Hello there, I'm Steve. Mac84 is a place where old Apple and Macintosh computers (and other random technological goodies) are discussed, reviewed, and demoed like it's 1995. I also perform repairs of these systems during live streams and enjoy you tuning in to say hello!
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Thank you for the honest review. This is the only objective review of this scanner in all of KZread, and it took me days to find it. Days of indecision, days I spent wondering whether to buy it or not. Today I was one step away from buying it used for 300 euros, but I'm having second thoughts. I sell books online and need good color photos. This however seems disastrous from many points of view, especially regarding color images. I need front and back photos of the cover, and some internal images. I haven't found a suitable solution yet. A normal mid-level camera cannot overcome shadows and I don't have professional lighting, which is too expensive and requires technical skills. The flatbed scanner on my multifunction printer is inadequate and too small. I haven't tried a lightbox but I'm afraid that the reflections from the LEDs are inevitable and in any case I would have difficulty keeping the pages open and taking the photo with the other hand. From this point of view, the CZUR seemed excellent. I thought it was fast, guaranteed good lighting and good rendering, and cropped images well. But then if the software goes crazy, something is wrong. There are high quality A3 flatbed scanners but they cost thousands of dollars. I'm disoriented.
How to put drastic emulator save file to Delta??
Hey there... I bought a Rev A off eBay about two years ago. I had one in 1999, and later gave it away. But, I missed little Mothra, and so I bought Mothra 2. Thing works surprisingly well. Had to open it once to replace the PRAM battery and reset a little black button in there (have since forgotten its name), but it's been doing just fine. Using Illustrator on it to recreate some of the original Star Trek computer displays. I may use AE 5.5 on it as well to animate those (or I'll bring the files over to my 2020 Macbook Pro running SheepShaver). My only disappointment is its inability to jump onto the internet full blast. I can access a few sites, but most sites, and e-mail, I cannot get on this machine.
All vintage machines of this era have older web browsers which cannot understand the new security or SSL standards of modern pages and protocols. Sadly it’s a common issue across all vintage Macs, PCs, etc. There are proxy projects and things to bypass this (like using a Rapsberry Pi to act as an in-between) or using a website like theoldnet, but none of them may be perfect.
@@Mac84 Never heard of those ... I am intrigued...
Anyone know if i can run this emulator on PC, and have cross saves between PC and iPhone?
Mac G3 mini tower is my favourite, looking forward to in-depth review, test and upgrades
Would be gr8 to see PowerMacG3 tower review and upgrades
You remove 100% rust by sand blasting then primer
It would be great to see power mac g3 tower review
Please can you review Power Mac G3 tower? I do have 333mhz 1mb cache version
Please can you review Power Mac G3 tower? I do have 333mhz 1mb cache version
It's too bad you couldn't get a chance to see the Living Computers museum when it was still open. They had a lot of this kind of stuff in working condition where you could use them, learn BASIC programming, play old PC games, etc.
Great stuff thanks for sharing and preserving.
You’d think they would’ve offered to ship things to your house that you couldn’t fly home with.
I have the 22 inch wide screen version, made in Japan! I read that it retailed for $2999 when it was new!!
I Need a pippin
What a score!
The card was legend... IF you set up a striped array and had the minimal unencumbered system... It was early days, but Radius was hitting the objectives hard!
Good video
I feel like I’ve been here before 😅
Much appreciated. JPG is a dealbreaker, no good for digital archiving. I think I'll stick to taking books/magazines apart and using my Fujitsu, regardless of how much work it is to unbind an average book.
Yeah, it’s such a shame. Glad this info was helpful to you!
Okay, the letter designation for the Macintosh 2 line is as follows: "II" obviously means Macintosh 2, "c" means compact, "x" means Motorola 68030 processor, "i" means integrated video and "f" means fast. I'm not sure what the "s" and "v" mean.
Very informative Steve, thanks!
As a long time Mac user (since 1988), I still found this overview quite useful. Thanks for the presentation.
