👋Thanks for giving me the opportunity to fix up this Mac! I'm so glad it's a happy Mac once again. I look forward to seeing what you do with it next! 👍

@paulmuaddib451

Жыл бұрын

The man, the myth, the legend! Love your content as well, sir, thank you for the entertainment and education these past few years.

@jaws10278

Жыл бұрын

@Mac84 whats the trick to replace the batteries in the battery pack? Ive been reading that you cant run these computers without the battery back.

@rezafouladian6817

Жыл бұрын

@@jaws10278 You can find a slim 6V SLA battery that will fit in the original pack, or 3D print a case. I personally use more modern 6V LiFePO4 batteries in mine.

@devaniehowarth7156

Жыл бұрын

Stop beatbox

@Xe4ro

11 ай бұрын

I have an old Power Macintosh 8100 & Power Mac G4 from my dad that I might be trying to revive as I grew up with those machines. I might have to check out your content :D

My signature is one of those in the bottom case as I was the chief software engineer on the Portable. Among other responsibilities on the project, I wrote the ROM code, the Power Manager embedded micro code, and the code for the keyboard controller. As one of the primary team members I received (and still have) a clear plastic Portable.

@Blindtechnician

Жыл бұрын

Heads up, the first reply that’s trying to give you a gift is a scam. But that’s awesome! About the Mac portable of course.

@vmhanlon

Жыл бұрын

@@Blindtechnician Yep. Didn't bite. Thanks.

@Blindtechnician

Жыл бұрын

@@vmhanlon nice, I reported the account just to be safe so hopefully that gets taken care of.

@jesper99

Жыл бұрын

So interesting! Is there any way you could make a short video of the clear case portable?

@vmhanlon

Жыл бұрын

@@jesper99 I could do that. Unfortunately it doesn't work, but I could at least show it off. It will be a few days before I can get to it.

Can we appreciate the absolute JAM of a beat the Macintosh Portable layed down the first time Luke tried to start it at 1:19 ?

@TheGlitchyMario

Жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly.

@definitelyaraven

Жыл бұрын

What a banger

@jonathanharvey2156

Жыл бұрын

YES!!! Gonna sample it!

@charliesretrocomputing

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathanharvey2156 “the old Mac beat” 😂😂

@jonathanharvey2156

Жыл бұрын

@@charliesretrocomputing I’ll use that, thanks!

Once again you show why you are the best MAC resource out there - not a breathy hyperbolic clown like many who coo and giggle over every rumor - and you are a class act with vintage hardware as well. Keep up the great work!

I'm glad you took the hint from me and many others to contact Steve! I'm glad you're rediscovering the Geekiness of Vintage Macs!👍

Luke, I am so happy you are doing a video on the Mac Portable! I can't believe your original hard drive is working, as the Connor units in these actually fail quite frequently. I also have a Mac Portable, and I'm planning on converting it to flash storage with BlueSCSI. Keep up the amazing work!

Thanks to Steve for helping you out, Luke. I think the Mac Portable just might be the peak of the Snow White era of Apple design, even at about 16 pounds for a "laptop". It's a bit nuts how easy it was to disassemble, given the possible fragility of 30+ year old plastic.

Really enjoyed that Luke MORE VINTAGE APPLE STUFF PLEASE.

Before you said it I was thinking to myself, "this is a perfect video", including the sponsor integration. I've been watching yours and Mac84's channel for a while so it was great to see you both together. Saw his short, glad you escaped.

Hmmm, SCSI, haven't heard that since I used my Apple Laserwriter 16/600 PS. I even had an extra paper 'whatzit' under the whole printer that allowed me to print a whole ream of stuff !!! Best laser printer I've ever had. Cheers Luke, good to go back to those great "Apple" days. 😉🙃🙂😊

so glad you found Steve's channel, he's one of the good guys :-) watch the video where he has his dad on, it's well worth it

At work, I saw one of our in-house consultants using one of these and I was interested enough, he showed me what he had learned so far. He said he was testing it to see if it could be useful to us. A few months later our purchasing department went all Mac so they could easily share files and a laser printer over an AppleTalk network.

