Apple II - 1977

[@lvlover58]

My grandma still has this and to this day, uses it. She's been using it since the 70s she said to keep track of her finances. I asked her why she never upgraded and she snapped back with "because this is all a computer should do. I like things basic."

[@Formedmiller02]

Cool story wow one in use

[@andrewnorris5415]

lol very likely a joke

[@tbb033]

Some one should tell the old coot, you can use basic on pretty much any computer.

[@TheBanMan]

Gramma don't take none of that bullshit

[@sw1285-q5o]

I am still using kodak no1 camera made in 1914.

[@woneil111]

OMG.... thought I'd never hear the sounds of those drives again.... brings back memories. And YES kiddos.... that's what the drives really sounded like!

[@rbrtck]

One of my Apple Disk ][ drives sounds exactly like this, which is how I remember them from school 35 years ago. However, my other Disk ][ was nonfunctional when I acquired it, and suffered from corrosion and other problems. I did my best to clean and restore it, and although I know I'm not supposed to use grease on the rails for the head, I found that I had to use some Super Lube (PTFE) in order to get the drive to function reliably. A side effect of doing this is that it is by far the quietest Disk ][ I have ever heard. It barely makes a sound and therefore just doesn't sound right, but it works quite nicely now. All other Disk ][s I have ever used are quite loud like the one in the video.

[@RedTroPc]

this comment was from 11 years ago, watch the video again [if ur still alive]

[@woneil111]

@@RedTroPc....................... LOL .... not sure about what the "if ur still alive" was supposed to convey, but still sounds the same for a stepper seek and read for an apple disk..............

[@megachonker5664]

The sounds of those floppy disk drives just took me back to my childhood in the early 80s. This video is a real time machine. Thanks for sharing!

[@lvlc6023]

This is an incredible technology for the time. Nice to see those old computer are still working.

[@wns808]

Nice!! Amazing it took 9 of these Apple II computers linked to an Altair 8800 machine to run the “Tic Tac Dough” gameboard from 1978-1986

[@trombone7]

Priceless. The sense memory that comes back from junior high. That rattling boot up noise. The tshshsht tshshsht tsht-tsht of the drive reading. And the weird expectancy of that first closed square bracket prompt. thx so much.

[@internetexplorer457]

Ah yes, I finally got the new computer

[@A.theboy333]

Congratulations buddy!

[@harsh9558]

Hiw much time it took u to make this comment?

[@isaacjacobroyvivarais2140]

Are you the icon from the Microsoft Windows?

[@immyshack]

@Saksham Gupta r/wooooosh

[@viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621]

@@immyshack this is KZbin, not a reddit mine

[@immamac1995]

I remember putting my finger over the light on the keyboard and pretending I was E.T.

[@AngryChkn]

I remember a kid in class poked out the plastic over the light and burned his finger on it

[@kingoftheopossum4617]

@Barry Manilowa I swear to God, I will take you to Detroit.

[@LiviuDragon]

ET's finger lights up

[@halcyonoutlander2105]

I put my penis on it

[@screamingiraffe]

This computer is what got me started. I remember lugging a greyscale "upgrade" monitor from Sunnyvale, CA to Woodside, CA as an 11 year old from a store called "weird stuff' for $75 . Multiple bus rides, then walking a few miles carry this huge monitor with many stops (it was heavy). At the time my adopted parent's thought computers were "a waste of time". Glad I "wasted' my time learning something useful. Apple ][+, Apple Cat modem, 4 floppy drives, an apple time card, Celerity BBS multi-node with FidoNet, omg those were the days. All paid for as a paperboy for the San Mateo Times Tribune. Kids these days 4k video, 60 fps, pfft. we had CGA, EGA, and omg VGA.. oh boy.. and a whole 1fps with games like Karatika, Temple of Apshai, Zork, ect..

[@Kyavata]

I learned my alphabet on this machine in 1982. My teacher told us computers weren't important yet but that they soon would be. Now I'm starting a second career as a network administrator. Just wow.

