I am the mystery editor who updated the Wikipedia entry after this video and corrected the article properly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_8100 Love your videos!

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Great job fixing that! Hopefully once and for all.

@paulmuaddib451

2 жыл бұрын

Bless you.

@stpworld

Жыл бұрын

@@65scribe I have the server version of this and the restore cd rom. Currently restoring it with proper os versions .

@GoogleSnaker

10 ай бұрын

Dang it hank that was our only ball.

65scribe is back, nothing can ruin this day

@ferrreira

3 жыл бұрын

gente, é o peter xp do twitter?

@djpeterabreu

3 жыл бұрын

@@ferrreira sou eu

Don't change your camera until you physically have to. There's a charm to the aged look. That said, awesome to see you posting a video again.

@CoreyDeWalt

3 жыл бұрын

Vwestlife has a similar camera and similar accent, wonder if it's the same guy?

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

No, not the same guy.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely more 'for' than 'against' the old camera look in the feedback. I'm glad people aren't stuck on wanting HD, because it's a much easier to frame shots and focus on the subject with the more narrow aspect.

@gblargg

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the interlace artifacts can be fixed, though.

@AntoninPoitou

3 жыл бұрын

@@65scribe hey just a suggestion: I'm using a modern"ish" computer with my old Acer CRT from the early 2000s (works great, vibrant colors) and most videos, even when the "actual" video is in 4:3, is RENDERED in 16:9: your camera shots and most of the archival footage you use are in this video are already in4:3 (except from 1:16 til 5:00 or so), so why not making the whole video in 4:3 at that point? You would be the first (and only to my knowledge) retrocomputer KZreadr to do so since the advent of HD KZread!

The return of the legend!

You seem like a man I could be best friends with.

one of my favorite channels. they don’t make em like this anymore

65scribe, back from his 10 month purgatory

Any video with, 'wah wah', 'damn!' and the Oil Museum scene gets my upvote.

Your storytelling and editing style is relaxing yet easy to follow, cheeky enough to not be drab but excessive like some other youtubers. Never change man.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, Marco!

@whophd

3 жыл бұрын

@@65scribe He said what I was trying to say!

OMG OIL MUSEUM UPDATE, this is the best.

@kasimirdenhertog3516

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, that treat was better than Christmas! 🥳

@corbinq27

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@JasonStevens

3 жыл бұрын

They must have sold out of the cups though

@darwiniandude

3 жыл бұрын

I found that part a bit C.R.U.D.E.

@frankzappa3834

3 жыл бұрын

Every video we get closer to the full tape

The idea that anyone at Apple thought it would be a good idea to abandon the 68k install base is absolutely bonkers to me

In addition to being an amazing day just because 65scribe posted a video, I had an incredible discovery watching it and I want to share my story with you all: I live in Brazil, and since I was a child I was very fond of apple, but, as you can imagine, it’s not easy to find old devices around here. When I was 16, in 2013, I found a guy in my city on the internet selling an iMac G3 from the first month of manufacture with the original mouse and keyboard. I got there and found out he was an accumulator, living with his grandmother and she wanted him to get rid of all the “trash in her house”. At the time, everything I knew about Apple was very mainstream, so all I was interested in was seeing the iMac G3 working. But as the guy needed to get rid of a lot, he looked at me and said: hey, if you like vintage macs, I have a powermac here that i know nothing about, I don't have a mouse or keyboard for it, I don't know if it works or not, and if you want it is yours, free of charge. I wanted, he gave me the computer and a VGA adapter. I brought it home, found a site of old macs software, downloaded System 7, burned it to a CD and boot it. The computer turned on, everything seemed to be working, but since I didn't have the ADB mouse or keyboard and finding used ones around here is an impossible mission, I couldn't do anything except watch that old computer powered on and its noise. I turned everything off, wrapped the computer in plastic and kept it for all these years, to remember about it today and, while watching the video, unroll it from the plastic to find out that I have a perfectly functional PowerMac 8100/100 at home, in Brazil, with all drive bezels and in good cosmetic condition. Now I'm very excited to open it and clean it well, since today I know more about it, and if possible find an ADB keyboard and mouse to be able to restore this computer in all its glory

@andycraig7734

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Maybe pull the battery in case it decides to leak acid on the circuits.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Great story, Lucas. Thanks for sharing that!

