The Power Macintosh 9500
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- čas přidán 6. 04. 2018
- The 9500 was the pro tower in Apple's darkest days. This video looks at the desperate moves Apple was wiling to make to keep the Mac relevant in the shadow of Microsoft and it's own poor management. I then open up a 9500/180MP to look at the technology inside... among other things...and attempt to repair a boot issue. All to grab the title of being the best 9500 video on CZcams! ... oh, wait, there aren't any others.
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Thanks very much, and sorry for the late reply! That's great you find these videos worth going back to regularly. I appreciate the feedback. Definitely make the effort worthwhile.
Everybody gangsta until "HAVE A GREAT SUMMER VACATION AND *DON'T* BE WAITING FOR SCHOOL NEXT YEAR!!"
That dust mask he shows is now worth more than the Macintosh.
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@@geekcorerob what was the comment out of curiosity?
@@themacintoshnerd Probably dumb religious shit.
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Thank you, Mario! That means a lot coming from someone who does comedy.
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Absolutely the best video I've ever seen on the PowerMac 9500. Wish I had some ABS cement with me the last few times I opened the case...
I commented previously but noticed you don't have PMs turned on. I've had an Apple Network Server 500 that I've had for a decade or more. Despite not being a Mac, just let me know if you wanted to use it for a "review". I'm in Toronto so transportation would not be a problem. PMs are open, or @jonpurdy on Twitter. 👍
Your offer to loan your Network Server 500 came as a pleasant surprise.. or shock even. There is quite a backstory about trying to get one of these to use in the 9500 video that I'll have to tell you. I'm fairly 'off-the-grid' (simply by ignorance), so that's my fault I can't do Twitter. I also thought private messages were gone from CZcams(?) Feel free to connect with me as a CZcams 'Friend' or let me know how else best to contact you. I look forward to discussing further!
@@65scribe Weird, looks like my reply from a couple of days ago didn't actually get posted for some reason (maybe it filters email addresses). You can email me at 65scribe AT jonpurdy DOT com, then I'll email you back from my actual address. Looking forward to it!
Yes, I did see it only in my notifications. The post was gone, so I think you’re right. I’ll try to email tonight. Thanks!
"Or this theme which could have been the inspiration for Windows XP" OOOOHHHH SNAP!!!
:)
I have a deep appreciation for beige powermacs. I know they were made when apple was at it's lowest, and they may not have been compelling products, but I love the aesthetic!
I agree. The colour, shape and texture made them feel elegant and substantial.
The 9500 and 8500 (more of a multimedia production machine) were really hardware beasts but they lacked a solid corresponding multitasking multiuser protected memory anti crash OS; I remember getting those dreaded error type 11 bombs (which led you to total work loss and forced hardware reset); in 2000 I got to install BeOS in a 9500/200 and boy was that the perfect system for that beast: fast, multimedia responsive, Unix-like underpinnings, cool graphical interface with cute icons, an overal super solid OS that was fun to use; unluckily never gained sofware, thus never got traction with mac users (besides it only ran in selected 2 or 3 specific models) but hey, luckily soon enough old classic macos 9 was replaced by Unix based X,, courtesy of Job's NextStep and...the rest is history
@@alerey4363 I love beOS. I wish Haiku was more... well, easy to daily. The floating tab style title bar is my favourite thing aesthetically, but a lot still impresses today, such as how they handled dynamically mounting remote or local disks. (Which tbh I haven’t read about it in years so I don’t really remember what exactly that was.... but I remember going “that’s still cool today” when I did!!) also supporting multi-threading so early IIRC.
@@kaitlyn__L Haiku was practically born dead; it's been 15+ years and it's in beta! besides, nowadays there's no need for that; if you like the aesthetics of BeOS you are better with Xubuntu with a BeOS theme, including the original icons, that will give you the best results in both departments, currentt usability/performance and cosmetic BeOS
@@alerey4363 I don't think it's the same. BeOS was about way more than a re-skin of Linux. A lot of what made it special then is easy to find in any modern OS now, but it was happening 20 years ago: Fast boot; a light, responsive, stable UI; smooth multitasking; the building-blocks APIs, like translators, that made adding functionality simple... It was also really easy to use. It was OS X before Apple had released OS 8. Novel then... so sufficiently advanced that it appeared to be magic. But not anymore.