[@michaeldavidson8971]

Back in the early 80's there was a kid in the neighborhood, his dad had an Apple II with color monitor, dual floppy drives and tons of games! I mean boxes crammed tight with games on 5.25" floppies. I guess today they'd be considered lame but back then they were really cool. A shame but most of those games are lost forever now.

[@Newsdee]

the games are mostly available online, check this for example: www.virtualapple.org/

[@MetalSonicodraco7342]

not...today we have shinny crap and gold hidden treasures because games can look good but inside of them is a devil searching for you money

[@spingleboygle]

i think old computer games like those are quite fun. i would never consider them “obsolete” or “lame”.

[@WickederThanThou]

In 1977 the retail price of this machine was $1,300. Adjusted for inflation, that was about $5,200 today. O.o

[@00SEVEN28]

WickederThanThou Hmm, Chinese labor?

[@johanvanhoe6679]

WickederThanThou Still a nice investment if you wanted to give your business an advantage.

[@0011peace]

+WickederThanThou Actually, computers have had deflation.

[@frogs_under_your_bed]

the new imac starts at $5000 before upgrades. some things never change

[@ItsJustMilkISwear]

0011peace that's irrelevant. the US dollar is what's inflated, not the computer.

[@sistemasemdelphi5326]

Usei bastante o Apple nos Anos 80. Trabalhava basicamente com um programa chamado TotalWorks, da Royal Software. Na época, esse programa fazia milagres: Banco de Dados, Editor de Textos e Planilha Eletrônica.

[@valeriocatellan]

Eu podia jurar que era esse computador que tinha no objetivo, Colégio onde eu estudava em 1989 e 1990

[@NicanTlacaWarrior1]

I miss the old floppy disks, but I also understand how primitive they are compared to 2 TB pen drives these days. Thanks for the memories.

[@jrmcferren]

Instead of turning the power on and off, you can boot from a floppy disk by entering the BASIC commands "IN#6" or "PR#6" On the Apple //e or later (except Mac 128k, Mac 512k, Mac Plus and Touch Bar Macs), you can use the key combination Open Apple-Control-Reset, Command-Control-Power, or Command-Control-Eject as appropriate.

[@michaelkoch5254]

Das waren noch Zeiten. Denke gerne daran zurück. Aber war auch ein echt teurer Spaß. Hatte damals auch einen wie im Video.

[@fgfgfgfgf2919]

sauteuer Gerät

[@tls5870]

Ah the nostalgia. We had 2 of these in my elementary school library with the catalogue system. If they were occupied, which they usually were, you had to use the 3 x 5 card catalogue drawers. I think they might have been the first computerized card catalogue system.

[@TheHolyMongolEmpire]

Holy crap, I hardly remembered these, I still remember my dad had one of these Apple IIs in like 1989 or 90 because I remember that noise it makes when it turns on.

[@miked4377]

love your collection of these great computers of the past.....they are my number 1 hobby....

[@ericwong432]

This computer is called "Mother" in Alien, 1977.

[@ShyGuy83]

My old grade school still had these computers back in the late 80s and even into the early 90s.

[@TheAxelay]

Damn man!!! I can my 1985 computing days as a primary schooler all the way to 1990!!! The Apple 2 will always have a computering place in my heart even though the Amstrad CPC 464 was my own 1st computer.

[@X-OR_]

Happy 40th Birthday Apple II. Introduced at the West Coast Computer Faire on April 16, 1977

[@jorgeluisperezcastillo1814]

😎

[@Sn4rFx]

looks like Fallout terminals.

[@ariesboom8877]

omg it does

[@momsspaghetti9332]

xD

[@fatmeatball]

OMG WUT? YOU MEAN FALLOUT WITH COLOR GRAPHICS CAME OUT BEFORE TERMINALS LIKE THAT ACTUALLY EXISTED.

[@Alptraumification]

ikr

[@quietdemon8138]

Sn4rFx I think that's what Bethesda based it on

[@danialholt4174]

Seeing one of these in action, back in the day, is why I knew then and there that computers would never be for me.

[@TerrierBram]

Very cool. And it still functions! Woz is a genius.

