[SIGCIS-Members] First instructional videos for Macintosh?

[Marc Weber]

Hello Luisa,
What immediately came to my mind was the video of the demo when the Mac was introduced in 1984. At the demo they went through some of the features of the Mac as well as MacWrite and MacPaint; here's a version shown at the 30th anniversary of the demo earlier this year. But as Paul asks, are you looking for material on early personal computers (i.e. mid to late 1970s, including the Apple II) or on Macintosh, which came nearly a decade later in '84? 
In either case we have a lot of video and audio in our collection at the Computer History Museum, you can start with our online Catalog Search which includes 85,000 records: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search. Once you enter a term, say "Macintosh," you can refine by clicking on "moving image" or "audio": http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/?s=macintosh&f=movingimage
Three other places to look would be Stanford Libraries (although I'm not sure how much multimedia they have easily accessible), the Internet Archive (archive.org) and the Digibarn (digibarn.org). 
Best, Marc

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Internet History Program Founder and Curator, Computer History Museum            
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On Sep 9, 2014, at 4:50 AM, Paul N. Edwards wrote:

> Luisa, do you have reason to believe that such instructional videos existed? 
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> It’s possible, but that was not so common in the 1970s or even the 1980s (the Macintosh was introduced in 1984). If they did exist, they would have been distributed on VHS tapes. Audio CDs were introduced until 1982, and DVDs were not invented until 1995. 
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> I would look instead for stories in the print press - newspapers, and perhaps such magazines as Byte (an early personal computer hobbyist magazine). Or perhaps public radio archives!
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> Best,
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> Paul Edwards
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> On Sep 8, 2014, at 23:28 , Luisa Emmi Beck <emmi.beck at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi SIGCIS members, 
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>> I'm working on a radio story about the history of personal computing.  
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>> I would like to find instructional videos for the first Macintosh or other personal computers. The goal is to give listeners a sense for how new and incredible the idea of personal computing was in the 1970s. ​Does anyone on this list know of where I could find such videos? I haven't been able to find anything on YouTube but I'm hoping to be able to track down a few instructional videos (or at least the audio portion of the videos). 
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>> Thanks! 
>> Luisa 
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