The Macintosh

[@ActionRetro]

MARCHintosh vid from 65scribe! Can this month get any better?

[@esseferio]

Could have been, if only some cryptic german mac upgrade had arrived a bit earlier :) You still can make it happen ;)

[@65scribe]

Thanks Action Retro!

[@Melmelbaton]

Two 65scribe videos in one month? what did we do to deserve such a treat?

[@Pippokpax]

This Sunday just got a whole lot better

[@Pott_AV]

Yup

[@ferrreira]

Absolutely

[@max.zelinski]

Agree

[@ericjauregui3089]

Damn Straight.

[@nonsensicalfox]

Man this year is getting better already, two whole videos

[@jonstechchannel]

Right! TWO! I need more!

[@wingsfn]

I just found out yesterday that I’m gonna be a dad but that pales in comparison to my excitement this morning when I see a new 65scribe video has arrived.

[@65scribe]

Congratulations! But I wouldn’t tell the family that. :)

[@smugshrug]

The previous owner of that Mac knew how to dress snappy. May he rest in peace.

[@65scribe]

Indeed he did.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

10:33 Still have a G3/266 sitting in a corner of my office. It’s the only machine I have left, just about, that will work with a 1993-vintage SCSI scanner I still have.

[@blackblob500]

10:38 And that's why they were called the "NeXT Mafia"

[@macschomo]

I found a Macintosh Plus on the street in Munich in good shape. It got a new home.

[@65scribe]

That's excellent! I'm glad to hear you found that and rescued it.

[@davidreid8669]

I used this in school, the tiny screen really hurt my tiny eyes

[@user-lo6kq9ls4u]

"forced to go on payed vacation" oh old Apple, where did you go?

[@joeltikkanen]

Owner of the 2706th Macintosh here! Thanks for the great video! 🍎

[@65scribe]

Wow! Pretty close on the production line. Good to hear you liked the video!

[@dragonerwolf]

Cutting it close, Marchintosh. But yay, Joseph's machine is working again!

[@65scribe]

Yes! I had to scale it to something I could start and finish in a month and just made it.

[@cellularmitosis2]

I really enjoy your videos

[@65scribe]

Thank you, Jason!

[@Dex99SS]

I never heard MacDraw, MacProject, etc said like a chicken McSandwich or McNuggets... lol I always called it Mac Draw.... Like a Mac, and then the word Draw. Ahhh yes... I had a Mac Plus 1MB, in the early 90's. My dad was a painter, and he did a job painting someone's home (interior) on trade for a complete Mac Plus system. And it was complete.... Everex 20MB SCSI HDD, External FDD, cooling fan mounted up top in the handle hole (made for it by apple), Imagewriter (later got an imagewriter II), TONs of software as the man was an inventor, actually held the patent for the Miracle Ear hearing aid... There was SO much software, and I was just tossed into this as something like a 10 year old or thereabouts, left to just figure it all out because I was good with this stuff... and my dad wanted to foster that sort of thing. Freaking amazing every time I think of the whole deal he worked out, as I lost him about 8 years ago.... anyway.... I did indeed sort it all out, and of course there was no internet, google, youtube, etc... There were just boxes of spiral bound Apple manuals. Not that I read them really, I did just sort of figure most of it out, and hit the books for the specifics... Sadly, all of it is gone.... This, that, and the other leads to whatever have you and some other bs, and it gets left behind... at a time where it appears there wouldn't ever be much value to it, it gets treated as such. It was a great platform to figure everything out on though, especially with the schools being heavy into LC series Macs, as I would copy newer systems, programs, had an external modem that I'd use to file share... Had an apple talk network set up at one point, with some LC computers I also had a bit later on, etc. It was all just so interesting to me.... By 97 I had a P233MMX Packard Bell though, and that was that for sure... I was figuring out overclocking, peltiers, video cards (riva 128 woooot woot), and the Mac Plus was a relic.

[@65scribe]

Great personal story, Brett! Thanks for sharing that. That was quite a system your Dad set up. Sorry to hear that he passed.

[@Derpy1969]

Love the Orson Wells cutaways. He was such a funny drunk.

