Yes! Finally some more Krazy Ken's Tech Misadventures to satisfy my addiction...

@omniwagon

4 жыл бұрын

hmm uhh [accidentaly presses Interrupt key] shit

@imacg3222

4 жыл бұрын

wastedwagon Aw cmon!! Ya broke me Mac SE/30!

@fluxschool908

3 жыл бұрын

Username:classic mac OS Me:💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣

@NALTOdeluxe

2 жыл бұрын

Love ya Classic Mac!

@everythingtube172

2 жыл бұрын

One of the best Mac OS versions

0:32 The beige Macs are *_f l e x i n g_* the top shelf. Be careful with this, Ken!

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, the shelf is temporarily holding up a MacGyver sound proofing rig. It'll be fixed soon.

@nano_dank

4 жыл бұрын

@@ComputerClan OK! 👍 Thanks for answering, Ken.

@nano_dank

4 жыл бұрын

@@patrickglaser1560 Correct. 👍

lmao the top shelf is fighting for its life, you need to give it some help

Points to the previous owner on the condition. The rubber coating was notorious for getting scratched off, especially by the latch.

i like the lairs new look, those guards must be extremely lenient.

The Wallstreet G3s are some of, if not my all time favorite Powerbooks ever made There's just something about it's design, as it's in that odd transitional period of Apple from 97-98, and has a modern, yet still old design I'd absolutely love to get my hands on one at some point

Okay, performance on Photoshop is really good considering how low power that laptop is... Newer versions of Photoshop on low end modern laptops sure don't behave that well...

The ‘floppy’ drive is actually a 3rd party (VST) SuperDisk drive as made by Imation. Also called an LS-120 drive. It could read/write 1.44MB floppies as well as 120MB SuperDisks. it was a competitor to Zip drives, was a little more expensive than Zip drives ($99 vs. $129 at one point), but the media was cheap, only a little more than floppies. It’s big failing though was that it was slow compared to Zip[ - faster than floppies, but only just. Which is a big deal if you’re writing 120MB!!! A driver is definitely needed.

@alexshepherd

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the excellent summary. I had some recollection that a Superdisk was indeed pretty super in capacity - yet Ken seemed to assume it was a regular floppy drive. This kind of thing was really useful when you went to use the flatbed scanner in the school library, or to use a Quadra 840AV at the local Apple dealer to digitise some camcorder clips… you needed some way to get the files :) Zip disks were what I used and I think they were probably more popular (faster, as you said)

16:55 butterfly keyboard needs this:( so that we can replace them every other day

I like the new setup! And yes, the VST super disk is an aftermarket addon someone must have changed. They were easily changeable modules so back in the day it would be common for one o have multiple modules which could be a floppy drive, CD drive, and even some others.

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you : )

Wow. I had this laptop back in the day. It was my first Mac, and I ran very early builds of OS X on it. It was a great laptop for the time. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome : )

Hey that laptop looks familiar! Glad you like it! Just had a imac g5 fall into my laptoo, might have to send that your way too

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for donating it : )

One of my favorite ergonomic designs of the time. That machine was very pleasant to the touch.

Did Ken even notice that the keyboard wasn't installed all the way

@raven4k998

3 жыл бұрын

oh he will oh he will later on down the road

Your channel has the best intro tune! It's so happy.

I am impressed at how well things work, given the age of the system and software. The G3 was pretty awesome at the time.

These were some of my favorite laptops back in the day. I bought these off of ebay to flip. My personal one was a 292 MHz with 384 MB RAM, a 100GB hard drive, and I had a DVD drive, aftermarket CD burner, ZIP 250, superdrive, and 3 batteries for it. With my two good batteries in it, I could get through a 6 hour train ride without battery anxiety. While Mac OS 9.2 could use the 3D accelerator and was better for gaming, OS X was overall better. Using X Post Factor, 10.4 installed easily but I went back to 10.3 as it was smoother. There was apparently a “314” variation, and I believe it was the no cache 233 MHz model (which was slower than the previous “Kanga” Powerbook G3 3500). Also, the 13.3 inch screen was supposedly problematic compared to the 12 and 14.1 inch screens.

I just brought PowerBook g3 Wall Street 2;on eBay totally enjoying this old vintage laptop love all the older games and softwares

The short powerup when you plugged it in was to charge the capasitors :) My own desktop does this aswell when away from the wall for more than 5 mins

The cool thing about the side expansion slots was you could run this laptop with 0, 1, or 2 batteries. With zero you could have a floppy and a CD drive at the same time (obviously you need AC power at this point). With 2 batteries you could double your time time away from a wall outlet.

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

Right-o! It was pretty cool.

