these videos are addicting.

@cosmokramer4585

Жыл бұрын

No kidding!!! I just found this channel today and I’ve been through probably 4 now. This guy is hilarious hilarious!!! Will be my daily watcher now since “Jason’s Macintosh Museum” has gone the way of the DoDo. I hope this Chanel stays alive and well

@ProduktReview

Жыл бұрын

I think I watched every video 5 times over. The old style, the soft speaking going into detail is so different from other KZreadrs.

@65scribe

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate the explanation of why you like the videos. I’m sometimes mystified why people like the videos as much as they claim to.

@AgoraphobicLocust

Жыл бұрын

Totally! And i keep coming back to revisit them every 5-6 months.

You are one of my few subscriptions where I regularly just go back and watch random videos periodically when everything else gets stale. Relevant subject matter to my hobbies, great information, and that dry Canadian humor I can't seem to get enough of. Hell, most of the channels I'm subscribed to seem to be Canadian. You guys are just naturally funny up there, I guess. Keep up the great work.

@65scribe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, and sorry for the late reply! That's great you find these videos worth going back to regularly. I appreciate the feedback. Definitely make the effort worthwhile.

That dust mask he shows is now worth more than the Macintosh.

@charlie4christ536

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/l5Woq9yqp6WYlKQ.html Christ died for your sins and rose on the third day, showing that anyone who trusts in him for salvation, will have everlasting life. (John 11:25-26) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" (John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

@aboutthiscomputer

3 жыл бұрын

This comment is underrated

@geekcorerob

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlie4christ536 I don't go to your church and force nerdy computer talk onto you.

@themacintoshnerd

Жыл бұрын

@@geekcorerob what was the comment out of curiosity?

@PiroKUSS

Жыл бұрын

@@themacintoshnerd Probably dumb religious shit.

Thanks all! It's great to get so much positive feedback in just 24 hours. Really enjoy the time I get to spend making these videos, and that other people are enjoying watching them makes it worthwhile.

@jonpurdydotcom

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely the best video I've ever seen on the PowerMac 9500. Wish I had some ABS cement with me the last few times I opened the case...

@jonpurdydotcom

5 жыл бұрын

I commented previously but noticed you don't have PMs turned on. I've had an Apple Network Server 500 that I've had for a decade or more. Despite not being a Mac, just let me know if you wanted to use it for a "review". I'm in Toronto so transportation would not be a problem. PMs are open, or @jonpurdy on Twitter. 👍

@65scribe

5 жыл бұрын

Your offer to loan your Network Server 500 came as a pleasant surprise.. or shock even. There is quite a backstory about trying to get one of these to use in the 9500 video that I'll have to tell you. I'm fairly 'off-the-grid' (simply by ignorance), so that's my fault I can't do Twitter. I also thought private messages were gone from KZread(?) Feel free to connect with me as a KZread 'Friend' or let me know how else best to contact you. I look forward to discussing further!

@jonpurdydotcom

5 жыл бұрын

@@65scribe Weird, looks like my reply from a couple of days ago didn't actually get posted for some reason (maybe it filters email addresses). You can email me at 65scribe AT jonpurdy DOT com, then I'll email you back from my actual address. Looking forward to it!

@65scribe

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I did see it only in my notifications. The post was gone, so I think you’re right. I’ll try to email tonight. Thanks!

The comedy timing of this guy is just amazing.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Mario! That means a lot coming from someone who does comedy.

I have a deep appreciation for beige powermacs. I know they were made when apple was at it's lowest, and they may not have been compelling products, but I love the aesthetic!

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. The colour, shape and texture made them feel elegant and substantial.

