Unboxing the RARE Apple Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh!
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- In 1997, Steve Jobs returned to the near-bankrupt Apple as interim CEO. Expeditiously, he cleaned house. The fragmented product lineup was massively streamlined and a bunch of mid/upper-management found themselves in search of a new job. One of those products was the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh-a nauseatingly self-congratulatory product in celebration of Apple's 20-years as a company. Jobs hated it and had planned to fire the designer, Jony Ive, but things took a different turn. Years later, the TAM was recognized for instituting many of the design cues that Apple would continue using for decades establishing itself as one of the world's most iconic industrial design brands.
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You encapsulated my thoughs exactly at the end - Apple's problem for a while, particularly in the first few years of the post-Jobs era, was that it elevated design above everything else. Hence $10,000 gold Apple Watches and super-thin MacBooks with lousy keyboards. Ive was (and to a degree still is) hugely important to Apple, but he succeeded in part because Jobs reined in some of his impulses.
Exactly, Ive's work was so good back in the day because there was a bigger asshole above him who would've fired him without thinking twice. But post-Jobs I imagine Ive got too much free reign.
Form can never trump function if you're trying to create anything that's not completely vain
THIS IS THE GOLDEN ERA FOR APPLE? For money, yes. For making fast computers yes. For logic in their product line? Zero, why new 13.3" MBP doesn't have MagSafe but new 13.6" MBA does? For environmental reasons. NOT AT ALL GOLDEN.
@@bapt_andthebasses the 13 inch MacBook Pro is the only thing they haven't axed yet mostly because it sells really well(people like flexing about having the 'pro'). It's the only exception, what other issue is there with their lineup?
@@bapt_andthebasses The 13-inch MacBook Pro M2 is, I suspect, a holdover to clear inventory and make the most of parts during shortages. That doesn't mean it makes much sense to customers, but it might be worth remembering when one is out of stock while the other is still sitting on shelves.
Not just jobs, it’s a LOT of people that reigned him in.
This is definitely Apple's forgotten Mac. It's soo cool that this Mac allowed you to watch TV on it! In that regard, it's ahead of its time.
no this is history revisionism. there were other macs that you could watch tv on before this. the 5200 comes to mind. this also was not an iMac.
@@jessihawkins9116 it wasn't an imac but it surely resembled on them!!!
@@yannisgk how? There were a bunch of all in one Macs before this, including the first Mac. This looks nothing like the CRT bright color variation, USB endowed iMacs.
@@techviewer8379 didn't the emacs have that capability
@@jessihawkins9116: Yup, I had a 5200CD. As uninspiring as its specs might have been, I was quite fond of it.
That ending is so true, really feels like dapple have hit their design/function stride again
dapple
this is a weird place to find you
THIS IS THE GOLDEN ERA FOR APPLE? For money, yes. For making fast computers yes. For logic in their product line? Zero, why new 13.3" MBP doesn't have MagSafe but new 13.6" MBA does? For environmental reasons. NOT AT ALL GOLDEN.
@@bapt_andthebasses Turns out when you start making more money than several whole countries your product lineup doesn't have to make sense. Not like thats a good thing mind you, same goes for making actual repairable products.
i used to watch u
This has become one of my favorite Apple product channels.
Thank you!!
It's like getting back Matt's Macintosh!
Totally agree, please make video of connecting new tech with old tech such as iPod with new MacBook etc
Same here, and I hate Apple, but like knowing about all computers.
Cool to see such a relatively in-depth video on the TAM. I was lucky enough to buy a couple of them brand new in 1997 for £2400 (total).*
I upgraded one of them with the Sonnet card, like in your video. The other is entirely stock. Both are still in mint working condition complete with all their parts and packaging (some still shrink-wrapped). Always loved the TAM.
*Bought and paid for one, which developed a floppy disk drive fault. Reported it to the reseller who agreed to replace it. Come the time, a courier dropped off a brand new replacement TAM but refused to collect the faulty one, saying his job was only to drop off. Despite me informing the reseller, and them telling me another courier would come to collect the faulty unit, both TAMs are still here 25 years later.
Oh… and the floppy disk drive cured itself a few weeks after the replacement arrived. 😀
Neat! Thanks for sharing and watching :)
Lucky man... lol
so basically you stole one.
@@jessihawkins9116 - not according to UK consumer law I didn’t.
@@eddie275a if you didn’t pay for it it’s stealing
You should have shown the 1997 Macworld video where this was introduced. It's hilarious.
