The Power Macintosh 9500

The 9500 was the pro tower in Apple's darkest days. This video looks at the desperate moves Apple was wiling to make to keep the Mac relevant in the shadow of Microsoft and it's own poor management. I then open up a 9500/180MP to look at the technology inside... among other things...and attempt to repair a boot issue. All to grab the title of being the best 9500 video on KZbin! ... oh, wait, there aren't any others.

[@65scribe]

Thanks all! It's great to get so much positive feedback in just 24 hours. Really enjoy the time I get to spend making these videos, and that other people are enjoying watching them makes it worthwhile.

[@jonpurdydotcom]

Absolutely the best video I've ever seen on the PowerMac 9500. Wish I had some ABS cement with me the last few times I opened the case...

[@jonpurdydotcom]

I commented previously but noticed you don't have PMs turned on. I've had an Apple Network Server 500 that I've had for a decade or more. Despite not being a Mac, just let me know if you wanted to use it for a "review". I'm in Toronto so transportation would not be a problem. PMs are open, or @jonpurdy on Twitter. 👍

[@65scribe]

Your offer to loan your Network Server 500 came as a pleasant surprise.. or shock even. There is quite a backstory about trying to get one of these to use in the 9500 video that I'll have to tell you. I'm fairly 'off-the-grid' (simply by ignorance), so that's my fault I can't do Twitter. I also thought private messages were gone from KZbin(?) Feel free to connect with me as a KZbin 'Friend' or let me know how else best to contact you. I look forward to discussing further!

[@jonpurdydotcom]

@@65scribe Weird, looks like my reply from a couple of days ago didn't actually get posted for some reason (maybe it filters email addresses). You can email me at 65scribe AT jonpurdy DOT com, then I'll email you back from my actual address. Looking forward to it!

[@65scribe]

Yes, I did see it only in my notifications. The post was gone, so I think you’re right. I’ll try to email tonight. Thanks!

[@alobosk]

August 15th 1995 is when I started working at a major Apple distributor in Mexico. I lived all this first hand. I was 17 at the time. Got trained in Photoshop 3.5 to do demos at national conferences. I'd like a 9500/132 again. That was the machine I had sitting in my desk. Proudly at eye level, with a 17'' Sony Trinitron built Apple Multisync Monitor.

[@65scribe]

Alejandro Lobos Kunstmann Thanks for sharing your experience with the 9500. So you started working about the time Windows 95 released. Interesting times!

[@alobosk]

@@65scribe yes. I went to an expo called Comdex/CommExpo in Mexico City those days. Be Inc were presenting their PowerPC BeOS boxes, along with Motorola, Intel, Cyrix... It was crazy. By the next year I was one of the speakers with Apple Latinamerica on those expos. I was only 18yo. Everything was so exciting. I still was a fervent Amiga user though. Ten years after that I met with some of the Amiga engineers. One of them even have me his personal Amiga. I'm such a computer history buff. I lived it. Nowadays doesn't feel as exciting as it was in those days.

[@65scribe]

Very interesting!

[@alobosk]

@@65scribe Can you sell me one?

[@ColonialPuppet]

these videos are addicting.

[@cosmokramer4585]

No kidding!!! I just found this channel today and I’ve been through probably 4 now. This guy is hilarious hilarious!!! Will be my daily watcher now since “Jason’s Macintosh Museum” has gone the way of the DoDo. I hope this Chanel stays alive and well

[@ProduktReview]

I think I watched every video 5 times over. The old style, the soft speaking going into detail is so different from other KZbinrs.

[@65scribe]

I appreciate the explanation of why you like the videos. I’m sometimes mystified why people like the videos as much as they claim to.

[@AgoraphobicLocust]

Totally! And i keep coming back to revisit them every 5-6 months.

[@georgwalt7978]

@@65scribe the noise floor is just amazing and im talking from a audio engineer perspective. it nails the built in low quality converters of apple at the time.

[@JerryDodge]

"Is that all the balls you've got, Santa?" I'm rolling.

[@skunch]

I have a deep appreciation for beige powermacs. I know they were made when apple was at it's lowest, and they may not have been compelling products, but I love the aesthetic!

[@65scribe]

I agree. The colour, shape and texture made them feel elegant and substantial.

[@alerey4363]

The 9500 and 8500 (more of a multimedia production machine) were really hardware beasts but they lacked a solid corresponding multitasking multiuser protected memory anti crash OS; I remember getting those dreaded error type 11 bombs (which led you to total work loss and forced hardware reset); in 2000 I got to install BeOS in a 9500/200 and boy was that the perfect system for that beast: fast, multimedia responsive, Unix-like underpinnings, cool graphical interface with cute icons, an overal super solid OS that was fun to use; unluckily never gained sofware, thus never got traction with mac users (besides it only ran in selected 2 or 3 specific models) but hey, luckily soon enough old classic macos 9 was replaced by Unix based X,, courtesy of Job's NextStep and...the rest is history

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@alerey4363 I love beOS. I wish Haiku was more... well, easy to daily. The floating tab style title bar is my favourite thing aesthetically, but a lot still impresses today, such as how they handled dynamically mounting remote or local disks. (Which tbh I haven’t read about it in years so I don’t really remember what exactly that was.... but I remember going “that’s still cool today” when I did!!) also supporting multi-threading so early IIRC.

