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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">I do recall an advertisement for the Mac, when it first appeared, that its users had no need to consult the manual, as the Mac’s use was intuitively obvious. At the time I was very skeptical of this seemingly-outrageous
claim; I was a die-hard DOS user, with its accompanying thick users’ manuals and cryptic error messages. But I recall being intrigued by the ad. If correct, then there probably would not have been such an instructional video, at least not produced by Apple.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">Postscript: Just looked at _<i>Byte</i>_, special issue, Feb. 1984: “Once you have bought it, though, you will probably be learning how to use the Mac on your own. Apple will help you in this process by providing
you with a cassette/disk combination. You boot up the 3 ½ inch disk tutorial and listen to the interactive lesson provided on the cassette (Of course, you have to have a cassette player). Although I have not seen the cassette/disk tutorial program, I think
it will work well; text-only tutorial programs are fine, but many buyers of the Mac will benefit from the warmth of a human voice teaching them.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">The National Museum of American History acquired a Mac almost on Day One; I’ll check & see if they got this cassette/disk combination. (Of course, if they have it, we will need to find a cassette player!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul N. Edwards<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 09, 2014 7:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Luisa Emmi Beck<br>
<b>Cc:</b> members@sigcis.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] First instructional videos for Macintosh?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">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
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">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!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Sep 8, 2014, at 23:28 , Luisa Emmi Beck <<a href="mailto:emmi.beck@gmail.com">emmi.beck@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I'm working on a radio story about the history of personal computing. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">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). <o:p></o:p></p>
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