The Macintosh Plus I bought in Japan is BROKEN! Can we fix it?

[@kuremaClaimer]

I know somebody already mentioned it, but CRT can be dangerous even if it's unplugged long before you do something. So you have to discharge before you touch. It's been a common knowledge back then but now it's not outside of retro tech community.

[@matsigh]

Yeah that’s probably why he didn’t fix the width potentiometer for the screen

[@aegonthedragon7303]

Its actually not even a potentiometer really, but a ring on the CRT neck. Quite scary because you need to adjust while the machine is on.

[@robertwatson2134]

You need to ground yourself when going inside these.

[@brian5191]

Thats the first thing i noticed, hes about to get a surprise.

[@ReidDesigns]

Didn’t these have a locking mechanism where if you didn’t use the right Apple proprietary tool you would actually smash the whole display when trying to remove it? I remember a tech guy bemoaning this once at a seminar I attended way back in 88 or 89.

[@Mac84]

I'm glad to see your Plus is happy again! It was fun tearing down the floppy drive over FaceTime, you got lucky with how relatively clean your system was inside. Hopefully you can adjust the video shift fairly painlessly. Now max out the RAM and plug in a hard drive and you'll be set for 1988! 🏎

[@captcan78]

Btw small correction: You got that write protection on the floppy disk wrong. If you slide it open, the disk is write protected. You have to close the hole to write on the disk. 🙂

[@th33b33]

or tape it 😉

[@nexusyang4832]

Who drilled holes into their AOL disks? :)

[@captcan78]

@@nexusyang4832 Not sure about AOL disks, but i drilled holes on Double Density disks in order to format them to 1.44 MB. Worked quite well

[@JBoy340a]

Correct. That prevented accidentally writing on a disk with the tab closing the hole fell out, which they did on occasion.

[@xbourque]

Remember everyone, please be careful with CRTs... These things can zap you even when the machine is unplugged.

[@HenritheHorse]

​@Medicine_Man1Great picture and name!

[@doctahjonez]

​@Medicine Man How are you still alive??! You must have gotten some super powers or something man

[@Phillipthefool3.0]

I been shocked by crt tvs and crt monitors working on them It does hurt but I'm still alive somehow I was just a-little stupid back then

[@joepisciottajr]

Thanks for bringing back my youth. These machines were in our middle school computer science lab. I wrote the first sound bite in my class I called "Hendrix" because I took the bootup beep and made like a guitar solo type tempo with it. Back then, there were limited number of tricks you could do. Got an A on that project.

[@manaphyex]

I've never used a computer older than my age,definitely a very unique experience, really good retro content.

[@kromekatdotcom]

My first Macintosh experience was using these machines at my first college in 1986-88, where they were used for typing up thesis and notes. Absolutely fell in love with them from the off. Always loved the floppy eject sound!

[@RedstoneMiner18]

Floppy eject sound is indeed awesome!

[@simonturner5450]

Great video Luke, thank you. Can’t overstate being careful around the CRT, 25KV you will know all about it if you touch it, or rather your surviving relatives will. Love these early Macs, haven’t worked on one of these but 7200s and 1st / 2nd gen iMacs. I love those bits of fawn coloured velvet like material Apple put into them to stop vibrations or electrical insulation, I don’t know why there are there but they wouldn’t look out of place in Jules Verne’s Time Machine.

[@HolgerT]

The MacPlus was my first computer, when I started to work as a technical writer back in 1990. In the end it was maxed out in RAM and having a Radius graphics card plus a Radius Pivot screen. The AppleTalk network was set-up for connecting all of our 8 Macs in the department with an Apple LaserWriter. I have fond memories of that time. We used to work with RagTime and Canvas.

[@Steve_Sn3]

If I recall, you can upgrade the memory to a whopping 4mb by clipping the resistor and installing 2 additional 1mb memory sticks. Also they used to make external scsi hard drives that had the same footprint as the Plus. The thing that always impressed me was that I could boot it up, launch Word 5.1, and be halfway through typing my first page in the same time it takes a modern computer to boot up. Ah, the good old days. Too much fun!