@alerey4363

3 жыл бұрын

The 9500 and 8500 (more of a multimedia production machine) were really hardware beasts but they lacked a solid corresponding multitasking multiuser protected memory anti crash OS; I remember getting those dreaded error type 11 bombs (which led you to total work loss and forced hardware reset); in 2000 I got to install BeOS in a 9500/200 and boy was that the perfect system for that beast: fast, multimedia responsive, Unix-like underpinnings, cool graphical interface with cute icons, an overal super solid OS that was fun to use; unluckily never gained sofware, thus never got traction with mac users (besides it only ran in selected 2 or 3 specific models) but hey, luckily soon enough old classic macos 9 was replaced by Unix based X,, courtesy of Job's NextStep and...the rest is history

@kaitlyn__L

3 жыл бұрын

@@alerey4363 I love beOS. I wish Haiku was more... well, easy to daily. The floating tab style title bar is my favourite thing aesthetically, but a lot still impresses today, such as how they handled dynamically mounting remote or local disks. (Which tbh I haven’t read about it in years so I don’t really remember what exactly that was.... but I remember going “that’s still cool today” when I did!!) also supporting multi-threading so early IIRC.

@alerey4363

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaitlyn__L Haiku was practically born dead; it's been 15+ years and it's in beta! besides, nowadays there's no need for that; if you like the aesthetics of BeOS you are better with Xubuntu with a BeOS theme, including the original icons, that will give you the best results in both departments, currentt usability/performance and cosmetic BeOS

@nickwallette6201

3 жыл бұрын

@@alerey4363 I don't think it's the same. BeOS was about way more than a re-skin of Linux. A lot of what made it special then is easy to find in any modern OS now, but it was happening 20 years ago: Fast boot; a light, responsive, stable UI; smooth multitasking; the building-blocks APIs, like translators, that made adding functionality simple... It was also really easy to use. It was OS X before Apple had released OS 8. Novel then... so sufficiently advanced that it appeared to be magic. But not anymore. I'm not sure Haiku can ever capture that lightning in a bottle, since hardware and software have since evolved to make any computer feel as powerful now as BeOS did to my Pentium II in 2000. The time to replace BeOS is long gone, and the number of people for whom that lineage is significant, shrinks every day. At this point, if they were to completely finish it tomorrow, it would just be another anonymous project OS with some level of POSIX compatibility. Its reason for existing now is to _look_ like a 20-year-old OS, and run 20-year-old software, which isn't compelling enough to restart the inertia lost back then. It's kind of heart-breaking. I really wanted Zeta.. er.. Haiku to fill the void left behind BeOS. But it has to first catch up to where BeOS was two decades ago, and then start over, evolving a quarter of a century behind the state of the art. The shortcut is to graft in code from modern *nix, but then it's just another *nix.

“Wear a dustmask too if you have one” 2020: we got that covered

@iroll

3 жыл бұрын

;-;

@achimboers

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, that didn’t age well …

"Is that all the balls you've got, Santa?" I'm rolling.

"Or this theme which could have been the inspiration for Windows XP" OOOOHHHH SNAP!!!

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

:)

Everybody gangsta until "HAVE A GREAT SUMMER VACATION AND *DON'T* BE WAITING FOR SCHOOL NEXT YEAR!!"

27:27 is perhaps the greatest moment ever in a KZread retro computing video. But you can't fast forward to it, you have to watch the video all the way through to get the full effect.

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Matt! Glad you enjoyed that.

@tylertyler82

2 жыл бұрын

It was always fun recording minutes long sounds on school Macs because the entire system locked up while the alert sounds played 😆

@ryeb

Жыл бұрын

agreed. it's an incredible payoff.

Epic video. Thank you! There's so much more than just the 9500 crammed into this video - I love how you weave in a reference to the then-unfolding disaster of Copland, for example. I also love the humour sprinkled through your videos - it really works somehow to bring the hardware and the history to life. Well done.

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Tom. I really appreciate your detailed review of the video. It means a lot when I get feedback like this.

The most thing I like is digging what’s on the hard drives when you buy a second hand computer, if you’re lucky they didn’t format it or after a successful hard drive repair… also the “have a great summer vacation” alert… is it real? 😂

@65scribe

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, that was a legitimate alert sound on the 9500 when I got it from the guy. The same guy who left his email box on there, having fun with the phishing scam.