@TexMex421

4 жыл бұрын

@@ComputerClan I had a 400MHZ version of this laptop and had an aftermarket zip drive module. As the company used zip drives for back-up of important projects on desktops I could arrive as tech support and access their back-up from my laptop.

I'm Chromecasting this video off my brand new MacBook Pro (July 2019), I owned a Wallstreet and about 40 other PowerBooks throughout the years...I still miss that Wallstreet as it was my first useful for school PowerBook

This may be my favorite machine ever. The Wallstreet was my first laptop - and I still have it and its crazy assortment of accessories. You could add Firewire and USB to these via that PCMCIA port with cards. The expansion bay options were DVD, CD, Zip, Floppy, Battery. (not sure if there were more). The DVD drive was a WOW! moment because you could play movies on your laptop (seriously… that was a big deal in 1998). It was awkward though, because you had to use a card in the PC slot to use the DVD drive for movies. There’s an Easter Egg for Photoshop 5 when you select the About screen. I forget the modifier key combo but if you find it, you’ll see the Strange Cargo splash screen.

Yay More Krazy Ken!!!

Cool. I still have my Pismo, and it works fine. (Could use a bigger hard drive, though.)

I bought an used one more around 2003, it was wonderful, it was snappy the screen was nice, and it worked very nice with other devices, despite the lack of USB, wifi, and FireWire. I used to have several old peripherals. It had a Mac OS 9 partition and a Mac OS X partition, and I maxed out the RAM. Both worked well with my music software, some DAWs and Max MSP. The whole computer power system failed ultimately, and I sold it for parts. I miss it.

Could you share this neon lights picasso mac image? It looks so nice.

Pretty cool computer, super thick but very usable. The model you have is (fortunately) the revised version from September 1998, which added a much-needed 512k L2 cache to the 233MHz model - the original version of this machine was a complete slug due to its complete lack of any L2 cache! It also made the 14" display standard, instead of the dreadful 12" passive matrix panel.

I actually have a Wallstreet model of my own! It certainly was really difficult to work on since it’s optical drive didn’t work right. But after some trickery with my Lombard model, I was able to install MacOS 9 onto the Wallstreet’s Hard drive. (Mine also does the strange fan spin up thing too. I’m guessing it must be common among the Wallstreet units.)

theres just something iconic about old drives spooling up its very 90s

excellent video! i still love my wallstret with Mac os 9.2.2

My dad still has his, with the box, and programs and Ios that came with the laptop on floppy as well as the receipt

11:35 Shotofop. I actually thought about using this as a German verb on Twitter today. In German to "fopp" someone means to prank. "Foppen" was used some thirty years ago, so I deleted the comment. Younglings would not understand it nowadays. But if you could you "fopping" or "shotofopping" as a verb it would preserve valuable language. Let's establish a "shotofop" is a prank on someone with Photoshop.

Every video I see is a anti quarantine treatment 🙂

Wow, the addition of the bowing storage shelves... uh... really livens up the place.

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

Trust me, I'm not happy about them either. It was either that, or… leave a giant gaping hole of negative space.

Hey, I got the same computer! but no heat shield, it looks battered but has a CD drive module instead of floppy... and the battery still holds about 2hrs of charge, so that's cool.

Maybe you could help me recall something, there was this little program for my Bondi Blue iMac G3, I think it was called "Snit", it was a little box with a face in it that would say movie quotes and react to your mouse movement and such. I can't find any reference to it anywhere, I THINK it came with the computer but maybe it was from the CD book that came with it, not sure. Anyone remember this?

Love the new layer

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I appreciate it.

@KevintheMurderer

4 жыл бұрын

@@ComputerClan i love the layer too

Nice Job

Could you make a video where you install a voodoo 2 card into the mezzanine slot of the bondi blue iMac? There’s no video on KZread of someone doing that.

11:18 those sounds still exist in word mac to this day!

On the super disk drive, look up "Imation LS120" they can be used with a 120mb floppy disk (they also read/write standard 1.44mb disks as well), I think they were meant to be a more useable, floppy compatible Zip drive)? I have a stack of those disks somewhere... (The disk left in the drive in this video looks like a standard floppy, not a super disk)... The super disk drives were usually external USB or Parallel, but there were some internal versions. I've got a PowerBook Wallstreet too, mine has a CD ROM module in that bay. Cool little old beastie :)

3:12 Wow, I haven't watched such a low-res clip in ages! Jobs could have been replaced with a life-size LEGO figure of himself and you would not notice the difference!