Steve Jobs had just returned to Apple as an advisor, and he had just given his big comeback speech. At the end of the keynote, the TAM was unexpectedly introduced as a surprise to Jobs by the marketing manager, with Jobs and Woz on stage. The demo it was supposed to run immediately crashed. Jobs can be seen staring at the TAM with complete and utter disgust, and within a month, the marketing manager was fired.
ironic thing is, IF Jobs had a hand in developing the TAM, he wouldve been hellbent on getting it to market and crapple sheeple wouldve gobbled them up regardless of price or performance
@@harveylong5878 lmao ok bud
@@harveylong5878 despite the fact he disliked it
My uncle had one of these, he bought it a few years after it came out. It was so cool to see in person, at the time I had no idea it was a computer, I thought it was some high end TV/stereo combo
It definitely *stinks* of late-90s Sony design ethos, the kind where they made a product purely to *look* futuristic even when it compromised its usability or performance. Really makes you appreciate how much Jobs reigned in that urge to just look pretty and do nothing.
This is great. Always wanted to see more details on this Mac.
I bought one when they went on fire sale after Jobs killed it. It was an interesting machine. The sound was great and it was almost like a stereo instead of a Mac. The screen was so small even in that era.
The last time an Apple manual told you how to upgrade your memory, was 2020 with the 27" iMac
Legend says that a guy with a tux comes over and assemble the machine
Not incorrect.
The opening to this video with the history of Apple was really entertaining and well done. Would love to see a video of Apples entire history in that style, and along with your analysis. Great video!
Ooh I’m looking forward to this! I love your Apple History Videos
i appreciate you taking the time out to post such unique apple content like this. makes the wait between videos a bit longer than other channels but i know you're always coming with quality
Sure fun to reminisce! I always wanted a Twentieth Anniversary Mac and wish I’d bought one when the price dropped after they were discontinued. It’s interesting to see the start of using laptop components to miniaturize desktops. It would be cool if you produced a “Short” explaining the pinouts of the power cable.
Awesome video - thank you for taking me back! I remember at the time of its release it was reported as under spec’d and wildly over priced. It did look cool however. It was such a transitional time in Apple. Steve was back, NEXT was purchased (now MacOS) and MacOS 8 was in perpetual release (it never arrived). In what I remember seemed like a few short months, this Mac disappeared along with the Apple Newton and the rest of their range of the day. Apple was reportedly only days away from bankruptcy. It was at the end of 12 months of what seemed like turmoil (1997-1998) that the Bondi Blue iMac was launched, Apple was reborn and the rest is history. It was an amazing time in history.
I’ve actually seen one of those! Back when i worked at an in home cleaning company, i saw this on someone’s desk. I had no idea what it was but i thought it looked unique. I though it was an over kill CD player. Because of the massive speakers and sub. I never imagined it was a full computer + TV + entertainment center + audio stereo.
The connectors on the umbilical are from a company called Burndy (now Souriau).
Interestingly NAIM uses connectors from the same range on their higher end products for power supplies and crossovers; they're not specifically aerospace connectors as suggested in another comments rather they are mainly used in industrial and harsh environment applications.
You always entice us with these types of videos, really interesting stuff! Thanks for sharing
I love how the outfit matches the box inside.
And the backplates.
And the TAM.
Next level review stuff right there.
Oh wow, this was amazing for it's time. Thank you for sharing it with the rest of the world.
so many years watching your channel, last months meanwhile other apple ecosystem channel discuss and make the same test to the m1 mac, this channel show joy, Unboxing rare products and a lot of experimentation, something so crazy like genius we can wait, but with an style i really appreciate
Do more of these videos. This was fun to watch
Great epilogue! Thank you for this video.
I love this video so much. I've never seen one of these in its original packaging (or seen one in-person, either). I didn't know about the custom startup chime. So cool.
What an absolute delight. Thank you for this video. I wish I owned one of these.
What an awesome archive! I feel like I’m the part of history as I’m watching this.
Wow, I remember seeing one in person more than 20 years ago. It was already low spec to run the latest software, so I didn’t waste to much time with it. Great video! Keep surprising us :-)
Now, That was a great Video.... Good Job Snazzy !!
The amount of engineering and design that went into this is insane. Fantastic first offering from Jony Ive. Would love to get one of these but scared to look at eBay for the prices !
SONNET!! I completely forgot about those folks.
What an awesome walk through…🙌🏾
Fascinating historical artifact, so many ports, such a tiny screen!
setup montage music was perfectly snazzy 😂❤️
There's one thing from Apple for sure, they always made sure that the included speakers on their desktop/laptop should sound good. Even on their iPhones as well.
