'd like to talk about how the 1997 PowerBook 3400c, despite being from an even earlier CPU generation, is a better performer in today's world."

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The PowerBook 3400: Surprisingly Useful and Spry with the Classic Mac OS

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The December 19-31 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "ScriptX, So Long Taligent, Apple Buys NeXT".

December 19-31: ScriptX, So Long Taligent, Apple Buys NeXT

Another gem from Alfred DiBlasi on YouTube.com. An Apple ][ visualizing music fed in through the cassette port.
"The Apple ][. A work of art by Steve Wozniak. This is some footage from 1992 - it looks like I had a YouTube documentary in mind, even way back then. The audio from the stereo system was run to the "casette in" port on the back of the Apple ][. The Apple listened to the frequency changes via the casette port, and then created the visuals based on the frequency. Incredible and beautiful. Enjoy this classic piece of retro computing! "

Alfred's Apple II Visualizes Music

The November, 2006 issue of the A2 News and Notes Newsletter for Apple II fans has been posted by Howard Katz!
This issue:
* A Fake Disk?
* Now Showing On An Apple II Near You!
* ...And How To View It
* Old Home New Service
* Apple Internet
* And Were Live!
* New Digs
* Software News
* Emulation News
* SignOff


A2 News and Notes

Today we return to the magical Wayback Machine at Archive.org to retrieve another lost nugget. This 1995 article by Chris Oakes, subtitled "A Mac Fanatic Confesses", is originally from Creative Mac.
It begins:
"Brace yourselves, Mac fanatics. I'm going to suggest a few changes to our beloved interface. No big deal, OK? I'm not broaching big issues like true multitasking or document-centric environments, or suggesting a major system overhaul. It's just that my suggestions are inspired by comparison to, um . . . well, Windows."

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Windows?! - A Mac Fanatic Confesses

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The December 12-18 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Apple Goes Public, 1984 Airs".

December 12-18: Apple Goes Public, 1984 Airs

YouTube.com is at once the worlds largest collection of garbage and the worlds largest collection of treasure. We catagorize this 18 minute Lisa demo as treasure.
"Filmed in 1984, Alfred demonstrates the $10,000 Apple Lisa computer on a tri-state cable channel. This was a very early 'mass introduction' to a system that had a graphical user interface, icons, pull down menus, and a rodential input device called 'a mouse.' Enjoy!"

Alfred Demonstrates the Apple Lisa

This review of the original 128k Macintosh, by Lawrence J. Magid, originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times on January 29, 1984. It begins:
"I rarely get excited over a new computer. But Apple's Macintosh, officially introduced last Tuesday, has started a fever in Silicon Valley that's hard not to catch. My symptoms started when I talked with some devotees from Apple and the various companies that produce software, hardware and literature to enhance the new computer. By the time I got my hands on the little computer and its omni-present mouse, I was hooked. Apple has a winner."

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Larry's Original Review of the Macintosh

A new article by Joshua Coventry at Low End Mac. It begins:
"We all know about the early IBM PC clones, such as Compaqs and Dells. And some of us know about the Macintosh clones. But there were clones before the IBM PC existed . . . Apple II clones!
Apple introduced the Apple II at the West Coast Computer Faire in 1977. After VisiCalc was released, Apple II sales skyrocketed in the late 1970s and into the early 1980s.
Others began to see the potential of the Apple market. Many other computer manufacturers from both the United States and abroad attempted to jump onto the Apple bandwagon and also become huge successes. As a result, so many clones were produced that an entire website has been made for them, apple2clones.com."

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Apples from Other Orchards: The Apple II Clones

An article at iTWire.com by Sam Varghese. It begins:
"In the midst of all the noise generated by patent trolls, I can't help but think that the tech industry would be a much better place if it had more people like Steve Wozniak.
Many people may well ask Steve who? When one talks about Apple Computer these days, the only Steve who is mentioned is Jobs. The other Steve isn't on the screen as it were."

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The Wizardry of Woz

Today we return to the informative "This Week in Apple History" series at The Mac Observer. The December 1-11 entry in the series by Owen Linzmayer & Bryan Chaffin is entitled, "Byte Opens, Star Trek Demo, NeXT vs. Be".

December 1-11: Byte Opens, Star Trek Demo, NeXT vs. Be