I came here for thrills, not for Feels. RIP Joseph Samuels.

"Can we switch back to digital footage" *changes to 4:3 SD MiniDV footage* "Thank God!" lol

A very entertaining and informative video. Your tribute to the previous owner was very classy.

I found one of these at a thrift shop in the late 90s for $50 with the external floppy drive, perfect working order. I can't believe how much these things go for on EBay nowadays.

love the subtle humor throughout these videos. Never quite know when to expect it and I always laugh

"I still think of OS X as new" yeah I know that feel man

Well here we are, just finished watching all your videos. I think they are the best and most informative retro Macintosh videos on here. Just the right amount of humorous bits (giggled like a child at night), good editing and gotta love the 4:3 ratio - who needs 4k equipment if the content is put together well.

How the f*** do you have so little subs?? You deserve so much more

I keep coming back to this video because I love it. First, the tribute to Joseph Samuels is amazing. Second, the V'ger noise for the problem is amazing.

Great job. Loved the tribute to Mr. Samuels. Also got a great chuckle when AVGN popped up!

The opening ruled, I love how calm and informative your vids are! Your channel is under rated 💯

Very nice that you did the tribute to the previous owner. Also thanks for all of the Mac videos you've done. It quite takes me back and I've enjoyed the trip down memory lane. It also reminded me of how much money I've spent on Macs over the years :-O. Very scary. Thanks again.

I've watched all your Macintosh videos several times. They always bring a smile to my face. The dry humor and silly tangents are a delight. You've got a real gift for wit and personality. You've inspired me to hunt down my own pre-G3 PowerPC Mac and play with it. Thanks for all the laughs!

I must say the MiniDV footage and your soft tone really match vintage computers like this. You definitely deserve more subscribers.

Loving these. Nothing like some classic Mac nostalgia and some deadpan humor over lunch.

This was phenomenal, thank you for helping me dive head first into a pool of nostalgia. One of my first computers was a Macintosh SE, and I love that thing oh so much. Keep up the great work!

The most thing I love is that the fat Mac came with a lot of really interesting documentation! My SE/30 had on its hard disk (that was revived) some "gems" and info of the previous owner, I have been told by the seller that the first ever owner of the machine was a newspaper that went bankrupt in mid 90s and covered the Barcelona 92 olympic games, but not extended physical documentation as yours. Also Rest in Peace, Joseph Samuels.

I love the retro footage of you and your sister playing on the Mac. Very cool.

There is still just something macical about the complete "package" of the original Macintosh. It just feels like something you want to use. The same thing with the iMac G3. They are just so likable.

Regarding the owner of the Mac, Joseph Samuels, I have a VERY similar story with my Commodore 128. I got my 128 after the original owner passed, and in this case did get software and floppies with it, so I actually have a fragment of that guys life, effectively, as a digital archive just sitting on a desk in my room, scattered over about 100 floppy disks. Hell, the thing was, ironically enough, in Saudi Arabia itself for a while, similar to another older Mac you show in another video. Really need to write about it one day in detail...

They had Macintosh computers in my elementary school computer lab in the early 1990s. Most of them were black-and-white, but a couple were color, and everyone went for them as soon as they could get there.

I picked up a variety of these things in different configs over the years. First I got a 128k that was Plus upgraded (complete with a fan hacked into the rear case), then a bone stock 128k unit with bad RAM (had to replace several RAM chips to restore it), then finally a proper 512k. Fun fact: apparently the original demo of the Macintosh used a model with 512k of RAM because 128k wasn't enough to do everything Steve wanted to do on stage, and yet he refused to allow the engineers to build in provisions for easily upgrading the original Mac to 512k. Classic Steve.

Just seen your video. RIP Joseph William Samuels. Beautiful.

Watching you offer the disk upside-down reminds me of an occasion at work in the 80s. I was an import export clerk in Dover Eastern Docks (UK). We had received an IBM XT to complete our customs documents. I was on nights and did not get sent on the training course for some reason. However it took me no time at all to work out how to do customs entries I'll get to the point in just a minute! When I was on days I learnt that the office manager had phoned head office and told them to come collect this piece of junk that didn't work. I was told not to touch the computer as it was going back, I reached over and ejected the floppy disk and pointed out that the disk was in back to front. The assistant manager told me I wasn't supposed to be touching the computer. Well the managing director turned up with the computer engineer. It does not work the manager said, whilst the engineer booted the system. The engineer said, who's this Anthony guy, he seems to have down rather a lot of entries. I was actually embarrassed for working out how to use the new IBM XT without any instructions, the managing director was very pleased and impressed, the office manager, not so much. How did no one notice that whilst I was on nights I managed to clear all the import vehicles and that the C10 forms were clearly out of a dot matrix printer and not a type writer? All this from an upside down disk, great video!

I can't believe you managed to identify the actual original owner of the machine and find his obituary. That's amazing.

I come back every time for that intro music. IDK it’s just good man.

Very enjoyable video, and very nice to include some information about the (very interesting-sounding) original owner. Well done!

Great video man. Loved the dry humor. Subscribed.

