Do you even remember how the younger, baby-faced Steve Jobs looked like? Well, in a video making its rounds online, a youthful Steve Jobs was shown in one of Apple's first demos for the Macintosh personal computer.
VentureBeat noted that the members of the Boston Computer society was able to retrieve a three decade-old video of Jobs presenting the very first Mac to a captivated audience. Apple Insider said the release of the video was in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the original Mac team, which had its reunion recently.
Apple Insider said the video was shot at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California, and was attended by a consortium of Apple investors. Comparing to Jobs' later demos, his first one appeared more polished and serious, Apple Insider noted.
A move that was not replicated in further demonstrations was a question and answer segment. In the video, Jobs later on was joined by members of the original Mac team, who were Bill Atkinson, Steve Capps, Owen Densmore, Andy Hertzfeld, Bruce Horn, Rony Sebok, Burrell Smith and Randy Wigginton, Apple Insider said, with co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Harry McCraken of TIME Magazine said that although Jobs did another presentation later at one of Boston Computer Society's general meeting on January 30, the two presentations were different.
"The Cupertino and Boston demos may have been based in part on the same script, but the audience, atmosphere and bonus materials were different. In Cupertino, Jobs spoke before investors, towards the end of a meeting which also included dreary matters such as an analysis of Apple's cash flow. In Boston, he presented to the kind of people who Apple hoped would buy Macs. You didn't even have to pay the BCS's $24 annual membership fee to get in, which meant that the meeting was the closest thing the computer had to a launch event intended for the general public," McCracken wrote.
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