Back in the far off days of 1995, when the world was young and Windows 95 was new and exciting, Sun made an introductory Self video. It’s about 20 minutes long; unfortunately the version here isn’t the best quality but it’s still a good overview of Self, Morphic and the Self VM.
It is both good and bad that most of the stuff described in this video works much the same way today—but at least Self will now run on your Macbook or Linux box!
Staring Randall B Smith, David Ungar and Mario Wolczko: Self, the Video!
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Sun only produced a limited number of tapes, so along with the copy I got I was given permission to make copies for anyone who wanted one.
Many years later I got permission to post the video online, and set up this page:
http://www.smalltalk.org.br/movies/
Eventually the list of links to other Smalltalk related movies made up the bulk of that page. Now that we have larger disks, better bandwidth and compression algorithms it might be a good idea to digitize the original tape once more.
[...] The Original Self VideoSelf on Planet SmalltalkTopics: MacBook [...]
A short tutorial about delegation using Self:
This a good way to learn Self: small videos that illustrate a single idea.