The Macintosh
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2021
- In celebration of vintage Macintosh month, #MARCHintosh, I make the most obvious video possible. The original 1984 Macintosh! I'll discuss the events that surrounded it's release, it's reception and how I made-out repairing Joseph Samuels' January 1984 Macintosh.
Thanks to:
The Computer Chronicles
Infoworld Magazine
Apple Computer Inc.
Anonymous donor of the 2007 iMac that appears in the video
and Ron McAdams for the invite to participate.
#MARCHintosh Event Logo concept and design by Javier Rivera | CZcams: / @arcjavmaster | Twitter: @javierivera - Komedie
This Sunday just got a whole lot better
Yup
Absolutely
Agree
Damn Straight.
MARCHintosh vid from 65scribe! Can this month get any better?
Could have been, if only some cryptic german mac upgrade had arrived a bit earlier :) You still can make it happen ;)
Thanks Action Retro!
The previous owner of that Mac knew how to dress snappy. May he rest in peace.
Indeed he did.
Man this year is getting better already, two whole videos
Right! TWO! I need more!
Two 65scribe videos in one month? what did we do to deserve such a treat?
Imagine talking about one of the most famous computers of all time and still finding multiple unique things to talk about.
I just found out yesterday that I’m gonna be a dad but that pales in comparison to my excitement this morning when I see a new 65scribe video has arrived.
Congratulations! But I wouldn’t tell the family that. :)
Love the Orson Wells cutaways. He was such a funny drunk.
Came here looking for this. What's the movie for this scene?
Appropriately, a Paul Masson wine commercial.
ewwww brony
Cutting it close, Marchintosh. But yay, Joseph's machine is working again!
Yes! I had to scale it to something I could start and finish in a month and just made it.
Owner of the 2706th Macintosh here! Thanks for the great video! 🍎
Wow! Pretty close on the production line. Good to hear you liked the video!
The classic Macintosh. Great nostalgia trip for a Sunday from a totally underrated youtuber. :)
Thanks so much!
Ayyyyy i see 65scribe, i click immediately
2 videos in one month? That fall must have hit my head harder than I thought!
A few minutes from picking up one of these awesome machines!
UPDATE: It’s a Drexel Mac with the silkscreened blue ‘D’ on the front. Very early too- 6th week of 1984! Will make a video of it for this year’s Marchintosh
We're getting spoiled for content this year, aren't we? Always nice to see a new 65scribe video.
I really just want you to know that I appreciate the effort that goes into the production and aesthetic of something that comes out this sincerely retro.
Thanks, Jnite, for saying so. It's very fun putting these together, and I'm quite surprised by the (mostly) positive reaction to the aesthetic.
"it doesn't do anything...?"
What is that from?
@@craigjensen6853 Thanks. It's more cringeworthy than anything but I've seen it in so many memes now. Guy clearly had a problem.
Sees new 65 Scribe video: "great!" Sees that it's only 10 minutes: "Damn!"
Yeah, I had to scale it to what I could do in less than a month.
I've never heard anyone describe Jon Rubenstein as "Steve Jobs's crony". My sense is that when you've been screwed as badly as Jobs was by Sculley, you will naturally prefer to surround yourself with people you trust more than people you can use. I'm guessing Rubenstein serendipitously fit both criteria. Loving your videos - keep it up!
I completely agree with what you said about Steve Jobs' motivations. "Crony" seemed the best term to use. Although it comes off with a negative connotation, it just meant Steve was more familiar with Jon than Jack McHenry. Thanks for watching and commenting, Ankush!
One of my favorite channels on CZcams!
Thanks Mike!
Late to the party but never disappointed. Thanks 65s! Happy Marchintosh!
LMAO i love your editing style
Thanks very much!
I never heard MacDraw, MacProject, etc said like a chicken McSandwich or McNuggets... lol I always called it Mac Draw.... Like a Mac, and then the word Draw.