Funny how heated the whole RISC vs. CISC argument was in the 90's, especially as it was targeted at x86. Nexgen had made the argument pointless when they released the Nx586 in 1994, being a RISC CPU that ran x86 instructions by taking the complex instructions, then breaking them down into simpler instructions for their proprietary RISC architecture, and executing that. AMD bought them in 1996, using the same concept in their K6 architecture and bringing RISC86, as they called it, along to every architecture they've made since then. Intel too, did about the same thing with the Pentium Pro in 1995, and again, every Intel x86 CPU arch (except for the Quark) has been RISC internally since. On the RISC side, ARM has become bloated with instruction set extensions for things like fast multiply, matrix operations, extended floating point, and having the crazy idea of coming up with an entirely new instruction set when they moved over to 64-bit (but still needing the full 32-bit instruction set for compatibility). A modern general-purpose ARM CPU looks a bit more like an original Pentium in layout than anyone would have believed if you'd told them back in the day.

@ian_b

3 жыл бұрын

@@hye181 With all due respect, I think you're the wrong one. RISC and CISC are not fundamentally different; it's a quantitative not qualitative difference. A richer instruction set requires more hardware, so you're trading off the richness of the instruction set versus the hardware complexity. As Brett points out, the AMD example is a simplified core running microcode- which for the complex instructions is the same as the programmer writing that code themself, except that being on the chip itself it's faster. Whether or not x86 is a "poor" instruction set (in what way specifically?) is different queston to whether it is a complex one.

@ian_b

3 жыл бұрын

@@hye181 If you're going to dismiss me like that, you need to explain why I'm wrong. What is incorrect about my assertion that RISC and CISC are just a matter of degree?

I think we all have an unrequited childhood crush on that tour guide. What an incredibly special day you guys had back in '98. As a tour guide it was probably a quiet day: so she had all the time to laugh it up with you guys. I too was once experienced such a fun afternoon with a service rep who was bored of her job. We too laughed it up. I still think of that day from time to time.

that tour guide had no idea she'd be in so many of your videos back in 1998.

Man that Marathon box, that brings back some memories.

@kirishima638

3 жыл бұрын

Frog blast the vent core!

@bluemoser

3 жыл бұрын

I still have all mine. Plus the bungie mac action sack. All the marathons and abuse in a bob sack

Requisite Marathon Segment!

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Paul! Glad you remembered that.

I found your channel because I bought a Mac IIsi from some guy an hour from where I live for 35$. I wanted to learn about it and I found your channel. So glad I did because you make such interesting videos!

@mutoneon

3 жыл бұрын

@elimo6677

3 жыл бұрын

@@mutoneon thank you!

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Great to hear that you got some real-world use out of the IIsi video.

So glad to see you back. Was worried! Thank you for all the content!

26:15 this dudes tie is NUTS! i love it!

Another Triumph. Adding the oil museum always entertains.

@65scribe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks !! Glad you hung around for the bonus oil museum.

Omg you’re back!!!! I almost forgot about this channel, but I’m glad I was subscribed.

@Gany1701

3 жыл бұрын

65subscribed am i right haha

@aytviewer2421

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

what a pleasant surprise, literally do a video on any mac and i'll watch it. also i hope you keep using old standard definition camcorders they make it look like your videos were all made in the early 2000's and i feel like something would be lost if that changed.

Yay! A new 65scribe video! I cannot tell you how happy I was to see this notification, albeit an hour late.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your consistent enthusiasm, Paul. Watch for something new tomorrow.

I've learned so much about the disaster years of Apple from this channel. Everyone else seems to laser focus on the G3 - G5 era or newer Intel stuff.

65scribe videos are like getting a letter from a friend - unexpected but brightens up my day

lmao the reference library ads are basically just the IRL version of the Tim & Eric Innernette skit

I honestly let out a yelp when I saw the notification for this video pop up on my phone.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

lol

I just enjoy the quirky humour. Keep it up!

Another excellent video- thanks 65scribe!! (always worth the wait between uploads) Looking forward to MARCHintosh!

Rejoice as the man, the legend, is back

Looks like after this video was released, someone finally undid that incorrect Wikipedia edit after no edits were made to the article for 10 months.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that was done amazingly fast after I released the video. Hats off to them! I did most of this video in the spring and summer last year before I got pulled away from it for 5 months. At the time, it was maddening to see my changes reverted after I did this whole piece for the video about me making the correction... and then I figured, that just makes the story better! I'm just sorry to any wayward souls who went searching for the 110AV during that time.