[@goncalodumas]

Came here looking for this. What's the movie for this scene?

[@65scribe]

Appropriately, a Paul Masson wine commercial.

[@ps5hasnogames55]

ewwww brony

[@akcjaxd7863]

The classic Macintosh. Great nostalgia trip for a Sunday from a totally underrated youtuber. :)

[@65scribe]

Thanks so much!

[@superstar64]

Imagine talking about one of the most famous computers of all time and still finding multiple unique things to talk about.

[@RGBVfox]

First the video game industry, now the home computer market crashed. Also i'm glad you got Joseph's mac up and running again.

[@65scribe]

That's right. They went down hand-in-hand.

[@tegrocket]

It's been almost 3 months since a 65scribe post................ DAMN!!!!

[@65scribe]

I promise, I am working on something I'm sure you'll enjoy.

[@ColonialPuppet]

A few minutes from picking up one of these awesome machines! UPDATE: It’s a Drexel Mac with the silkscreened blue ‘D’ on the front. Very early too- 6th week of 1984! Will make a video of it for this year’s Marchintosh

[@vgtheory]

We're getting spoiled for content this year, aren't we? Always nice to see a new 65scribe video.

[@JasonStevens]

2 videos in one month? That fall must have hit my head harder than I thought!

[@JemaKnight]

I really just want you to know that I appreciate the effort that goes into the production and aesthetic of something that comes out this sincerely retro.

[@65scribe]

Thanks, Jnite, for saying so. It's very fun putting these together, and I'm quite surprised by the (mostly) positive reaction to the aesthetic.

[@StarSetByte]

Ayyyyy i see 65scribe, i click immediately

[@mikedvorscak]

One of my favorite channels on KZbin!

[@65scribe]

Thanks Mike!

[@pavlovsky0]

"it doesn't do anything...?"

[@kirishima638]

What is that from?

[@kirishima638]

@@craigjensen6853 Thanks. It's more cringeworthy than anything but I've seen it in so many memes now. Guy clearly had a problem.

[@JS-ob7fv]

Sees new 65 Scribe video: "great!" Sees that it's only 10 minutes: "Damn!"

[@65scribe]

Yeah, I had to scale it to what I could do in less than a month.

[@sirthomas_1]

i wanted this just to review it (the original one)

[@Pants4096]

1:43 YOU WOKE UP MY CAT. Well, technically, my coughing sputtering GUFFAW at seeing Orson Wells drunkenly misunderstanding Macintosh while advertising wine woke my cat. I still blame you.

[@AnkushNarula]

I've never heard anyone describe Jon Rubenstein as "Steve Jobs's crony". My sense is that when you've been screwed as badly as Jobs was by Sculley, you will naturally prefer to surround yourself with people you trust more than people you can use. I'm guessing Rubenstein serendipitously fit both criteria. Loving your videos - keep it up!

[@65scribe]

I completely agree with what you said about Steve Jobs' motivations. "Crony" seemed the best term to use. Although it comes off with a negative connotation, it just meant Steve was more familiar with Jon than Jack McHenry. Thanks for watching and commenting, Ankush!

[@adinwashere]

My first computer was an original Mac 256k. It was a hand-me-down from friends of my parents. I just loved drawing things in MacPaint all day😁 . I later got a new 386 and when confronted with the blinking DOS cursor was shocked that this computer was more modern!

[@OldAussieAds]

Hearing the disk drive of the Macintosh 128 and 512K is very strange for me. I didn't use my first Mac until the SE, and then our family got it's own Mac Plus. The drive in those machines sounded very different, even though the Plus pretty much looked the same both on screen and the external case. By the way, my father (and by proxy, me) first owned a TI99/4A and then a Mac Plus. I used to type programs into the TI, either from books or magazines. When I heard the Mac was coming, I started searching around for program listings. My Dad saw what I was doing and told me this wasn't that kind of computer. I was about to have my definition of a home computer put on it's side.

[@HoldandModify]

I really enjoy your narration and coverage. I really hope you can make more videos.

[@65scribe]

Glad you enjoyed the videos. I have a video in the works, so I’m not done yet! :)

[@buowerc]

LMAO i love your editing style

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much!