Love the new set

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you : )

absolutely love my 300mhz g3 wall street with dvd drive and Zip drive in the slot where the useless dead battery goes lol

Idea to explore (rather I'm curious as i'm still a Mac newbie), using and old imac g3, on 10.4.11 with dual boot to 9.22, what happens when you try to use the iLife stuff? And more specifically, could iChat be configured in any way to be relevant to today? Far from practical and possibly unsafe, but am curious.

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

I actually will be revisiting a particular iLife app soon, so I'll be able to fulfill part of that idea! Thanks for writing : )

Great video ! I ran OSX on one of these babies, it wasn't terrible, either.

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

I'd love to experiment with OS X on these! Sounds fun!

Such efficient use of screen real estate in those days.

Hey ken you can put an afterburner card in that powerbook. Just get the afterburner card and put it on the powerbook

I haven’t been this early to a video since last year. No pun intended

While maybe not a Afterburner which is really a PCIe FPGA accelerator card, it is possible to build a generic FPGA module and plug it in there, then cook up the appropriate software for it for Mac OS 9. It would be curious though as some modern FPGA packs CPU cores in it, for example a Xilinx Zynq 7020 comes with dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 at 667MHz, just slightly slower than an iPhone 4s. If a FPGA module is in there with those modern CPU cores, maybe we can build software that boots another operating system, like Raspbian or Android, on the CPU cores on the FPGA, then allow the FPGA CPU cores to take over the hardware on the laptop for user interaction? And another module someone really need to reconstruct is batteries. I hope it is possible to build replacement batteries for that laptop using modern Li-po technology. Also if possible, maybe try give it a CF card as a replacement system drive? CF cards acts like SSD's on IDE bus. (Or there are also adapters that takes a mSATA or M.2 SATA SSD and converts it into 44-pin IDE, those works too.)

I have one of these and it turns on sometimes, other times it does nothing... it's really odd.

Remember getting my PDQ and then my Lombard both of which I still have. When Apple portables were thinner, lighter, better designed, more powerful and yes cheaper! than the equivalent high-end windows based portable. Oh how times change.

Did you use the the game maker

The Yo-Yo charger replaced the original black brick because of the risk of fire with the charger. They were recalled and my black brick charger was replaced with the Yo-Yo when I had a Wallstreet II model.

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

Correct-o!

Nice aspect ratio

does anyone know how to fix the hinges cause my wallstreet has a weak hinge and i wanted to know if someone could help me

SuperDisk, assuming we're talking the same model, was a floptical drive that besides being compatible with standard 1.44 MB floppies, had a disk that could hold 120 MB. So in theory you could have installed the entire MacOS with one or two SuperDisks. So you wouldn't *need* a CD-ROM. And yeah, in 1998, CD-ROM drives (specifically portable or internal drives for laptops) were still pretty expensive, usually offered as an add on if you were so daring. They were still power hogs as well, and usually would compete for space in other cases, like a dual purpose bay that you'd use while on the charger for the CD drive, which would hold the battery when going portable. Obviously without any externally powered CD drive, you weren't going to be using one on the road.

@brianoconnell6459

4 жыл бұрын

Also, their external drive had a certain styling resembling the iMac at the time (I recall they had the same internal drives on some models).

What is the intro music.

On the long wake from sleep.. if memory serves me well (no pun intended).. there was a power management option in classic Mac OS to write the contents of RAM out to the hard drive. Then when it wakes, it needs to read it all back into RAM again. And if the battery dies, then what is in RAM isn't lost.

It seems fairly obvious that new software won’t run well on an old Powerbook - but I have the opposite problem. I’ve just bought genuine Mac OS apps from 1993-1998 for a specific LEGO serial interface - and my present-day MacBook Pro is no use for that! That’s why I’m trying to get hold of a Powerbook G3 - since it not only runs 68k apps, but also has a serial port :) I think that’s really the point of having old hardware - it actually works with other old hardware and software

Cool, ok so get this.. this laptop and the few models that came later were good money makers for me back in the day. Stores were full of them donated. So i would load them with ram, bigger hd and xpostfacto. The machines would run newer versions of os x!! I would also install a pcmcia linksys broadcom based card and the built in airport would recognize them as Airportcards! I would sell them loaded with tons of apps for about $250 bucks. Sold them on weekends no job needed for me and drove a beemer in Highschool :)

Hello , what is the " PC Card " ? Thanks ;)

I worked with one of them back in 1999 2000, I really loved the machine, but really hated OS9

this thing has still good screen!

Didn't even realize that it was thursday!

@urielc918

4 жыл бұрын

Me neither

2:22 : Louis Rossman : "We have fanspin! It works"

Which version of Microsoft word did you use?