That man is a big leaguer , that beautiful machine came alive!!! :) great collaboration Luke.

I like this retro angle you've been taking lately

Nice to see Steve on the channel! I tried recapping a Mac Portable a while back and was somewhat less successful, although I wonder now if my hybrid module might also be part of the problem.

@Mac84

Жыл бұрын

I feel your pain! Mac Portables are beasts to get going, if your system boots (but complains of the battery power) it may be the hybrid module. There are a few threads online that help diagnose it. The traces and vias are very problematic on these systems, so that's also another thing working against you.

1:20 the Macintosh potable making a beat🔥🔥

Awesome Luke! I love that you are collaborating with people who tinker with old tech/vintage macs. I loved this video, its great to go on a journey with you in the time machine and see how older tech can sometimes still have life and (function?) Keep it up hardly anyone else is doing this. I wish everyone well!

Steve is a miracle worker! He's repaired a board or two for me. Glad to have him as a friend!

Love the surge in vintage mac content

The crossover we didn’t know we needed until we got it! Great video

I've met Steve once, he's a really nice guy and great to talk about Macs with 🙂

Another point - they used a PP9 9V battery as a clock/pram backup. If you removed the main lead acid battery it would try to start up from that PP9 battery - that's why you see the blinking screen at the start of this video...

The really amazing thing about this Portable is that they somehow fit all its innards into the PowerBook 100! (miniaturized of course)

Great video! Also, I'm so proud of my boy Steve!

@Mac84

Жыл бұрын

😍

What a brilliant machine, I have always loved these early "portables". I had an Amstrad PPC640 back in the day, hours and hours of fun even with it's non backlit monochrome LCD, wish I still had it.

Love your new "retro" videos! I am also into retro computing, IBM PS/2 s and running OS/2. Keep all the old tech alive and well.

The first “true” laptops from Apple were PowerBook 100, 140, and 170. The PB 100 was a miniaturized version of that Mac Portable. Apple outsourced the technical redesign work to Sony, and the result is quite compact and elegant. It has the keyboard forward, pointing device (small trackball) in the middle between palm rest area. These first PB models were the first laptops with this now “obvious” layout, another Apple innovation. It didn’t have a built-in floppy drive (came with external floppy drive), making it noticeably thinner and lighter than its larger more powerful brothers. I used one (to do actual work), my first laptop! Maybe PowerBook 100 can be your next vintage project.

I love the retro stuff. Luke is now working on stuff older than he is, probably. Time to get that soldering iron and another trip to Akihabara to buy the electronics parts he needs!!!!

I must be vintage to as I remember using one of these in 1990. We had one in the office in Paris and I had to lug it home on the metro when there was going to be a strike. It was amazing to be able to work on a computer at home and not have to join the 30km traffic jams caused by frequent metro strikes. It was definitely a luggable rather than a portable but a great piece of tech for the time.

"No. No. No!" Don't eat the PCB! That was my favorite part. Also, Steve's a wizard.

Those were really great at the time. Very heavy to tote around but so were the few other Laptops around. I sold a few in the day for a cool $9K, which, for $6K - $7K you could get a DOS running desktop with a green or amber display and WordPerfect & Lotus. Let’s just say I worked with more Mac users then PC users.

Love the vintage Mac content! Keep it up!

Luke be producing news level videos at this pint

So much joy seeing this little guy come back to life fully functional! Steve is a true hero

@Mac84

Жыл бұрын

🙂

@Mac84

Жыл бұрын

🙂I do love saving vintage Macs!

Great video and love the new direction with the vintage mac's theme! By the way, please use your normal mic in the studio. The Anker ones are okay, but there's a clear difference in quality and your normal one is much clearer.