[@aytviewer2421]

The 512k was the first Mac I ever saw and used in the late 1980s. This led to me purchasing my first Mac, which was the SE in March/April 1990. It had 2 Mb of RAM and a 40 Mb HD. I loved that machine. I might still have my copy of MacDraw packed away in a box somewhere... (On second thought, I might actually have MacDraw II). Someday I am going to unpack the boxes from multiple moves and probably be shocked at the stuff I have. At a minimum, it will be a fun trip down memory lane.

[@65scribe]

You were an SE owner, too. Very cool!

[@TylerGajewski]

Legitimately laughed out loud at the “Canadian money, eh” and Jon Rubinstein crony bit. Can’t wait for the next video!

[@65scribe]

Thanks for the 'lol' feedback, Tyler!

[@MichaelJ023]

Yes, a new video! I had one of each of the classic form Macintosh’s, back when you could find them on the curb next to the trash can in many neighborhoods. My favorite was a Mac Plus that I had paired with a scsi Zip drive as the hard drive. It was my first silent computer, which I used for writing. All of my Mac software fit on one Zip disk. After that was my Mac SE that I had no idea that it had been upgraded with an amazing daughter card that boosted it to 16mhz and 128mb ram. It was even faster than my Classic II. I used it as my gaming Mac.

[@65scribe]

Very cool how creative people could be back then, getting the most out of their machines.

[@alerey4363]

Subscribed because the crucial fact about vacant computer booths at CES taken by x-rated movies

[@65scribe]

lol.

[@umageddon]

i see where you got the "does this do anything?" quote from now... LOL. All this time I thought it was Bill Cosby.

[@65scribe]

Bill Cosby?.. ok, I can see that.

[@insertaverygenericnamehere]

Finally, there is a disk drive that sounds like the one in our 1985's Macintosh! 🥲👍🏻 You need to make a high quality audio recording for a sound history archive!

[@65scribe]

That’s a good idea. The sound is as much a part of the early Mac experience as the appearance, so I wanted to get some of that in the video. Glad you recognized it from way back.

[@AlexCBrandon]

Wonderful information and the best Orson yet!

[@65scribe]

Thanks Alexander! I knew you would appreciate Orson.

[@TheNovum]

Great tribute to the old owner.

[@nou9964]

I just discovered your channel a couple nights ago and have been binge watching your stuff. Your channel rules. I'm learning so much about the history of old Apple products and the humor and storytelling mixed with your personal experiences and old VHS footage really keeps it engaging. Keep it up! I love these videos.

[@65scribe]

That’s great to hear that you found the channel and enjoyed it. I very much appreciate such detailed feedback!

[@epic_paul27]

This man makes 720p videos with low quality but the comedy in them make up for it a lot.

[@65scribe]

You forgot to say “spoilers”.

[@KGB240]

Please make a patreon so i can throw a few dollars your way. As someone who grew up with Mac II's and Centrises, your videos are by far some of my all time favorites.

[@65scribe]

Funny enough, I was just thinking about that on the weekend. About what I could do there to make it worthwhile for people, and I had some ideas. So I appreciate your definitive vote for patreon.

[@adamkordac21]

Only a month after the 8100? You’re on fiiiiire.

[@BobMar1964]

After using Lotus 1-2-3 on a PC, I got a Mac Plus and MS Excel. Apple was madding with its product segmentation, so I never went back. 30+ years later, still sitting in front of Excel but learning DOS/Windows provided career opportunities.

[@65scribe]

I know what you mean. After three years of using a Mac, I ended up in a college course learning DOS and 1-2-3. I thought, "This is pointless!". Then came the contraction of the economy in the early 90's. Even in 2005 I found myself still running and trying to maintain DOS systems from the 80's because budgets were so tight. Buying up 286's online from people on Welfare to maintain the company's mission-critical equipment. I laugh, "who knew?"

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

MS Excel 1.x could not cope with more than 1MiB of memory. It was built around some kind of runtime interpreter that only handled 20-bit addresses. When MultiFinder was introduced in 1987, it had a special check for when you launched Excel, to ensure it always loaded in the bottom 1MiB of RAM. If it couldn’t fit, there was a special error message, about memory being too fragmented, that would not be triggered in any other situation, by any other app.