Ahhh yes... I had a Mac Plus 1MB, in the early 90's. My dad was a painter, and he did a job painting someone's home (interior) on trade for a complete Mac Plus system. And it was complete.... Everex 20MB SCSI HDD, External FDD, cooling fan mounted up top in the handle hole (made for it by apple), Imagewriter (later got an imagewriter II), TONs of software as the man was an inventor, actually held the patent for the Miracle Ear hearing aid... There was SO much software, and I was just tossed into this as something like a 10 year old or thereabouts, left to just figure it all out because I was good with this stuff... and my dad wanted to foster that sort of thing. Freaking amazing every time I think of the whole deal he worked out, as I lost him about 8 years ago.... anyway.... I did indeed sort it all out, and of course there was no internet, google, youtube, etc... There were just boxes of spiral bound Apple manuals. Not that I read them really, I did just sort of figure most of it out, and hit the books for the specifics... Sadly, all of it is gone.... This, that, and the other leads to whatever have you and some other bs, and it gets left behind... at a time where it appears there wouldn't ever be much value to it, it gets treated as such. It was a great platform to figure everything out on though, especially with the schools being heavy into LC series Macs, as I would copy newer systems, programs, had an external modem that I'd use to file share... Had an apple talk network set up at one point, with some LC computers I also had a bit later on, etc. It was all just so interesting to me.... By 97 I had a P233MMX Packard Bell though, and that was that for sure... I was figuring out overclocking, peltiers, video cards (riva 128 woooot woot), and the Mac Plus was a relic.
Great personal story, Brett! Thanks for sharing that. That was quite a system your Dad set up. Sorry to hear that he passed.
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Legitimately laughed out loud at the “Canadian money, eh” and Jon Rubinstein crony bit. Can’t wait for the next video!
Thanks for the 'lol' feedback, Tyler!
Wonderful information and the best Orson yet!
Thanks Alexander! I knew you would appreciate Orson.
1:43 YOU WOKE UP MY CAT. Well, technically, my coughing sputtering GUFFAW at seeing Orson Wells drunkenly misunderstanding Macintosh while advertising wine woke my cat. I still blame you.
i see where you got the "does this do anything?" quote from now... LOL.
All this time I thought it was Bill Cosby.
Bill Cosby?.. ok, I can see that.
Thanks for the video! Made my day.
You're welcome, Todd. Glad you enjoyed it!
This man makes 720p videos with low quality but the comedy in them make up for it a lot.
You forgot to say “spoilers”.
Damn! That is an excellent video! So much research. Well done.
Ian! Thanks for watching! I'm glad to hear you liked the video.
I really enjoy your videos
Thank you, Jason!
"forced to go on payed vacation" oh old Apple, where did you go?
Only a month after the 8100? You’re on fiiiiire.
Props for the Munch Man cartridge!
Props for noticing that!
I spent many hours of my misspent youth playing Munch Man! Good times.
Great video, glad to see you back, now if only we had a Color Classic video
7:55 lol. (I was just smiling up 'til then.)
Nice jobs.
Thanks for the feedback Dr. Dave!
Great tribute to the old owner.
Very cool that you were able to piece together the provenance of the machine - another great video!
I had work to do and this came up, work is waiting 12 minutes ❤️
Ha!
This guy is back and alive! Awesome!
10:33 Still have a G3/266 sitting in a corner of my office. It’s the only machine I have left, just about, that will work with a 1993-vintage SCSI scanner I still have.
Finally, there is a disk drive that sounds like the one in our 1985's Macintosh! 🥲👍🏻
You need to make a high quality audio recording for a sound history archive!
That’s a good idea. The sound is as much a part of the early Mac experience as the appearance, so I wanted to get some of that in the video. Glad you recognized it from way back.
I found a Macintosh Plus on the street in Munich in good shape. It got a new home.
That's excellent! I'm glad to hear you found that and rescued it.
Awesome that you got Joseph's mac working again!
This is great, glad you got it working, thanks for another video!
I LOVE these videos! Always makes my day, and later days when I watch again. Thanks!!!
Great to hear that, David!
I used this in school, the tiny screen really hurt my tiny eyes
Great video. Glad you got it working. Thanks
Im still waiting for a new video, i really love this channel
Thanks for your patience! I am just finishing up a new video, which should be available in about a week.
I love the videos! Keep them coming.
I really enjoy your narration and coverage. I really hope you can make more videos.
Glad you enjoyed the videos. I have a video in the works, so I’m not done yet! :)
My first computer was an original Mac 256k. It was a hand-me-down from friends of my parents. I just loved drawing things in MacPaint all day😁 . I later got a new 386 and when confronted with the blinking DOS cursor was shocked that this computer was more modern!
When you are so engrossed in the video that you answer(out loud) the rhetorical questions...
I just discovered your channel a couple nights ago and have been binge watching your stuff. Your channel rules. I'm learning so much about the history of old Apple products and the humor and storytelling mixed with your personal experiences and old VHS footage really keeps it engaging. Keep it up! I love these videos.
That’s great to hear that you found the channel and enjoyed it. I very much appreciate such detailed feedback!
Please make a patreon so i can throw a few dollars your way. As someone who grew up with Mac II's and Centrises, your videos are by far some of my all time favorites.