You are hilarious man! Love the dry humor! Have watched all of your videos a couple of times, hoping for some new ones soon :) Also surprised you don't have more subs.

I miss how Apple software had the people's names who worked on it, but now it's just the nameless minions at Apple who apparently deserve no individual recognition. Oh, and I remember when MultiFinder was first introduced and it was lovingly referred to as "MultiCrasher."

at least it ended up in good hands

Dear Lord are your videos great. Tons of the info a Mac nerd wants, with some laughs thrown in to boot. I just found your channel a day or two ago and have voraciously watched everything. Cheers!

I have a melted corner like that too. Mine was definitely used by kids for a few years

11:52 I remember an aftermarket addon called the “MacChimney”. It was a little hat with a funnel on top, that you put on top of your Mac to improve the airflow-still purely passive.

The best part of this video is the back and forth between the previous owner and microsoft!

Oh, wow! Just got to the part where you show MasterType. That was one of the programs written by Softweaver (so it says on the startup screen shown), the company I dropped out of college to work for (as lead developer of a VR ALife game for SGI). I knew they did a lot of contract programming of games and apps in the 80s, but didn't know about this one. Funny "You're welcome" joke there! This must be one of the very first Mac releases, as it says on the label that it includes a System with a copyright of 83. I take it, it's self-booting.

Hi that same design could still used today with upgrades!!

This channel and the composition of the videos is underrated.

That music tells my brain we are about to watch a C64 unboxing video. Now up is down.

Great video. They take me back to my first macs.

I had fun watching this. Thanks for the great video.

I like that Tetris box art! It actually uses the Cyrillics correctly, and in fact could be entirely in Cyrillics. T and E look the same as in the Latin alphabet. ТЕТРИС

I stumbled upon your channel close before buying an iMac G3 SL (ironically your iMac SL clip got recommended to me on the KZfaq frontpage) and it kicked off an Apple collecting frenzy with me and a close friend of mine. He has now an LC II with the fitting old Monitor and i will get a partially broken Macintosh SE 1/20 soon. Also I have now multiple Power Mac G3 and G4 aswell as an eMac. It may have gotten a bit out of hand, but its lots of fun tinkering around with classic Mac OS and early OS X and having a close look at what the other half was onto in those times. Sort of ironic that most of my machines now are close to my personal age, the iMac SL is just one year younger than me.... By now I think I have watched every clip of your channel at least twice. Thanks for your outstanding work on covering those classic Apple machines. Keep it up! Greetings from Düsseldorf, Germany. ;-)

love your videos , i have worked on the mac platform 40 plus hours a week since 1991. system 6.0.8 to current. i like to see the "lost" macs of yesteryear . remembering upgrading to system 7.5 ...

Wow, brings back memories of my engineering design courses at Drexel University in the late eighties :)

The first time I saw dark castle I was blown away. The little man moved like a real man. I was used to c64 sprites.

that "d-dude!" always gets me

8:52 Don’t forget also the screen and audio buffers occupied main RAM as well (about 22K total). With all these and OS overheads, apparently there was only something like 80K free for regular application use on the original 128K Mac.

Just bought a Macintosh 512k. I recommend getting it, even if you don’t use it.

First mac I ever could afford to buy, and that was in 1991. Mine was a 512kE model with the 800k drive. I played tons of games and typed a lot of high school papers on tHat sucker and printed it all out on my ImageWriter I.

Hilarious! Love the 80s intro and the music interludes (esp Fat Mac)! BTW, the CoCo 2 was out before the Mac, in 83, and had a 64KB option. Even the later CoCo 1s from prior to 83 had a 64KB option.

Lovely video. Thank you

16:56 When the 512K Mac first came out, some people wondered how they would use all that RAM. Andy Hertzfeld released his “Switcher” program in 1985, which was a system hack that let you load up multiple apps at once and switch between them. You could only see one of them on your screen at once. In around 1986/1987, he came up with a new hack called “Servant”, which let apps from multiple windows appear on-screen at once, so you could just click on a window to bring it to the front in the usual way, instead of having a special application-switching icon as with Switcher. Apple bought up the rights to this, and used this as the basis for the project code-named “Juggler”, later officially released as “MultiFinder”.

Outstanding video again.

How good is that intro tune, screen etc... that should be the standard!

Microsoft Word and Excel were probably the killer apps on this machine. Before this doing any kind of word processing or spread sheet work was extremely clunky. The Mac GUI for these apps was a paradigm shift in how people viewed what you could do with a computer. I remember being in 7th grade learning a word processor on a Tandy TRS80. There were tons of keyboard commands that were required for doing simple things as inserting a paragraph mark, copying, pasting, etc. There was no concept of WYSIWYG, so no fancy fonts or styles. The Mac seemed like something from the future compared to what we had before.

Very good video. Kind of crazy how limited the 128K Mac was. For the price, I'm surprised there wasn't a class action lawsuit. KZfaqr Adrian's Digital Basement just finished a repair series on some classic Macs.

6:25 Marks such as that could be caused by having been stored with a cable made of PVC. The chemicals in cables that make PVC soft can _eat_ ABS plastic. For this reason, the cables in your vintage computer collection should preferably be unplugged, and if not: stored wrapped in plastic bags, paper tubes or whatever you have.

