Apple Macintosh Plus | Tour and Software Showcase

[@marklsimonson]

MacPaint may not seem notable to you now, but it was groundbreaking when it debuted on the 128K Mac. It was like nothing anyone had seen before and was a big reason I bought the computer. Microsoft Paint was a virtual clone of MacPaint (and a big part of Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft over the early Windows GUI). The first version of Photoshop (1990) copied a lot of the UI elements of MacPaint-vertical toolbar on the left, selection indicated by "marching ants," and even a lot of the tool icons.

[@kirishima638]

Rediscovering this video after 3 years. Please make some more!

[@katze962]

the definitive Mac Plus video on youtube! thank you and please consider making new videos again :)

[@yc0nsi]

My first computer in 1984 was the Mac 128K.. I was in college then.. I later upgraded it to the 512K.. Many thanks for this excellent video..

[@WinrichNaujoks]

Rich kid

[@captainkeyboard1007]

The Macintosh Plus computer was the first Macintosh computer I ever used. It was a printing school in Manhattan, New York. In 1990, I "majored" in word processing through a course called "Advanced Desktop Publishing." I was the only student who did not take the typewriting course, because I have had the typewriting skill "under my belt." I learned to use Microsoft Word in the Macintosh Plus. I like it as much as my classmates enjoyed learning creative art on Adobe Illustrator. After using Microsoft Word, I became well-acquainted with Adobe Pagemaker. Today, I am working privately on a Microsoft Windows-based computer because the Apple computer does not have all the complete business applications such as database and some desktop publishing programs. You just got a "Like 209" from me.

[@qa7443]

Great job. Just purchased one and watched this as I waited for it to be shipped to me.

[@marklsimonson]

Maybe you've figured this out by now, but in MacWrite you can insert "rulers" between paragraphs. You're not limited to the one at the top. This allows you to format each paragraph independently. LisaWrite (on the Apple Lisa) worked this way, too. You could also copy and paste rulers to replicate paragraph formats in different parts of a document. Microsoft copied a lot of the UI from MacWrite when it did the first Mac version of Word, but it did away with the ruler idea by having a single, stationary formatting bar at the top of the window which changes depending on which paragraph you're working in.

[@shirleymacdonald395]

Excellent presentation and very interesting.

[@jpkoskimaa]

Great video! Very thorough, which I enjoyed since I just got ahold of a beat up Mac Plus that I plan to restore. Thanks Seamus!

[@RoastBeefSandwich]

SCSI, wow that takes me back, now there's a technology I have no love lost for.

[@seamusmacdonald4044]

I agree. Nowadays it's terribly inconvenient and hard to find working drives, but I suppose was reasonably fast back in the day.

[@RoastBeefSandwich]

@@seamusmacdonald4044 Even back then it was a maddening technology to me anyway. Theoretically better than IDE but I doubt it really made a big difference in those days with everything else in the machine being so slow.

[@zielscheibchen7773]

I LOVE SCSI ... SCSI had so much advantages compared with IDE. 1st you could asign 7/15 drive per IRQ, on IDE the maximum was 2 drives per IRQ. so we ditched IDE in the BIOS and went for SCSI cards. the best were Adaptec AHA2940U2W. they allowed all four ports (3 internal + 1 external) to be connected at the same time while the UW-version only allowed 2 of its 3 at the same time. so we added Iomega Jaz, external bays for ODDs and scanner on the outside and everything else like Iomega ZIP, SyQuest 270, DVD and HDDs on the inside. it was some kind of madness but once this beast took off with the desk ^^ it was pure love. 22" Flat Trinitron CRT, 5.1 Creative setup and much more stuff was added over the years.

[@luismiguelgramagerevert9754]

Nice! I think Mac Plus in wonderful! Thanks for this video, and greetings from Spain!!

[@Bravo-rd9gc]

0:23 I finally found someone who doesn't like that vaporwave thing. great job

[@JeffTiberend]

Cool video. A Floppy EMU is would still be a handy tool to use.

