Aqua-Soft ForumsHad seen this in slashdot a while back but had forgotten about it. Well anyway, the article got slashdotted the hell out . 
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Renowned Mac user Scott Knaster kept that Betamax video tape for 21 years, and German media agency TextLab has unearthed this only surviving video tape of the launch
Well anyway, here's a list of mirrors which came from that article.
http://www.trunkmonkey.com/content/view/52/51/
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/~staffin/1984macintro.mov
http://www.preinheimer.com/1984macintro.mov
its a 22mb quicktime movie !!! Just a warning to all the dialup folks.
(Sometimes I wish others who downloaded a huge video or slashdotted site would bother to describe some of it so I will for the rest of y'all)Steve Jobs ca. 1984 is speaking on a stage in front of an audience, suit coat and bow tie, these are his pre-jeans-and-black-turtleneck days. He tells the audience "All of the images you about to see on the large screen will be generated by what's in that bag." The lifts the black bag to reveal a Mac on a table (applause) he inserts a diskette into the Mac and steps back. The word MACINTOSH slowly scrolls across the screen to the tune of "Chariots of Fire" (wild appluase) Screen shots of paint program, word processor and calculator, fonts, program editor, 3d chess (cheering, applause). Steve introduces Macintosh speaking for itself. A bad robotic voice reads a few paragraphs of text on the screen. (applause, cheering) (wide shot of audience appluading) (end)
- from a post on slashdot by Kurt Gray
Same torret and tracker but different http server
Haven't checked the bit torrent links though.
Original slashdot link - Jan 24,2005
Also there was another torrent on the original site containing the entire presentation plus another 5 tv ads. The link is a 404 now on the original site and I don't see it hosted anywhere else. Luckily I downloaded it. .Its a huge 66mb file. I don't have any place to host it, but if anybody is interest in hosting please pm me. Please don't pm me asking me to email the file if u are not going to host it. I just don't have the time to do that.
And then you test Microsoft XP in Control Panel something like Voice demonstration and you see that it doesnt speak correctly!