Jobs and Wozniak presentation (CHM U-matic tape, part 1)
A 1980 U-matic tape from Regis McKenna’s donation holding footage of a presentation by Steve Jobs followed by Steve Wozniak. The museum notes the recording ends before Wozniak’s talk finishes and that it apparently continued on a second tape it does not hold.
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- 1980
Jobs and Wozniak presentation (CHM U-matic tape, part 1)
A 1980 U-matic tape from Regis McKenna’s donation holding footage of a presentation by Steve Jobs followed by Steve Wozniak. The museum notes the recording ends before Wozniak’s talk finishes and that it apparently continued on a second tape it does not hold.
- 1980
Presentation at Regis McKenna’s agency (‘Insanely Great’ footage)
Jobs, apologising for arriving late after driving at 90 mph, gives a first-hand account of Apple’s founding and growth, computers as ‘tools for minds’, VisiCalc, education and the company’s design philosophy (‘simplicity is the ultimate sophistication’).
- 1980
RTÉ interview at the Cork factory
A 25-year-old Jobs, visiting Apple’s newly opened manufacturing plant in Cork, tells RTÉ’s Pat Kenny that personal computers will spread into homes, businesses and schools and mentions the Apple II flying on the Space Shuttle. Among the earliest surviving television interviews with him.
- 1981
Raw TV interview in his Apple office (ABC 20/20)
A 26-year-old Jobs explains why he dislikes the term ‘home computer’, compares personal computers to the fractional-horsepower electric motor, and describes the computer as ‘a 21st-century bicycle’ for the mind.
- 1981
ABC News feature: starting a company in Silicon Valley
A short ABC News segment in which the 26-year-old Apple chairman, shown riding his BMW motorcycle, explains Silicon Valley’s tolerance for start-up failure and why it is a good place to start a company. ABC News re-posted the clip on what would have been Jobs’s 60th birthday.
- 1981
ABC Nightline debate with Ted Koppel and David Burnham
After a Cape Canaveral computer failure, Koppel moderates a debate between Jobs and privacy writer David Burnham. Jobs calls the computer ‘the bicycle of the 21st century’ and predicts one in ten US households will own one within five or six years.
- 1981
CBS News feature on the personal computer
A short CBS news piece on the arrival of the personal computer in which correspondent Barry Petersen interviews Apple chairman Jobs. Jobs argues that people will adopt computers the way they adopted calculators and ATMs, gradually and on human terms rather than in a ‘1984’-style future.