[@crawbe]

Awesome content, well done! Thank you.

[@alistairmcelwee7467]

A Mac Plus was the first computer I owned in late 1886 or in ‘87. Of course, I had been using computers since I was 13 in 1977. But never owned one. The price was ridiculous- but not optional. I spent another thousand US bucks (after $3000.00 USbucks for the MAcPlus on a 20 meg scsi hard drive. I think current value of these is as an aquarium. But, it was crucial to me for years.

[@augologo]

1886 lol

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

2001. System 7.0 SE

[@youfrancis]

Very thorough. Well done!

[@laxonetrc]

Great video. I used a ramdisk on my plus. Got rid of the swapping

[@Mark33563]

My first Mac was a 1986 Mac Plus. Miss the simplicity of that machine but was somewhat a big improvement over the C=64. :)

[@jim7205]

You drive sounds fine and you presentation was very good

[@seamusmacdonald4044]

I assume you're referring to the SCSI drive, it was a huge surprise to me when I powered it on for the first time and it worked. I ran a test software on it and it came out perfectly! I have many newer drives from manufacturers like Maxtor that have just died. I guess they don't make them like they used too... Thank you very much for the comment!

[@arstrx]

Wonderful video

[@properburger7378]

Great and interesting presentation! Ive search for a video like this since long Ago, but YT just showed me this like; "I know you'll like this"... Haha 👌👌🙌

[@giantdad1661]

I came for Vaporwave, I left amazed. Steve Jobs ousted by the board? Good idea tbh Another edit: 8:24 THANK YOU! Thaaank you for saying that. As a general practice for the uninitiated you should not work on Microwaves(Salvage these for parts if you need the caps), old TVs and CRT monitors without first discharging the tubes, capacitors and other archaic electronic components. These things will drop you in a blink or outright kill you. They can also hold a charge for a long time.

[@zielscheibchen7773]

1:15 ... for Mathematics you get a F ... how can 512kB be just twice as much as 128kB?!

[@y_anmotz6428]

Excellent!, one questioin, is it extremely necessary to use that "terminator" in the 2nd port of the HD? I have a Mac Plus with HD20MB but I do not have "terminator"...

[@RoastBeefSandwich]

Some SCSI devices and some SCSI generations are self-terminating. Basically if it works, you don't need the terminator.

[@brianclimbs1509]

lol, "no user serviceable parts". I still have some serious nostalgia for this machine because it was the first computer I ever got to use in school.

[@brianclimbs1509]

Paint was a big deal to us at the time. If I remember correctly, we used it to make a little 3 frame animation in our computer class.

[@brianclimbs1509]

Gravitation was so great!

[@augologo]

I got one of these, wanted to look up a video on it, and BAM, vaporware.

[@spingleboygle]

cool video!

[@LaxTheme]

Were the games already on the Mac os floppy disk or were they separate game disks?

[@seamusmacdonald4044]

They were all seperate. You can download images of the disks on sites like the Macintosh Garden.

[@OldAussieAds]

This is a great video. I love you use your real voice and not AI.

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

I had an SE.

[@Shot5hells]

15:30 destroyed my eardrums lol

[@viktorczinege]

Where can you get games for it?

[@seamusmacdonald4044]

The Macintosh Garden and the Macintosh Repository are certainly your best bet for finding Macintosh disk images. You should be aware though, that copying floppies for old mac systems can be a bit of a nightmare (especially for 800k and 400k machines), so a Floppy Emu, or a SCSI2SD are worthwhile investments.

[@Jwdude123]

So is it a dude or a chick narrator

[@DisgustedArchive]

pretty sure they're just a kid lol

[@cantbuyme80s]

Maybe you can help me with this, I have a Mac and a Mac bottom. Everything worked great for / years and now all of a sudden when I turn both on, the max says it needs a floppy when normally it would biomass that because I have the Mac bottom. I can hear and see the Mac bottom light turn green but i don’t know what to do. I cannot use my Mac anymore. Any help? Of ideas of what might be wrong?