[@n1vca]

Many thanks - fun to see this old machine in such a perfect state ... my old clone from 1982 is also still running, but in an RF shielded metal IBM compatible case. I hope you realize that when just turning of the power supply, like you do all the time, you may damage the content of the floppy disks by this sudden voltage change in the drive caused by power down. Make your if you turn it off, you lift the lever of the floppy drive to make sure the data head is not down on the media. You can reset the machine by a keyboard shortcut, I believe it was CTRL-Reset ... you may also just do a CTRL-C to abort the current program and then enter "PR#6" if your floppy controller is located in its standard slot ... this will also cause a reboot from disk but without stressing the power supply. This thing also has a built in mini assembler tool ... look at this one Apple IIe - mini assembler demo ... I loved it ... this old 8 bit system is so nice to demonstrate the very basics of computing that are hard to imagine in our high level language and GUI world. It brings back so many fun memories ... really great!

[@aidanmercer9422]

My grandpa has a computer like this. He’s still alive but he told me that he wrote in his will that it will be passed over to me when he passes.

[@laurorm9956]

Eu tive um destes. Gostei muito de ouvir os sons do teclado e discos. Obrigado pelo vídeo, foi uma boa recordação da minha adolescência.

[@MythicMexellic]

Lauro Ren t

[@andreneves2453]

Muito show amigo!!!

[@rexierabbit3280]

1:35 that sound sequence will always be in my memory.

[@dave4shmups]

Great video! I love the sound of those old disk drives! They sound like they're from the Nostromo!

[@gabrielezeta3868]

ahhhh, the nostalgia of the good old times

[@arniesatin2090]

The Apple II+ was a cool computer with great Graphics such as Lo-Res and Hi-Res. Integer and Applesoft Basic is cool. I first got it on Saturday, October 1, 1983 when I was 14 years old.

[@Linopao]

Fantastic. Apple products are always great.

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

My (now, late) maternal grandmother and I took an intro. course on computers, she quit(unofficially) and told me "Keep going, you're going to need this someday", how right she was! BASIC on an IBM 360 1983

[@MrGencyExit64]

This is the computer that introduced me to programming, it holds a special place in my heart even though I work primarily on the "IBM-PC" these days. I don't recall stacking the monitor on top of the drives like that though ;) The monitor fits snugly into the groove on the chassis if you put the disk drives on the side.

[@nadeemshaikh7863]

IBM PC? In 2015?

[@asmc1492]

@@nadeemshaikh7863 all mordern x86 PC are technically IBM PC.

[@nadeemshaikh7863]

@@asmc1492 How exactly?

[@asmc1492]

@@nadeemshaikh7863 because they are x86

[@rbrtck]

@@nadeemshaikh7863 Modern PCs are direct descendants of the original IBM PC. They've changed quite a bit, but that was their starting point, and the underlying computing architecture is still the same. In theory, you should even be able to run MS-DOS and other old software on them. The main issue is not the computer itself, but how the peripherals are different now. MS-DOS is old, so it will not run on modern storage devices--it expects floppy drives and much smaller hard drives. You should be able to specially format a modern hard drive to work, though, and an external USB floppy drive might be supported for MS-DOS through the BIOS. Speaking of which, those have changed in recent years to a different method of booting, although my modern laptop still supports the old way if you set it to. Whether all of this would actually work depends on what else might have changed that I didn't think of, but I assure you that to old software, modern PCs still strongly resemble the original IBM PC, and except for peripherals should still be able to run on them.

[@vaporosoJT]

Apple owes much to the genius mind of WoZ

[@loughkb]

I used to fix the Apple ][ machines in my high schools library. Once a year, it seemed, they'd pop a chip in one of the floppy drives., or need one re-seated on the motherboard. One note, putting the monitor on top of the drives like that might look good, but if you leave a disk in them when you power up the monitor, you risk losing data on the disc. The de-gaussing coil on the CRT kicks off a hell of a magnetic field when you power up the monitor.

[@formerlygrimagikoopa]

jesus christ are you like 50 now

[@ct6502c]

@@formerlygrimagikoopa Jesus Christ, Millennials are stupid.