@0:03 ...and the 1983 Chevrolet Chevette and deer and oil loved it all

I used to watch videos on older macs like 10 years ago. Haven't in a long time. I can confirm, I found your channel through KZread's recommended algorithm.

@65scribe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! Good to know. I started this channel because there was so little out there years ago. Now it’s a little more crowded.

I like the subtle humor and the interest in the vintage 8100. A tower I also looked up upon at the time but never could get.

The first mac I've ever seen/used, my father got one on 94 and I was blow away! I remember that It didn't even had a CD drive.. It was added later that year because the computer was soo expensive. I think I still can track It.. must be at a cousin's house

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Very cool that this machine was your first experience with a Mac. Thanks for sharing that!

I assumed you were done making vids. Your low-key 90s Mac humor is what I needed today.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Good to hear that, Dan. Making the videos is still great fun.

Whee! OMG, other peoples' computers, right? Sheesh! After I met my future wife online (on Genie), I moved to be with her in California in the summer of '93. Together we started a home desktop publishing and graphic design company with the Macintosh IIsi, Apple LaserWriter NTR and Apple OneScanner that she got with her education discount from the local junior college. When the PowerPC Macs started comping out we upgraded to a Performa 637CD and a Performa 638CDV. We were not interested in new tech when our business was really booming. Besides, Apple was clearly confused about where they were going and we weren't ready to bet on their future at that time. I was working on a Quadra 800 at the local junior college, which brought me here because the 8100 reminds me of that one. Delightful and fun video! Thanks!

Thanks for the video. I was overseas for 20 years, and the Power Mac 8100 was in a series of storage sheds. For the last month after unpacking it, I could not start it up. But tonight, just on a whim, I tried again, and finally the hard drive kicked in and it lives again. Now I need to figure out how to hook it to wifi. No hurry. I have a handful of new Macs to use. While I was elsewhere I used a G5 heavily, and the machine was a workhorse. I mean seven days a week, 10 hours a day spewing out text, graphics and emails.

@65scribe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Glad to hear you had better luck with your 8100 than I did. Especially being in storage for so long.

He hath returned

This is easily your most brilliant video yet. I don't know how you take the most dull, prosaic information and make it hilarious AND interesting, but you have it down to a fine art. That 1984 game concept is just genius and I was chortling at the end when you lamented the Wikipedia revision. Thanks for the entertainment.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! I appreciate the detailed feedback on the video and glad you liked the 1984 bits. Though shorter, I hope you'll enjoy my next video tomorrow.

I share your pursuit of a 6400/6500. In 1997 I used our Performa 6400/200 Video Editing Edition for a school video project. I loved the way the beefy internal speaker switched to a subwoofer when you plugged in external speakers.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it would be an interesting machine to look into. I hope you can connect with one.

Interest in vintage Apple computers is higher than ever, and a lot of it centers on weird obscure models big sponsored KZreadrs don't have time to research. There is plenty more ground to be gained in this space.

"...and that was it. Got in my buddy's 1983 Chevette and hit the road."

I bought the 7100/66 back in the day. The mac in no-mans land. lol. And for the better part of 6 years it was my main computer eventually being pushed with a g4 accelerator. Still own it and use it as a vintage machine to this day with it being fully restored and functional. Been the best purchase I ever made on a new machine.

Ah yes, I was really looking forward to this! I watched all your videos on your channel before this :)

@inexternalrecords

3 жыл бұрын

Oh no, now I've watched every video on his channel and I need another new video again. It's even worse now than it was before!

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Hah! That's great!

Having watched this many, many, *many* times, that concert segment is my fav.

Hey you uploaded again! You love to see it! Great video, as always

Holy crap, Star Trek Omnipedia! That takes me back... I had it for my PC back in the day, I spent A LOT of time with that one...

I had a 8500 in the early 2000's ... as a starving student I sold off my monster truck gaming PC and used that thing as my main computer for almost 4 solid years, good platform and as a bonus mine had the av pack so at least it could double as a tv lol (edit 8:56 AMD has been doing 7nm chips for over a year now) edit edit, I had the second radius machine, it was a chunk of shi

@wishusknight3009

3 жыл бұрын

Intel introduced 10nm over a year before AMD went to 7.... In a cpu that.. well... didn't work very well. lol

he’s returned!