[@jbponzi1]

My recollection is the platinum MacPlus didn’t require the resistors to be clipped.

[@johnathanstevens8436]

I used a SCSI ZIP drive with mine, the speed was a good match for the plus.

[@brandonhayes5460]

Word 5.2 you demon 😆 in my opinion it was the best version of word for Mac out there personal I use clarisworks it's basically the same thing and I have somewhere a copy of AppleWorks for 7.5.3 and 8. Yes I still use 7.5.3. why? Because I can and it was stable and yes I do have a copy of 6.0.8 multifinder was an actual game changer until 8 was released but you needed a 68040 machine to run it at full potential with at least 8mb of ram. You sound like someone who grew up with macs back in the good old days before windows 3.1 like I did. My Mac was aac plus with 4mb of ram with a 80mb HD running 6.0.8 my favorite apps were in fact Hypercard ResEdit Norton's Sam Antivirus PageMaker MacPaint Word MacDraw and yes Scarab of Ra.

[@monguzzle]

@@jbponzi1 yeah, that’s my memory of it too. I used a Plus and Pagemaker to publish our school paper and newsletters. It remains my favourite ever Macintosh.

[@erin19030]

There is no need to clip a resistor, just remove the old 4, 1 mb Simms and install the 4, new 4 mb Simms. I did these upgrades on hundreds of machines right on the customers desk.

[@3583Bytes]

Get a “floppy emu” and run it in hard disk emulation mode. You can even move the SD card between your vintage computer and a modern Mac to install software on to the SD card via an emulator like vMac.

[@ScreenDoorSlams]

If you look inside the case, you’ll find the signatures of the original Mac team molded into the plastic.

[@BollingHolt]

Welcome to the world of vintage Mac collecting! It is addictive. Get a FloppyEMU, and on my Plus machines, I have SCSI2SD devices to act as a hard disk. I would imagine a BlueSCSI would work on them as well, but I haven't tried,

[@jimwebber7516]

You give me renewed faith in the younger generation! My brother (who lived in Cupertino BTW) had one of these and was starting a desktop publishing operation. I played with this thing for hours, drawing with the mouse. Thanks for this, Luke!

[@johnlarro6872]

My very first Mac was almost a second hand Plus with an external 20MB HDD. Instead, I ended up with its big brother, the Mac Classic, with a build in 40MB HDD. Watching you do the floppy-swap brought back memories! You just have to keep swapping the disks... eventually it should get there. You of course now need to get Dark Castle. That is a given. Playing Dark Castle on a 9" monochrome Mac is what life is all about!

[@garrettjones8448]

Would love to see more of these. Would like for you to do a video on people who can work on old computers and repair CRTs like Adrian’s Digital basement. Someone coming up with a list of people across the country who do that kind of work in each state would be an amazing boon for the retro computer community.

[@Mindsi]

Anything green or blue = Cooper salts of some kind!

[@russ.tech2you]

Awesome, I had one these Mac's back in the day, and created a Ramdisk to get around the disk gymnastics...ah the memories

[@DanielandYuka]

Very fun that you had a great time with Norm and Sam in Tokyo! Mac SE 20 was my first Apple Mac - Beyond Dark Castle was epic!

[@GrandpaJeffrey]

My first Hard drive was 10 MB and cost 650 USD. It made a world of difference on my Mac Plus. By the way, look for the signatures inside the outer case. They were molded into the case. Pretty cool nostalgia trip! Thanks.

[@St3althWarrior03]

Awesome video as always Luke, I’m looking forward to more of these vintage Mac videos. The Mac Plus started me off in the vintage Mac hobby a few years ago and now I have dozens of vintage Macs, even some rarer ones and many accessories. It’s very gratifying to spend time fixing these machines and fun to watch them spring to life. There is much to learn about their history and design.

[@lozahe]

Please continue… I’m a Big vintage mac fan. Sometimes looking back at the simplicity in the past helps simplifying the future.