I knew it, apple used to do nice devices, great job! I love to do that but I haven't got the gear to go that deep! well done mate! this is a dream place!!!

I actually owned this back in the mid-nineties. It was quite fun for an overweight "portable" (I called it a "socket buster" as in it would bust your elbow socket if carried long enough).

The legendary Steve doing his thing. Nicely done on both sides.

You will need the backlight model, glad this one was recapped. When dealing with 90's apple, you must recap them before powering them on.

Wow man, this video really pushes the boundaries... Of ad length.

You're absolutely killing it lately such a fantastic mix of content viariance I hope your metrics reflect that

everyone in this video comes across as so genuinely passionate, its really great to see.

What a hero you are Luke (and Steve of course). I hardly understood anything of what you did but it was hugely entertaining and nostalgic. If you do make the video you mentioned at the end, how about carrying out one of its minor involved tasks, eg writing a script or bulleted to do list, on the portable? Thank you!

1:19 Fun Fact, that sound is the sad Mac chime repeatedly occurring

When I was an Apple employee in the late 80s, I used to have one of these. And they were tough. Big but tough.

The flip capable between track ball and keyboard is an amazing idea. As a “lefty” who has always used the mouse with the left hand, can REALLY appreciate the thought process… ❤ Nice job Steve! 😊

@JordanOrlando

Жыл бұрын

Steve was gone - fired; at NeXT. This was a Sculley project through and through.

@IkarusKommt

Жыл бұрын

The problem is that no one ever changed the trackpad position, but everyone had to pay for an extra connector on the keyboard module. Typical apple.

Don’t you love it when these old Apple products hold up after all this time? Wow. Very good condition on this!

I've got one of these but have not been able to get it running... had the logic board recapped, made a retro-fit battery, but nothing... I want to get it up and running. I'll probably end up shipping it to someone to repair it for me who knows more about them than I do!

This video was REALLY cool. I’m learning so much from these new vintage Mac videos! Keep going!

@pafawag5b6b5b

Жыл бұрын

if you want to learn more about them i recommend you watch steve's channel or action retro

Maybe you can use a port on the back of the computer, and pass it to another computer that can be picked up by OBS. Kind of like a capture card.

13:57 Luke: NO NO! The other guy: MMMMMMM!

Not sure if you’re interested, but I have a working 5126 backlit portable that I have gone through and recapped. Works great. Nice video btw, Steve does great work!!

@Mac84

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙂 Aren't the backlight models great? I still have to get mine up and running

bro u got that cursor at the sponsor segment at 3:09 I thought it was mine lol

We had several Mac Portables in the early 90s. We had a saying the only place the Mac Portable was portable was in space 🙂. Great video!!!

@lukemiani_7

Жыл бұрын

!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! inbox me to claim prize 🎁

Steve seems like a good guy!

One of the only times ive seen a youtuber go above and beyond to show off a useful sponsored product, and one of the only times ive been convinced to take a look at said sponsored item

That was so awesome to watch the repair. Brought me back to good ol technical skills. Love it

Thats in really good condition!

Short personal story. Many years ago I had a Mac Portable I was carrying across the country in my job. I got this idea to write a book and while flying from the UK to Florida, I spent that entire creating a detailed outline that later became my second book, “INSIDE MicroStation”. During that long trip home, the Mac Portable was running the entire time on it’s battery. When we landed I think it had about 10% left. Unfortunately, I sold that Mac way back when. Thirty some years later and more than 60,000 books sold (and recently retired) I need to find a repairable portable given how important it was to the success of my career. Hopefully I’ll get lucky on that.

First used one in 1990 and my dad let me take it in to school so I could show my computer studies class. For five minutes I was the coolest kid in school!

Fun video! Definitely hope to see more vintage Mac videos from you in the future. Just curious, how tall are you?

That was awesome! Looking forward to the retrospective.

loved the "just be careful with the plastic" yea old brittle plastic is the actual Devil hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I love Anker.. been the best cables and bricks ever. Solved all my issues.

