Apple Computers 1995 Promotional Video "The Martinettis Bring Home A Computer"

Promotional video from Apple Computers from 1995 showcasing the Performa series of computers.

[@WilfForrow]

OMG. That dad was me! I’m not ashamed to say it brought tears to my eyes. When I retired (from IT), the first thing I bought was an iPhone and the second was a Mac.

[@McVaio]

That sucks dude, I'm sorry.

[@fuosdi64]

What are you up to nowadays pop?

[@Gillian_Seed]

Wait you were the dad? Was the kid tj the one kid from the sandlot, Squints? Chauncey leopardi also who was the grandfather I hear it was the guy who played the guy at the mom and pop store from Seinfeld

[@haroldfarthington7492]

That’s cool

[@stargazerlaurent6780]

I remember watching this at 330 am one night in the 1990s after Red Dwarf and SNL. I had been drinking and was so lost. For those 30 minutes I was among the Martinettis and their Performa and I wasn’t so alone

[@Bklyn93]

Glad you got past it, and are doing better now

[@Notester82]

Despite this being a promotional video, I kinda appreciate the coziness of this saga with the Martinettis! Thanks for the upload!

[@McVaio]

The good old coziness of the 90s!

[@NightLinks]

I remember watching "The martinettis bring home a computer" back in 1995 every friday, saturday, sunday from 12:00 AM - 4:00 AM. Just because I wanted that performa 630cd so bad but couldn't afford it at that time. Then 4 years later ( 1999 ) when I was able to buy myself a computer I went with windows to play multiplayer games. Around 2010 I started transitioning to apple by getting myself an iPad, iPhone.. and in 2019 I got myself a 12" MacBook and now a 21" iMac.

[@TotallyLincoln-u1x]

I know right. I also own a iPad after I transitioned from an Android tablet.

[@conniebauer4128]

My favorite sitcom of the 90s

[@the_Carson]

Martinetti Cinematic Universe

[@bretsteinmetz3342]

I want a shirt that reads, “And then it hit me…” and on the back it reads, “Fletcher was making a point!”

[@Nathan-mu1pz]

Very cheesy yet charming. The dog at the end was the perfect unexpected punchline lol

[@JoeRice]

Somehow I had this on VHS when I was a kid, about 8/9 years old. I watched it many times, dreaming of getting a Mac. Can still remember getting our first Performa, running OS 7.5.3. Good times.

[@vicfirth1]

This infomercial is the whole reason why my family bought a Mac, and why I have been a Mac person ever since. Thank you for putting this video up.

[@generalshakewell]

So even in hindsight you're ok with all the lies you were told about the PC?

[@vicfirth1]

@@generalshakewell What are you talking about? I don't care. I use PC and Mac to this day. What is the issue?

[@LilGonkYT]

​@@generalshakewell why are you such a tool? Why does it upset you that he uses Mac 😂 weirdo

[@FrustratedApe]

I remember having this video! I'm in the UK. In 1995 I was between a Performa 450 and a home-built PC for college...Dad bought the Performa 5320CD and I went down the PC route until 2007...

[@FrustratedApe]

Quite funnily I was tasked to setup a Compaq Prolinea Net1/25 like the one in the video a few years later, it was pretty slow even with a 486DX2/66 upgrade. 😂

[@keeyoni]

Lol Grandpa is sending D pics on Roses' DM

[@Kylefassbinderful]

more like faxing polaroids of his D lol

[@natalieshark]

This always felt like an episode of a show I would have watched. I loved the Sandlot and clearly had no qualms with advertising.

[@humanharddrive1]

i’m so happy for granpa and rose😭

[@OdaSwifteye]

I resent how wholesome this apple ad is.

[@roninxix4428]

OMG! They had an Incredible Universe sales man, that was such an awesome store. I used to work at Best Buy but I would always got to Incredible Universe since it was so much more interesting to visit, such a shame they all closed down and people didn’t get to experience what it was like to visit one of them.

[@MichaelCharles-zn6rh]

Went to high school with the older brother. good guy.

[@McVaio]

I'm sure you did.

[@MichaelCharles-zn6rh]

@@McVaio why would that be something to brag about? he was a nice guy. played John Proctor in our production of The Crucible. just giving the guy credit for being good dude.

[@ScottHillEnglish]

@@MichaelCharles-zn6rh They don't give the actors credit here, though the one kid is clearly Squints from The Sandlot. What was your classmate's name? I'd bet these actors would love to finally get some credit for their work 30 years later.

[@LorchVHS]

We had two all in one Performa 5200s or 5400s in our grade 7 classroom in 1996, networked together with the two in the neighbouring classroom. My friends and I would play four player Marathon deathmatches at big lunch. The school even had at-least one "Director's Edition" in the library. I already loved the aesthetic of these machines in beige but that graphite plastic had me swooning. I never got to own one but always adored those computers, to the point that when the ever popular iMac G3 arrived in my high school, great as it is, I was sad that the Performa was dead. Anyway, thank you for uploading this vid. I'd never seen it before. The audio is out of sync but I'm still grateful that you've shared it.

