RETRO TECH: MACINTOSH

Everyone knows the 1984 Macintosh computer was a game changer for the tech industry. But why was this particular computer so iconic? I learn how Steve Jobs and his team took on computer giants IBM, changing personal computing forever. Living legend Bill Nye the Science Guy joins me to play Asteroids on an original Macintosh. And fellow KZbin creator and Apple expert iJustine explains why the 1984 Macintosh was able to beat its competitors.
0:00 The Macintosh
1:10 Unboxing a Macintosh
3:43 Talking Macintoshes
6:46 iJustine
12:35 Apple Vs IBM
15:20 Dope Or Nope with Bill Nye
20:48 Painting With The Macintosh
24:26 Lasting Tech Legacy

[@toaster98]

Marques just out-hipstered the hipsters at the cafe😂

[@mazwrld]

😂😂😂

[@kilianmeier]

Stellvia Hoenheim brown lee

[@vampirethespiderbatgod9740]

@Stellvia Hoenheim Awh ! That's hawt that's hawwt !

[@Rico-oz4ct]

@@kilianmeier *brownie

[@afiqzakii]

nice one 🤣🤣

[@TheWavyCake]

Bro Bill Nye is high as a kite in this lmao “LeT tHe ELeCtrOniCs DrAiN”

[@fendushi]

He likes dope

[@lilchinojunior]

He has been snorting that good shit

[@gothands450]

When he said drain man , I’m like yea we have a stoner 💨 lol 😂

[@teodorteisberg8344]

You can tell he knows how to trip Imagine getting some funny hats and dropping some strong tabs with this dude! I don't think I'd ever return to earth

[@PaidwithAlquino]

BILL NYE HIGH AS A KITE BOI! 😆

[@cuz129]

Me and another engineer designed and built an oil refinery on that machine. It was cutting edge. We had to write our own software and it worked perfectly. Its still in service today even though I'm long since retired. And we were about one thousand miles distant from each other. Nobody worked remote then, but we did. We were a couple of decades ahead of our time. Great memories, thanks Marques for this blast from the past.

[@lord77339]

Wow

[@spungbopscarepans]

wowzaa ka-bowzaa

[@NegativeReferral]

Wow! As a petroleum child who both respects and has many criticisms of the oil industry, I'm impressed.

[@basinstreetdesign5206]

In 1984 I walked into a Toronto computer store and saw one of these for the first time and was blown away. I thought "THAT IS HOW COMPUTERS SHOULD WORK!" I immediately ordered one. It was one of the first Macs to be imported to Canada and I loved it for the next 10 years. No lists of arcane keyboard commands to memorize. No weird CTRL sequences. Graphical confirmation of what I wanted to do. It GAVE me my options at every turn. I didn't have to look anything up. The Operating Manual instantly became useless. All I had to do to learn to use any program was browse the menus and play with the functions. It was magic.🥰

[@ihatemotionblur_3255]

I hope you still have it

[@koldolmen5837]

Non premium users: Allow us to introduce ourselves

[@rcktification]

lol

[@noreason4387]

Whats premium bruh?😅😅

[@bbdoook]

Gaming FOR NO REASON - Just a subscription to remove ads from the app.

[@TheBalkanSpy]

Brobert lol

[@chrisjfox8715]

@@bbdoook and to allow the audio from a video to continue playing even when you turn the screen off

[@pablonunez548]

He’s been using this Macintosh 40 years ago and this is his review

[@punishedcrow]

Pablo Nuñez its because it takes a long time to load

[@markielinhart]

It was the GUI interface that set Apple apart from everybody. I had one of these Mac Plus models in 1988 and I remember expanding the memory from 1MB to a massive 2.5MB‼️ Don’t talk about the costs lol…

[@Slarti]

The interface they stole from Xerox?

[@kabo123]

The GUI user interface?

[@markielinhart]

@@kabo123 Graphical User Interface! The point and click mouse. It was revolutionary at the time and it meant the ability to use apps such as Pagemaker for design work. Its what set Macs apart from the PC world…✌🌻

[@WhatALoadOfTosca]

Set them apart ;) apart from their blatent theft lol

[@markielinhart]

@@WhatALoadOfTosca eyewatering $$ per Mb!

[@ChrisGarris128]

This takes me back. I was born in '86, we had Apple IIs in school. Several floppy disks with learning games. However... the GOAT of this time, The Oregon Trail. Awesome content.

[@AgentPrettyHair]

Dude same! ☺️

[@Dumb_Killjoy]

Oregon Trail will always be the best. Had some version of it in elementary school. Also had Oregon Trail 3 at home on my dad’s huge Windows 95 desktop when I was 11.

[@sausageman6621]

Some dad somewhere: “why get a new one when it still works?”

[@Tom2404]

The original Macs are collectors items now. Nobody is still using them now to do something productive.

[@sausageman6621]

@@Tom2404 it was a joke

[@grqfes]

@@Tom2404 damn bro really? fr? just like that? on god?

[@WellFedProductions]

@@Tom2404 You didn’t watch the video?

[@rajat1960]

@MrDheer and there’s good reason for that.

