Retro Tech: Apple eMate 300

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7 жыл бұрын

Apple is well-known for its PowerBook series of laptops from the 1990s. But there was one portable computer the company made that had far-reaching effects -- and it wasn't even a Mac.
Shout-out and thanks to Clint from Lazy Game Reviews ( / lazygamereviews ) for his help with this episode!
Media shown in order of appearance:
Newton MessagePad 130: www.extremetech.com/wp-conten...
"An Early Look at the Apple eMate 300": • Video
Apple eMate press release: web.archive.org/web/199812050...
"eMate 300 Quick Fact Sheet": msu.edu/~luckie/gallery/emate...
"Cops take a byte out of crime," Computerworld, October 27, 1997.
Macworld Boston 1997 footage: • Macworld Boston 1997-T...
"Apple reports wider losses," CNN Money, October 15, 1997.
Apple Infinite Loop campus photo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Steve Jobs email to Adam Tow: msu.edu/~luckie/jobslet.htm
Apple special event 1998 footage: • Video
iMac image: www.stevesonian.com/museum/des...
Power Mac G3 image: s.appleinsider.ru/2011/04/powe...
iBook image: cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/up...
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Intro music by BoxCat Games (www.box-cat.com).

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@earljanneofalla5768 7 жыл бұрын

I was surprised to hear Clint's voice, but the video actually feels like an LGR video before Clint's voice came in. Glad that you two worked on this video together

@Karmy. 7 жыл бұрын

Earljanne Ofalla ya

@santiagoezekiel8268 3 жыл бұрын

instablaster

@jace888au 2 жыл бұрын

Thought I recognised that voice!

@ReginaTrans_ Жыл бұрын

I started laughing lol

@thaxish 7 жыл бұрын

I bought one of these in 1997 through my College bookstore. Battery life was in the days of use and worked great for all the papers and labs. It's still in a box in the basement. Such nostalgia, I loved the Newton.

@nikkibruises Жыл бұрын

Hi! Would you be willing to sell your eMate? 🙏🏻❤️🥹

@EdgeRatedR007 7 жыл бұрын

A wild Clint appears!

@sakadabara 7 жыл бұрын

Z In Chains , did you said "a wild clit ?"

@truecrimepodcasting 5 жыл бұрын

It’s almost as though he was the producer of the video...

@adamwishneusky 4 жыл бұрын

Greetings and welcome to a not-LGR thing

@adenanthony5257 7 жыл бұрын

I believe Clint narrated part of this?

@starwars551 7 жыл бұрын

Yep

@GdziOllo 7 жыл бұрын

LGR inside! ;)

@LazyScoutJace 7 жыл бұрын

Aden Anthony I thought it was Duke Nukem...

@mvShooting 7 жыл бұрын

I instantly recognised his voice.

@caffeinepizza 7 жыл бұрын

Instantly recognized his voice.

@benkerby4827 7 жыл бұрын

I never knew Steve Jobs sounded like Clint from LGR... heh

@realvivifromloona 7 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! I KNEW I RECOGNIZED THAT VOICE!

@TomasGregovich 7 жыл бұрын

A wild LGR appears!

@avisualnovel2490 3 жыл бұрын

I had one of these when I was in elementary school. I used the beam feature to create a list of observations I had about my classmates. It was promptly perverted into a gossip mill tabloid equivalent over the course of the week. Drama ensued but my role as the creator was never officially revealed. It was also used for gaming (the TI-calculators replaced that role later on).

@willspost 5 жыл бұрын

Lots more interesting bits to cover here. The filesystem was a database, the programing tools which required a Mac (a la iOS), the handwriting recognition, even Apples relationship with ARM (selling its stake after being a founding partner).

@markusTegelane 7 жыл бұрын

I like how intro shows this laptop

@borrellipatrick 7 жыл бұрын

Lazy Game Reviews!! 🤓

@nojbik 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I heard him too...

@JyuzouNT 7 жыл бұрын

Woah... It's the keyboard from the intro.

@corbinbender5122 7 жыл бұрын

I thought it was just me who thought that!

@skidmarx8905 7 жыл бұрын

Well your dead wrong sonny.

@alextirrellRI 5 жыл бұрын

One of the best product ideas they probably shouldn't have abandoned. My dad was an Apple authorized education sales provider and he had all the marketing stuff on it. I remember watching a VHS tape about this and its intended use and being very jealous of not having one. I know my dad did have one around at one point but I don't remember spending much time on it.

@joshuaberkley5219 7 жыл бұрын

Your and Clint's narration is so relaxing and easy to listen to. Great video!