Funny enough, I was just thinking about that on the weekend. About what I could do there to make it worthwhile for people, and I had some ideas. So I appreciate your definitive vote for patreon.
I love your content. :> Don't change, continue!
Great video as always. Thanks.
Subscribed because the crucial fact about vacant computer booths at CES taken by x-rated movies
lol.
Hell yes, nice to see another video from you scribe this is a great year already :)
Thanks Kathleen!
Two new videos in the space of a month..... spoiling us! :)
Yes, a new video! I had one of each of the classic form Macintosh’s, back when you could find them on the curb next to the trash can in many neighborhoods. My favorite was a Mac Plus that I had paired with a scsi Zip drive as the hard drive. It was my first silent computer, which I used for writing. All of my Mac software fit on one Zip disk. After that was my Mac SE that I had no idea that it had been upgraded with an amazing daughter card that boosted it to 16mhz and 128mb ram. It was even faster than my Classic II. I used it as my gaming Mac.
Very cool how creative people could be back then, getting the most out of their machines.
I enjoy your videos and editing style.
Thanks very much!
Happy Marchintosh, indeed! Glad you got the old girl up and running again, nicely done.
You sir deserve at least a M subs.
Thanks very much!*
(* as long as 'M' means million and not a thousand)
I saw the notification and just said "YES."
Edit: Wait, I already saw this. Why did I get the notification again? Oh well, let's watch it again!
Ha! It wasn't me re-notifying you ... not that I wouldn't if I could. :)
After using Lotus 1-2-3 on a PC, I got a Mac Plus and MS Excel. Apple was madding with its product segmentation, so I never went back. 30+ years later, still sitting in front of Excel but learning DOS/Windows provided career opportunities.
I know what you mean. After three years of using a Mac, I ended up in a college course learning DOS and 1-2-3. I thought, "This is pointless!". Then came the contraction of the economy in the early 90's. Even in 2005 I found myself still running and trying to maintain DOS systems from the 80's because budgets were so tight. Buying up 286's online from people on Welfare to maintain the company's mission-critical equipment. I laugh, "who knew?"
MS Excel 1.x could not cope with more than 1MiB of memory. It was built around some kind of runtime interpreter that only handled 20-bit addresses. When MultiFinder was introduced in 1987, it had a special check for when you launched Excel, to ensure it always loaded in the bottom 1MiB of RAM. If it couldn’t fit, there was a special error message, about memory being too fragmented, that would not be triggered in any other situation, by any other app.
WOW, you really packed a lot of history into this video. Great job. I also had a TI99/4A and even programmed a nice hockey video game on it. My understanding is the Macs never took off until they started running laser printers.
Thanks! Always great to hear from another TI99 user. I spent some time programming on it as well. Lots of fun with that system. And you are right. Once all the pieces were in place for professional desktop publishing, Apple had their biggest hit until the iPhone.
It's been almost 3 months since a 65scribe post................
DAMN!!!!
I promise, I am working on something I'm sure you'll enjoy.
was one of those that saw the future and bought the 128K Mac, and then discovered, that yeah you could doodle in MacPaint but it wasn't good for much else - all the PC-DOS drones were fully in their rights for cracking jokes and saying it wasn't a serious computer for productivity. being poor college student (even more so for having bought a Mac), I couldn't afford the official Apple upgrade, so I bought a kit of denser RAM for 512K, desoldered the 128K chips, put in sockets, plugged in the 512K chips, soldered on a jumper wire, and viola - I had a fully working 512K Mac. then bought an external harddrive, eventually got Lightspeed C and MacBugs, and learned to program the Toolbox. First paying job as a software developer was programming on Mac Plus with SCSI harddrive and Apple's MPW software development tools - life long career ever since because Steve Jobs hoodwinked me into a 128K Mac; guess I owe the guy (well, no - I paid plenty for that Mac)
Impressive story! Thanks for sharing that. Joseph was all about Word Processing, like most of us were in the 80’s, so it probably met his needs more than yours. You could have joined me on the TI99 bus. As Texas Instruments ads used to read, “Steve Jobs never gave you this much for your money” with all their expansions and peripherals on display.
@@65scribe well, I've learned about most of the retro computers of yester-year by now - the ones that I passed by at the time - and I've kind of warmed up to the Tandy CoCo - especially the CoCo3 and it's MC6809, and that it could run multi-user OS-9 (which Tandy supplied for it); being into computer sci stuff, that would have been the early micro for me (my first was the C64), but then I very soon got fond of the MC68000 when got a Mac with sufficient memory (and harddrive) - said bye, bye to the 8-bit scene
I love your videos. Since I just brought my SE out of retirement to use as a word processor, this video seemed kind of fitting ot me even though it is not about my particular compact Mac.
