Last month, a good friend of Midwest Laboratories located this presentation made by Steve Jobs in the early 1980′s.A young Steve Jobs was talking about companies who were embracing the first Apple Computers and how they were using the technology.
Midwest Laboratories purchased Apple II Computers in the early 1980′s to compliment it’s current WANG Networked computers. The Apple Computers were used by lab analysts to record soil testing data for final report processing. I talked to several Midwest Laboratories Employees who were with the company at this time and they distinctly remember working with companies who were Apple Computer Vendors. These vendors talked directly to Steve Jobs on a regular basis with respect to orders and reporting back sales and uses of Apple Computers by their respective companies.
It is for these reasons that we believe Steve Jobs was talking about Midwest Laboratories in this short part of the video presentation.
Acknowledgements: I would like to thank Jim Connolly for locating this bit of history on YouTube. I would like to thank the Computer History Museum for allowing Midwest Laboratories to use this video to show you a part of history. I would also like to thank Regis McKenna who kindly donated this video footage to the Computer History Museum. Also, thank you to Doug Carr and his team at SnitlyCarr for putting this video snippet together.
Picture via Samuel M. Livingston