[@danielwagner5959]

Go ahead, Luke. This is so much fun to watch (and to learn from). Can‘t wait to see more vintage stuff. Best from Germany

[@mtsu8858]

This was my childhood dream machine. Even though I am using a M2 MacBook Air at the moment, I am still attracted to this sleek and compact machine. Thank you for reliving my dream, Luke.

[@AndyGarcia-bu7le]

Perfect video for Marchintosh! Keep them coming!

[@cadenchurchill4296]

These old Macs are so cool, would love to try one at some point! Those older machines have so much more mechanical than modern computers, looks so cool. Looking forward to seeing more retro content!

[@donyee8970]

Brings back wonderful memories when I was an undergrad studying graphic design. The Mac Plus was the first Mac I used. Using Aldus Pagemaker on the Mac Plus was magic.

[@AlEbnereza]

Another fun fact: that screen is 9” Black and White ONLY. That’s on pixel and off pixel. All shades of gray are achieved by dithering pixels.

[@pulsarfox]

Man, thanks to show that time when everything goes wrong. It makes me more confident when it happens to me.

[@Subgunman]

I remember seeing these early MACS used in newspaper publishing departments. They were really tailored for word processing. There was a gag file which could be loaded that when you requested the machine to eject a disk it would make the sound of someone throwing up as the disk was ejected.

[@davidlarson9013]

Aligning the screen is easy. Glad to see it came with the reset button on the side. Continue…I can’t. Remember how many of these I have repaired over the years. I managed a Mac repair shop in Del Mar, CA a long time ago. Received a 1st Gen iMac one day. That model had a metal shield that surrounded all the electronics. Though only a few years old it was completely rusted out. That iMac literally lived on the beach next tio the Pacific Ocean. I’m enjoying watching this.

[@terrymontague7946]

Great video and so good to see an old Mac working again. I started out with a 128K Macintosh when they were first sold in the UK. I don't know if yours has the feature but on the original 128K machines the names of the team that designed the Macintosh are embossed inside on the back of the rear case. As I was the first non Apple engineer in the UK to work on them I was given, and still own, the official Apple screwdriver to reach those two deeply recessed screws. I used to repair the Lisa but that was a very different beast and can still clearly remember going to the old Apple HQ here in the UK to be shown the 128K machine before it went on sale. I'm still using Apple computers, and the other stuff, all these years later.

[@kjamison5951]

One point about the screen geometry. There’s a download on the internet that when printed out, is exactly the size your screen display needs to be. While it is possible to increase the height and width, the original screen display size was calibrated to US letter size so that what you saw on the screen was the same size as what would be printed - a big plus in the Desktop Printing (DTP) revolution back then. The screen displayed a little less than a US Letter width page, so there was a scroll bar at the bottom. To maintain that feature, it’s necessary to adjust the height and width to the correct dimensions.

[@aegonthedragon7303]

Luke the way you adjust the screen position is with two rings on the CRT neck, one for moving horizontally and the other vertically. Wear a thick gardening glove and slowly rotate to the right when facing the screen. You could also use a plastic screwdriver to nudge them along.

[@griffith4443]

I know people seem to hate computers making any noise these days but I love it🥰 Having grown up with “noisy” machines I find their clicking and whirring noise soothing🤣 Even the noises them giant floppy disks used to make while I was waiting for my games to load🥰 Especially since Dad expressly told me not to mess with his computer while he was at work 🤣 Good memories 😁

[@shawnalfaro6943]

its wild that theres a part about floppy disks and an explanation (that i skipped because I already know about them, yes im old) and that there are people that only know it as an icon in the GUIs of computers

[@michaelolz]

I had the privilege of shopping for new computers with the director of a new school where I live here in Kentucky, of which I was among the first students. Our computer teacher of course went also, a dubious honor since he was a j***off. But I carried what was literally the first MacIntosh M0001 in Knott County into our school. It was an amazing year of firsts for us. I really envy you right now. This is truly special.

[@DonMcCulloughCyber]

Awesome Dude, I am a true vintage fan and loved this video and the adventure that made it possible !