Excellent video on this Mac! I really enjoyed it!
Wow solid blast from the past. I was born in 1993 so to me this is all brand new stuff I’ve never seen before. Thank you for this love your videos.
Same! 93 babies! It’s crazy stuff so futurist seeming was coming out back then! I would have wanted this!
I still have mine, pristine and very much in use. These originally were priced at $10k with concierge service - delivered to your door and setup for you. The price was dropped to ~$8k, and then rapidly to $2500. I bought mine for that last price directly from Apple the day the price drop was announced. Back in the day it was my office fax machine, answering machine, TV, AM/FM receiver and CD player. MP3 functionality came with software upgrades as well as internet radio. It is currently running MacOS 9.22 and serves as my living room CD/MP3 and FM receiver - and functional artwork. The Bose speakers still sound great and the remote still works. I have all the documentation and boxes, including the pen set/leather pouch and leather CD case that came with and leather keyboard insert and trackpad (I don't use the trackpad). Instead, I use a black ADB mouse from the old Mac TV (anyone remember those). I've added a G3 upgrade (years ago) and WiFi. Can still browse the web, although with limited functionality due to outdated protocols. Oh, and I use it to sync my Newton Message Pad 2001! P.S. I also have my original NeXT Turbo Color slab, still working like a champ.
Clear to see how this became the form factor for the future flat screen imacs. And yes, a vanity product, in a sense, but i like to think of this like those concept cars that we see from time to time. Aspects of those sometimes wild and crazy looking designs, that eventually settle down into an actual product. I am sure that the first iMacs with the CRT tubes/Bondi Blue configuration were descended from this, but the main difference is that the CRT screen was used to make it actually affordable.
Thus the all-in-one screen and computer that became the iMac of more recent times.
Have never ever seen any of these products before, remarkable content
Thank you so much ☺️
14:19 - It was the same display as on the PowerBook 3400c, so tied for highest resolution for a "built-in-display" Mac, although external CRTs were available from Apple with much higher resolutions, even many years earlier.
So many memories. Loved Mac OS 7.x
Rad video! 💜 thanks so much.
Thank you for the share
Really cool, can hardly wait for 50th anniversary Mac!
I think there are a lot of design cues in the TAM that remind me of the PowerBook 540c (Blackbird), from 1994. It was one of my earlier Mac laptops and I still think fondly of the design aesthetic of that era at Apple. Its relatively tiny trackpad seems similar to that on the TAM.
Loved this, keep it up!
I have one of these in storage that my old man got back in the day, I remember the sounds being great.
Great video... Thanks for posting it...
What a find. Brilliant. I would have believed it too, if you said it was a Bang and Olufsen pc.
It is incredible to me, after all the amazing things they've done over the past 4 decades that THIS is what we consider their golden age. that even after all they did they're STILL killing it!
Amazing video on an amazing piece of equipment! It'd be great to see some on the multifunctional Cd's from that time. I remember when I got Voodoo Lounge from Rolling Stones and I had to find a computer that could run the special features included. Fun times.
Also, that weird “domesticated Mac” seems to be a cross between a Color Classic and that “molar” PowerMac G3 AIO. It likely preceded both and was reused, which means the TAM’s development was linked to both of those machines.
wow, that is definitely jony ive's designed product, it might not be a good product but it was elegantly designed.
IMO the trashcan mac pro is not horrible, sure it has become a joke, but when you think about it, it's a very good design, very well cooled and extremely quiet for what it is, people often forgot that it has a xeon cpu with dual firepro gpu(s) in the size of fat paper towel. it is essentially the predecessor of mac studio. People who actually used it for the first 5 years enjoyed it, me included, AND despite having bespoke gpu(s) (I know they probably just use the wxxxx counterpart driver), the windows driver worked pretty well in bootcamp.
And that was the thing, if Jonny hadn't obsessed on Form over function the trash can Mac may have been a bigger hit. The idea was great it's execution though left many to drop it. Just the problem alone with non standard GPU cards is an example of this. Would it have hurt the design that much to make so you could put in standard windows compatible GPU cards? Probably not, but the Hubris of Jonny could not stand for that. Just like how you can't make a cake without some eggs and flour. Without Steve there to temper Jonny's zeal for design that's how you get the Trash Can Mac and iPhone problems after Steve's death.
Really enjoying these videos! So nostalgic!
Thanks!
Very neat! When my family got our first computer, the Macintosh SE, I remember learning how to click and drag with the mouse on the provided tutorial.
I learned programming messing around with Apple script. I remember making an infinite dialog box so technically a virus. That was fun.