[@marcfield1234]

"Hello, I am Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag." The two greatest sentences ever spoken by machine or man. Thank you Steve Jobs.

[@t00lbox]

It sure is great*

[@marcfield1234]

Thanks.

[@MashabaZA]

Amen to that.

[@monguzzle]

Good thing nobody at the reveal knew that the base machine they’d be able to buy wasn’t capable of reproducing that demo!

[@Video-Games-Are-Fun]

hello. i'm a bag and i am a mac. so bag, what have you got there?

[@carafeeley]

‘I like I nice loud keyboard, It makes me feel like I’m doing something.’ _Wiser words have never been spoken._

[@StefanSobkowiak]

Wow that was a wayback video full of memories, most of which I experienced first hand. DOPE 10

[@LoicReviews]

This is probably the best KZbin Originals of 2019.

[@edvinbryntesson2028]

Agreed

[@AB-lk4gd]

31:52 when apple used to be Made in USA.

[@joshrose5411]

definitely

[@AndrewKonkey]

Better than Cobra Kai?

[@roshanraj9272]

@@edvinbryntesson2028 agreed👍

[@alfonsodetaboada1602]

Steve Jobs physically looks like a combination of Ashton Kutcher and Tom Cruise

[@omit4727]

He is secretly their Potara fusion. He didnt die he just defused

[@cedricbelleblazerfan]

@@omit4727 LMFAO 😂

[@This_Is_Skooba]

Such an accurate description 😂

[@helenahelenita905]

000oll

[@minttea6358]

*If they had a child

[@miguelrosas3252]

Hey Marques, I’m taking the time to write a couple words to admire your work, the passion you have towards tech is incredible. I love where you have gotten in life with hard work and dedication. I watch every single video of yours & hope to someday meet you in person. Thanks for the great tech content.

[@rjlacaillade2519]

What a throwback! Makes me feel old though. This Macintosh was part of my childhood .windows 3.1 introduced me to the world of DOS. The evolution of technology in general is fascinating and easily taken for granted.

[@elijahstrauss643]

I like how they asked "Is this a Mac?" With the apple logo on the front of the case...

[@nunyabidniz2868]

The rainbow colors threw them off. They're only accustomed to the luminous white Apple logo...

[@mtaufanrp26]

People thought it's a bootleg because of the rainbow Apple lmao.

[@elijahstrauss643]

@@mtaufanrp26 honestly makes me wonder sometimes haha

[@elijahstrauss643]

@@nunyabidniz2868 they must be commoners hahaha

[@iain8829]

HEY TWATTY

[@hexiscursed]

Can we talk about how marques’ own production quality is basically as good, if not better than the production quality of this show

[@DJFiezta]

I’m pretty sure it’s him and his team on both shows

[@EikEmil]

@@DJFiezta The Retro Tech series is produced by Vox Media

[@Gyppor]

His production quality is way better. This feels too scripted and also awkward. Feels like watching TV. The bill Nye segment is solid cringe, time to go back to Marques-only videos!

[@rameshcellcom5059]

Soo trueeee

[@amitbenjam]

I promise i didn’t even notice the “KZbin Originals”, i thought this is marques’ video up until seeing this comment

[@Gmon750]

Absolutely amazing video. Very well done. I was one of those "kids" that started working on those early "personal" computers. My coding machine back then was an Atari 1200XL, then a TRS-80 in high school, then the Commodore Amiga. It was such an amazing time for technology which laid the groundwork for what we all take for granted today.

[@fitch8363]

Thanks for that! Loved it. I remember when all three of the machines you and Justine were playing with came out. I started with an Apple II. My buddy started with a Trash 80 which is what we called the TRS 80. I moved up to a dual floppy 8088 IBM PC with an 8087 math coprocessor and an AST card that extended the RAM to 448K and later 640K which allowed me to have a 128K RAM drive. Holy cow that was fast! I remember when the 1984 Mac came out. I was a working engineering manager at Rockwell International (FWIW: I was out of the Army, done with my EE Degree in 1968 - my 80th birthday was yesterday). Punch cards, paper tape and the TI35 were a big deal. My wife was busy holding candy sales to finance a couple of Apple IIs for her middle school classroom. Our first home computer was the dual floppy IBM PC with a green screen character based monitor, later converted to graphics with an after market display card. They Apple Lisa, which you didn't mention, proceeded the Mac, but was insanely expensive. The first Macintosh was in innovative but absurd machine. Using the word processor that came with it you could write a 3 page document. That was it. There was no room in RAM for more pages! It had a ton of limitations that seem to be lost in the hype including how expensive it was for it's limited capability. I knew people who had Compact Luggables. Hauled them to and from work. They weren't very reliable and didn't take kindly to being lugged around, but they had about 10X the productive capability of the first Mac. When I was given the job of creating and installing a 1,000 user network in 1988, I could provide a computer to each engineer if I used IBM, only one for every two or there if I went with apple. It was a no-brainer to go for IBM. The network used DECNET as the ethernet protocol and a pair of VAX 8800s as the host and an VAX 8350 as the network interface. It was the TMIS system for the Rocketdyne Power System Contract for Space Station Freedom which became the International Space Station we have today. Using the VAX as the network host turned out to be a gifted move because it radically limited virus propagation. We could isolate an infection to one or two machines and get rid of it. It also allowed us to manage the SW installations on all the network connected machines from the host/server. The 1984 Mac was a huge harbinger of things to come, but it was almost useless as a productivity machine in a corporate environment. That's why it's market share was so abysmal. Jobs seemed to specialize in seeing how advanced and jazzy he could make a computer that was still useless. It peaked with the 1984 Mac. He got over that, sort of, but that legacy mentality was still evident in the transition from 2015 to 2016 MacBook pros. I'm all Mac now, but I cut my teeth with dual floppies writing Autoexec.bat files on EDLN. Sigh...

