![Video setup](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/image46.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
Last weekend, when I shared the unseen January 1984 Boston Computer Society meeting at which Steve Jobs and team demonstrated the Mac, I mentioned that Glenn Koenig, the BCS’s videographer, had saved it for all these years in a now-obsolete tape format: U-matic. Glenn shared a few fun photos of the setup he used in his video studio to get the meeting off that fragile tape and into a format everybody can enjoy.
Here’s a selfie Glenn took of himself with the precious original tape. As you can see, U-matic, which Sony began developing in the late 1960s — originally for consumers, though it turned out it was most popular for corporate and education use — involves a cartridge that’s a lot bigger than a VHS or Betamax.
![Glenn Koenig](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/image47.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
This is the industrial-strength U-matic VCR which Glenn used for the transfer. It’s been a long time since Sony made new ones; this is a second-hand BVU-950, dating from the late 1980s, which Glenn bought for $249 on eBay. He spent another $180 to get it serviced — and yes, there are still places you can go to get a U-matic deck fixed.
![Sony BVU-950 VCR](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/image.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
You may have noticed a Mac Pro peeking up from the bottom of the last photo above. Glenn used it to digitize the video coming off the U-matic tape. Once the video was digital, he used the iMac in the photo below to edit it.
![iMac](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/image1.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
Even though there’s nothing the least bit surprising about someone using Macs to digitize and edit video, isn’t it still awfully cool that Glenn did the job with the 21st-century descendents of the Mac which he shot Steve Jobs showing to the Boston Computer Society in 1984?
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