I'm not sure Haiku can ever capture that lightning in a bottle, since hardware and software have since evolved to make any computer feel as powerful now as BeOS did to my Pentium II in 2000. The time to replace BeOS is long gone, and the number of people for whom that lineage is significant, shrinks every day. At this point, if they were to completely finish it tomorrow, it would just be another anonymous project OS with some level of POSIX compatibility. Its reason for existing now is to _look_ like a 20-year-old OS, and run 20-year-old software, which isn't compelling enough to restart the inertia lost back then.
It's kind of heart-breaking. I really wanted Zeta.. er.. Haiku to fill the void left behind BeOS. But it has to first catch up to where BeOS was two decades ago, and then start over, evolving a quarter of a century behind the state of the art. The shortcut is to graft in code from modern *nix, but then it's just another *nix.
"Is that all the balls you've got, Santa?" I'm rolling.
August 15th 1995 is when I started working at a major Apple distributor in Mexico. I lived all this first hand. I was 17 at the time. Got trained in Photoshop 3.5 to do demos at national conferences. I'd like a 9500/132 again. That was the machine I had sitting in my desk. Proudly at eye level, with a 17'' Sony Trinitron built Apple Multisync Monitor.
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Thanks for sharing your experience with the 9500. So you started working about the time Windows 95 released. Interesting times!
@@65scribe yes. I went to an expo called Comdex/CommExpo in Mexico City those days. Be Inc were presenting their PowerPC BeOS boxes, along with Motorola, Intel, Cyrix... It was crazy. By the next year I was one of the speakers with Apple Latinamerica on those expos. I was only 18yo. Everything was so exciting. I still was a fervent Amiga user though. Ten years after that I met with some of the Amiga engineers. One of them even have me his personal Amiga. I'm such a computer history buff. I lived it. Nowadays doesn't feel as exciting as it was in those days.
Very interesting!
@@65scribe Can you sell me one?
It was the startup chime that blew me away. I loved that machine.
The most thing I like is digging what’s on the hard drives when you buy a second hand computer, if you’re lucky they didn’t format it or after a successful hard drive repair… also the “have a great summer vacation” alert… is it real? 😂
Yes, that was a legitimate alert sound on the 9500 when I got it from the guy. The same guy who left his email box on there, having fun with the phishing scam.
27:27 is perhaps the greatest moment ever in a CZcams retro computing video. But you can't fast forward to it, you have to watch the video all the way through to get the full effect.
Thanks Matt! Glad you enjoyed that.
It was always fun recording minutes long sounds on school Macs because the entire system locked up while the alert sounds played 😆
agreed. it's an incredible payoff.
Epic video. Thank you! There's so much more than just the 9500 crammed into this video - I love how you weave in a reference to the then-unfolding disaster of Copland, for example. I also love the humour sprinkled through your videos - it really works somehow to bring the hardware and the history to life. Well done.
Thanks, Tom. I really appreciate your detailed review of the video. It means a lot when I get feedback like this.
New sub!! Man, it such a relief to find a great Apple review channel since my beloved Jason Macintosh Museum is no longer posting, I can only watch the same videos over and over again a few times. Keep up the good work!! Love what you do!
Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts ... and subscribing! When I started the series in 2014, Jason’s channel was the only good Mac channel I could find. I’m glad my videos are filling the gap.
I am thrilled that I managed to find you channel. I remember how badly I wanted one of these when I was a kid. Please make a video about the 9600!
I’m glad you found my channel amongst everything else. The 8600/9600 tower design is probably my favourite of any that Apple produced, so a video is pretty much assured.