[@alerey4363]

@@kaitlyn__L Haiku was practically born dead; it's been 15+ years and it's in beta! besides, nowadays there's no need for that; if you like the aesthetics of BeOS you are better with Xubuntu with a BeOS theme, including the original icons, that will give you the best results in both departments, currentt usability/performance and cosmetic BeOS

[@nickwallette6201]

@@alerey4363 I don't think it's the same. BeOS was about way more than a re-skin of Linux. A lot of what made it special then is easy to find in any modern OS now, but it was happening 20 years ago: Fast boot; a light, responsive, stable UI; smooth multitasking; the building-blocks APIs, like translators, that made adding functionality simple... It was also really easy to use. It was OS X before Apple had released OS 8. Novel then... so sufficiently advanced that it appeared to be magic. But not anymore. I'm not sure Haiku can ever capture that lightning in a bottle, since hardware and software have since evolved to make any computer feel as powerful now as BeOS did to my Pentium II in 2000. The time to replace BeOS is long gone, and the number of people for whom that lineage is significant, shrinks every day. At this point, if they were to completely finish it tomorrow, it would just be another anonymous project OS with some level of POSIX compatibility. Its reason for existing now is to _look_ like a 20-year-old OS, and run 20-year-old software, which isn't compelling enough to restart the inertia lost back then. It's kind of heart-breaking. I really wanted Zeta.. er.. Haiku to fill the void left behind BeOS. But it has to first catch up to where BeOS was two decades ago, and then start over, evolving a quarter of a century behind the state of the art. The shortcut is to graft in code from modern *nix, but then it's just another *nix.

[@cellularmitosis2]

"Or this theme which could have been the inspiration for Windows XP" OOOOHHHH SNAP!!!

[@65scribe]

:)

[@billermanthegreat]

That dust mask he shows is now worth more than the Macintosh.

[@charlie4christ536]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5LXeq2nrKdlmqM Christ died for your sins and rose on the third day, showing that anyone who trusts in him for salvation, will have everlasting life. (John 11:25-26) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" (John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@aboutthiscomputer]

This comment is underrated

[@geekcorerob]

@@charlie4christ536 I don't go to your church and force nerdy computer talk onto you.

[@themacintoshnerd]

@@geekcorerob what was the comment out of curiosity?

[@PiroKUSS]

@@themacintoshnerd Probably dumb religious shit.

[@TheQuestionManiacTQM]

Everybody gangsta until "HAVE A GREAT SUMMER VACATION AND *DON'T* BE WAITING FOR SCHOOL NEXT YEAR!!"

[@metal_bird]

*don’t be late for school next year

[@alobosk]

That machine just came in right when I was working at a major Apple dealer in Mexico City. I've got to unbox and have fun with so many of them.. Particularly the /132.. Paired with those gigantic Trinitron displays from the day. God they were so heavy. I still can smell the new-smell of those days. The smell of new. Unboxing the keyboards and mice, then those SCSI AGFA scanner and the color LaserWriters. It was September 1995 when I started. My first job. I was 17yo. I felt like playing "office". Happy times.

[@65scribe]

Thank you for sharing your memories of the 9500, Alejandro!

[@mattj65816]

27:27 is perhaps the greatest moment ever in a KZbin retro computing video. But you can't fast forward to it, you have to watch the video all the way through to get the full effect.

[@65scribe]

Thanks Matt! Glad you enjoyed that.

[@tylertyler82]

It was always fun recording minutes long sounds on school Macs because the entire system locked up while the alert sounds played 😆

[@ryeb]

agreed. it's an incredible payoff.

[@vanzzini]

The comedy timing of this guy is just amazing.

[@65scribe]

Thank you, Mario! That means a lot coming from someone who does comedy.

[@tomenglishmusic6808]

Epic video. Thank you! There's so much more than just the 9500 crammed into this video - I love how you weave in a reference to the then-unfolding disaster of Copland, for example. I also love the humour sprinkled through your videos - it really works somehow to bring the hardware and the history to life. Well done.

[@65scribe]

Thanks, Tom. I really appreciate your detailed review of the video. It means a lot when I get feedback like this.

[@jellepetje]

“Wear a dustmask too if you have one” 2020: we got that covered

[@iroll]

;-;

[@achimboers]

Yep, that didn’t age well …

[@cosmokramer4585]

New sub!! Man, it such a relief to find a great Apple review channel since my beloved Jason Macintosh Museum is no longer posting, I can only watch the same videos over and over again a few times. Keep up the good work!! Love what you do!

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts ... and subscribing! When I started the series in 2014, Jason’s channel was the only good Mac channel I could find. I’m glad my videos are filling the gap.