[@Garedot]

I found an original Macintosh 128k 1st Gen in Albuquerque NM in 2017 for 250. It has the original Bag original Keyboard, Mouse and Power Cable with Two original Diskettes, it was in pretty good looking and working condition. No original box but It is in almost mint condition for its year.

[@65scribe]

Very cool! Did you figure out the manufacture date from the serial number?

[@murdockscott]

I just watched your video on the 512ke and commented about how it was my first Mac and second computer after my first being a TI99/4a. After watching this video and learning of our parallel computing journey, I feel somewhat... connected. 😀

[@65scribe]

Murdock - Sorry I didn't answer your comment! That's great to hear from someone who made the transition from TI99 to the Macintosh. The retro community is relatively quiet on the TI99 compared to the other Home Computers that came out at that time. I made a couple videos on the TI99, and I'd like to do another someday soon.

[@BizTechSherpa]

I LOVE these videos! Always makes my day, and later days when I watch again. Thanks!!!

[@65scribe]

Great to hear that, David!

[@alarak2159]

Late to the party but never disappointed. Thanks 65s! Happy Marchintosh!

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

Awesome that you got Joseph's mac working again!

[@iangreaves933]

Damn! That is an excellent video! So much research. Well done.

[@65scribe]

Ian! Thanks for watching! I'm glad to hear you liked the video.

[@bashbrannigan]

WOW, you really packed a lot of history into this video. Great job. I also had a TI99/4A and even programmed a nice hockey video game on it. My understanding is the Macs never took off until they started running laser printers.

[@65scribe]

Thanks! Always great to hear from another TI99 user. I spent some time programming on it as well. Lots of fun with that system. And you are right. Once all the pieces were in place for professional desktop publishing, Apple had their biggest hit until the iPhone.

[@jellepetje]

This guy is back and alive! Awesome!

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

4:27 No mention of the “Monster Mac”, which took the RAM to an amazing 2MiB? And added fangs to the smiling Mac icon that you saw on bootup.

[@65scribe]

Yes, there seemed to many options, but the MacSnap was the only one I had to show as an example, but funny about the fangs! Hah!

[@linoxyard]

My experience with the Mac environment is relatively recent. I honestly never cared for Apple in the past; I grew up with a Windows 95 machine, and stayed within the Windows environment until a couple of years ago, when I permanently switched to Pop OS (Linux), since it became an actual alternative to the more "commercial" OSs. I acquired a Power Macintosh G5 single cpu (2003 model) with a 27" Apple Cinema Display for 10 euros 3 years ago, and that was my first ever experience with Mac OS X. Needless to say, it was really fun and made me appreciate a lot of Apple strenghts, like the optimal hardware/software integration, great hardware design (for the most part, the G5 line in general is very unreliable but even it has a pretty cool design in my opinion) and a stable and reliable operating system (I dual booted Tiger and Leopard on the G5). If my family had a G4 or a G5 in the early 2000s I would've loved it, sadly we didn't have that kind of money. I currently run macOS Mojave on my laptop (hackintosh) as my daily driver whenever I'm not at home and I love it (the hardware performance, even on a hackintosh is so much better than Win 10); I really wanted to buy a macbook for myself, but the prices compared to the hardware specs are not compelling. Hopefully this will change a bit with the new ARM based macs.

[@65scribe]

Great reading about your path to Apple hardware and your perspective on it compared to what you've known from Windows. Thanks for sharing that! It will be interesting to see where things go with ARM, I agree.

[@d3adman404]

Im still waiting for a new video, i really love this channel

[@65scribe]

Thanks for your patience! I am just finishing up a new video, which should be available in about a week.

[@vintageMIDI]

Another flippin' awesome video on Mac history! Would you PLEASE slide into Tim Cook's spot at the company and restore the glory of what Apple used to be under Steve. You get it, Cook, doesn't.

[@sunnohh]

I had work to do and this came up, work is waiting 12 minutes ❤️

[@65scribe]

Ha!

[@TheOriginalCollectorA1303]

Nice to see the Macintosh operational again!