That machine just came in right when I was working at a major Apple dealer in Mexico City. I've got to unbox and have fun with so many of them.. Particularly the /132.. Paired with those gigantic Trinitron displays from the day. God they were so heavy. I still can smell the new-smell of those days. The smell of new. Unboxing the keyboards and mice, then those SCSI AGFA scanner and the color LaserWriters. It was September 1995 when I started. My first job. I was 17yo. I felt like playing "office". Happy times.
Thank you for sharing your memories of the 9500, Alejandro!
Oh man, the only thing I remembered about the Mac clones was that video at 5:20 with the song "I think we're a clone now". Thanks!
Hah! You’re welcome!
That promotional video for clone makers... was that the original music? The tongue-in-cheek style the visuals were produced with really made me laugh too.
I love how you include so much other period media in these. A lot of other history-focused channels show pics, not video. Especially finding the more obscure internal videos. I swear, back in 2008 I watched every Apple archive video the speciality channels posted, and you’re still including tons of things I’ve never seen (I usually recognise about half of them)
That clone video was an internal project by Dave Garr, who wrote and sang it. He released it to CZcams in later years so others could enjoy it. Thanks for your feedback on the video! I’m glad that I could surprise you with some video content that you haven’t seen.
I've been eagerly awaiting this video and I wasn't disappointed.
Amazing! Nice to see a new video again! Have been looking forward to it for a long time! Enjoyed it!
Thank you. I was hoping that you continue making these Apple videos. Keep up the good work.
I really love your videos! I was an Apple Developer from 1984 through 1996, and watching them really brings back a sense of nostalgia for those times. Thank you! :)
Thanks for your message! I'm glad to hear the videos passed muster with a Developer from that time!
Awesome video!
It was interesting to learn what was happening at Apple 1994-1997. There's a tendency to gloss over that timeframe and just focus on Jobs' return in 1997. It seems that, unlike Spindler, Amelio was a competent CEO and was taking the right actions.
Thank you!
That's the impression I got from everything I watched and read. I don't think Amelio could have brought Apple back as dramatically as Steve Jobs, but he did all the necessary dirty work to keep Apple from disappearing before the famous comeback. He does deserve more credit than history gives him.
Amelio understood, like Jobs did, that Apple was not Microsoft and could not survive trying to pretend they were. I doubt Apple ever could have successfully sold Mac clones. And even if they could, it would have been a decade earlier than their actual attempt. As Jobs pointed out, Apple was highly profitable during the early 90s, but that faded fast. They lost their brand identity and their products became dull and uninspiring.
Thanks for continuing to keep the early-to-mid-90s Mac flame alive. A time most people would choose to forget if they remembered it in the first place, but for us select few, one filled with many great memories.
An ask: do you happen to have a link to an Apple business video produced in that time that featured, presumably among other things, someone sketching a helicopter car and it turning into a 3D rendering and flying away? I think I saw a glimpse of it in one of your earlier videos.
I agree. Thanks for commenting.
The helicopter is familiar. It appears briefly in Dave Garr's video that I reference, But, yeah, I was trying to think where that might have come from. I'll let you know if I see it.
Yet another great video. I'm diggin' your channel!
Best overview of the 90s Apple situation I've seen. Gold👍 subbed
Thanks very much!
I've been watching a boatload of your videos, ironically the first video I ever watched I watched previous to this one, on retrobriting. What a tour! Keep it up, I love the creativity of your edits. Truly unique.
Love the channel. Really like your humour and your delivery is spot on. And the information is really in depth and interesting! More please!
Thanks very much for the feedback! I do have another video in the works.
Your videos are almost meditative, I really enjoy watching them. Good job, keep it on!
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I’ve never heard the videos described that way. Thanks and I’m glad you are liking what I’m doing!
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Absolutely fantastic. You don't know the hype I build for every nee video.
3rd time through, always a joy! Keep it up!