[@thecontentprism]

It's funny that they gave Apple stickers back in the 80's

[@mohammedsufyan4011]

I am pretty sure that the colored stickers and brochures were packed up recently

[@autisarattanamunee7983]

Good

[@autisarattanamunee7983]

I Iovc You

[@CallMeVidd]

The Yorkshireman 88 yeah. I love how it's from back then

[@katumispencer]

I think I still have 1 or 2 of the old rainbow stickers.

[@Legolic]

The fact that Justine is 10 years older than marques is astonishing

[@samstuff8554]

Damn they literally both look 20

[@tomboy1692]

Bro, I didn’t know that. I thought she was 27 or 30😢😢.

[@varunvc532]

tf!?

[@arielfeasts]

she really doesn't age. looks incredible.

[@varunvc532]

@@arielfeasts seems so... yea :D

[@edgarkeisi]

I have seen so many of your videos, and maybe is because of my age and the love I have for computers, I have to say that this is one of the best things that you have done. Stay on the good work and thank you.

[@spiicyliime22]

Oh wow! The font was the same, the Apple logo packaging was the same and they included stickers. That is so cool! I love how they carried that over since the OG! My Dad definitely had one of these in the basement (his office). I was only allowed to play with the paint app on the slightly newer ones when I was little. Love that you did a retro series!!!

[@eliaswilson7911]

Millennials: *looks at Macintosh* “ is that an Apple?!?!?” 8 bit guy: hold my commodore

[@41tinman41]

Kinda wish he reviews the Commodore, esp with Sierra Games

[@Mr_Moktoosai]

I really expected to see 8-bit guy in this film.

[@isaac4283]

Gen z actually average millennial is over 30 yrs old

[@CrazyTechReviews]

@@Mr_Moktoosai yeah I'm surprized he wasn't on this

[@brendalballentine9422]

it literally has an apple logo on it ....

[@rosietorres]

"1984 won't be like 1984" that gave me the chills.

[@NomsitaMSHaritashya]

my entire body got chills

[@harshitaseeja3290]

The whole 1984 Macintosh release was legendary, you can check it out on KZbin. Steve was really a great Showman.

[@jesko488]

fOrTnItE

[@markharrold6876]

I remember my first Mac experience. I went to a computer store, not long after IBM shipped the PC Jr. I went there specifically to try out the Mac. The store was about 40' by 40' (10m by 10m). The one Mac they had was in a dark corner about four feet from the door to the bathroom. I asked for help three times, from three different people. After waiting for twenty minutes nobody was even looking at me. I started alone. After 20 minutes (still alone) without any manuals or instruction I knew how three programs worked and was in love with the Mac. I couldn't recommend the buying experience, but I've always recommended the Mac as a first choice.

[@perfectionbox]

The sheer energy and optimism of the early microcomputer era was incredible. People knew they were in the middle of history being made. And the Mac was a profound example of what could be created when a company makes quality a top priority. The look, the GUI, the icons, the manuals, the packaging, the proportional spaced fonts, a screen with perfectly square pixels, the elegant PostScript imaging system in the LaserWriter, etc. At the time, people were stunned; computers before then (and even after) were ugly, difficult things. Apple dared to shout No, computers can be so much more: they can be fun, beautiful, friendly, inspiring, artistic. They can extend your mind in every direction and even in directions we haven't yet conceived.

[@Gerardus1970]

Jesus wept... fanboi much? In 1985 there was a true multimedia capable computer on the market but it wasn't a Mac.

[@perfectionbox]

@@Gerardus1970 That's the beauty of it, the Mac helped inspire other companies to be bold.

[@lupitheyorkie]

@@perfectionbox How did it do that? It was a complete flop, selling only 70,000 units in the first 5 months, and barely scraping 100,000 units for the year. That same year, Commodore sold 2.6 million C64's. The Amiga came out in 1985 with 4096 colors, compared to 2 on the Mac, full stereo sample-based sound, and an OS with pre-emptive multitasking - something that the Mac didn't get until 1997. It wasn't the Mac inspiring others, it was others inspiring Apple and them incorporating other people's innovations into their own products. "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." - Steve Jobs, 1996.