I have the 300Mhz version of the wallstreet, it was the most bad ass model you could get :p funny to see a airport option in the apple menu though :p it was the last laptop with ONLY legacy apple ports back in those days, the next model, the lombard, also came with legacy ports, but ditched the serial and adb ports on the back, and than the last standing g3, the pismo, is also a model i own, and it has the "newest" ports :p insane to see so much difference between models that looked quite the same! But my wallstreet's cd-rom drive is querky! Sometimes it reads cd's, but sometimes it doesn't even spin the disc around! And if you connect the power adaptor to this machine and you have no or a flat battery, the Wallstreet will spinup its fans (a kind of selftest i think), my Wallstreet does the exact same thing

I have the last model of PowerBook G3 but the last time I tried turning it on it didn't do anything so the PSU must be dead. the laptop came with a DVD Drive, a Wireless Card and its hard disk came pre-installed with Mac OS 9.2 and the latest version of OSX that will run on PPC CPUs. The Battery also doesn't work which sucks. The Laptop worked when I purchased it though so I wasn't scammed.....

@nitrax8629

4 жыл бұрын

Try disconnecting the PRAM battery from underneath the keyboard - 9 times out of 10 this fixes those models not booting.

@wclifton968gameplaystutorials

4 жыл бұрын

@@nitrax8629 ok thanks

U can enable those exact same sound effects in the current word Mac version

I just ordered one of these :3c

I had the bronze keyboard PowerBook, codenamed Lombard, which was the model directly after the Wallstreet. That came out in 1999, and it's not until seeing this that I realize how my technological personal development stopped shortly after this. There was something insanely cool about this era of tech. You really did feel like you were in a sort of frontier and on the cutting edge. Hell, I still think my BlackBerry Curve was the best phone I ever had to this day and my Samsung 10+5G is infinitely superior. But then again, maybe it's not the technology itself that was so great, but the era in my life that it existed in because that truly has been to this day the happiest i ever have been. It was right before adulthood came knocking. 9/11 happened and nothing was the same. 'Nuff said.

11:34 shotofap xD

This is my favourite Macintosh

AppleTalk Compatible?

11:34 SHOTOPHOP

Early Squad + Notifications Squad!

4:11: this is actually the first mac using this sound in 1997

did you just tease the Windows 7 vid script?

Hah, so all Wallstreets do that whirring noise before powering up. I thought it was just mine!

The fan starting up was the Power Manager resetting itself.

My PowerBook also starts up and shuts down like that when I plug in the charger

I would find a laptop motherboard with the appropriate size and ports, and install the hackintosh. That would be perfect.

I love Mac OS 9 and never owned one .... Only used them in school but I always wanted one. So since they don’t make them no more and they are expensive to ship and seeing that I don’t trust eBay much; I transformed my Windows 10 laptop to a MAC OS 9 Theme!!! 😃😃😃😃 It’s absolutely fantastic It has has colorful apple icon on the top left, and the CHIAGO font and buttons and sounds! It looks like an exact replica! Now it won’t easy because Windows 10 doesn’t accept third party personalization themes and such and finding a MAC OS 9 SKIN was hard enough but I got it! Imagine STEAM GAMES and GTA on MAC OS 9 . And I play them just fine on my MAC OS 9 2018 laptop 😏😏😏

A wallstreet was my first vintage mac. Oh how I miss it. Mine had 64 megs of ram, a 266 G3, and 6 megs of vram, which I have never heard of being an option in the wallstreet. and mine did the fan thing at plug in too

Incredible...ports and a removable battery on an Apple device...what wizardry is this?!?!?

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

Ports, easy-open design, expansion bays, AND removable batteries. WHAAA?!

Play some escape velocity or marathon

Wow.

You should try installing OS X 10.2 on it

@KevintheMurderer

4 жыл бұрын

He Can't Do That

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

Why not? It's compatible with it.

I like the new lair

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you : )

I believe these G3's were assembled in Ireland.

Photoshop 5 on OS 9 ..... pure POWER !!!! (in the day ..... that is.... )

Please replace that plastic shelf. Pretty sure you could hotswap scsi zip drives, but it's been a while

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

I will replace the shelf eventually. Normally I wouldn't have items on that shelf anyway. I don't wanna get into too many details, but redoing a new set from scratch is a looooooot of work. It'll be tweaked, but I'm not made of money… yet. x_x

Why did they used to use CD Caddyies?????

Why do you have a 20th anniversary Mac?

@ComputerClan

4 жыл бұрын

Because it's cool.

This thing must've cost an arm and a leg in 98. The only other computer from that era I've used was a Toshiba Satellite that was probably twice as thick as this thing and 10 times a slow.

Word still has all those sound effects, but they are disabled by default

11:34 What the heck is a shotophop?!

Nice nice intro

My battery still works on my Lombard