[@nicholas790]

Luke!, you're not done! You can bleach the case convert that rust and respray it silver gray and fix the caps responsible for adjusting the width of the screen! I found this to be one of your most entertaining videos! Please continue!

[@milesacquaviva4993]

So excited for more vintage Mac videos! I collect these machines and love to see them on KZbin!

[@fatwombat1]

I used to sell Macs with ComputerLand in Sydney Australia back in the 80s and owned a Mac Plus. I was in love with it, as it was so compact and cute! Eventually I sold it as it was too slow and upgraded to a Mac SE30 which was a beast for Excel and Word by comparison, but it was noisier. Anyway I have stayed with Macs to this day and whilst it looks like an antique it brings back fond memories. The design is a timeless classic piece of art.

[@henryrichardson3508]

You may recall that on the Seinfeld show in the late 1980s and 1990s Jerry had a Mac on the desk in the corner of his apartment. I do not recall any episodes where he actually used it. I think it was a Mac Plus or Mac SE. Good luck in getting yours you got in Tokyo totally restored. I saw your video with your trip to Hard-Off in Akihabara. There is a chain of used book stores here in Japan called Book-Off and they also have some locations where they also have a Hard-Off with used electronics, musical instruments, cameras, etc. Fun to rummage though them and sometimes find some very cool stuff.

[@Rev_J]

Did my dissertation (on Aldus Pagemaker) at art college on one of these in ’89. System on a floppy, how times have changed to what was, a the time, super cutting edge! From this, professionally, to a IIci pizza box, Quadra, Power Mac, iMac G3/4/5, Intel, MBP and now M1/2. Such an amazing technical journey. Very much interested in vintage videos (very much enjoying seeing the control panel options).

[@brandonhayes5460]

The Quadra 950 was a beast the Mac IIci was a work horse like no other and the SE/30 was unmatched with the all in ones.

[@johnwagner9257]

Brings back memories as I supported them at my college in the late 80s. I have a scar on my hand from removing that power cable you struggled with!

[@ejp1]

Love this series Luke, I had a Mac SE in college in 1988 as my first Mac, fun times!

[@AERoVALKYRiE]

I love vintage stuff. Keep this going please

[@denhouse1]

Yes, i would like to see more of this. PCs of this era are pretty common, but Macs of this era or vintage are fascinating to me.

[@herbvee]

I am looking forward to this series as I am restoring a Mac Classic II. There are some cool SD to SCSI products that are now available that I am hoping you will explore

[@oliverk7809]

Yes, I'd like to see more of these vintage Macs videos. Very interesting!

[@cewehner]

I have a Mac + with the extra memory that I took from my office when they upgraded. I recently hooked it up and it still works. Would love to see other vintage Macs on your channel.

[@smokingtarheel3003]

That is so cool. I've vintage Macs. I had a PowerMac 6100/60 at one time.

[@sketchpalosotherchannel]

I recently bought a IIsi. I have also fallen down the retro Macintosh rabbit hole, and I can't wait to see more!

[@luismurag]

I have one like this, I’ll get some time to fix it myself. Same issue with the floppy but I do have an external drive for it.

[@49Macman]

This is awesome! The Mac Plus was my first computer. I remember 3 things about it that was big time at the time. Their was an old car that would be able to go a few feet back and forth, a picture of a baby that took up the whole screen and some 3rd party software that had a recording of a children's choir that would sing, "We Wish You A Merry Christmas!"" My heart was warm listening to it. I still have my plus, but the floppy drive don't work. Wish I had another way to record it.

[@budgetguitarist]

My first Mac was a Mac Plus with an external floppy drive, and I eventually added a 20 MB hard drive, which felt massive! My second Mac was a LC III. My third Mac was a Umax C500 Mac clone. Then I got Macs through work and went through a ton of them, then I got a Core 2 Duo iMac, and then more work computers, and now I have a 2018 MacBook Pro. And I've loved them all. But in my house I also have a Windows 10 machine and a Mac Mini running Linux.