[@perfectionbox]

@@lupitheyorkie It wasn't about the capabilities as much as the shift in focus onto the user. Apple was also the first to embody the "for the rest of us" concept. As colorful as the Amiga was, Workbench was hideous, a perfect example of engineers thinking that users shared their lack of concern for aesthetics.

[@HonkeyKong54]

@@perfectionbox no they didn't. Steve Jobs stole the icon idea from a different company that never ended up releasing. Everything was stolen.

[@NoBigDealMedia]

“It wasn’t the good old days, it was the old days.” Lmaooo

[@brianarbenz1329]

Our memories of a past time may be good. And memory is current.

[@Video-Games-Are-Fun]

life was simpler then. no internet or cellphones. you hung out with friends around your home. that was good if you ask me.

[@beaujarvis9510]

Video Games Are Fun i agree, but I don’t know if your name does lol

[@Video-Games-Are-Fun]

@@beaujarvis9510 video games weren't around!! hehe!! but yes i would trade all tech except medical advances to live in a simpler time.

[@beaujarvis9510]

Video Games Are Fun I wonder what effects of screen addiction and exposure to radiation will have on humans in the future

[@mundojourney1104]

now imagine 50 more years from now talking about 2020's tech

[@damusdeshi622]

That will turn this into Ancient tech 😂

[@zeusincoming282]

I remember the original Macs and Apples,, they were big deals back in the day. When they were demoed, we were all like WOW,,,,, Same with old cell phones. And these ancient Machines were EXPENSIVE Back in the day! I remember at Radio Shack in the Late 80s,, Laptops with less than a 1 gig hard drive and about 16 mb of ram was priced at around $2800.00. The store only carried 3 at a time and the display was always under lock and key and a store associate had to assist you if you wanted to see one.

[@murtaza6425]

@@zeusincoming282 16mb of ram 2800? It must have been a weird time back then.

[@Asiandramas99]

we have reached almost a saturation point. Not much left to improve.

[@hijacked6663]

@@Asiandramas99 there will always be someone that breaks the boundaries, that's just how the tech industry goes

[@Kdmud]

Oh my god! This video brings me right back to my Dad bringing home those early computer cards and folded reams of output paper to draw on and play with in the 60’s!!! Great video…thanks, got a tear in my eye remembering all my early Mac and PC days!

[@djvelocity]

*@Marques: this is hands-down the most interesting video you have ever made!* PLEASE MAKE MORE CONTENT LIKE THIS! 😳🤩🙌🔥

[@bornagain5199]

You know computers have come a long way when grandpa has to show you how to use it lol

[@malikw222]

grandpa bill nye

[@DanielDissanayake]

@@malikw222 *papi bill nye😩

[@Rhakjellg]

@@DanielDissanayake reason 2837 on why i dont use Twitter:

[@DanielDissanayake]

@@Rhakjellg 😂😂

[@cacogenicist]

Grandpas and Grandmas invented computers, and the Internet, and the Web.

[@SpektrixGamingEdits]

1984 : Making Movies About The Future 2019 : Making Movies About The past

[@star-ks3bs]

that means we’re in the future

[@leladay6248]

When the lady said the floppy disks would be cute coasters, Marques looked at the camera like Jim Halpert😂

[@richardc03]

They did that back then to

[@msdenise1234567]

What an amazing vid! On a monthly basis I'm randomly grateful that I've experienced it all. I remember the horrible sound of calling into the internet, playing Pinball when it was down, I've experienced most of my pre school without a flip phone and most of high school without a smartphone. My mum did DTP work on that Macintosh. Currently saving up for my first iMac, bc my 8,5y/o MacBook isn't so fond of my editing work anymore.

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

I wrote my first college term papers on a Macintosh.

[@Draconicrose]

i can't believe there's a drawing tablet for this thing! That's definitely dope.

[@gregd6022]

drawing tablets were around long before that one.

[@MrWaalkman]

@@gregd6022 Yup. I have one for my Commodore C64.

[@baljeetbavde]

Dope 100

[@neskid26]

I thought that was cool, I didn't realize one existed. I was relying on a mouse.

[@dbranconnier1977]

They even had drawing tablets for the Apple II.

[@ranbirbhatia1585]

20 years later RETRO TECH: iMac Pro

[@thequestionmarkanimator757]

"People back then had to USE their FINGERS to give an INPUT. CRAZY RIGHT??"

[@Harlow.]

"Retro tech: iPhone 12 pro

[@ayazbagc8006]

Macintosh 1 36 years later

[@Denisoiu-ts4ck]

Ok this is actually pretty original comment right there

[@Vienic2]

RETRO TECH: Macbook Pro

[@clawrence6190]

I have a Macintosh Classic which I bought circa 1988, and it is still in working order. The Apple Stylewriter printer has long since turned up its toes and died, but the computer itself still works. I am able to use MacWrite on it, the train and puzzle games still work, as do my special Star Trek sounds that I loaded onto it way back then. I still have a huge affection for this little machine. It was awesome in its day.

[@pitchayamadary9751]

Excellent story! My very first computer was the SE30 in 1990. No more floppy disc to boot up any longer. I used it for my college paper, report write up at home, and while in my college's classroom was teaching Word Perfect and Auto CAD in DOS version. It was quite the contrasting experience.