August 15th 1995 is when I started working at a major Apple distributor in Mexico. I lived all this first hand. I was 17 at the time. Got trained in Photoshop 3.5 to do demos at national conferences. I'd like a 9500/132 again. That was the machine I had sitting in my desk. Proudly at eye level, with a 17'' Sony Trinitron built Apple Multisync Monitor.

@65scribe

5 жыл бұрын

Alejandro Lobos Kunstmann Thanks for sharing your experience with the 9500. So you started working about the time Windows 95 released. Interesting times!

@alobosk

5 жыл бұрын

@@65scribe yes. I went to an expo called Comdex/CommExpo in Mexico City those days. Be Inc were presenting their PowerPC BeOS boxes, along with Motorola, Intel, Cyrix... It was crazy. By the next year I was one of the speakers with Apple Latinamerica on those expos. I was only 18yo. Everything was so exciting. I still was a fervent Amiga user though. Ten years after that I met with some of the Amiga engineers. One of them even have me his personal Amiga. I'm such a computer history buff. I lived it. Nowadays doesn't feel as exciting as it was in those days.

@65scribe

5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting!

@alobosk

5 жыл бұрын

@@65scribe Can you sell me one?

New sub!! Man, it such a relief to find a great Apple review channel since my beloved Jason Macintosh Museum is no longer posting, I can only watch the same videos over and over again a few times. Keep up the good work!! Love what you do!

@65scribe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts ... and subscribing! When I started the series in 2014, Jason’s channel was the only good Mac channel I could find. I’m glad my videos are filling the gap.

I am thrilled that I managed to find you channel. I remember how badly I wanted one of these when I was a kid. Please make a video about the 9600!

@65scribe

10 ай бұрын

I’m glad you found my channel amongst everything else. The 8600/9600 tower design is probably my favourite of any that Apple produced, so a video is pretty much assured.

Best overview of the 90s Apple situation I've seen. Gold👍 subbed

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

I really love your videos! I was an Apple Developer from 1984 through 1996, and watching them really brings back a sense of nostalgia for those times. Thank you! :)

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your message! I'm glad to hear the videos passed muster with a Developer from that time!

Awesome video! It was interesting to learn what was happening at Apple 1994-1997. There's a tendency to gloss over that timeframe and just focus on Jobs' return in 1997. It seems that, unlike Spindler, Amelio was a competent CEO and was taking the right actions.

@65scribe

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That's the impression I got from everything I watched and read. I don't think Amelio could have brought Apple back as dramatically as Steve Jobs, but he did all the necessary dirty work to keep Apple from disappearing before the famous comeback. He does deserve more credit than history gives him.

@drygnfyre

3 жыл бұрын

Amelio understood, like Jobs did, that Apple was not Microsoft and could not survive trying to pretend they were. I doubt Apple ever could have successfully sold Mac clones. And even if they could, it would have been a decade earlier than their actual attempt. As Jobs pointed out, Apple was highly profitable during the early 90s, but that faded fast. They lost their brand identity and their products became dull and uninspiring.

I've been watching a boatload of your videos, ironically the first video I ever watched I watched previous to this one, on retrobriting. What a tour! Keep it up, I love the creativity of your edits. Truly unique.

That machine just came in right when I was working at a major Apple dealer in Mexico City. I've got to unbox and have fun with so many of them.. Particularly the /132.. Paired with those gigantic Trinitron displays from the day. God they were so heavy. I still can smell the new-smell of those days. The smell of new. Unboxing the keyboards and mice, then those SCSI AGFA scanner and the color LaserWriters. It was September 1995 when I started. My first job. I was 17yo. I felt like playing "office". Happy times.

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your memories of the 9500, Alejandro!

Amazing! Nice to see a new video again! Have been looking forward to it for a long time! Enjoyed it!

Hey, just discovered your channel and I love it! I had an original 128K Mac, a Mac Plus, an SE, a 9500 and a 1st-generation G4, and I eagerly watched the videos for each. Wonderful detail; fascinating insights and nostalgia. Thank you so much for doing all this! Jordan in NYC

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Jordan. Thanks so much for the feedback, and I'm glad they brought back enjoyable memories from your long history with Macintosh. And great to hear from NYC. I was only there once in 1998 but loved it. I also got to see the new Powerbook G3 at a store while I was there.