[@white_mask13]

You could plug in the back a BlueSCSI or an iomega SuperDisk to make it more usable but I would personally go with a BlueSCSI and a 32GB SD Card with multiple disk images on it.

[@mrmattyboy]

Yep, I used a zipdrive with my Macintosh SE - it's great.. especially having an 3.5" zipdrive in a PC to be able to easily transfer files.. to anyone (like past me) who gets one thinking "I've got an old PC with a floppy drive and some spare floppies".. if they're HD 1.4MB, get ready for a world of fun :P

[@sinjinhawke]

I have a SCSI2SD plugged into my 4mb Mac Plus but I have also booted it using a BlueSCSI as suggested above. Note the SCSI in the Plus is not terminated so you need to do a simple modification of the board to add the missing diode or externally power the BlueSCSI. My screen on my Plus is unstable and unusable. I recapped the analogue board but that did not help. I suspect the flyback transformer is toast/failing. This week I bought another complete Mac Plus for $200 CAD. Sweet deal considering it came with the keyboard, mouse and a backpack that holds everything. Swapped my board into this machine and it's working great.

[@white_mask13]

@@sinjinhawke I am sure that if we looked further or there was someone more into retro macs they would tells us about a million other solutions (like open source ones) to achieve the same ones but the more popular and ones with the most community backing them up are SCSI2SD and BlueSCSI. The motherboards in these old macs are as good as bulletproof because of the lack of batteries and capacitors that newer motherboards featured and to be honest is a breath of fresh air these days when thinking of restoring one. The power supplies in the other hand as you mentioned are about as you would expect from that era, meaning that their chances of lasting are dependent on usage from the previous owners.

[@sinjinhawke]

@@CygnusTM I’m not sure what you mean. I did make a error. I am using the floppyemu The Mac Plus definitely has a SCSI 25 pin interface. I had a 80mb HD plugged into it back in the day and just the week I was booting it off the 25 pin external BlueSCSI. The 128 and 512 definitely do not have SCSI but the plus does. I have two Mac Plus. They both have SCSI.

[@white_mask13]

@@CygnusTM I am pretty sure you can use a BlueSCSi or SCSI2SD in a Mac Plus but anyways, if you are right then even a Floppy Emu would be a huge upgrade over nothing.

[@AngeloTelesforo]

A checklist for you: recap the analog board, that corrosion may have come from it / add 2 more MB / add an external BlueSCSI / connect it to the internet with an Ethernet to scsi adapter

[@shantanusaha9746]

The first Mac I used was a college 512K Mac with two floppy drives, which a friend used to create a program that we used to run a D&D convention. The first Mac I personally owned was a Mac SE with internal hard drive. I owned that machine for ten years, and in the last four years of its life I had to hit it on the side to get the hard drive to spin up to boot the machine. Good times.

[@atlancon]

Glad to see you change it up, this is a fun diversion from the more modern vintage Mac content. I would enjoy a series seeing you deep dive into the original Macs and see the genesis of the apple ecosystem we all know and love.

[@slavomirdzieciatkowski8811]

Very cool! That thing is older than you! This was my first Mac...wish I still had it.

[@tmenathbormann9349]

What a great video about the Macintosh Plus, thanks! I have the same Mac as decoration in my office, seems working but I have no MAC-OS disk for it. Do you have a idea where I can get a diskette with the OS? Can someone help?

[@Rod-bp8ow]

The Mcintosh brand is really great. It looked very clean, its aesthetics are all classically exceptional. It can always expand its restoration skills. PLDT SMEs....thank you.

[@eden-ski]

The fact that you need an irregular extra long torx screwdriver to even take the computer apart says otherwise 😂 apple products might be pretty to look at, but they're horrible to work with

[@SteveOwensRoswell]

Nice! That's the Mac I used to get through college at Georgia Tech. I bought it during my sophomore year for $1800 at the summer of 1986 and bought a 80MB SCSI hard drive for it for $800 more. Had a modem and an account on Prodigy for online access and to dial into GT servers. Had an Apple StyleWriter inkjet printer. Always like the keyboard. Wrote a lot of papers on that machine.