[@joezhou7397]

1984: matte brown all the things 2019: matte black all the things

[@ksb2112]

Yeah, but it wasn't matte brown. It was beige. Beige box was actually a meme.

[@SWLinPHX]

ksb2112: beige or taupe

[@fhdream]

1999: silver everything

[@loadingno828]

what about iphone xs

[@katumispencer]

I was working in a computer store in San Diego when this came out. I remember watching young kids walking up to the demo unit (it had a monochrome, paper white display) and after seeing that they could use the mouse to draw pictures, parents had to drag the kids out of the store. Two things crossed my mind, this is going to be huge (first GUI for the masses I think), and, businesses aren't going to want something that looks like a toy in their office environment. I really like your Retro Tech segment but, man, I'm feelin' old👨‍🦳👨‍🦳👨‍🦳

[@denniscastello504]

I'm old too. The first place I worked after college had a bunch of PCs and one Mac but everyone wanted to use the Mac. I distinctly remember a woman walking into the computer room to access our database, then turning around and leaving because the Mac was busy. She completely ignored the four other PCs that were available.

[@katumispencer]

@@edwardbataitis6809 That gui on the Lisa was I think actually originally developed by Xerox and Jobs bought it. I remember training to repair the Lisa in addition to the Mac when the store I worked at sent me to what was called then "Apple Level 1" training.

[@katumispencer]

@Hitogokochi Thanks, I'll give it a read. I did get to see a version of Xerox's commercial implementation of their GUI on a dedicated word processor I was trained to repair that they sold to the US Navy in the early 80's. Pretty cool machine, had a paper white, WYSIWYG monitor, dual floppy drives, I think you could play pong on it as well😁

[@nnnnnn496]

Why would a piece of tech that would take a huge workload off be bad for business environment? Cus it looks like a toy? You need to give a better reason.

[@katumispencer]

@@nnnnnn496 No need to give a reason. I'm not sure how old you are but that was the attitude regarding Apple computers back then and I think MS/Windows computers still dominate the business world although I think larger companies are giving their employees a choice.

[@AbuPaul]

It all started at the XEROX research center (aka Xerox PARC - Palo Alto Research Center). They invented stuff like the mouse and the graphic user interface but didn't know what to do with it, and that's where both kids, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates came in and made use of it. Thank you, Marques, for another wonderful video. You sure brought back memories.

[@ITGaleri]

Hi Marques, remember @pinot from your video at 22:00? "He recently suffered a blood clot in his brain and is currently in a coma and on life support"

[@Thomasjcolbert82]

Seeing you sit in the coffee shop with that is interesting.

[@trinity6880]

Hmm, it needs electricity and in coffee shop isnt socket for public

[@Thomasjcolbert82]

Trinity I would have not known that. They don’t have outlets for computers at all?

[@alienalchemist]

Everyone's gangsta until someone pull-up their original Macintosh.

[@prymoria]

arw

[@RandomCorvid]

if I was in that coffee shop I would be thinking "who is this hipster mofo coming in here with some retro ass computer?"

[@ToxicSkull0]

“This is definitely a computer “ Astute observations, sir

[@luiaves]

Loooooool

[@lakshmir7616]

I don't like doing things I don't like

[@olie424]

*sees old Apple logo* i gUeSs tHiS aN ApPLe cOmPuTeR

[@scrambler350]

I vaguely remember some really 🔥games for the Mac II's we had in school back in the day - would LOVE to have a day to play around with one of these again.

[@crizblu6615]

damn bro this new TDS soundtrack is a banger

[@banje.]

Ikr

[@stridell6616]

Dude, you got a fistbump from Bill Nye the science guy. You officially made it, you can rest in peace now.

[@TheOnlyGamingDML]

that sounds like a threat

[@stridell6616]

@@TheOnlyGamingDML may be

[@MatrixDiscovery]

Bill Nye is an Actor and a Freemason.

[@johnmaurer3097]

@@MatrixDiscovery hes an old tv hack with an attitude problem. Nothing to be admired

[@henriqueeendr]

@@johnmaurer3097 Shut up, don't disrespect the science guy. That's all I have to say

[@Sashimi404]

Bill is what Linus would be like when he get older.

[@Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un]

I am younger and find Linus to be overrated and cringe

[@brokeguy5607]

@@Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un But he's ridiculously good at what he does.

[@vipulpetkar]

@@Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un live long

[@shailendratewari6532]

Thats actually very true

[@thedexterbros]

When you say "would," you imply Linus will either never age or just die before he has a chance to 🤷‍♂️🤣

[@kylabatemanarsenault9589]

I had the Mac classic 2 in university 1990. Was so high tech. All my friends at typewriters and I was printing out papers and playing original Tetris in black and white. Beautiful machine.

[@AlisterRobbie]

oh rad. you interviewed Ken. He's awesome. grateful to have worked with him here in Australia. Such a lovely guy.

[@archangelsed]

Imagine writing an essay in a coffee shop and some dude brings a whole ass vintage computer next to you

[@RWL2012]

not quite the same but have you watched the video of the guy who takes his Macintosh into an Apple store...?