I've been eagerly awaiting this video and I wasn't disappointed.

Love the channel. Really like your humour and your delivery is spot on. And the information is really in depth and interesting! More please!

@65scribe

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for the feedback! I do have another video in the works.

Thank you. I was hoping that you continue making these Apple videos. Keep up the good work.

Absolutely fantastic. You don't know the hype I build for every nee video.

This was only the second video I watched of yours, but you sold me with that Easter egg. That's some good research! Keep up the good work. 👍

@65scribe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, TuNnL!

That promotional video for clone makers... was that the original music? The tongue-in-cheek style the visuals were produced with really made me laugh too. I love how you include so much other period media in these. A lot of other history-focused channels show pics, not video. Especially finding the more obscure internal videos. I swear, back in 2008 I watched every Apple archive video the speciality channels posted, and you’re still including tons of things I’ve never seen (I usually recognise about half of them)

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

That clone video was an internal project by Dave Garr, who wrote and sang it. He released it to KZread in later years so others could enjoy it. Thanks for your feedback on the video! I’m glad that I could surprise you with some video content that you haven’t seen.

Oh man, the only thing I remembered about the Mac clones was that video at 5:20 with the song "I think we're a clone now". Thanks!

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Hah! You’re welcome!

I just recently discovered your channel... I have no idea how, since I am not a Mac guy, but I love it, and I am learning about these machines through your fun videos. Keep it up!

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for the feedback! Great to hear you found the channel by accident yet still enjoy the video series.

It was the startup chime that blew me away. I loved that machine.

Your videos are really well made and super nice! I can't wait for a new one!

@65scribe

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! I appreciate you watching and commenting. I'm working on a couple more videos right now, so I hope you'll stay tuned.

This channel, and Jasons Macintosh Museum are the best Apple Mac related content on KZread - end of story.

Wow! I just discovered your channel. This was a fantastic presentation of not just the Apple 9500, but also the historical context surrounding it's creation. I forgot a number of things before seeing this video, such as, why Apple called the new operating system "Mac OS 8" rather than "System 8". And great job getting that 9500 going again. It obviously was suffering from a serious lack of love. When you have a chance, I'd love to see a presentation for the PowerMac 8600. I've kept mine all these years to have a platform that can still read floppy and Zip discs as well as being able to run the odd 68000 code program that I never upgraded to PowerPc code.

@65scribe

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! I'm glad you found the channel. I look forward to doing a video on the 8600. One of my favorite Macs. I first saw one at a Mac Users Group when it first came out. I had a mere 6100 at home, so I was amazed at how big and powerful it looked and, I agree, still useful today to access those old files.

Yet another great video. I'm diggin' your channel!

I have a Power Mac 9600/300 that has literally never worked right. It's a shame, because it's a cool machine and powerful as hell by 1997 standards.

Your videos are almost meditative, I really enjoy watching them. Good job, keep it on!

@65scribe

5 жыл бұрын

Rafa Greenfur I’ve never heard the videos described that way. Thanks and I’m glad you are liking what I’m doing!

Damn, this is great channel.

just stumbled upon your video, not a classic mac guy but still very interesting! also like your video style a lot. great job!

@65scribe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank very much! That's high praise from someone who is not really into the machines. I'm glad you found the channel!

I remember the joy in the Mac community when Jobs returned in the late 90s. Your video retrospectives bring back the joy of the Apple we all knew before they became a global juggernaut. Thanks for the hard work making these videos.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for sharing your impression of the the videos. Always interesting to hear the feedback.

Thanks for the new video!

3rd time through, always a joy! Keep it up!

Recently got an e-waste beige G3 tower and started refurbishing it. Got it to boot after some work, but no display. Tried different fixes for a couple months to no avail. A couple of Saturday nights ago I was relaxing with a nightcap while watching tech videos like I often do (esp with lockdown and all) and decided to rewatch this one. Got to the part about the 9500 booting but showing no display and I was like "wait what?" A couple days later I swapped out the RAM on the beige G3 and, sure enough, display worked.