A Macintosh SE exists?
Back in the days, when the TAM was released, it was a total mystery to me (and others) why Apple would waste their drying up funds to create such a monstrosity.
Sure, the flat screen was a big desire, but everything else was just awful ... and then the absurd price. So glad that Apple recovered from this, and that whole period in the 90s when it looked like Apple was fading out of existence, buried in a graveyard of it's confusing range of uninspiring and underperforming models. The top brass was a bunch of bozos. But Steve took charge again and cleaned house, and Apple was saved.
Thanks for letting me live vicariously through you, dude.
I love this video, TAM is such an incredible machine, I agree with you too, this is the golden era of Apple if they want it, I love see products like the new MacBook Pro M1 (Pro or Max) which is beautiful and functional, but... we still seeing the Apple Watch Series 3 or the MacBook Pro TouchBar (why?) just hope Apple can bring us great products, also other companies, because competence is the best for us!
Ohhh, I'm super jealous... You got your hands on such an amazing find! I didn't even know about this thing! Shame about the trackpad and remote, but hey, it's still amazing!
Oh, and my guess as to why the experience disk would work on 95 is so that non-Mac users could view those materials to make them want one
Excellent review Thanks ! coming from a Mac user since 1991 Mac SE 30 second hand ;-) and seeing like the Cube and owning other oddities at the time Steve was out i.e. the pizza box a B&W HP Printer that used to cost an arm and a piece of your leg too. Oldies but goldies ?
Never knew about this Apple product, very cool.
I owned one of these in the UK about 10 years ago, I had it in my bedroom and used it as a sound system, with the remote you could turn it on and pretty sure you could get radio stations. the sound was excellent and Im an 'Audiophile' I was sad to let it go, but when I was offered £4k for it couldn't say no. the guy wanted it to just look on his desk.
I knew immediately when i read the video title that this had to be talking about the TAM. (didn't even see the thumbnail heh) that machine is FANTASTIC. I got to work on one once when I was an apple certified desktop technician in a previous life.
God, seeing that old MacOS boot screen again... I remember 7.5.5 was rock solid. I had to work hard to make that crash, and I was video editing on a PowerMac 9500.
Minor nitpick, due to the camera angle and limited viewing angle of the LCD, I could not see the trail of extensions loading. But, I remember those days so I could see it in my minds eye. The TAM was a neat looking device for sure. Thanks for sharing this. 😊
This is so inspiring for some reason!
Great video! Thanks.
Excellent video 🤘🏼
You know how to bring out the nostalgia, Snazzy.
This is so awesome! I wish I could find one at a reasonable price
Very interesting. Thank you!
18:38 that concept looks so cool lol i could imagine an alternate timeline in which it came out around the same time as the imac g4
That is a beautifully designed Mac.
The company I worked for at the time bought one of these, because the boss was a bit of an Apple fan. We had the machine running all day in the lobby for years, running a company presentation. It did indeed have an excellent sound system and in after hours we would play CDs on it or turn the radio up, which was also built-in. I always thought is was a really cool machine, but too expensive and underpowered for real work. As a display piece, however it was great.
Thanks for this. I remember buying a second-hand Powerbook 1400c from one of my teachers in '97/8 and became a big Mac fan, subscribing to MacUser etc. The adverts over the next year often included very heavily discounted TAMs, but sadly I was about a decade away from even being able to pay the amount being asked.
Yes, it was overpriced, underpowered, and on almost every metric a complete failure. But sometimes, even a product so bound to something so fleeting, functional and advancing as technology, can be viewed and valued as a lovely, special 'thing' in isolation. There has to be a reason why people are still talking about it.
When iOS finally allowed customization of the home screen with folders and blank spaces I switched to Apple from Android. It was the first time I have owned an Apple product since my Apple IIe (with the optional chip for higher resolution/smaller characters on the green screen). I have LOVED the design of iOS and I am really looking forward to getting rid of my alienware laptop and getting my first Mac (I just need to figure out a way to run games first)! Thanks for sharing this product with us!
Great video about this truly unique Apple product! You should have pointed out the significance of putting an LCD screen in a desktop computer in 1997! This was even before the release of the original Studio and Cinema display!
It's basically just a vertically mounted laptop with some expandability on the rear. Otherwise, no great shakes visually or performance-wise. I get why Jobs wanted rid of these immediately.