@Hyvelez 7 жыл бұрын

I love how your videos have that storytelling feel to them.

@pokepress 7 жыл бұрын

I remember wanting one of these. Looking back, it really does look like a proto-iBook/iMac.

@RuinerXL 7 жыл бұрын

Love the collaboration with LGR! Noticed you sent Clint a POS terminal keyboard that he showcased in a recent unboxing video. Cool stuff!

@likenem 7 жыл бұрын

On Apple's idea for the e-mate to educate children, In 2002 A couple of Schools in Metro Detroit introduced an idea to give an entire class of middle school students Laptops for school work. My school, Malcolm X Academy in Detroit, was the only school to revive Apple computers. Sixty 6th Grade students were given I book G3s, the computer lab was filled with E macs and I macs. Two Years later the programed was deemed a success. The 60 students who were given mac books were allowed to keep them. While the program was expanded to include the 7th and 6th grade classes. They were given I book G4's. Even though Malcolm X academy was in a pretty run down Detroit Neighborhood, none of the computers were stolen. Everyone deserves access to a great education no matter the income level.

@rohitdoestech 7 жыл бұрын

+likenem That must have been cool at the time.

@ringtailedfox 6 жыл бұрын

I remember watching the news reports on that on WXYZ Channel 7. Thought it was one of the best ideas Detroit Public Schools came up with.

@palemacaroon4836 6 жыл бұрын

I wish my school across the border in Windsor gave us laptops to use.

@milkapeismilky5464 3 жыл бұрын

My GF had one of these freshman year! She got it from the ed dept and never returned it! Form factor was dope and any lappy was a big deal in 99. Nice video, thank you!!!

@Redspl 7 жыл бұрын

Didn't expect Clint on your channel :D Great video!

@WillKeaton 4 жыл бұрын

My dad, who was in computer sales, specifically selling computers to schools, brought home an eMate one day. My little brother absolutely loved it. Didn't have an orange stylus though. This stylus matched the rest of the computer. Although our eMate may have been a prototype.

@maxyshoutube6799 7 ай бұрын

Yep, I have an eMate and it has a green stylus. I think it’s not an original one in the video.

@Ingvehetland 7 жыл бұрын

beautiful B-roll, music, audio and presentation, most likely will subscribe. keep going :)

@KaienSander10Official 7 жыл бұрын

Great video as always! Keep it up! :-)

@KrunchyTheClown78 7 жыл бұрын

Good god your videos are so good man!

@XeonProductions 4 жыл бұрын

We had these in elementary school, although they were vastly underutilized. The only thing we used them for was typing up documents because there weren't enough Mac's to go around. The teacher would have us type up whatever we were working on, then use that expansion port and hook it up to the mac when we were ready to print.

@leisergeist 7 жыл бұрын

huh, how haven't I found this channel before! Brilliant

@JenniferEliseAtchiso 7 жыл бұрын

I was an Apple certified tech at a school district that gave emates to every student for school use. Even after all this time, I still own two of them. I loved them! They had a tripod socket on the bottom making it very easy to take into the field for science experiments. And 3rd party peripherals were available for measuring voltage, temperature, and light levels. The entire school district was on appletalk networks, and statistically speaking, everything worked beautifully.

@9852323 3 жыл бұрын

Back when I was in high school I had a teacher that gave me tons of these powermac g3/g4 and clamshell g3 laptops and imac g3s. He had a deal with the schools to get all there old computers. I wish I hadn’t gotten rid off all that. Back in 2010.

@o0julek0o 7 жыл бұрын

Ayyyyyyyyy nice to hear Clint.

@NugrohoPangestu08122002 7 жыл бұрын

awesome editing m8!

@streusel2776 3 жыл бұрын

Deep in my 27 year old memory, probably when I was 4 or 5, I remember a dark green laptop in school. This was it!

@kasimirdenhertog3516 2 жыл бұрын

I liked the whole look and feel of it in 1997, and I have to admit I still do. It’s a really basic, focused, rugged sort of device. The sending and receiving at the touch of a button, turning on the backlight, all seems cool still!

@TastySnax12 7 жыл бұрын

Our favorite Duke Nukem impersonator Clint returns!

@StevenEveral 7 жыл бұрын

I remember the middle school that I went to had a bunch of these things, and from what I can remember, they did work pretty well, especially the wireless transmitting bit. The keyboard was ok, as well.