[@adonvonpanzern]

Great video, glad to see you back, now if only we had a Color Classic video

[@nyuni]

Very cool that you were able to piece together the provenance of the machine - another great video!

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

5:55 The Mac II (same year) was also available with dual internal floppies.

[@65scribe]

I don't think Apple offered the Mac II with dual floppies as a standard config, let alone it's own model number like the SE had ... but.. I'm desperately splitting hairs. I should have just said that "the SE was the only compact mac that shipped with dual floppies..."

[@groomsy57]

Thanks for the video! Made my day.

[@65scribe]

You're welcome, Todd. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@canadianman000]

OH MAN. This weekend can't get any better now.

[@dronejunglistplatoon]

Great day! When the authority on all things mac posts you watch right away and give a like!

[@Fuzy2K]

This video automatically wins for the integration of Orson Welles' infamous "AAAaaaahhh the French champagne" outtakes

[@65scribe]

You can't go wrong adding Orson's outtakes into a video. :)

[@grimreboot]

Two new videos in the space of a month..... spoiling us! :)

[@temetka]

I love your videos. Since I just brought my SE out of retirement to use as a word processor, this video seemed kind of fitting ot me even though it is not about my particular compact Mac.

[@65scribe]

Glad to hear you brought it out. The first video I did in this KZbin series was the SE, being my first Mac.

[@inexternalrecords]

I saw the notification and just said "YES." Edit: Wait, I already saw this. Why did I get the notification again? Oh well, let's watch it again!

[@65scribe]

Ha! It wasn't me re-notifying you ... not that I wouldn't if I could. :)

[@inu7841]

Hell yes, nice to see another video from you scribe this is a great year already :)

[@65scribe]

Thanks Kathleen!

[@Bushidounohana]

Happy Marchintosh, indeed! Glad you got the old girl up and running again, nicely done.

[@DrDavesDiversions]

7:55 lol. (I was just smiling up 'til then.) Nice jobs.

[@65scribe]

Thanks for the feedback Dr. Dave!

[@Flutterwhat]

I enjoy your videos and editing style.

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much!

[@TheSulross]

was one of those that saw the future and bought the 128K Mac, and then discovered, that yeah you could doodle in MacPaint but it wasn't good for much else - all the PC-DOS drones were fully in their rights for cracking jokes and saying it wasn't a serious computer for productivity. being poor college student (even more so for having bought a Mac), I couldn't afford the official Apple upgrade, so I bought a kit of denser RAM for 512K, desoldered the 128K chips, put in sockets, plugged in the 512K chips, soldered on a jumper wire, and viola - I had a fully working 512K Mac. then bought an external harddrive, eventually got Lightspeed C and MacBugs, and learned to program the Toolbox. First paying job as a software developer was programming on Mac Plus with SCSI harddrive and Apple's MPW software development tools - life long career ever since because Steve Jobs hoodwinked me into a 128K Mac; guess I owe the guy (well, no - I paid plenty for that Mac)

[@65scribe]

Impressive story! Thanks for sharing that. Joseph was all about Word Processing, like most of us were in the 80’s, so it probably met his needs more than yours. You could have joined me on the TI99 bus. As Texas Instruments ads used to read, “Steve Jobs never gave you this much for your money” with all their expansions and peripherals on display.

[@TheSulross]

@@65scribe well, I've learned about most of the retro computers of yester-year by now - the ones that I passed by at the time - and I've kind of warmed up to the Tandy CoCo - especially the CoCo3 and it's MC6809, and that it could run multi-user OS-9 (which Tandy supplied for it); being into computer sci stuff, that would have been the early micro for me (my first was the C64), but then I very soon got fond of the MC68000 when got a Mac with sufficient memory (and harddrive) - said bye, bye to the 8-bit scene

[@defaultroute]

When you are so engrossed in the video that you answer(out loud) the rhetorical questions...

[@mrtiff99]

Great video. Glad you got it working. Thanks

[@Icy_vixen]

Not long ago I have bought a Macintosh Plus on Ebay and apparently it used to be an original mac that the original owner upgraded.

[@dross1705]

I love the videos! Keep them coming.