[@izusblur]

Just acknowledge the apple II team, just the top guys

[@dubsy1026]

Eren Nova *one guy. Steve Wozniak designed all the hardware.

[@TheHungryBean]

have a mimosa and relax

[@DutchPlanDerLinde]

No, the apple II is the past

[@flixitall777]

I miss that colorful apple logo!

[@ethanwindows4489]

Me Too

[@harveyruiz7332]

no; it looks like gay flag😂😂😂

[@kylewhite3390]

morales immature

[@badbooks2]

@@harveyruiz7332 so which is the problem?

[@sal_strazzullo]

@@badbooks2 He didn't say that there's a problem, he said *he* doesn't like it because it looks like the gay flag. What is your problem?

[@tiryakihasanpasa6583]

Keyboard sounds... aowwww yeahh

[@MarufMamatov-uf4uc]

Steve Wozniak is real genius

[@Jo_Wardy]

This is the coolest home computer ever built. This is a full wozniak designed computer so it was amazing for its time. I really wanna own one. but sadly they will be hundreds to buy now

[@alker33]

yes it hast Applesoft ROM's I have some Interger ROM's too. This machine is a "mixture" you're right but the Applesoft ROM's was a typical upgrade back then and the keyboard looks that it has been changed too - the case, motherboard are original A2 - this (I belive) rev3 board was used in the A2 and the A2+ parallely.

[@PC-Gamer-000]

In today's time when people complain about how their precious Wi-Fi signal delays for a couple of seconds, I want to address to their attention the time consumption it took to boot up an Apple model two. There was no such thing as an easy stream. If one disk did not communicate with another, you didn't have a computer to operate at work that day.

[@FlintG]

Oh man this is pretty cool to see how computers used to be back then. I was born in 87 and I think I remember using the early iMac computers in school in the early 90s.

[@Biospark88]

born in 88, ours had Macs but a neighboring school still had IIs in its computer lab. Might have been IIgs? Even in 1995, firing up Logo felt oddly nostalgic.

[@devMashcom]

I learned assembly language on an Apple ][+, and still have my //e, //c and Laser 128 clone. Fantastic machines.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Such memories! I wrote the entire first draft of my first self-published novel on an Apple II. That computer fit me and my writing needs like a glove!

[@jasonpeters9865]

Lost & Found in Louisville?

[@RudhinMenon]

This is cool, thank you for this video ! and Woz, oh man genius :D

[@sab7839]

steve is a genius aswell, if it wasn't for him we would have never seen this!

[@tonycrossley2869]

It only proves how incredibly far Technology has come in just 40 years....

[@alimad009]

From 1977 to 2019, many things change

[@EberKlaushartinger]

And not all to the good!

[@alimad009]

@@EberKlaushartinger You're right

[@ajgelado]

This computer has been upgraded with the Autostart ROM, the one introduced with the Apple II+ in 1979. The original Apple II didn't know anything about floppy drives (the Disk ][ was introduced a year later than the Apple II itself), and booted directly into the Monitor (an integrated debugger, "*" prompt). From there, you could press Ctrl+B to go into Integer BASIC (">" prompt), or (if you had a floppy drive) press 6 followed by Ctrl+P to boot it. The Autostart ROM, on the other hand, looks automatically for a floppy controller and boots off it; if you cancel the boot with the Reset key, it goes to Applesoft BASIC ("]" prompt). Also, this computer has been modded so the Reset key only works with Shift (look at 0:53). On both the original Apple II and the Apple II+, the Reset key worked by itself (which wasn't a good idea, since it was directly over the Return key, and was easy to press it accidentally). It wasn't until the Apple IIe (introduced in January 1983) that you had to press Control+Reset to activate it, in order to prevent accidental resets.

[@michaelbarry8005]

ajgelado I'm with you on most of what you stated. I would like to add that a Ctrl+X was necessary after a cold power-up but before any other monitor command on the Revision 0 board, to purge the phantom power-up character. Also, my Apple ][+, purchased in the fall of 1981, DID have a switch on the keyboard PCB that allowed me to select RESET or Ctrl-RESET as a user preference. The spring under the RESET key was stronger than the rest, but I chose Ctrl-RESET anyways. I got a lot of use out of that particular keystroke combination while I was teaching myself 6502 assembly language, by trial and (much) error.

