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Phil Schiller's death-defying stunt at MWNY '99

by Dave Caolo Jan 5th 2009 at 1:00PM

Everyone in the Apple community is eager to see Phil Schiller deliver tomorrow's keynote address at Macworld Expo. While we're uncertain as to what he'll do, we know that he won't be leaping onto an inflatable mattress while holding a laptop. Because he's already done that.

At Macworld Expo '99 in New York City, Phil demonstrated a Tangerine iBook's wifi capabilities and accelerometer by falling from a significant height onto a small mattress below, thus ushering him into "The Demo Hall of Fame." It might not have been the Mother of All Demos, but still pretty cool. Way to take one for the team, Phil!

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[Thanks to the folks at thinkingbricks for pointing this out]

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kknupp

WOW! That'll give you a blood rush!

January 05 2009 at 9:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Frankfurter

"There are lots of folks better at presentations than Steve Jobs. "

Who, please.

January 05 2009 at 4:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bustanut108

WOW THAT WAS DEATH DEFYING

January 05 2009 at 3:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SubGenius

This was the first and last MWNY that I attended.
Phil's jump was certainly memorable but a chance encounter with his Steveness on the show floor made it unforgettable.

Also Noah Wyle's Steve Jobs impersonation was a great opening.

January 05 2009 at 3:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rego

Are you purposely trying to attract 10 year olds?

January 05 2009 at 2:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SlavenPro

Steve Jobs: I'm your boss, JUMP or I'll fire you!

January 05 2009 at 2:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ds

I was actually there for this. Pretty awesome stuff. I was just mad because the didn't have enough iBooks in the audience for everyone to touch one, and I was in the back 1/3 of the auditorium. Possibly OT: This was also the keynote where Bungie first demoed Halo.

January 05 2009 at 2:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
falcon5768

It was 1999. The iBook debuted at the June/July Macworld NY (I was there actually one of the few times I went before it was moved then canceled) It was not released till after that though. I had actually just gotten my Powermac G3 when it came out and thought to myself "damn, should have waited."

In the end I got a early prototype SE in late 2001 when I started working for Apple as a campus rep.

January 05 2009 at 2:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Frankfurter

Does that story ever get chicks?

January 05 2009 at 2:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Crabster

Bonus points for the mullet too!
Yay!

January 05 2009 at 1:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
R. Cabell

The point of the demo was that a USB accelerometer was taped to the bottom of the iBook and the iBooks (new at the time) AirPort would send the reading in real-time to another computer, which would prove, once and for all, that gravity really is 9.8 m/s^2.

A very cool demo, and I hope he tops it tomorrow.

January 05 2009 at 1:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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