29:52 - thanks to the context you’ve presented here, I think I finally know what the ‘f’ means, in application names or folder names. I have always wondered that :)

Literally watched 1984 last night. Almost spit out my drink at the last scene drinking under Steve Jobs' poster.

@65scribe

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a great coincidence! I’m glad to hear you liked that.

Fond memories, I loved the look, an 8100 was my first PowerMac, it replaced my burned out 840 AV and it served me well. I did miss the dedicated DSP, but the PPC was otherwise massively more capable.

@65scribe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience. Interesting!

@disklamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@65scribe I really enjoy your videos about vintage Mac equipment, you really convey that oldschool Macintosh feel 

Please don’t ever change your style. Your videos have an unmatched charm and I need more!

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tyler! Appreciate the feedback. I should have something more out soon.

Sorry to hear that you're struggling to get through this pandemic. I'm in Australia, and not to blow my own horn, but we still have concerts and stuff because we've managed to keep Covid from getting out of the quarantine hotels. I went to a concert on NYE 2020! Good luck for the rest of the pandemic and hopefully things will return to normal for you soon. Thanks for the great content on the channel and it's great that you've been boosted by the algorithm. And your Marathon/Nineteen-Eighty-Four crossover was hilarious!

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris. Yes, everything is still very locked-down here. Concerts seem a long way off yet. But good to hear you’ve returned to a more normal life.

**click** "What a bad idea." Great timing XD

I bought a Power Mac 8100AV in spring 1995. I bought it with a 17' trinitron display and the ergonomic keyboard. It was my second Mac after my mother’s pizza box Mac (can’t remember the model, think it was pre-power pc). I discovered your videos last year and they have kept me amused ever since. Good to see a new one.

Love it. Did not expect the 1984 movie deep cuts :D

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! The 1984 theme was fun to weave through the video. It was the wikipedia experience that got me started on that line of thinking.

Nice use of the 1984 soundtrack. Brought a gin scented tear to my eye.

@65scribe

2 жыл бұрын

Deep reference. Thumbs up for that!

37:02 Kitty knows there's a mouse at the other end of that cord...

Damn!!!!!

I was just checking out your channel again a month ago!!! Was wondering where you were!

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

I think I came back just in time. Internet memory fades quickly.

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing this great video! That is very interesting. I love watching and I am always searching for informative content like payday loans online.

@65scribe

2 жыл бұрын

Why did I not see that coming? lol

That Marathon joke was great. My friends Dad had an 8100/80av, I haven’t seen one since then but believe it or not have the boxed starter kit with all the original documentation. Found it last year from a former Apple reseller who sold off his entire collection to me. Still on the hunt for a 8100, but I do have a 7100/66av..

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Good to hear you liked the Marathon piece! It took a bit of memory work of how to mod that game, but a lot of fun making a video around the 1984 theme. Great that you found a starter kit. More rare than the computer itself. The 8100 is a tough one to find, though one got posted locally just as I was finishing this video (just to prove me wrong, I think), but it's quite a major fixer-upper.

@trainingtheworld5093

3 жыл бұрын

@@65scribe You should make a part II on that 8100. My 7100 does start but is unstable. I’ve replaced half of the surface mount capacitors. A huge job to replace them, when I have time I’ll finish the job. I used to make my own Marathon maps, man I had so much fun with that game.

KZread algorithm is a strange and bizarre beast. It's the main reason I'm here (and I'm not even an Apple guy. I just work on them)

"1984 would've made a good game". *Half-Life 2 Beta enters the chat*. Jokes aside, nice video as usual. Seeing that G5 in here makes me wish for that G5 video review... ;)

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! Thanks! No full G5 video yet, but I like to bring it into a video whenever I can.

I grew up with an 8100/80 as my first Mac, I played a lot of marathon on it as well. It was the original one without the label on the front, it has the 8100/80 directly printed on the case.

@65scribe

Жыл бұрын

That’s great! The ones painted directly on the case are the most cool.

This was a beast back in the day... photoshop extraordinaire

Just started getting into old *macs* (Windows user) and your channel has been on autoplay. Really dig these videos, easily one of the easiest watching/listening channels in this vein of hobbyism.