[@ajgelado]

To be fair, my first Apple II was a IIc, and later I got a IIe, so I can get some details wrong about the II or the II+. In the IIc, it was specially handy to have the Reset key directly over Escape, so you could do a Control-Reset with just one hand when an assembly subroutine hanged (which, surprisingly, didn't happen too often to me - I guess I was being too careful!).

[@0011peace]

+ajgelado Apples originally came with tape drives.

[@0011peace]

+ajgelado I used all version of Apple 2s and several clones. My father owned an Apple 2e Which I mostly used and I owned a Franklin Ace and a Laser 128. Wrote many programs for Applesoft basic. I currently use an AppleWin emulator. Have also used other Apple 2 emulators. AppleDos was the other one I used the most.

[@ajgelado]

+0011peace That's the reason why the original Apple ][ didn't knew about disk drives - as I note in my original comment. The Autostart ROM introduced with the Apple ][+ was designed to make it easier to use a Disk ][.

[@masuyou6587]

懐かしいApple2、研究所で使っていました。初めてBasicでプログラムしました。

[@macking7108]

Important Apple Products: 1976: Apple I 1977: Apple ][ 1983: Apple Lisa 1984: Macintosh 1989: Macintosh Portable 1991: PowerBook 100 1993: Newton MessagePad 1994: Power Macintosh 6100 1997: Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh 1997: Power Macintosh G3 1997: PowerBook G3 1998: iMac G3 1999: iBook G3 2001: PowerBook G4 2001: iPod 2002: iMac G4 (First Flat Panel iMac) 2002: eMac (Last CRT Mac) 2004: iPod mini 2004: iMac G5 2005: Mac Mini 2005: iPod nano 2006: MacBook Pro 2006: MacBook 2006: Mac Pro 2007: Apple TV 2007: iPhone 2008: MacBook Air 2008: iPhone 3G (App Store) 2010: iPad 2010: iPhone 4 (FaceTime) 2011: iPhone 4S (Siri) 2013: iPhone 5S (iOS 7) 2015: Apple Watch 2016: AirPods 2017: iPhone X 2019: iPod Touch (7th Gen, Last iPod) 2020: MacBook Pro (M1) 2021: iMac (M1) 2022: Mac Studio 2024: Apple Vision Pro

[@antongusev1204]

You forgot 1981:apple 3

[@macking7108]

@@antongusev1204 The Apple III wasn’t really an important product. I’m only listing the most important ones.

[@antongusev1204]

@@macking7108 it is been try to make apple 2, but better

[@macking7108]

@@antongusev1204 Yeah, but it was a commercial failure since Steve Jobs refused to place any fans in the machine. And it was way too expensive.

[@antongusev1204]

@@macking7108 that's truth

[@CDNSpartan]

What a beautiful computer

[@samuellourenco1050]

The Apple II was a blessing, and a curse. It had lots of sales, but it also caused the executives to stifle innovation.

[@astrobro13]

Cool Review on the Apple II Computer! 2 Thumbs up!

[@ocingur]

Where did we come from! These were really great things and they were the light to our day. We will not forget you dear Steven Paul Jobs.

[@YourCRTube]

I wanted to see the word processor in action. Some real work on those old machines.

[@MatthewHendrixrockinman1]

I remember the beeper when you turned on the Apple II computer good ol days BEEEEP LOL

[@ricardopc73]

That was the best part. Also when reading the floppy disk.

[@MatthewHendrixrockinman1]

yeah those bring back my childhood days and once in a while you would hear the buzzer due to the disk

[@ricardopc73]

+Matthew “RockinMan” Hendrix yeah!!! That Is why i'm thinking to buy one. The good old days

[@MatthewHendrixrockinman1]

+Ricardo Venegas it's really hard to find maybe you can find it on ebay and or amazon or something or maybe your local pawn shop

[@shellywhite8290]

Matthew Hendrix

[@roneymonte]

Very,Very Nice! Amazing. I Love Apple ][

[@michalk5262]

I don't

[@wilsonso4924]

Too young

[@healthierlife235]

Did I just get an MRI?