Hey, just discovered your channel and I love it! I had an original 128K Mac, a Mac Plus, an SE, a 9500 and a 1st-generation G4, and I eagerly watched the videos for each. Wonderful detail; fascinating insights and nostalgia. Thank you so much for doing all this! Jordan in NYC
Hey Jordan. Thanks so much for the feedback, and I'm glad they brought back enjoyable memories from your long history with Macintosh. And great to hear from NYC. I was only there once in 1998 but loved it. I also got to see the new Powerbook G3 at a store while I was there.
I have a Power Mac 9600/300 that has literally never worked right. It's a shame, because it's a cool machine and powerful as hell by 1997 standards.
I just recently discovered your channel... I have no idea how, since I am not a Mac guy, but I love it, and I am learning about these machines through your fun videos. Keep it up!
Thanks very much for the feedback! Great to hear you found the channel by accident yet still enjoy the video series.
I remember the joy in the Mac community when Jobs returned in the late 90s.
Your video retrospectives bring back the joy of the Apple we all knew before they became a global juggernaut.
Thanks for the hard work making these videos.
You're welcome. Thanks for sharing your impression of the the videos. Always interesting to hear the feedback.
This channel, and Jasons Macintosh Museum are the best Apple Mac related content on CZcams - end of story.
Your videos are really well made and super nice! I can't wait for a new one!
Thanks very much! I appreciate you watching and commenting. I'm working on a couple more videos right now, so I hope you'll stay tuned.
Damn, this is great channel.
This was only the second video I watched of yours, but you sold me with that Easter egg. That's some good research!
Keep up the good work. 👍
Thanks very much, TuNnL!
Finally, tech reviews that are almost the same as mine, except better than mine...
What a fantastic video...brought back so many memories.
That's great to hear that you enjoyed the video, and that it stirred some good memories from the past.
Wow! I just discovered your channel. This was a fantastic presentation of not just the Apple 9500, but also the historical context surrounding it's creation. I forgot a number of things before seeing this video, such as, why Apple called the new operating system "Mac OS 8" rather than "System 8".
And great job getting that 9500 going again. It obviously was suffering from a serious lack of love.
When you have a chance, I'd love to see a presentation for the PowerMac 8600. I've kept mine all these years to have a platform that can still read floppy and Zip discs as well as being able to run the odd 68000 code program that I never upgraded to PowerPc code.
Thanks very much! I'm glad you found the channel. I look forward to doing a video on the 8600. One of my favorite Macs. I first saw one at a Mac Users Group when it first came out. I had a mere 6100 at home, so I was amazed at how big and powerful it looked and, I agree, still useful today to access those old files.
These presentations are overall informative and hilarious.
Thanks very much!!
Another great Mac, and another great video. Thank you.
That section with the piano music keep me coming back again and again.
Amazing video. I especially enjoyed the in depth look at the motherboard
Thanks! Good to hear you liked the motherboard overview. That makes it worthwhile cleaning that board up. :)
I had a PowerMac 7500. Loved that machine. This was a great video. Thank-you.
You're welcome, Joel! The 7500 was a great Mac. Thanks for watching.
Man, I love your videos and your sense of humor, immd:)
just stumbled upon your video, not a classic mac guy but still very interesting! also like your video style a lot. great job!
Thank very much! That's high praise from someone who is not really into the machines. I'm glad you found the channel!
Another great vid! Love the comedy!
I really wanted one of those! BTW you have the coolest voice!
That "Hell Yeah!" fist followed by the music was the best part of this.
Glad you enjoyed that bit
I love your sense of humor. "yeah well it's NOT FOR YOU" got me cracking up
Thanks Rob! Good to hear that someone found that funny.
Loving it! Best and funniest retro Apple channel on CZcams!
Great to hear! Thanks for sticking with the channel and watching!
Thanks! Keep it up! Can't wait for the next video P.S. Missed the "Damn" here 2:02 :-)
We need the "Damn!", as a downloadable MP3 warning sound effect for our Macs :-)
Hah! I don't know why I never thought of that!
Yessss new video thank you and I’ve never seen a computer so dirty I feel bad that you had to touch it
Wow what a tune at the end!
