[SIGCIS-Members] First instructional videos for Macintosh?

[Chuck House]

a couple of thoughts here…  CUE, the Computer Using Educators group founded in Berkeley in 1978 by LeRoy Finkel among others.  See http://www.cue.org/leroyfinkel    LeRoy was a prolific writer, esp of manuals for computers (he did 22 books about PCs, Macs, UNIX, etc.

His wife, Sue Talley, was with Apple, in Apple education, for years.  She’s a graduate of MECC, the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium.  She’s now back in Minneapolis, with Capella University.

I’m thinking that CUE, or MECC, or Sue herself, could help you in this quest

The other possibility is Peter Hirshberg was Apple’s publicist (e.g. videographer and advertising genius) during those years.  He undoubtedly has videotapes from this period.

Best, Chuck House
InnovaScapes Institute


On Sep 9, 2014, at 4:50 AM, Paul N. Edwards <pne at umich.edu> 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). 
>> 
>> Thanks! 
>> Luisa 
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>> (510) 856.7475
>> http://luisabeck.com/
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