@65scribe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jesse. Welcome to the hobby! I'm glad to hear you connected with my channel. I hope you stay tuned for the next video.

Its me again. So I bought the 8100/100 and I can report that my 8100 has that springy thing, to ground the case to the PSU as well 👍

@65scribe

Жыл бұрын

That's great to get confirmation on that. Thanks for letting me know and enjoy the 8100!

Real fans watch for the oil museum clips! I somehow ran into your channel 8 months ago and Im glad you are still making videos. And although new macs arent your thing, the new M1 macbook pro is my favorite mac since the power pc days.

Fascinating. Hilarious.The tour guide is a gem.

@65scribe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael! Glad you liked the video!

Nothing better than waking up to a new 65scribe video. I’d love to see a video of the Mac mini, mainly the old polycarbonate ones and the earlier unibodies.

I got a second hand 8100 in the 2000s. Very lucky to have it.

I deployed a number of 61/71/8100s at college, and they were wicked fast... when they didn't crash. They were horrible. They were the acme of bleeding edge machines. Once the x500s came out they settled down a bit.

Remember these in my High School Library with an external CD Drive w/Plastic Shell enclosed CD's

I'm glad I stuck around for the out-tro by Sarah! A complete 180 from the somber unobtainium list scene and a great way to remember why we long for these machines.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sticking around to the end, Yue Fan. I appreciate the feedback! Sorry it took so long to reply.

@yueibm

3 жыл бұрын

@@65scribe It's an honor to get a second reply! :D

Look at me i'm Net Surfing!!

aaaaa this channel is amazingggg

@65scribe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

"It doesn't do anything?" by good ol' Orson Welles, I have no idea why, just keeps getting funnier. When I went to college, a friend had one of these. I was very impressed by the case aesthetics (had no idea what kind of bad design it had practically), and he made music with an early version of Digital Performer on it. "If I could just get one of those I'd be a REAL musician" was not far from thoughts in my head. I'm still impressed by these things!

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Cool! Great to hear your experience with the 8100. And I’ll try to get Orson in the next video.

That case design was gorgeous but such a pain in the ass to work on!

Appropriate video discussing the transition to PowerPC in the wake of the M1 Macs. I was kind of hoping to hear your take on the newest architecture change but these videos are amazing and I look forward to your next one.

You are the best!! Impossible not to love your videos!

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, Retro Guy!

Great video 👌. I love that you are back. Congratulations on your 8100.

Exciting stuff, thanks!

YES THANK YOU

Great video. 1984 reference is so fitting now.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Aw man it's too late for me now, I just saw the notification as I was heading to bed! On the bright side I guess this gives me something good to look forward to tomorrow.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoyed the video, Noofle. I'll put the next one out early tomorrow for the early risers.

@nooflebot

3 жыл бұрын

@@65scribe It was a great video as always! Looking forward to tomorrow's video.

I love so much the m68k and PPC architecture...

8100 discussion AND Gowan !! What are the odds. You have a new subscriber Sir.

@65scribe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for subscribing! Knowing both the 8100 and Gowan makes you a strange animal indeed.

Yay! A new video! I love this channel.

A coworker gave me her 8100 when she got a G3. It was a really nice machine. We had the 8600 at work running the then new Quark 4.0 and Indesign 1.0 (Trash that Adobe almost immediately upgraded to 1.5). Our 8500 was the Laserwriter 8500. We were using a Itek platemaker and quickly learned that the 8500 had a flaw and didn't actually print at 100%, not great for printing camera ready copy. Oh 90's apple you crazy kids.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Great first-hand account of Apple equipment in use in the 90’s. Thanks Ray!

Excellent!

Great! New video. We miss you a lot. And... We love your camera yeeeh aaah XD

@paulmuaddib451

3 жыл бұрын

This.

Discovered your channel during the pandemic and have been anxiously awaiting your next video - this did not disappoint!!!

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, Dan! Sorry for my late reply. I was working on a video all this month to release tomorrow.

There is definitely demand here, keep at it - I have a weird gear-acquisition list (mostly Sun workstations) so it makes me happy to see other people getting the hardware they want too :)

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Daniel! I hope you're having luck with your Sun acquisitions, too.

Totally worth the wait 👍🏽

I really love 90's Macs.

hey!!! FINALLY!! Excited to see some more