I'm still sad the G5's thermal issues meant this design had to go :(
I have a power Macintosh 7200/120 and idk how to find out if a bluescsi is compatible theres not alot of info. Idk how to set it up for my use. I want to use mac os 9.1 but have no idea how to instal it without the disk as well as tools
Please check out my Vintage Apple Basics series, I think that'll help you a lot. The BlueSCSI will work on the Power Mac 7x00 series, including the 7200. Either a Desktop (50-pin) or external (DB25) model will work well. The 7200 can run a maximum of Mac OS 9.1. However, I'd strongly recommend System 7.6 or Mac OS 8.1 - it'll be faster because your 7200 is using an early generation PowerPC 601 processor. You can use the same SD card and BlueSCSI to create a hard drive disk image (Say 1GB, use the tool DiskJockey to do this) and mount an install CD (Like the Apple Legacy CD), and you'll be all set. This is because the BlueSCSI can mount bootable CD images.
2:26 - Is it just me, or does anyone else's mind go straight to Druaga1?
Any chance you could add a blurb on fixing Y2K (or Y2k20) on <OS 9 Macs? I know there's instructions out there but it might be nice to include for less savvy viewers.
Yep, that is now on the list of topics to cover in the future. 👍 Thankfully these days there is more than one way to do it.
That IIci takes me back to college. Nice!
Thanks for taking the time to share this information here !
Hey there... you had given me a link to some folks who might be able to bring some life into my ancient IIcx. I lost the page. Can I impose upon you again to provide it one more time? Sorry, and thanks.
It was likely www.TinkerDifferent.com - there's a lot of folks who hang out there that may be able to help, good luck!
@@Mac84 Grassy ass!
I’m a long time Mac guy, a Mac II with Aldus Pagemaker, Multi Ad Creator, and Illustrator as my day-to-day environment. The last video was great, as this one is. Thanks for the trip down memory lane… life is SO much simpler today.
This is great, I love the format (and excellent evergreen content)! .. also 15:23 NO 😂
I didn’t even see the text until I was editing the video 🤣
The only thing that could make this better... maybe work on a book with the same script / chapters, and self publish it on LeanPub. I'd love to have one of these Mac84 Mac Repair Reference Bibles on hand
great video
Sadly there is barely any Classic Mac around here locally. Once in a blue moon there's one and most of the times people know its rare and want lots of €.
Wow its been a couple years since the first video... i was starting to think you gave up on this series 😂
Great Job Steve Thanks for the tips
A very informative and comprehensive explanation Steve. I learned a few new things I didn't know. Thank you!
Same here. When growing up, I saw very few Apple systems in the wild. Other than Apples in schools, the few Apples I ran into were home systems owned by teachers. After graduating from junior college, I got a job at ZDS in their repair depot. On the other side of the wall in the building we were in was the Heath Educational Store. Because of the education discounts and later demand from educators, the Apples/ Macs out sold the ZDS products. They eventually dropped Apple products due to conflict of interest. The storefront shut down soon afterwards.
"Time makes fools of us all" - and I have nothing BUT time!
Jeez, leave some information for other folks to share! 😂 Truly, great video; so much great stuff in here!
Please cover Laplink Mac
Imagine if you apply for a new job and the this guy is the owner, you get to your cubicle and theirs this Apple Macintosh classic there, what is your first thought
I have found a member of my people
Boot it up (Cmd + Option + X + O)
‘Will it run Doom’ Answer; no Used and loved these macs when I was a kid. But man they were slow! The Performa 430 is one of the best looking computers ever made though.
Haha, they’ll run Doom - but you’ll probably want a Power Macintosh as anything slower will struggle to get a respectable frame rate without a thumbnail window size.
If you compare, lets say, a 40mhz 68040 mac, to a 40mhz 486, they both run Doom similarly, the major difference is that the dos pc is able to output the monitor to 320x200 resolution so the picture appears bigger, most older macs just can't change resolutions on stock displays so you're stuck with 640x480 and a small picture in the middle or a massive performance hit if you try to make it larger and stretch it closer to 640x480
@@thomasb.900 that’s really interesting. Explains a lot! I was just thinking the other day, after watching a 100% playthrough of Prince of Persia. Why some Mac games looked so much better. PoP, Wolfenstein etc. Looked and sounded so much better than on pc. What was the reason?
@@Thomas1984. that i can't tell you, maybe some of these games were more optimized for the mac, all i know is people tend to trash talk the mac port of doom and i think it's not 100% fair because of the resolution thing i pointed out
When's gonna be the next stream?
Hopefully in a few days!
1987 sounds familiar
I'm glad you like Re-PC, it's one of my favorite places to geek out on my day off.
11:59 - What was in the Recycling Bin? Obviously, you didn’t want to show it, because of the KZread Police.
I kind of miss the sounds of old HDDs in my iMac. Reminds me of velcro tearing.