Great host system to have in your collection. Might think about just using it from time to time if for nothing else to use it to create a text document.

One of the modular features of these was the trackball can be replaced by a numeric keypad, and you then use a standard ADB external mouse with it. Since it's an Apple Desktop Bus mac, you can also use an ADB keyboard / mouse with it, there were joysticks and a few other ADB peripherals made as well, such as graphics tablets and even the Teleport modem.

@vmhanlon

Жыл бұрын

And you can also swap the position of the trackball/keypad to the left side and the keyboard to the right.

Turn it into a sleeper laptop, put an m1, screen and massive battery in it 😁

@kyleboss

Жыл бұрын

I was about to say that

One my favorite classic Macintosh models congrats!!

This was the tech back then… Now I’m sooooo excited about the tech in the future 😊😊😊

I think doing vintage Apple stuff is a natural progression, forhe can only do so much with Apple Silicone. Like when you can't switch parts, there's not much he can do besides benchmarking.

Dog Cow! I have to share... I was going through some of my old 90s era Mac stuff, and found a business card. It was for Mark "The Red" Harlan, who gave the dog-cow the name "Clarus". The reverse of the card had a hand-written "Enjoy!". I have no idea any more what I was meant to be enjoying... But I still have the card.

Back in the day when Apple made computers, not consumer disposables... My first Mac portable came just over 10 years later - the Pismo... which I still feel is the ultimate Mac laptop. The keyboard easily popped off too, it had 2 bays you could hot swap things in, infra-red, wifi... But seeing this piece of history - and as you say - 30 years later and it's still running! Beautiful, and content I'll come back for. (And now wanted to go power up my Pismo and play around in Classic OS... :)

1:19 Nice remix 🔥

Such a great watch! Go Luke!

Very cool repair!

I went to the launch of this product in the UK at Apple’s headquarters at Stockley Park.

If you pul the cover while it’s running it makes a fun sound.

great video…very happy for you!👍🏻

It's funny to see these young folks so crazy about old tech. I owned an Apple iic when in high school. Wish I still had it to sell to one of these guys. I do have an Apple Hi-Fi to sell.

@donniestoolthoughts9209

Жыл бұрын

Agree, I consider the IIc to be the first portable mac. I had the IIe but had 2 friends in high school with the IIc.

The Apple IIc was the first portable/laptop. The Mac Portable wasn't any more of a laptop the IIC. Apple actually sold a small LCD for it. It was also capable of being powered using a car 12V outlet with an adapter.

keep up the good work and buy a g4 cube :)

Nice Piece!!!

Love the design of this machine

Remember seeing one "in the wild" back in the 80's in a Wendy's in Athens, GA. Thought "Wow, luggable" but too big. I later bought a Duo 210...

iFixit would problably give this a 10/10 for repairability.

Wow! It is amazing!

Great job!

6:40 - When you realize the interchangeable idea is genius for Apple, but Linus literally demonstrated this yesterday on the newest Framework laptops.

I have two of these Luke!

Thank u 4 the great Videos! Best regards from germany / Bamberg

Fun videos Luke~

If anyone is interested, you can watch Jean-Louis Gassee put this machine together at it's introduction. It's delightful.

It would be cool if you had one with modern screen and parts inside

Damn, that Macintosh got better beats than me.

0:16 as one contemporary magazine put it, "Apple's first laptop... if you're Paul Bunyan."

16:52 triggered my echo dot twice (yes I actually hit rewind) 🤣🤣

*stares at cursor during spornsor segment b roll*

This was one cool vid. Keep it up

Who needs to hit the gym just bring this everywhere you go

i got to see one of these in person at uni, they had taken out the battery and the leads were hanging out the back, would have been nice to be able to buy it off them, but it was in the electronics lab as an example of technology, at the time the machine was about 10 or so years old.