[@MicrobyteAlan]

Funny thing, I watched this video on my MacBook Air M1. Thanks from Florida’s Space Coast.

[@65scribe]

Nice!

[@yueibm]

This is great, glad you got it working, thanks for another video!

[@VincentValentine]

Happy to see a new video!

[@Tom2112Tom]

Props for the Munch Man cartridge!

[@65scribe]

Props for noticing that!

[@Tom2112Tom]

I spent many hours of my misspent youth playing Munch Man! Good times.

[@anilingus]

Interesting little video. I remember reading about Big Mac in Sculley's book in the late 90s, but i did not know it was supposed to be Unix based. The Plus and the Classic were the first computers i ever used as a 12 year old in 1993. Guess it was love at first sight. Old Macs will always have a place in my hearth.

[@65scribe]

The Plus and Classic. Great first-time machines. I brought up Big Mac as an example of Steve’s over-ambition. Trying to build OS X back in 1985.

[@ElijahCiali]

@65scribe I wonder how strange OSX (or I suppose macOS now) would be if it was originally made in 1985, I’m glad it was able to be made on much more practical hardware with NeXTStep.

[@eviltriplet]

I'm 50+, never used a Mac ever. Love these videos though.

[@65scribe]

@@ElijahCiali Interesting thought, if it was even possible to do that early. Steve was persistent on his vision.

[@65scribe]

@@eviltriplet That’s great to hear, thanks!

[@AgoraphobicLocust]

You sir deserve at least a M subs.

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much!* (* as long as 'M' means million and not a thousand)

[@Pheckphul1]

That keyboard looks to be what Apple called platinum colored, which came out with the release of the Mac II and SE. I don't recall a platinum keyboard of this sort without a numeric keypad being released. Apple changed the color of the Mac Plus from beige to platinum to match the SE and II, but the Plus came with a full keyboard. The mouse is definitely beige, but the Mac looks platinum like the keyboard. Is it the lighting? My display?

[@65scribe]

You are exactly right. There was no platinum original keyboard. This is a rare case where the keyboard retained its original colour and didn’t yellow. I don’t know if it’s that it was molded without the fire retardant that causes the yellowing or it was kept away from humidity, sunlight/fluorescent lights. It spent its working life in the Middle East and the keys have Arabic characters, but it is legitimately a beige keyboard.

[@DEFGI]

I had no idea until now that the "Does it do anything?" sound clip you've used in your videos was an Orson Welles quote, the more you know!

[@65scribe]

Yes, few viewers had figured it out, but knowing only made them all the more demanding to have Orson’s sound bite in every video. Ha!

[@ramakrishnamishra8179]

Very nice video!!! Loved it

[@65scribe]

Thanks Rama!

[@darwiniandude]

Great video as always. Thanks.

[@RedTroPc]

My macintosh set consists of a hd20, 400k diskdrive and a macintosh plus that was upgraded

[@65scribe]

That’s a great piece!

[@YeetPC]

Great video!

[@looneyburgmusic]

The original Mac is the perfect example of everything that was/is wrong with both CrApple™ and Jobs himself - form and appearance over actual function, at a price 2x - 3x that of any competitor.

[@DisneyVideoArchive]

Now I know where “This do anything?” comes from!

[@OldAussieAds]

If I was the customer of the original Mac, I would have been pretty annoyed with the Fat Mac too. I had always assumed the 512K came later down the road. But it was literally the same year. And the 128 was the only Mac that wasn't great from the start. Even Steve Job's first Macintosh demonstration was secretly using a 512K prototype. The Lisa - Too much stuff for too much The Mac 128K - Not enough stuff The Fat Mac - Third time lucky!

[@_____7704]

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[@bolm1]

I see ur at 9.9k subs, early congrats for reaching 10,000 subs

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much! Yes, I hope the next video this month will push it over the edge.

[@macktheinterloper]

Mwaaaaahhhhhh zzzeee French Champagne! Thank you for reminding me of this classic. And, naturally, for the entire video. Didn't expect the next one so soon. Even if the ending was slightly bittersweet.

[@jacksonhoyt4127]

I like you make the videos look retro.