@Zizzily 7 жыл бұрын

I've seen these online before, though I've not seen one personally. They remind me of the more successful AlphaSmart products, especially the Dana because it ran Palm OS. I actually remember using those in elementary school, though even when I was a kid and using them, they seemed more like a gimmick than something really useful. Also, I'm a smiple person, so even though I was already giving this video a thumbs-up, hearing Clint from LGR makes me want to give it multiple thumbs-up. (Thumbses-up? Thumbs-ups?)

@JacobCanote Жыл бұрын

Had one. Loved it. Wrote a bunch of programs.

@onigvd77 3 жыл бұрын

i got one of these babies second hand, initially i found it useful for taking notes when i went back to study after 4 years of work. after a while i got bit by the dreaded cable pinch issue m, mange’s you fix it, but it wasn’t the same since. i upgraded the storage and fixed the battery pack too. i could beam to the printer if i had the correct driver which was pretty nifty, such a versatile device.

@mistie710 3 жыл бұрын

I actually tried one of these as part of a Xemplar demo at my local Tesco. As an Acorn user (that's where the ARM originally came from), I had already heard about the eMate so getting my hands on one was certainly interesting.

@marc6340 7 жыл бұрын

I have a couple Emates in my collection. They are surprising sturdily built and I always thought it (the case) would have made a great laptop. The software was very cool and fun to use as well! You could even play MP3 files on it!

@stevew8513 7 жыл бұрын

I thought the eMate 300 did make it to market for about three months before the axe fell. My best friend bought one when they came out. I borrowed it from him and fooled around with it for a while, downloading old Newton games and programs from various online collections and transferring them across the serial port.

@a1white 2 жыл бұрын

An Apple ARM laptop in 1997. So ahead of its time! With an iPad like stylus too. What a shame Apple didn’t have the funds to keep this going. Looks like such a well designed and clever device for its time.

@johneygd 7 жыл бұрын

I didn't knew the emate had even a touch screen builtin, it really was ahead of it's time.

@themacintoshnerd 4 жыл бұрын

The whole comments section is just "Is that LGR!?"

@ibuprofenPill 2 жыл бұрын

I just traded one of my Power Computing clones for a functioning eMate. It needs the battery pack rebuilt, but that's fairly easy. So glad to have it. Makes a nice addition to my collection.

@flyingninja1234 7 жыл бұрын

Ahh, translucent tech of the 90s! I love it.

@mendyc158 7 жыл бұрын

Clintttt LGR!! Lol that was pretty awesome

@MrAllister88 3 жыл бұрын

Due to dyspraxia, I had one of these bad boys at school. Good memories - thanks for uploading.

@spoooderminlovesdolantrump4635 6 жыл бұрын

My middle school was still using these in 2006. We did daily journal entries

@ClaudioGomboli 3 жыл бұрын

In 2006, wow!

@sepu_ 7 жыл бұрын

suddenly, a Clint cameo. Neat!

@MrTedclayton 7 жыл бұрын

great video

@thenecroscope98 6 ай бұрын

I recently bought an Emate 300 off ebay and I really love it! I'm using it to log my FunkoPop purchases and it is so fun to use!!

@snorlaxi5620 6 жыл бұрын

wooo lets go clint!

@animefreak2346 6 жыл бұрын

I'm probably too late to say this, but this looks similar to the Alphasmart line of devices, particularly the Dana, which was essentially the PalmOS version of this in the early 00s. Alphasmart was a company started by some Apple engineers for schools in the early 90s, and their stuff is wonderful, especially for writers. Check it out, if you're interested. On another note, love your vids!

@The905Studios 3 жыл бұрын

This is a rare Apple device ID not heard of. Neat.

@matthewnielsen2549 7 жыл бұрын

I remember that Taco Bell was running a contest tie-in for the (then) current Batman movie. One of the prizes was **drumroll** an eMate 300! The funny thing was, the contest began *AFTER* the entire Newton/eMate line was canned. It must have made sense at the time.

@ToddKonicek 6 жыл бұрын

thank you for a shout out to Clint at LGR

@nitrohite 7 жыл бұрын

OMG this was part of the intro video!

@Tyler-gv6zf 7 жыл бұрын

I'm proud to see some local Minnesota talent ☺️

@LazyBunnyKiera 7 жыл бұрын

I always wanted to modern-retro-mod one of these eMate 300s. Where i take a non-working unit, gut it, and replace the guts with modern hardware, a modern LCD, etc etc. Like a LattePanda + a little IPS display.

@PrinzMidas Жыл бұрын

Very interesting!