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

It's great to hear the video actually helped somebody. I was actually nearly finished making the 9500 video when I finally got it working. I had almost given up on it myself. Thanks for sharing that story.

Thanks, good episode. I was working for digital equipment corp during this time and used a microVAX as my personal computer. I missed most of the 90s Apple endeavors, I’m a big macOS fan/user and appreciate the history of the going’s on that I missed.

@65scribe

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting! I'm glad I could fill you in.

This was a long video but man was it good the whole way through. The bad RAM skit was great.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Good to hear you liked the bit about the bad RAM. Hope you liked the Elf Bowling mention, too.

Loving it! Best and funniest retro Apple channel on KZread!

@65scribe

6 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! Thanks for sticking with the channel and watching!

@Explainercaptain

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Keep it up! Can't wait for the next video P.S. Missed the "Damn" here 2:02 :-)

@Explainercaptain

6 жыл бұрын

We need the "Damn!", as a downloadable MP3 warning sound effect for our Macs :-)

@65scribe

6 жыл бұрын

Hah! I don't know why I never thought of that!

Thanks for continuing to keep the early-to-mid-90s Mac flame alive. A time most people would choose to forget if they remembered it in the first place, but for us select few, one filled with many great memories. An ask: do you happen to have a link to an Apple business video produced in that time that featured, presumably among other things, someone sketching a helicopter car and it turning into a 3D rendering and flying away? I think I saw a glimpse of it in one of your earlier videos.

@65scribe

6 жыл бұрын

I agree. Thanks for commenting. The helicopter is familiar. It appears briefly in Dave Garr's video that I reference, But, yeah, I was trying to think where that might have come from. I'll let you know if I see it.

What a fantastic video...brought back so many memories.

@65scribe

Жыл бұрын

That's great to hear that you enjoyed the video, and that it stirred some good memories from the past.

Yessss new video thank you and I’ve never seen a computer so dirty I feel bad that you had to touch it

What do you mean! I rock out to the quicktime video like all day!

These presentations are overall informative and hilarious.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!!

I have fond memories of this era of Mac from when I worked in newspapers in the 90's and 00's. Most of our machines were Quadras and 8100s but there were a couple of 9500s too before the G3 arrived. There were still a couple of Quadras under my desk with ISDN cards in them when I left in 2009. They had been running 24/7 for the best part of 20 years by that time.

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Great hearing how these macs were used in their ‘working life’ and how long! Wow!

@totallypixelated

4 жыл бұрын

@@65scribe Yes, the newspaper I worked at (a national daily in the UK) had somewhere in the region of 500 macs on desks at one point. Quadras were the workhorses for many years with the higher powered machines more geared towards heavy lifting in Photoshop. ISDN was heavily used for artwork file transfer from clients for years where I worked in the advertising department. We had seven or eight Macs each with four or eight channel ISDN cards at its peak. This was latterly replaced, first with FTP, then a web based product when people started to get access to fast internet. I helped oversee the rollout of Windows machines in 2005 or 2006 running the Adobe suite of applications which replaced the Macs with Quark. The most interesting rare Mac I used was probably a Sixty Eight Thousand Inc. Dash 30fx which I used with a drum scanner in the early '90's at a pre-press bureau. This was a modified IIfx in a huge steel tower case.

@totallypixelated

4 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_conversion#Sixty_Eight_Thousand,_Inc.

I'm always glad, when I see someone putting lot of effort to videos about good old powemacs. Thank you...

Amazing video. I especially enjoyed the in depth look at the motherboard

@65scribe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Good to hear you liked the motherboard overview. That makes it worthwhile cleaning that board up. :)

That section with the piano music keep me coming back again and again.

That "Hell Yeah!" fist followed by the music was the best part of this.

@65scribe

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed that bit

Very informative and entertaining retrospective! You packed more than just a 9500 review in.

@65scribe

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much. I'm glad you liked it.