AMAZING VIDEO, AMAZED!!!!!!!!!!!!
this was really interesting, also it maker me wonder how I will be watching videos 20-30 years from now talking about the m1 mac or something like that
Great memory, thank you. 🤝👍
@officialsnazzylab Great! Thank you. 👍🤝
I worked at an Apple Premium Reseller and Premium Service Provider here in Germany/Bavaria/Franconia. This Reseller has this Mac in his Selling Room. It is used as a Radio. Very nice peace of history.
I love this kind of videos even if I’ve already heard the story before, I’m pleased to hear it again explained by someone else
please more videos like this 🙌🏻
edit: 🤣🤣 I commented too early, before watching the whole video.. just thought this will be a back story of apple, but still a great video 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Good to know our history. Shows how much tech has advanced. If only our minds could follow suit. Well done.
20th anniversary mac is one of my favorite computer designs ever. it's pretty incredible your landlord just happened to have one in this condition.
I bought one of these when they were on sale in 1998 for $1999. It was an amazing computer with incredible sound. I upgraded the processor with the "fat back" and was very happy.... except... it developed a buzz. Apple tried to repair it twice but the fault was not fixed. It was a known issue and there did not have a solution. By then it was 2.5y ears old and Apple offered me a Mac Pro G4 450 and LCD monitor, brand new, as a replacement. It was incredible customer service. I loved the TAM but took the Mac Pro which was way way faster (but nowhere near as cool) and ran it for 8 years as a my daily driver. I still have the Pen that came with the TAM and the manuals.
Do you still have it?
No, as I mentioned it had a persistent problem so Apple swapped it for a G4 and LCD monitor which I do still have.
Loved that ending
I had a pc which allowed me to open a small window while working and leave the History Channel on or something else on cable. It was pretty handy. I agree. This is the Golden era of Apple. Not happy with everything, but many good products. Fixes of problematic issues like laptop keyboards. Apple silicon turned out to be a good move tho I maybe it might make sense to still make one or two machines that boot into intel.
SO FRICKEN AWESOME! I remember seeing this on Jerry's desk in a few episodes of Seinfeld (he had different models over the seasons. Too bad that doesn't have a DVD player..you could loop Seinfeld episodes! I had a few different models over the years myself:
Cir 1986 Beige Macintosh Plus (Currently own)
Centris
Quadra
Performa
1st Gen Bondi Blue i-Mac
1st Gen e-Mac
Power Mac G3 (Blue), G4 (Graphite), and 2 G5s (CheeseGrater) I still have one of the G5s
2006 17" PowerBook Aluma Body
2011 17" MacBook Pro UniBody (Currently own)
2009 MacBook "Core 2 Duo" 2.0 13-Inch
2020 i-Mac 27" Retina 8 Core (Currently own)
A few iPods 1st Gen, 1st Gen iPod Mini, 1st Gen Shuffle,1st Gen Nano, 1st Gen Photo, 1st Gen Video, 3rd Gen Touch
And 3 iPads. I 1st used an Apple II in my high school's computer lab back in 1983-84. Needles to say I am an avid Apple guy. I love the history surrounding it..the players, (Wozniak, Jobs, Wayne, Raskin, Sculley, Amelio, Gassée). the early development..the inspiration..all of it. It was history being played out right before my very eyes. I even attended the 1983 US Festival..due in large part that Steve Wozniak was the brainchild behind the festival.
One of these was featured at the developer center during the WWDC tours. It was working and everything.
I wanted this model. I think I had a Performa at the time. It had a tv tuner too!
The TAM's boot sound will always be my favorite
Well Said, the apple products after Ive left have great functionality and super efficient.
Trackpads, mice, etc are still foreign to many people, even in the US.
I'm an IT tech that specializes in elder care and it's amazing how many people still need this level of instruction.
Love videos like this
I would give anything for one of these. My Apple fanboy days are long, long since over, but this will forever be my holy grail.
No, apple still focuses more on form than function, they just managed to engineer their way into making that form actually function. Impressive.
that was Job's MO; it has to look pretty. who cares if it actually works, just make it look pretty
PERFORMANCE!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I have to thank Steve, as apparently he was the one who said to slash the price on the TAM when it was discontinued, and thus allowing me to be able to afford it. Of course - my next problem was my location - they weren't sold in my country. Only 12,000 TAMs were made (11,601 sold, the rest kept for parts), and they only sold them in a handful of countries. I had to find a dealer in the US who would ship to me - which was against their terms of trade with Apple. Thankfully, my TAM arrived safe and sound, as - much like the one you just "opened" - now resides "used" but in box with all original packaging.
Ironically... if I sold it today, I'd get about the same as what I paid for it originally. Not that I'm selling!
So how does the Bose compare to the harman/kardon Soundsticks in the background you have there?