Thanks, good episode. I was working for digital equipment corp during this time and used a microVAX as my personal computer. I missed most of the 90s Apple endeavors, I’m a big macOS fan/user and appreciate the history of the going’s on that I missed.
Interesting! I'm glad I could fill you in.
I have fond memories of this era of Mac from when I worked in newspapers in the 90's and 00's. Most of our machines were Quadras and 8100s but there were a couple of 9500s too before the G3 arrived. There were still a couple of Quadras under my desk with ISDN cards in them when I left in 2009. They had been running 24/7 for the best part of 20 years by that time.
Great hearing how these macs were used in their ‘working life’ and how long! Wow!
@@65scribe Yes, the newspaper I worked at (a national daily in the UK) had somewhere in the region of 500 macs on desks at one point. Quadras were the workhorses for many years with the higher powered machines more geared towards heavy lifting in Photoshop. ISDN was heavily used for artwork file transfer from clients for years where I worked in the advertising department. We had seven or eight Macs each with four or eight channel ISDN cards at its peak. This was latterly replaced, first with FTP, then a web based product when people started to get access to fast internet. I helped oversee the rollout of Windows machines in 2005 or 2006 running the Adobe suite of applications which replaced the Macs with Quark.
The most interesting rare Mac I used was probably a Sixty Eight Thousand Inc. Dash 30fx which I used with a drum scanner in the early '90's at a pre-press bureau. This was a modified IIfx in a huge steel tower case.
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I love your editing skills..so subtly funny hahah
Thank you, Chanjai! Good to hear that.
Came for the classic mac info. Stayed for the humor.
Glad you enjoyed the video, Alexander. Thanks for the feedback!
This was a long video but man was it good the whole way through. The bad RAM skit was great.
Thanks! Good to hear you liked the bit about the bad RAM. Hope you liked the Elf Bowling mention, too.
Love these videos... great to watch
Thanks! I’ll hopefully have a new one posted this weekend.
Awesome, I'm looking forward to watching it.
Very informative and entertaining retrospective! You packed more than just a 9500 review in.
Thanks very much. I'm glad you liked it.
Addicted bad to this channel!
Great stuff! You got a huge talent, bravo!
Thank you very much. Good to hear that!
What do you mean! I rock out to the quicktime video like all day!
Recently got an e-waste beige G3 tower and started refurbishing it. Got it to boot after some work, but no display. Tried different fixes for a couple months to no avail. A couple of Saturday nights ago I was relaxing with a nightcap while watching tech videos like I often do (esp with lockdown and all) and decided to rewatch this one. Got to the part about the 9500 booting but showing no display and I was like "wait what?" A couple days later I swapped out the RAM on the beige G3 and, sure enough, display worked.
It's great to hear the video actually helped somebody. I was actually nearly finished making the 9500 video when I finally got it working. I had almost given up on it myself. Thanks for sharing that story.
Fantastic video. You sir are brilliant!
Thanks very much! I’m glad you are enjoying the videos.
These videos are just awesome. I keep coming back to check for new ones. Please feed us :-)
These videos are peak comedy, at least for me.
Thank you very much!
I think in the mid-90s, most consumers just wanted something fast that could connect them to the internet and maybe play a game or two.
When I bought my 6100 in 1994, I wasn't even thinking about internet. It was about high resolution colour, bringing video into the computer, CD-ROM software .. and, yeah, speed and a game or two.
The Internet was really more a late 90s/early 00s thing. The iMac was released in May 1998 and had expressly that purpose. The early/mid 90s was all about "multimedia," which basically meant a computer with a CD drive (and speakers). Games from that era like Myst really played into that. The transition was around 1996-97 or so. You can see a big difference in how Win95 and Win98 were marketed. The latter had a lot of Internet-centric features because that was when the perception of computers changed from "a luxury" to "a necessity."
@@drygnfyre Great summary, Joseph!
