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Sep 25, 2026 13 min

The Little Mac with the Big Bite - Computerphile

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Whether you are a Mac-o-phile or a Mac-o-phobe it is hard to deny the impact of the original Mac. As Mac turns 30, Professor David Brailsford takes us through what the original Mac was like and how it helped people learn to love computers.EXTRA BITS: http://youtu.be/rbeYwh2CstQHow YouTube Works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqQk7kLuaK4Note: please excuse the flickering on the Mac's CRT monitor, unfortunately we were unable to remove it completely.To read more stories about the personalities, and the environment within Apple at the time of the Macintosh, you can visit: http://www.bit.ly/30mac30 http://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputerComputerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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