[@Lightning_Dragon_]

I died when he literally took the entire macintosh into a coffee shop. JESUS CHRIST, this guy is a legend and this is the reason that I subscribed to this channel.

[@HomeTipsAndTricks]

The first 'laughed to tears' moment! Hilarious.

[@ChrisKitella]

Agreed. Well played Marcus, well played.

[@rameshcellcom5059]

Yep

[@philjones45]

He's a legend because he carried a computer into a coffee shop?? Man, you have a low expectation of a legend.

[@aquagamer1212]

@@philjones45 No he’s a legend because he carried a Mac 1 into a coffee shop....

[@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars]

I entered the world of work as the room-sized IBM system 38 (with its huge tape spools) was dying out and I first used the IBM PC in about 1984-5. I would load it onto a train, travel hundreds of miles to a work location, set up and operate it there for months before bringing back to the office. After that I had one of those exact Compaq portables you showed with the luggage handle. Next came the late 80s colour IBMs (I forget their names). Next stop for me was writing college papers on the original Mac you showed here...and I was from that point onwards a Mac convert. What I actually came here to recall is something only someone who lived through those times will remember: removing the ultra-weighty ball from that mac mouse to scrape the 'mouse cheese' from the little rollers inside in order to make the mouse work properly again. Great video - thanks for the memory jog!

[@harrisontashjian752]

I feel like a mention of the apple iigs would have been interesting, along with other 68k machines that mopped the floor with the Mac in terms of creative industries, such as the Amiga and video, or the ST and music. Or that Jobs left after the Mac 512k.

[@timkr66]

Along with Andy Warhol being at the original Amiga 1000 presentation with Deborah Harry. A computer that had color!

[@quarksarranged]

MKBHD: "So I've been using the 1984 Mac for a little over 35 years now."

[@phoenixkellah-nash4351]

;););););) havent stopped laughing...;););););)

[@phoenixkellah-nash4351]

@@chenellynjutsu what do u think nutty

[@hiimapop7755]

"So I've been using the 1984 Macintosh 9 years before I was born..."

[@MaddogMaddu]

Keep it running my friend^^

[@savannahhamama1197]

🤣

[@TechOutAdam]

1984: What’s a computer? 2019: What’s a computer?

[@osamaanooz1074]

😃😂

[@paulbruce2715]

deep

[@jeffhicks1294]

Dumbass

[@elsnipersanchez2581]

Jeff Hicks he’s saying that apple’s iPad commercials saying “what’s a computer” it’s saying that the iPad is powerful as a computer

[@Jay-T-]

@@jeffhicks1294 who cares

[@MacAdvisor]

Sitting on my bookshelf is my original 128k Macintosh I purchased with my then roommate Michael Martin from Macy's on Market Street in San Francisco back in March of 1984. It still runs and I have the original MacOS 1.0 System disk (most used v1.1). What the hose didn't mention was the case had the signatures of the original Mac team, including that of Jobs, molded into the plastic. Mike and used it for years, upgrading to a MacSE when it came out. I have so many happy memories of all we did with that little computer. It was a joy. Mike passed away in late 1987, not long after we acquired the SE, so I always picture us working on the original.

[@osks]

Fascinating! Really enjoyed the production…

[@missblessed100]

I’m a 70’s baby, And I use this Macintosh Computer in the 5th grade.... feeling old and proud right now lol 😂

[@tobeynegsyourfavoriteverse]

im a 69's baby im a year oldar

[@debilko278]

@@tobeynegsyourfavoriteverse yeah sure kid

[@tobeynegsyourfavoriteverse]

@@debilko278 stfu I’m 29 and it was just a joke. Get a life

[@snigdhasenha917]

@@tobeynegsyourfavoriteversedurh Like 2a1i

[@tobeynegsyourfavoriteverse]

@@snigdhasenha917 ??

[@JPacerox1]

Steve Jobs really does look like Ashton Kutcher

[@AshishKumar-zi9gy]

😂😂 isn’t that has to be this way “Ashton kutcher look like Steve jobs”

[@Caleo996]

I came here to say the same thing

[@axelox8026]

@@AshishKumar-zi9gy did you have a stroke while typing holyyy

[@spicey4522]

@@axelox8026 he's not a native english speaker

[@nicolastremblay8955]

Ashish Kumar 🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽

[@retro8bitguy]

I grew up in the Apple II era and in my 9th grade year saw the first Macintosh in a store and *knew* this was the future of computers and I so desperately wanted one (parents had other ideas). Fast forward to 2014 and I finally bought one for my collection off eBay. The nostalgia is just palpable. I still love turning it on and playing around. Even my elementary school aged kids at the time loved playing with it.

[@Divedown_25]

The fact that I visited Apple in SF in April 1985 with a group from my University to see… lo and behold, their production facility and their logistics set up is still for me like, wish I would have understood what I saw, where I was… (and bought some stocks 🤠)

[@tobiasreimerchristensen3119]

Love it when Bill Nye is “Doping up”

[@AkariInsko]

Is that the stop motion studio logo?