I love your editing skills..so subtly funny hahah

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Chanjai! Good to hear that.

Finally, tech reviews that are almost the same as mine, except better than mine...

I love your sense of humor. "yeah well it's NOT FOR YOU" got me cracking up

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rob! Good to hear that someone found that funny.

I’ll never get sick of these videos. And Marathon references

@65scribe

26 күн бұрын

Thanks so much! I’m glad they have some replay value… like Marathon.

I really wanted one of those! BTW you have the coolest voice!

Man, I love your videos and your sense of humor, immd:)

I had a PowerMac 7500. Loved that machine. This was a great video. Thank-you.

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Joel! The 7500 was a great Mac. Thanks for watching.

Another great Mac, and another great video. Thank you.

Enjoyed your videos. I had a 7500 that eventually ended up with a G3 ZIF daughter card. Was a good time to work on graphics and desktop publishing.

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much. The 7500 was a nice machine and you were able to keep up with the times with the upgrade. Cool.

Another great vid! Love the comedy!

Oh, the memories...thanks for the trip back, you have a new subscriber. 22:18 Made In Thailand.....oh if we only knew back then what we know now and paying the price for our greed.

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the nostalgia trip and thanks for subscribing!

3:30 Wise words, companies who make "too much" profit won't do it for a long time. Looking at Apple's website... hmm.

Wow what a tune at the end!

Have a great summer vacation! And DON'T be late for school next year!!!

Nicely done homage to Dr. Strangelove. And wow that alert sound, I hope you *didn't* get rid of it - encourages you to not make any mistakes that'd trigger the sound hahaa

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

yes, I love that scene from Dr. Strangelove. It was fun vaguely recreating it. I'm glad to hear you recognized it for what it was. And that alert... When I was looking through the hard drive, it froze, so I did the first thing you do when troubleshooting.. randomly hit keys on the keyboard. But then it kicked back in, and that sound effect played about 25 times. That was a long few minutes...

Just picked up a 9500/150. Looking forward to cleaning it up and trying it out.

@65scribe

Жыл бұрын

Very cool!

You are a funny and informative guy. I like your videos a lot

@65scribe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated!

Wonderful explanation of the 7.5.x naming and differences...loved the “you’re confusing me!” :-)

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joe! Glad to hear I’m not alone in thinking that was funny. :)

Addicted bad to this channel!

These videos are just awesome. I keep coming back to check for new ones. Please feed us :-)

These videos are peak comedy, at least for me.

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

I think in the mid-90s, most consumers just wanted something fast that could connect them to the internet and maybe play a game or two.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

When I bought my 6100 in 1994, I wasn't even thinking about internet. It was about high resolution colour, bringing video into the computer, CD-ROM software .. and, yeah, speed and a game or two.

@drygnfyre

3 жыл бұрын

The Internet was really more a late 90s/early 00s thing. The iMac was released in May 1998 and had expressly that purpose. The early/mid 90s was all about "multimedia," which basically meant a computer with a CD drive (and speakers). Games from that era like Myst really played into that. The transition was around 1996-97 or so. You can see a big difference in how Win95 and Win98 were marketed. The latter had a lot of Internet-centric features because that was when the perception of computers changed from "a luxury" to "a necessity."

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

@@drygnfyre Great summary, Joseph!

Good old times. Had a 9500MP back then as my main dtp machine. Together with an adaptec 2940uw I think it was and 2x external 6.4gb LaCie drives. Only about the graphics card I’m not sure. I think it was a radius in that machine. Kept it for working till 99 before I switched to a G3. Lots of memories

Fantastic F.U. line drop, Mark. Thanks for the reminder of that iconic expression from the original/UK House of Cards.

Great stuff! You got a huge talent, bravo!

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. Good to hear that!

This video should come with an extremem horror warning!

Love these videos... great to watch

@65scribe

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I’ll hopefully have a new one posted this weekend.

@seshpenguin

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome, I'm looking forward to watching it.

Came for the classic mac info. Stayed for the humor.

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video, Alexander. Thanks for the feedback!

