Should I digitize the Mac tutorial tape?

[Dog Cow]

I've got a conundrum!

I acquired a Mac demo tape, from the original 1984 Mac a few months ago (last summer, actually) and it is shrinkwrapped! Un-opened!

Here is a pic:




That's not my picture. But the tape I have is the one on the right. But unlike the photo, mine has never been opened. I don't even know what the tape quality is, ie, if it has degraded over the past two decades.

Anyway, here's what I'm unsure of:

1.) Should I open the tape and record it onto my Mac and digitize it?

2.) or should I leave it un-opened and as-is?

UPDATE: I found it - http://www.guidebookgallery.org/tutorials/mac1984

 

[paws]

The only thing you'll accomplish by not digitising them is making sure noone hears them. Tapes have limited life, even in shrinkwrap.

 

[slomacuser]

the tape is digitized I found it on the net, but do not remember where ... it was in mp3 format

 

[Dog Cow]

the tape is digitized I found it on the net, but do not remember where ... it was in mp3 format

I was wondering if someone had already done that. I'm looking around right now, but can't find anything.

The funny thing about the tape was that it was in a Macintosh 68000 Development System box (which, obviously, I own as well)! It wasn't even in the right spot.

Here is Mac Plus: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/05/29/audio-tour-of-the-ma.html

2nd update: ok, I found it. See first post.

 

[Charlieman]

If you choose to publish the digital version, keep it low profile. Apple's legal department will kill you if it is highly visible.

The tape includes some music from one of those dreadful hippy bands that Steve Jobs still loves. Thus you would be breaching at least two copyrights by publishing it.

 

[II2II]

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rpettigr/stuff/macplustour.mp3 will get you to an archive of that file.

And when is the music from the "dreadful hippy bands"? All that I caught was the 80's corporate video music. (Granted, I pretty much scanned through the MP3 file since learning about clicking wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be.)

Or perhaps we shouldn't be editorializing music. I remember being put on in the spot way, way back in high school. The English teacher decided to put on one of those "dreadful hippy bands" then a contemporary metal band, and ask which we prefer. I forget whether I didn't answer or gave the very unpopular dreadful hippy band as an answer but either way I had been singled out because my taste in music was different from everyone else. And I was singled out by the teacher for my answer, because I recall having to explain that I didn't like that particular dreadful hippie band, and particularly didn't like that song, but I did like dreadful hippie bands in general.

It's kinda silly to insult stuff that's pretty much a matter of taste.

 

[Mac128]

The tape includes some music from one of those dreadful hippy bands that Steve Jobs still loves.

Actually I think it was a Windham Hill artist like George Winston or Liz Story. The score is all New Age solo piano music.

Far from a dreadful Hippy band. Can be a little monotonous if indulged for too long a period.

 

[skeletor]

The tape includes some music from one of those dreadful hippy bands that Steve Jobs still loves.

Actually I think it was a Windham Hill artist like George Winston or Liz Story. The score is all New Age solo piano music.

Far from a dreadful Hippy band. Can be a little monotonous if indulged for too long a period.

how true...for a time, that windham hill stuff..was the rage...some of my friends, drove me crazy with that stuff...not that it was bad....but after a while, it seemed to drone on and on..

and yeah, Jobs was a huge fan of the label and it's artists..