As always video is awesome :)

So cool, the computer that brought us the GUI:-)

Loved my 512K

Loved it. Specially the tribute to the original owner ;-)

Apparently the Mac that Steve Jobs unveiled was actually a 512K model as it needed the memory to run the demos .. even though it hadn't been announced at the time.

With how ocd Steve Jobs can be, it strikes me as weird that the external drive (shown at 23:04 ) didn't have the slot centered.

Great video! I really like your calm narration and the funny bits. A little suggestion: you should normalize the audio levels, I feel that the audio is a bit too low volume

INSANELY good find for a thrift store discovery! I wonder if an older version of Yellow Dog Linux could be finagled to run on it?

The game's laugh sounded evil!

I bought a 128k Mac in February 1984. I got the official 512k upgrade in 1985 and a third party upgrade to add a SCSI port (which fit into the backup battery door somehow) and finally getting the official upgrade to a 1MB Mac Plus. I ended up with a not-very-reliable $4800 Mac Plus. I sold it to a colleague who later reported that it died after spewing smoke.

Great video!

Coming back to this video, it's so W H O L E S O M E

Love the *Stunt Copter* cameo.

This may be your most Canadian video. Just needed a box of Timbits off to the side.

I wish I could find one at a charity shop in the UK for $50?! A really informative and fun video, thank you.

Bought a 128K Mac back in the day - I was scammed by Steve Jobs - it was not really a practical computer for doing anything. I removed the 128K and put in 512K to turn it into a 512K Mac, then it became a usable computer (well, I added a harddrive too).

Fascinating and hilarious, as ever.

OMG I totally had one of the Apple Mouse holders for the side of my Macintosh SE.

vid is a nice piece of research, I found it interesting.

I remember the kids who had officers as parents (Fort Bragg, NC), had either the 128k Mac or the 512k Mac. Us enlisted kids had Commodore 64's or Apple ]['s. So even the kids on military bases had ranks. But we showed our ranks by how advanced our electronics was. Computer hardware was a big deal in the mid 1980's.

Prices for Apple products were even crazier back in the 80s. My parents bought me a IIe in 1985. They could have saved some serious money by getting me an Atari or Commodore machine. I really didn't need the Apple. But none of us had any clue about any of this stuff as my parents were immigrants with limited language skills at that point.

French school of the time has ask SJ for a 256 k mac instead of the 128k version to be built. SJ refused and the deal was abandon at the time (contract goes to Thomson for a 8 bit computer). He was so stunborn....

"Soldered to the motherboard" that was funny

The first usable Mac. Thought the 128K was originally supposed to have 256 or 512K, but RAM prices steeply increased?

Nice work. Subscribed. 😎 The screen footage looks terrific. Just curious, was it done in something like Mini Vmac on a modern Mac and then composited into the image of the screen area of the monitor?

Now the Commod… Macintosh 512k videotape training, with 65scribe!

Interesting you added Dark Castle, the only way to play was on mac by configuring to point the stones with the mouse and move the guy with the keyboard.

25:36 With HFS, those folders became _real_ folders. This meant you could have a file with the same name in two different folders, which you couldn’t before. There was a subtle little indicator in folder windows on HFS volumes. You know that double-line separator between the header summary line and the folder contents? There was an extra little dot at the left-hand end of the gap between those lines, which was absent on the older MFS volumes.

I have 2 external 400k drives, which are both stuck. I'm about to pick up another 512k with yet another external 400k diskdrive. Lets see if that one is stuck too

Did you ever get Joseph's 512K to work? I just removed and re-capped the mainboard and analog board from an SE, it was pretty easy.

My computer lab in 1991 high school used only these things. Already outdated, B/W, one button mouse. My irrational mac hated started that year

I like your's sense of humor, and what is weird your voice sounds like VWestlife. One of the kind no longer i guess. Recently he haven't released any new videos that somehow guided me up watching Macintosh 4400 video. I just imagine that he is your brother :)

The members of Project Mayhem began to chant, "HIS NAME IS JOSEPH SAMUELS! HIS NAME IS JOSEPH SAMUELS! HIS NAME IS JOSEPH SAMUELS!" And then Tyler Durden smiled…

these things make GREAT skeet targets. I picked up like 5 or 6 of them from a local computer recycling place and had a ball winging them up into the air and blasting them to bits

19:24 cool to have footage from then!

God this video is hilarious. *I* was an 80's male teenager who made band logos that looked just like that! Why did I do that? I'm not even a graphics designer, nor have I ever had any interest in graphics design beyond making those logos.

That 80s opening was the one used by Jim Butterfield on his C64 demo. How'd you get a clean version? And yes, great video sir!

27:29 I think you could only choose alert sounds on the Mac II. This was because it had the new Sound Manager. This was not retrofitted to older Macs until System 6.

Can you make the video about bringing games over to the 512k

Can someone make a compilation with every “wah wah” joke in these videos? That would be funny. Also, rest easy Joseph.

So, the 400k drives are manual inject and the auto inject came from the 800k drives?

How did you get such nice screen videos?