[@dwightstewart7181]

Okay, the computer shown here is not representative of an Apple II sold in 1977. The first Apple II computers used a cassette tape for data & program storage, with the Disk II floppy drives shown not released until late 1978. Likewise, the Monitor II display shown was not introduced until 1984. Earlier Apple II owners used the Monitor III (made for the Apple III), a television, or a third-party product.

[@fitfogey]

That keyboard click sound. 😍

[@christiankent2134]

I'm really scared of the way this person is turning the power switch off and on again all the time. This could speed up the wear on the power supply, and anything else. Surely a soft reboot is much gentler on the hardware? Reset or Ctrl-Reset, then type "PR#6".

[@fueledbymusic3]

***** That switch is in the back ON PURPOSE! That is to avoid accidentally turning off the computer while having spent hours making a program.

[@eternalgemini]

Back then this was all they had. There was no reset button. You just turned the power on and then off. I had a commodore 64 that did the exact same thing.

[@DrFunFong]

Looks like a Rev 3 or earlier - changed to Applesoft with autostart ROM, though. I am curious to know how the Apple II originally booted up. Didn't it boot into the monitor?

[@freshprince69]

It's so retro and I know it...let me rephrase that! It's so retro and I love it!

[@stefanobaron]

Wonderful demonstration!

[@igorlopes3400]

Quem tá vindo do filme jobs?

[@Rarestgameplayer]

I'm curious. in 0:56, the Basic (language) program is running. 2 floppy disk drivers don't have any disks. And I think that the Apple II computer has no hard disk. So, where is the Basic program installed ??

[@alker33]

it boots directly into Basic because there are Applesoft ROMs installed.

[@Rarestgameplayer]

thank you.. you mean that the Basic interpreter is in ROM of Apple 2.

[@Doggeslife]

Nice. I still have my Apple ][e, monitor, at least one drive, a shoebox full of what's probably demagnetized floppys by now, plus a whole selection of slot card accessories, including a megabyte card (that seemed like a hell of a lot of RAM back then...). I was still writing software for it up until the early 1990s.

[@Doctor-go]

제가 38년 전에 세운상가에서 구입 사용하기 시작했던 바로 그 기종 그대로 이네요. 물론 당시 초기구입시에는 프로피디스크가 아닌 카세트테이프레코더를 이용 했구요 모니터도 흑백 브라운관 TV를 사용했었죠.

[@evcass69]

Thanks for the flashback. You should be able to use pr#6 to reboot from the basic prompt?

[@yakovkhalip9714]

Bought today my first AppleII machine - Apple-IIe... Not so interesting as1977 AppleII, but it's so hard to find any AppleII class machines in Russia)

[@C_H_1972]

Made in the USA. Take me back to a time when we made our own electronics.

[@deontemerritt91]

1977 was the year my mom was in Woodberry Hills Elementary school that time kidgartden in the 70's when Apple II came out

[@cheshirskiykotya6414]

Терминалы РОБко в фоллаутах похожи на это 🧐 Такой же ламповый экран, зеленый текстовый интерфейс ..

[@BrianPicchi]

Nice clean beautiful computer.

[@velasquezjovani]

R u still online after 8 years?

[@jasonpeters9865]

Oregon Trail. Wow...that sound when u turn it on. 5th Grade 1986

[@petergriffin383]

My high school in the 90's had these in the remedial classes... basically all the troublemakers, so I'm familiar with it.

[@naderhumood]

Gold is gold......lovely system. Apple machi es are a value.