[@tobiasreimerchristensen3119]

Akari Insko Yeah i did some Stop motion videos years ago, just never got to change it

[@jessicasabb2939]

@@AkariInsko Oh

[@andrewgavin1490]

I lived through all this, as my first computer was an Apple II and I had one of these 84 macs at launch. I’m not sure which was first but Take One for the Apple II was a surprisingly capable animation and drawing program. You could do elaborate multi scene “movies” and even program elements. When I founded Naughty Dog (Crash Bandicoot, the Last of Us etc) with my biz partner in the 80s we used Take One for the graphics and animation on some of our first games. Eventually as a paint program it was replaced by Deluxe Paint and then Photoshop (which I’ve been using for almost 30 years!)

[@AwesomeBrony]

Andrew Gavin that is so cool! :D

[@invalid5777]

I wish I was you, I wouldve loved coding on old tech, before c and mostly assembly

[@softlofi6666]

Wow incredible story

[@perimiter]

it saddens me that your company is always PS exclusive. i'l probably never get to play these games.

[@andrewgavin1490]

Naughty Dog is owned by Sony, so of course it’s PS exclusive. MSFT owns lots of developers too (in fact they bought a ton today). Just how the console game is played so to speak.

[@Jerhevon]

Oh my. For it's age, that machine is in beautiful shape. Kudos!

[@J.letsTalk]

I remember being super excited in '92 at 9 years old to go to computer class for the first time. Here I am today 39 years old and still amazed at new tech. I'm now an IT professional. It's fun 😅

[@enthusiasticgamer88]

It must be a trip to have Bill Nye the Science Guy as your freaking guest on your giant KZbin channel. Dude was a legend in Canada.

[@pigeonette1]

Bro same here in the us

[@deadboy3646]

The more I grow, the more I’ve learned that our generations grew up really similar in both the U.S and Canada. Makes sense why we’ve never been at war and never will surely. We’re just the same just one more cold and tundra, and the other more warm and desert

[@pigeonette1]

@@deadboy3646 yeah… I mean not all Canada is tundra and not all us is desert but yeah

[@deadboy3646]

@@pigeonette1 Yes. That’s exactly why I said “more” meaning mostly

[@pigeonette1]

@@deadboy3646 mhm

[@sidersproductions941]

I love that the music matches the theme of this series.

[@prschorn]

It creates the right vibe to it, making the video feel so nostalgic even though I didn't live that era.

[@PearlCityBeats]

I'm the same age as iJustine and we had the 1984 Apple II in our "computer classroom" at my elementary school. It's where I learned to type. And also spend many hours playing Oregon Trail!

[@dunk8157]

I remember getting of the early Macs of these out of the box, plugging in in and using it for 10 minutes before I realised I had not plugged the keyboard in! This was a great machine, it could do pretty much anything from graphic design to controlling MIDI synths.

[@skylimitr3270]

Nobody: Bill Nye in the hood: DOPE!! also him: ADORBS!!

[@FusionC6]

When was he in the hood? LOL

[@treetopjones737]

@@FusionC6 You have no idea that just means neighborhood?

[@mang_0nim81]

The KZbin original series has a lower camera quality than Marques's own content

[@xaviermartinez4872]

@free mindset the red probably costs more then they are paying him for the series

[@dylonmartinez7946]

Very good video, I learned so much and it’s crazy how far we have came in 35 years

[@NikkoKnight703]

Marques you are amazing! thanks for bringing such dope tech content to the world. It's amazing to see how far Apple has come.

[@arijitguha6794]

Apple then : "Free stickers for you!" Apple today: "No more in-box charger, pay for it now on."

[@rampranavnavendran8330]

Honestly it is a GOOD move considering most people who are getting iphone 12's have had iphones before. This enables them to give us better stuff for cheaper. I guess you would be happy if you can save 30$ if you have the earphones and the power adapter lying around and doing nothing

[@MrGameManIsCool]

Do you know how much e waste it produces ?!

[@rampranavnavendran8330]

Aiden Duray yeah... that is another good point...

[@Limpuls]

Samsung too :)

[@falcy2889]

Samsung: write it down, write it down!

[@jonathanlong9176]

When the lady said the floppy disks would be cute coasters, Marques looked at the camera like Jim Halpert😂

[@cadenahama1309]

Marques "This came out 9 years before I was born" School IT Purchasing Department has entered the chat. School Kids IT education prospects has left the chat.

[@loughkb]

Nice idea for your opener. It was neat seeing the current generation's reaction. Although, made me feel old. I graduated high school in 1984 and serviced mac's as part of my job a couple of years later.

[@brianarbenz1329]

The Macintosh was special to me! I wrote the final drafts of fiction novels on my Mac, edited stories for 12 years on it for the monthly progressive newspaper I produced (before switching to Internet access systems). The Mac was a friend. I will never forget it!

[@BK-im4fo]

His blood pressure is dropping Marques: He'll be fine

[@kendrickdagoat4sho]

i knew that there would be a guy doing this

[@fabricelorenceau4020]

I played that game definitely. killed many people. Definitely. a big learning curve. Dope tech.