[@MCKornbred]

lol! This is a cute blast from the past

[@McVaio]

2:34 I love how slow TIM is running on that Mac while Intel computers of the time ran it just fine.

[@scottmartinetti4875]

So crazy to see my last name on something. 😂

[@NigelMontezuma]

7:46 What? You could digitize VHS tapes on your computer before that was even a thing?! Cool!

[@setoth1234]

Would anyone watch this kind of content on Apple TV+?

[@axs203]

They even had hard drives you could upgrade wow

[@OldAussieAds]

5:48 - Not even the people making this promo video understood that you didn't need to double click these icons in Apple's "At Ease" interface.

[@TotallyLincoln-u1x]

Up until Edmark’s “Kid Desk” came along.

[@CartoonPhreak]

I am getting a new Macintosh computer from The Apple Store in Baybrook Mall while my girlfriend, Alexis, enjoys playing modern games, listening to music (iTunes), watching movies (DVD) and playing her pink guitar (Garage Band).

[@mattreedah]

They need to bring back e-world

[@TotallyLincoln-u1x]

I heard you. Apple is going to relaunch eWorld in 2025.

[@Zedek]

Kinda funny that a 1995 Performa runs TIM (The Incredible Machine) with such poor performance (heh!) but our Pentium 100 ran it - and DooM II - like a charm!^^

[@hardw0od]

I had a Power Mac 6500/250 around the time that this ad ran. That Power Mac is basically a Performa. It ran laps around the PCs that we had in our house at the time.

[@McVaio]

​@@hardw0od Even in Apple's own infomercial it ran like shit.

[@kenm2709]

this is what my life should have been, but it seems the people in my life and family were not supportive and here I am today alone with no family of my own or career.

[@doctorsam9200]

I'm sorry to hear that, Ken

[@LatinaCreamQueen]

Ken, I hope you're doing well.

[@plateshutoverlock]

Before this, people were upset that their family did not live up to "The Brady Bunch". Very few families live up to what we see on TV. Also, the idealistic family has pretty much disappeared from TV in recent times.

[@Player_Zhirow]

@@plateshutoverlock It disappeared with the creation of Married with Children, which normalized dysfunctional family interactions. It was made as satire and social commentary and basically became the blueprint for today. Like how Idiocracy went from outrageous satire to actual historical documentary.... 😐

[@Syngekhoomei]

I had a 630CD. Definitive computing experience

[@plateshutoverlock]

Obviously that Mac had a hardware MPEG encoder/decoder. If it was using just tbe CPU to render frames it would not be able to play video at full screen given the typical cpu speeds of the era.

[@phipli]

Yeah, the Performa 630 they're using had an optional MPEG decoder. You couldn't do full screen MPEG in software until the PowerPC macs.

[@McVaio]

​@@phipliThis Performa had a PowerPC CPU.

[@phipli]

​​@@McVaio it says Performa 630CD @5:17 that is a 33MHz 68LC040. @10:15 the box says 635CD, which would also be a 68LC040 at 33MHz.

[@MinifigNewsguy]

This was an infomercial

[@johnpierce2095]

Whats a computer. This must be in the future lol

[@danem2215]

The 630CD was $1850 base.

[@nfugitt89]

Take a shot every time they say multimedia

[@the_big_har]

man what happened...?

[@bretsteinmetz3342]

14:08… does anyone know the program he’s using here?

[@IanNBF]

Does anyone know the cast?

[@bretsteinmetz3342]

I actually saw “Grandpa” in Beverly Hills Cop III as the bartender near the end of the movie.

[@Manx123]

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[@woodss82]

Macs were and still are ahead of their time because of the vision of Steve Jobs.

[@danem2215]

This was a decade after he left Apple and years before they got a bailout from Microsoft. The Steve Jobs dickriding from Apple fans is nuts.

[@devaraft]

​@@danem2215Steve Jobs saving Apple isn't an overstatement but to attribute all of Apple achievements to Jobs is nuts. PowerMac and PowerBook are incredibly good, they have to save Macintosh product line that Jobs created which was a disaster post hype moment. Not to mention amazing printer they produce. Also they did try with Newton and System 7. They fucked up a lot of things but never really do something so stupid that it immediately ruin the company.

[@McVaio]

Stege Jobs hadn't been involved for 10 years at this point in time, and Apple was headed towards bankruptcy. The iMac gave Apple a new lease of life 3 years later, but it was Gil Amelio's idea, who'd also managed to keep Jon Ive on board.

[@inaritenko]

Frank never used the computer

[@bretsteinmetz3342]

23:10 and yet he still got nine points?

[@RG2k07]

Too bad Macs suck nowadays... I've owned a few of them. Now, I just build my own PC's.

[@McVaio]

They also sucked back then.

[@FreeCpRareAccounts1]

(filling syringe with Trimix) yeah I'm a (swallows 20mg Cialis) power user (puts on tension ring) would you like to see more, Rose?

[@pdeXlol]

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