[@jojomarcelo781]

The world is not yet computer dependent that time, and life was easy then

[@kaeja9059]

i have a apple II ,i found it in a garage sail,but i live in bosnia and i cant get any software for it

[@WindowsG]

This is the 10 year old computer know all Um I live in the USA I have a apple 2e it dose not have a power supply um you need yours

[@nemanjamilosevic6029]

bosanac? Nema sanse bre :D

[@MrStarb777]

You probably already know, but switching the power on and off like that will damage the power supply and if there is a floppy in the drive and the door is closed, it can damage it and render it unbootable. Try Control Reset or PR#6 to boot. Nice kit, I have a II+, EuroPlus and IIc and all stil in working order.

[@BenKlassen1]

That beep takes me back. ][e in 1983.

[@GamingDoggoTV]

The best computer of all time.

[@mikejb2009a]

Once at the Ontario Science Centre they had a science fair exhibit for finalists. I saw an Apple 2 and went over to ask questions about it. When I asked a question about a red button switch on a wire going into the computer the kid hushed me and told me there was a copyright fanatic nearby. When you press the button a card inside will copy the memory to floppy and that copy can be reloaded at another time so the next computer will continue from the same point. I can see both sides and I know more infringement than honest copies will be made. I don't know if this was made in Canada or the States maybe both to avoid customs but when you think about all the drugs crossing the boarder a bunce of these boards would not be noticed. Any one ever seen one of these?

[@Oceanray7629]

And here we are, in 2018, with an iPad that is around billion times more powerful than the Apple ii.... Wow. Apple has come a loooooong way.

[@Revelator2025]

Yes true but back those good ol days nothing beat the innocence and innovation that you could truly wrap your mind around. Extremely creative times.

[@peterkubala4936]

super starting presentation

[@vladdraculLV]

This video reminded me of a time when I was trapped on a damn island that no one could find. On this island had a bunker underground, and in one of its rooms that was full of huge old computers, and there was a computer similar to this of the video, it stood at the only table that was in this room, and was the only one that had screen. In this damn computer I had to keep typing a sense of numbers every 108 minutes, it was something quite annoying and the alarm that the bunker fired when they lacked 4 minutes to zero the count of 108 minutes was more annoying yet. Although the counter was 108 minutes, you could not type anything before the meter reached 4 minutes and the alarm began to sound. If no one typed the numbers the alarm was getting louder and more annoying when it reached 2 and 1 minute. Even so I was very curious to know what would happen if no one typed the numbers and the counter reached zero.

[@gobobby25]

nice dream

[@DH1986]

What do you think the last computer to be hand built was? I know the Apple 1 and 2 were handmade by Wozniak, but when do you think the boards became to complex to solder and assemble by hand?

[@0011peace]

+DH1986 Apple 1 was mostly made as kit so people built themselves. After Apple 2 became popular it started being made by assembly line.

[@DH1986]

0011peace I know, but it was still possible to design and build one by hand vs the 2015 imac.

[@0011peace]

DH1986 Apple 2 was the last hand built computer later computers. It would easier to build modern desktop by hand than most of Its competitors except the early PCs

[@dubsy1026]

What do you mean by hand built? Obviously Woz wasn't sitting there assembling CPUs with tweezers

[@crystalgayleaddict]

great, I bought two apple II europlsu on ebay with floppy but no disks, how I can I get DOS disk and copy program ?

[@dubsy1026]

crystalgayleaddict you can't

[@outtabubblegum7034]

My very first computer, when I was about 5 years old.

[@GoodVideos4]

I also have an Apple II. I use it as a stand for my TV set.

[@joeyledsome9285]

0:52 the knocking sound will always be my favorite quick

[@nitorishogiplayer3465]

I like all the demonstrations and how they used their hand instead of talking to show the copying process.

[@derpsakry4464]

Computing in style

[@mudkip9531]

its amazing how the digital board(the one with ICs) doesn't have any capacitors!

[@0011peace]

+rebecca zh They have IC versions of capacitos

[@takamasayoshimoto7868]

I used Apple ][ early model with no-disks 16K model. Video was showed TV by RF-converter. External storage was casette tape by audio cable. Only build in 6K integer BASIC and assembler monitor. I think 1975-6 model. Finaly I upgared 128k RAM and 2-disks on UCSD-Pascal. I dear this move. thank you

[@drieaz]

i never forgot those sounds; i first heard those in 1982