[@fatwombat1]

I remember watching the first 'Back to the Future' movie in the 80s where they time travel to the future and see an old Mac Plus in an antique store, where I was appalled because I had a Mac Plus and to me then it was the latest and greatest! How could it have become an antique?

[@King_K_Rool_]

Hope you enjoyed japan Luke! Went myself a few years back and it was easily the best holiday I've been on. So many cool things to check out, food is fantastic and the locals are so friendly! Probably spent a good 4-5 hours in a warehouse sized hard-off we found, and yes the same song on a loop was playing back then too haha!

[@jasonjulian1]

I still have one of these sitting out in my garage. I actually have an original 20 MB extra hard drive that goes with it. It’s nice because it connected via SCSI and sent underneath the Mac plus.

[@robm9578]

As no doubt in the case of some other viewers, I bought one of these in 1986, new, and still have it (somewhere in storage, some 10 or 12 hours flight away). At last try - admittedly some 20 plus years ago - it was still working fine.

[@nicholas790]

So cool! More please. Show the gear installation and replace the caps for the screen adjustment also. There is a material called "Ultrabrite" that will return the exterior plastic to its original brilliance! This will be soooo fun!

[@FirefightersFinancialToolbox]

Very cool, those are the machines we used in my senior year in high school. When you still had to plug in the phone line and external modem. Nice!!

[@hawkmankt]

Not nearly as old, but I'm rehabbing my iPod 2nd Generation right now. I love fixing up this older tech. It's pretty wild how they made things work a while back. Great video.

[@bmwloco]

I have one downstairs in the basement. Takes a long torx screwdriver to get into it, but it has the signatures of everyone who worked on the Macintosh in the plastic!

[@elizasmith4410]

Go Luke Go Luke!!! That looks exactly like the first computer I've ever used

[@ken1w]

I have the next two Macs of this classic 9-inch CRT design, the SE and SE/30. Both bought used and fixed up as needed (a long time ago). They’ve been sitting in the closet. You’ve inspired me to see if they still work. Glad you didn’t electrocute yourself with all that “wrestling” to remove the stuck plug; CRTs can hold a dangerous charge after powered off and disconnected. It’s amazing the entire Mac OS fit on one 800k (less than 1mb) floppy disk. Those floppy drives are complex and delicate, I had spares. Note that the system preference in current MacOS is still called “Startup Disk”!

[@respect386]

This was such a dope video! Can’t wait for more Retro Mac content!

[@simono4991]

I never used one of those Macs but I do remember the 'luxury' of a computer with 2 floppy drives! Over 20 years ago I remember seeing a storage room full of these stacked up, obviously not in use any more, in the engineering department at Cambridge University in the UK. They must have led a full life by that point. I doubt any of them have been brought back to life since, but you never know...

[@fredthemagnificent]

I repaired literally 1000´s of these in the 80's. Odd to see it is now nostalgic. I think I still have some parts and tools in the garage. The biggest issue with the Mac + was always the fly back transformer, dry joints. Sticky grease on the Floppy drive was always an issue, even when it was new.

[@michaelthomas1726]

I had a Plus. Check the inside of the outer case. Mine had the signatures of the design team molded on the inside.

[@MrJgsmith]

Can't wait to see more vintage videos! Love vintage computing!

[@MrJgsmith]

I wanted to scream when you rolled the mac around facedown on the desk with no towel or protection though

[@wesstatzer163]

Luke the capacitors on the AV board that you adjusted is what caused the corrosion on the frame not the motherboard if you can look you can see the Ave board hangs directly above it

[@junrosamura645]

What a wonder story from start to finish! Loved see you so red and upset when taking apart that board. That would have made for a really catchy thumbnail!

[@jpdemer5]

I bought the 128k beige Mac when it first came out ... mastered the one-handed floppy swap needed to work with most software, which came on a separate floppy from the OS. (Fun fact: I played Zork I on that machine, and I can still play it today on my M1 Mac.)

[@travistalkington9297]

Love to see you exploring vintage macs!