3:30 Wise words, companies who make "too much" profit won't do it for a long time. Looking at Apple's website... hmm.
Fantastic F.U. line drop, Mark. Thanks for the reminder of that iconic expression from the original/UK House of Cards.
Enjoyed your videos. I had a 7500 that eventually ended up with a G3 ZIF daughter card. Was a good time to work on graphics and desktop publishing.
Thanks very much. The 7500 was a nice machine and you were able to keep up with the times with the upgrade. Cool.
Very funny and informative, thanks for the video!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the feedback!
You are a funny and informative guy. I like your videos a lot
Thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated!
Facinating stuff as always!
Did applications of this day need to be optimised for two processors to put it to any use?
Yes, but first the Daystar Genesis MP models and the 9500/180MP needed system software installed (jointly developed by Apple and Daystar) to activate a basic form of symmetric multiprocessing. Apple would later integrate it into the OS. The applications also had to be multiprocessor aware. As with Altivec and then the revival of multiprocessing in the G4, Adobe jumped in early to add support for multiprocessors. Multiprocessing didn't have time to catch on, and there were not that many applications supporting it in the end.
The PPC release of BeOS did, which is why I'm insanely jealous that someone found an MP model in the wild. Guess I'll have to slum with my 9500/200. sigh...
You make a good point about the BeOS. The funny thing about that MP is that it sat with an asking price of $90 for many months and finally dropped to $75. A bit of a drive to pick it up, but worth it for the video.
Wonderful explanation of the 7.5.x naming and differences...loved the “you’re confusing me!” :-)
Thanks Joe! Glad to hear I’m not alone in thinking that was funny. :)
I just love you Canadian 🇨🇦 humor 😆
Thank you... and on Canada Day! Nice!
Have a great summer vacation! And DON'T be late for school next year!!!
Good old times. Had a 9500MP back then as my main dtp machine. Together with an adaptec 2940uw I think it was and 2x external 6.4gb LaCie drives. Only about the graphics card I’m not sure. I think it was a radius in that machine. Kept it for working till 99 before I switched to a G3. Lots of memories
Just picked up a 9500/150. Looking forward to cleaning it up and trying it out.
Very cool!
This video should come with an extremem horror warning!
These were all over my college computer lab circa 1999-2000.
Interesting. I'm sure they were all scrapped within a few years :(
Nicely done homage to Dr. Strangelove. And wow that alert sound, I hope you *didn't* get rid of it - encourages you to not make any mistakes that'd trigger the sound hahaa
yes, I love that scene from Dr. Strangelove. It was fun vaguely recreating it. I'm glad to hear you recognized it for what it was. And that alert... When I was looking through the hard drive, it froze, so I did the first thing you do when troubleshooting.. randomly hit keys on the keyboard. But then it kicked back in, and that sound effect played about 25 times. That was a long few minutes...
I was keeping an eye out for a 9500, but eBay thought a beige Power Macintosh G3 tower was close enough, so I got one of those instead.
Yay, a new video!
8:06 that beep scared the sh*t out of me
Awesome vid 👌🏻
I subbed because of his funny humor and cool videos.
Thanks very much! Good to hear that.
Oh, the memories...thanks for the trip back, you have a new subscriber. 22:18 Made In Thailand.....oh if we only knew back then what we know now and paying the price for our greed.
Glad you enjoyed the nostalgia trip and thanks for subscribing!
Your videos are funny as hell!!!
Thanks very much!!
These old beige Macintoshes were still beautiful. Especially compared to the Wintel competition.
I love the part showing the Mac copying and emptying the trash in the 1996 version of MacOS. I promised myself not to mention the Amiga could do that in 1985. I lied.
It’s unfortunate that the popular platforms of choice had little to do with technical merits.
@@65scribe Still true to this day!
great video
I think the main problems for old macs are resumed in: 1. Bad capacitors, 2. Bad RAM, 3. Bad batteries, 4. Exxon Valdezed Hard drives.
I was about to go to bed and then I saw this. Aww yea!