Glad to hear you brought it out. The first video I did in this CZcams series was the SE, being my first Mac.
I just watched your video on the 512ke and commented about how it was my first Mac and second computer after my first being a TI99/4a. After watching this video and learning of our parallel computing journey, I feel somewhat... connected. 😀
Murdock - Sorry I didn't answer your comment! That's great to hear from someone who made the transition from TI99 to the Macintosh. The retro community is relatively quiet on the TI99 compared to the other Home Computers that came out at that time. I made a couple videos on the TI99, and I'd like to do another someday soon.
Great video!
Happy to see a new video!
I like you make the videos look retro.
Another flippin' awesome video on Mac history! Would you PLEASE slide into Tim Cook's spot at the company and restore the glory of what Apple used to be under Steve. You get it, Cook, doesn't.
10:38 And that's why they were called the "NeXT Mafia"
The 512k was the first Mac I ever saw and used in the late 1980s. This led to me purchasing my first Mac, which was the SE in March/April 1990. It had 2 Mb of RAM and a 40 Mb HD. I loved that machine. I might still have my copy of MacDraw packed away in a box somewhere... (On second thought, I might actually have MacDraw II). Someday I am going to unpack the boxes from multiple moves and probably be shocked at the stuff I have. At a minimum, it will be a fun trip down memory lane.
You were an SE owner, too. Very cool!
Very nice video!!! Loved it
Thanks Rama!
Mwaaaaahhhhhh zzzeee French Champagne! Thank you for reminding me of this classic. And, naturally, for the entire video. Didn't expect the next one so soon. Even if the ending was slightly bittersweet.
Damn!
4:27 No mention of the “Monster Mac”, which took the RAM to an amazing 2MiB? And added fangs to the smiling Mac icon that you saw on bootup.
Yes, there seemed to many options, but the MacSnap was the only one I had to show as an example, but funny about the fangs! Hah!
I found an original Macintosh 128k 1st Gen in Albuquerque NM in 2017 for 250. It has the original Bag original Keyboard, Mouse and Power Cable with Two original Diskettes, it was in pretty good looking and working condition. No original box but It is in almost mint condition for its year.
Very cool! Did you figure out the manufacture date from the serial number?
OH MAN. This weekend can't get any better now.
I see ur at 9.9k subs, early congrats for reaching 10,000 subs
Thanks very much! Yes, I hope the next video this month will push it over the edge.
Great day! When the authority on all things mac posts you watch right away and give a like!
Oh hell yeah, a new video.
AMAZING!!!!!
Nice to see the Macintosh operational again!
DAMN
Awesome!
Funny thing, I watched this video on my MacBook Air M1. Thanks from Florida’s Space Coast.
Nice!
always happy to see a new 65scribe vid
I had no idea until now that the "Does it do anything?" sound clip you've used in your videos was an Orson Welles quote, the more you know!
Yes, few viewers had figured it out, but knowing only made them all the more demanding to have Orson’s sound bite in every video. Ha!
YES!!
0:39 for the “Damn!!”
0:41
Interesting little video. I remember reading about Big Mac in Sculley's book in the late 90s, but i did not know it was supposed to be Unix based. The Plus and the Classic were the first computers i ever used as a 12 year old in 1993. Guess it was love at first sight. Old Macs will always have a place in my hearth.
The Plus and Classic. Great first-time machines. I brought up Big Mac as an example of Steve’s over-ambition. Trying to build OS X back in 1985.
@65scribe I wonder how strange OSX (or I suppose macOS now) would be if it was originally made in 1985, I’m glad it was able to be made on much more practical hardware with NeXTStep.
I'm 50+, never used a Mac ever.
Love these videos though.
@@ElijahCiali Interesting thought, if it was even possible to do that early. Steve was persistent on his vision.
@@eviltriplet That’s great to hear, thanks!
5:55 The Mac II (same year) was also available with dual internal floppies.
I don't think Apple offered the Mac II with dual floppies as a standard config, let alone it's own model number like the SE had ... but.. I'm desperately splitting hairs. I should have just said that "the SE was the only compact mac that shipped with dual floppies..."
Dude you are fucking hilarious!!! Thanks for the awesome video.
Glad you enjoyed it, Jesus!
Thanks for a new video. Love your video 65scribe. Keep making more!
Thanks so much!