[NTLK] Newton sales/promotional/instructional videos?

[Chris Chapman]

I saw a video once where it showed the newton in professional  
environments, like the Harris2000 and I think it had a section where  
it had a lady show you how she uses the newton, it was like the  
instructional VHS but a lot longer..

On Sep 8, 2012, at 7:52 PM, James Fraser wrote:

> Hello,
>
> --- On Sat, 9/8/12, Lord Groundhog <LordGroundhog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I can't guarantee a complete list but if you just want a
>> fairly varied diet of Newton commercials etc., start by searching
>> "Newton" on YouTube.
>
> Thank you for the reply and for the YouTube links.  I don't recall  
> seeing the FutureShock one before (although when you've got a memory  
> like mine, you come across "new" things all the time, don't you?).   
> Great stuff.
>
>> However, I found them without special knowledge just by searching, so
>> you should manage to find most things again.
>
> Yes, I've come across various Newton-related videos over the years,  
> but it's been more of a scattered hit-and-miss effort as opposed to  
> following a nice (and relatively complete) road map.  I guess what  
> I'd like to see is a sort of master Newton "video index."  Something  
> like this:
>
> http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/gallerytextindex.html
>
> ...but with the video titles, their length, and a brief summary of  
> what the viewer could expect to see so that they can pick and choose  
> what they view.
> Basically, the video equivalent of a bibliography ("videography,"  
> from what I can gather, isn't quite the word I want).
>
> On the print side of things, the venerable Vectronics has done a  
> good job with his gallery of Newton ads and brochures here:
>
> http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/ads/1993newton.html
>
> and here:
>
> http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/ads/1996newton.html
>
> I find myself hoping that someone will put together the same sort of  
> gallery, but with the JPEGs representing QuickTime clips (which,  
> admittedly, would be extremely bandwidth-intensive for the site as  
> opposed to going the YouTube route).  To give him credit, Vectronics  
> does have 7 Newton commercials in his video gallery:
>
> http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/televisionads/videogallery.php
>
> (Newton commercials are the fourth category in the drop-down menu on  
> the left under "Search Videos by Category.)
>
> Not all of which I had seen before.  While it's a pretty decent  
> selection as these things go, it's not -quite- as in-depth as I'd  
> like to see (e.g. he's missing the "Welcome to Newton" video, for  
> one) and there's no index for the videos, either, like  
> macmothership.com has done for their own print advertising and  
> brochure gallery.
>
> (I know I know: whinge, whinge, eh?)
>
> I suppose the basic problem is that, for most Apple aficionados, the  
> Newton represents a sideline, and Newton-related videos a sideline  
> of a sideline. [sigh]
>
> (Of course, it's easy to be a perfectionist when other people are  
> performing the work, isn't it?) :^)
>
>
> Best,
>
> James Fraser
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