Great videos, I really enjoyed that one as it brought back many memories (showing my ages). The 9500/9600 had 6 PCI slots, but the lower ones didn't work that well. I can't remember the details, but some cards would not work at all in the lower slots (USB cards for examples) and this problem got really bad when you used a G4 upgrade card. People ended up doing the "PCI card dance", trying all sorts of combinations to even get their Mac to boot. Memory interleaving was great on paper. Interleave the RAM and your benchmark tool claimed a 10% performance increase, wooooooo. In real life (ie with applications), you actually lost speed, awwwww. Mind you, this may have had something to do with the mix and match of different RAM sticks.

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Eric! Those are great hands-on details that you don't read about anywhere.

@labrador_wow_wow

4 жыл бұрын

@@65scribe Pleasure. I have a couple of forgotten funny stories about the B&W G3 if you ever make a video

I was keeping an eye out for a 9500, but eBay thought a beige Power Macintosh G3 tower was close enough, so I got one of those instead.

Fantastic video. You sir are brilliant!

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5 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! I’m glad you are enjoying the videos.

These old beige Macintoshes were still beautiful. Especially compared to the Wintel competition.

I think the main problems for old macs are resumed in: 1. Bad capacitors, 2. Bad RAM, 3. Bad batteries, 4. Exxon Valdezed Hard drives.

Very funny and informative, thanks for the video!!

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4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the feedback!

These were all over my college computer lab circa 1999-2000.

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4 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I'm sure they were all scrapped within a few years :(

This video is great! I like also powermacs. I had a PowerPC 7100 in 1998. Now I have a Mac mini g4 to play old games

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alexandros! You’re right. Those old machines are great for playing the old games and very inexpensive.

@alexandrossotiropoulos5621

3 жыл бұрын

@@65scribe Those cases that the Powermacs have still looks awesome today!

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

Agree!

I love the part showing the Mac copying and emptying the trash in the 1996 version of MacOS. I promised myself not to mention the Amiga could do that in 1985. I lied.

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

It’s unfortunate that the popular platforms of choice had little to do with technical merits.

@10MARC

4 жыл бұрын

@@65scribe Still true to this day!

I just love you Canadian 🇨🇦 humor 😆

@65scribe

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you... and on Canada Day! Nice!

So many awesome tidbits of this “interesting” time for Apple Computer Inc. I have a soft spot for these machines even though they were extremely hamstrung by the cruft that was the classic Mac OS. I was so excited for Copland however that never eventuated due to feature creep, the 604 and 604e were beastly CPU’s for the time - check out how tiny the die and package are compared to Intel’s P6 - the Pentium Pro!

@65scribe

6 жыл бұрын

Good info! Thanks for commenting.

@Dant2142

6 жыл бұрын

The main reason why the original P6 (Pentium Pro) had such a big die was because it was the first CPU with the L2 cache on-die and it ran at the CPU's clockspeed with no dividers. 1MB of L2 even in the 1996 models.

I subbed because of his funny humor and cool videos.

@65scribe

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Good to hear that.

8:06 that beep scared the sh*t out of me

Facinating stuff as always! Did applications of this day need to be optimised for two processors to put it to any use?

@65scribe

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, but first the Daystar Genesis MP models and the 9500/180MP needed system software installed (jointly developed by Apple and Daystar) to activate a basic form of symmetric multiprocessing. Apple would later integrate it into the OS. The applications also had to be multiprocessor aware. As with Altivec and then the revival of multiprocessing in the G4, Adobe jumped in early to add support for multiprocessors. Multiprocessing didn't have time to catch on, and there were not that many applications supporting it in the end.

@nickwallette6201

3 жыл бұрын

The PPC release of BeOS did, which is why I'm insanely jealous that someone found an MP model in the wild. Guess I'll have to slum with my 9500/200. sigh...

@65scribe

3 жыл бұрын

You make a good point about the BeOS. The funny thing about that MP is that it sat with an asking price of $90 for many months and finally dropped to $75. A bit of a drive to pick it up, but worth it for the video.