[@hornplayer1228]

I started with a Fat Mac 512E model and graduated to a Mac Plus with a 70MB HD that matched the footprint and sat beneath the Mac. Paid a small fortune for an additional stick of RAM for the Plus and even had an external Floppy Disk Drive. I started with the original version of Photoshop and was a heavy user of Professional Composer which was one of the first music writing apps. I still treasure the manuals for MacWrite and MacPaint that were bundled with the Fat Mac and later bought MacDraw which I used to draw up my house plans. We had a contact with an Apple Store in Anaheim, California and whenever we purchased a hard drive or cartridges for the Zip drive they would arrive loaded full of all the latest and greatest software plus all the crack codes.

[@wayner8088]

Buy both an external floppy drive and get a microSD drive that plugs into the SCSI port in the back. Disk images with OS and software built in are available all over the internet.

[@freduah4253]

Vintages products on video are always great! Can't wait to see what's coming up!

[@thomasdovi851]

Very cool...takes me back to elementary school years, but I think we had the Apple IIe in the computer lab.

[@danieleppelsheimer9273]

That is a great story. Keep going and finding Old software for the Macintosh

[@bryans8656]

I remember the Mac in your video, the marketing director where I worked at the time had one. I'm looking forward to your future videos on other vintage Macs.

[@be236]

Great video. Like your sense of humor. Would like to see more vintage Mac videos. I had Mac SE and SE/30 awhile back but sold them all, wish I had kept them. Now just have Mac Colour Classic as my main vintage Mac.

[@filipeperalta9873]

I got zapped by the CRT of a Macintosh Plus that hadn’t been plugged in in 7 years… And I had tried to discharge it before fully unplugging the cable from the CRT, but the screw driver I used wasn’t properly grounded to the chassis…

[@filipeperalta9873]

The second time I had to do something like that I made sure the screwdriver was properly grounded by testing resistance between the tip of the screwdriver and the chassis 😅 Overkill? Yes But did I want to get zapped again? Noooo thank you

[@telcoman8577]

Awesome find. Can't wait to see more of that Vintage Beuty.

[@lancer1993]

Back in the day the Mac Plus was my families very first computer, I was like 17 or 18 and almost done with high school. I think I talked my parents into getting it because they were used in the school I was at. And the rest is history, I've mainly used Mac's had a couple of PC running at the same time and now I'm completely in the Apple eco system!

[@Jonathan-wj3uo]

I remember driving all over town to find a "Torx T-15 with a 6" shaft." (I repeated it to so many hardware stores that it is burned into by core) to get mine open back in the early 90s so I could upgrade it from 1mb to 4mb of ram. Nobody had one, so I finally found a place that had a T-15 with a 3" shaft and had to use a lighter to melt the handle to get it to fit into the hole. My friends were so jealous of my 20mb hard drive. Good times.

[@PaulArmstrong1964]

Yes!! I love the vintage Mac stuff. Keep the videos coming!

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

My very first Mac which started my 30-year career. You also need a Jasmine external SCSI drive. A jewel back in the day. Also see the new classic game MacLo.

[@vintagebytes1776]

Really excited for more Vintage Mac content, Luke!

[@richardziolkowski7973]

This was awesome! Nicely done. Looking forward to more vintage stuff for sure.

[@meshica7]

That's awesome!! I have a Macintosh Plus exactly like the one here and it works!!!!!! Mouse, keyboard, AND the add on Kesington System Savor Mac fan. And yes..I have a system floppy!

[@linda_lawson]

This is the content that earned my subscription! Keep it going, Luke.

[@robertbates6494]

It may be hard to believe but this was a huge step forward in personal computing with a user friendly interface. It was also my first computer in college which changed my life because of its ease of use (see Scotty’s scene in Star Trek IV). Today it’s hard to believe a world without a graphical interface but the SE with its 20mgb HD fixed most of the floppy swap issues. I used my SE for 15y until I couldn’t work without a color screen any more then came the eMac.

[@christophernelson175]

Get a Floppy Emu packed with everything you need/want in one shot, never worry about magnetic drives again.