@alphathewolf 7 жыл бұрын

i remember using using an apple e-mate in high school

@agenttexx 2 жыл бұрын

My stepdaughter had one from her school in 2002-2003ish. They used them for writing assignments but didn't use them much that year. She usually left hers in her room and I had to run it to her class a few times. Eventually, they stopped using them and she took it back to school.

@RisingRevengeance 7 жыл бұрын

I love see through stuff, it's a shame we don't see it with tech nowadays.

@chdreturns Жыл бұрын

Its coming back with computer cases now.

@pedrodorantes3527 7 жыл бұрын

This video made me want to go to goodwill and search for one of these 😂

@bowzert 7 жыл бұрын

That screen is so BEAUTIFUL!!! I want that screen for my electronic projects!

@eddyafritz 7 жыл бұрын

i remember the emate in elementary school in vallejo.

@95blahblahhaha 4 жыл бұрын

I heard LGR's voice and I knew this channel was legit. Had to hit subscribe

@trocitosdefresa 7 жыл бұрын

Finally they intro of the channel is revealed :)

@adriankorczak6098 7 жыл бұрын

Cool video

@iamrishio 5 жыл бұрын

Where’s the eMate version of the iPad, especially for schools?

@Kevindodson14 7 жыл бұрын

We used these in my elementary school and they were cool but I remember them being awfully slow especially when transferring over ir

@yanguYT 3 жыл бұрын

This eMate was the future of Apple computers

@Mooncalf2012 5 жыл бұрын

I wish someone would make an E-Paper mod for the display. The E-Mate was a concept way ahead of it's time...

@metabolicraged 4 жыл бұрын

I used one of these in school when I was in 3rd 4th grade in the late 90s/early 2000s

@dave4shmups 7 жыл бұрын

Excellent video on this Apple product! I definitely like the simple word processor on it. I like both Apple and Microsoft, but I find the current versions of Excel and Word to be really bloated.

@spidermcgavenport8767 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome reminds me of a gateway solo 1150cl.

@Brian_Buckley 7 жыл бұрын

HA! CLINT!!! "GREEEEETINGSSSSS!"

@Snicketbar 7 жыл бұрын

I have one of those. Still, have the original box even. IWhat do you think it's worth?

@danielmandujano3206 3 жыл бұрын

Can you do a battery replacement video a lot of emate batteries have been dying because of its age

@MrGhostOg Жыл бұрын

We actually used these in my middle school I believe the first year but technology was changing so much yearly back then that they lasted 2 years before I’m sure we switched to windows machines but I can’t remember exactly

@JamesR624 7 жыл бұрын

4:08. It seems that bright future was long term. It turned into what we'd know as the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.

@AbaseenPodcast 3 жыл бұрын

A mention of the funky ibook laptop would not have been out of place here as well. Cheers.

@Kimdongmin 7 жыл бұрын

You have really decent contents. Follow!

@Frank_42 8 ай бұрын

Will a standard 🎉7.5 v 1a charger work?

@timspur7203 5 жыл бұрын

Are they worth anything?I found one in the trash missing the powercord.

@hyzenthlay7151 7 жыл бұрын

So we get to see what it is you turn on during the first note of your intro song :D

@KrazyVideoChick 3 жыл бұрын

LGR! What a nice surprise

@hrblocked 7 жыл бұрын

I used these in school. I have been trying to remember what they were called.

@BillRey 2 жыл бұрын

Correction: Jobs did not return in July 1997 as CEO. At that time he was simply an advisor. Only later, on September 16, 1997, Apple officially announced Jobs as its interim CEO.

@pentagen 7 жыл бұрын

The eMate 300 was sold to consumers. Toward the end of Newton's life, eMates were available for purchase at the Apple online store and Apple authorized resellers like CompUSA, CDW and MacMall.

@ThisDoesNotCompute 7 жыл бұрын

That's actually something I got a lot of conflicting information on. I never found references to them being sold in retail stores, but I did find a press release about Apple planning to offer them directly through mail order. But I also never found anything confirming that those mail-order sales actually happened, just that they were planned. 1997 and early 1998 were seemingly an absolute whirlwind for Apple and especially Newton, and it appears that plans changed very frequently.

@AaronRedding 7 жыл бұрын

My dad has one ... he absolutely loves the whole newton line of products its kind of weird that he loves them so much but hated palm and magic hat so much

@JenniferEliseAtchiso 7 жыл бұрын

Aaron Redding I too am a big newton fan... that is where the idea of a personal assistant came from... without the pioneering work of the newton, there would be no cell phones with other apps on them... newton was, for a while, one of the most powerful computing devices you could buy as a regular consumer... high speed ARM processor with artificial intellegence!