[@airbedruad]

Something about my 52 year old self cries listening to these guys talk about the technology that not only did I grow up with but felt was amazingly ground breaking. It is like listening to them bust on the first gen iPhone (which they never used in its day).

[@jeffyp2483]

this is a great video! the first time i read his name or saw b. nye was at the end of episode science lesson on the back to the future animated series.

[@furn2313]

"It's making noises" -Marques, 2019.

[@trevorjames7490]

😂 this quote is gonna be remembered forever

[@hasanhyat]

@@trevorjames7490 xD ikr

[@thebombvault]

To be honest, kinda disappointed that the 8 bit guy wasn't featured.

[@muhyusman]

His name is Pinot

[@KaletheQuick]

Yeah. I feel he passed over the whole retro computing tuber community.

[@outdoorcoaching]

Actually, the 8bit guy himsélf seems to pass on many opportunities offered to him, quite often!!!

[@CadetKosmov]

He's probably not "cool enough" for these, they're trying to appeal to the mainstream

[@powerfulaura5166]

What did you expect? This content is absolute normie trash.

[@M4W07]

16:42 I actually really really liked the loading time lol, it's dope too! The way it was going slowly plotting. Satisfying to watch.

[@jaygee6738]

I love this. I remember using these when they were the "new" thing.

[@derekfester6084]

The animator guy was so wholesome

[@byefelicia92]

Derek Fester ikr what a chill dude

[@someone2547]

He still living in 80s

[@WT-pk3ge]

@@rivaldi7286 So?

[@danz9965]

@@rivaldi7286so?

[@YogiHeart]

@@rivaldi7286 So?

[@rogithkumar3508]

It's weird to see that computer in high resolution

[@limitedfair]

Yea

[@windestruct]

Seeing that in person is an equalivement

[@sethdhanson]

I was born in 1984 and I’m a huge Steve Jobs fan. This is my favorite Marques video by far. Thanks!

[@MicahBBurke]

Gawd you guys make me feel old. My first pc was a 512k Mac (1985)

[@quincycui7078]

“I feel like I’m in a hospital.” True

[@ronitgupta18]

Just imagine Apple if Steve Jobs was still with us. ❤️

[@a_rie.-.]

iPhone X-11 wouldn’t exists and we’d still have a home button

[@user-nl5jf2xb8y]

Apple would suck Steve Jobs is very stubborn.

[@Thanoz.]

Arieyal Landfair no home bottom jobs would like.

[@preoalex8298]

No ios 7

[@harshsinghbindra7471]

@@user-nl5jf2xb8y well a stubborn man created the first proper smart phone and first popular pc

[@ujwallimbu9657]

This is a great video .. from start to end ❤

[@videobiker9131]

Just to let you know, I was in 10th grade in 1973. At first my high school had a couple of dumb terminals hooked up two acoustic couplers that communicated with a computer somewhere. Later on, we got a full-fledged computer that was about the size of an upright freezer. We still had the dumb terminals hooked up to it. We would write BASIC programs on the dumb terminals, run them, and then the output would go on paper. You could also save the BASIC program that you wrote, using the ticker tape, and then load it from the ticker tape later on.

[@RamLaska]

3:00 You have no idea the emotion I feel just by hearing the sound of that floppy disk drive. It instantly transports me to a much happier and simpler time. 3:24 Actually, MOST (or at least roughly half) of the system was in ROM, because the RAM was so paltry (128k). But it still wasn’t complete without the system disk. 18:12 Before using the paper clip, it’s better to just shut it off, hold down the mouse button, and start it up again. That will force an ejection to happen. Only use the paper clip if it cannot physically eject at all. Most macs came with a little plastic “programmer’s switch” in the box, which provided a reset and interrupt button. The reset button did the obvious thing and just soft-booted the device, and the interrupt button brought up a debugger screen. 21:50 At 11 years old in 1984, sitting in front of MacPaint for the first time: “This changes EVERYTHING.” I want to find that alternate universe where Apple never existed so I can bring that worlds bestselling phone and computer and show everyone how clunky they are. They’re not nearly as awesome as they used to be, and truth be told, I’m not enthused by ANY of their products anymore. But they did their job. They DID put a dent in our universe, and they deserve their spot in history.

[@spicytuna62]

Marques: "The mice!" Cameraman: Hm yes there sure are some interesting Nintendos over here...

[@CallMeVidd]

I respect that cameraman

[@jamesdecross1035]

An excellent film. Wish I learnt more when I was younger. Thanks for giving us the history.

[@aqua-mina]

The section with Bill Nye was *chef’s kiss* 😘 fun to watch!

[@daggerone7436]

Kilobytes? “Yes! Tss, kids today.”

[@nektovolkoff1838]

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[@fontijn796]

Ok boomer

[@retrynot12]

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[@chandlerh2103]

Its things like this that discredit MKBHD a lot. As someone who makes videos for the tech community, he should know this.

[@belland_dog8235]

@@chandlerh2103 As someone who makes content for the modern tech community, he doesn't usually come across such a small amount (I would hope)