[@vintageMIDI]

I remember the joy in the Mac community when Jobs returned in the late 90s. Your video retrospectives bring back the joy of the Apple we all knew before they became a global juggernaut. Thanks for the hard work making these videos.

[@65scribe]

You're welcome. Thanks for sharing your impression of the the videos. Always interesting to hear the feedback.

[@_____7704]

This channel, and Jasons Macintosh Museum are the best Apple Mac related content on KZbin - end of story.

[@MOS6582]

Best overview of the 90s Apple situation I've seen. Gold👍 subbed

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much!

[@RBMK1500]

just stumbled upon your video, not a classic mac guy but still very interesting! also like your video style a lot. great job!

[@65scribe]

Thank very much! That's high praise from someone who is not really into the machines. I'm glad you found the channel!

[@Explainercaptain]

Loving it! Best and funniest retro Apple channel on KZbin!

[@65scribe]

Great to hear! Thanks for sticking with the channel and watching!

[@Explainercaptain]

Thanks! Keep it up! Can't wait for the next video P.S. Missed the "Damn" here 2:02 :-)

[@Explainercaptain]

We need the "Damn!", as a downloadable MP3 warning sound effect for our Macs :-)

[@65scribe]

Hah! I don't know why I never thought of that!

[@antibodiesagainstkookery3871]

Oh man, the only thing I remembered about the Mac clones was that video at 5:20 with the song "I think we're a clone now". Thanks!

[@65scribe]

Hah! You’re welcome!

[@teri1337]

I really love your videos! I was an Apple Developer from 1984 through 1996, and watching them really brings back a sense of nostalgia for those times. Thank you! :)

[@65scribe]

Thanks for your message! I'm glad to hear the videos passed muster with a Developer from that time!

[@Gelenkwelle]

26:57 i love the Apple Chime! 😍 As always a great and informative Video, your Humor is marvellous! 😂

[@65scribe]

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the video and the classic chime. :)

[@frankiii9165]

The most thing I like is digging what’s on the hard drives when you buy a second hand computer, if you’re lucky they didn’t format it or after a successful hard drive repair… also the “have a great summer vacation” alert… is it real? 😂

[@65scribe]

Yes, that was a legitimate alert sound on the 9500 when I got it from the guy. The same guy who left his email box on there, having fun with the phishing scam.

[@bqrl445]

I am thrilled that I managed to find you channel. I remember how badly I wanted one of these when I was a kid. Please make a video about the 9600!

[@65scribe]

I’m glad you found my channel amongst everything else. The 8600/9600 tower design is probably my favourite of any that Apple produced, so a video is pretty much assured.

[@sabbathian]

I just recently discovered your channel... I have no idea how, since I am not a Mac guy, but I love it, and I am learning about these machines through your fun videos. Keep it up!

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much for the feedback! Great to hear you found the channel by accident yet still enjoy the video series.

[@TuNnL]

This was only the second video I watched of yours, but you sold me with that Easter egg. That's some good research! Keep up the good work. 👍

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much, TuNnL!

[@robluce2111]

I love your sense of humor. "yeah well it's NOT FOR YOU" got me cracking up

[@65scribe]

Thanks Rob! Good to hear that someone found that funny.

[@totallypixelated]

I have fond memories of this era of Mac from when I worked in newspapers in the 90's and 00's. Most of our machines were Quadras and 8100s but there were a couple of 9500s too before the G3 arrived. There were still a couple of Quadras under my desk with ISDN cards in them when I left in 2009. They had been running 24/7 for the best part of 20 years by that time.

[@65scribe]

Great hearing how these macs were used in their ‘working life’ and how long! Wow!

[@totallypixelated]

@@65scribe Yes, the newspaper I worked at (a national daily in the UK) had somewhere in the region of 500 macs on desks at one point. Quadras were the workhorses for many years with the higher powered machines more geared towards heavy lifting in Photoshop. ISDN was heavily used for artwork file transfer from clients for years where I worked in the advertising department. We had seven or eight Macs each with four or eight channel ISDN cards at its peak. This was latterly replaced, first with FTP, then a web based product when people started to get access to fast internet. I helped oversee the rollout of Windows machines in 2005 or 2006 running the Adobe suite of applications which replaced the Macs with Quark. The most interesting rare Mac I used was probably a Sixty Eight Thousand Inc. Dash 30fx which I used with a drum scanner in the early '90's at a pre-press bureau. This was a modified IIfx in a huge steel tower case.

[@totallypixelated]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_conversion#Sixty_Eight_Thousand,_Inc.

[@runningat50hz]

Absolutely fantastic. You don't know the hype I build for every nee video.

[@santospoland]

I've been watching a boatload of your videos, ironically the first video I ever watched I watched previous to this one, on retrobriting. What a tour! Keep it up, I love the creativity of your edits. Truly unique.

[@Aaronage1]

Awesome video! It was interesting to learn what was happening at Apple 1994-1997. There's a tendency to gloss over that timeframe and just focus on Jobs' return in 1997. It seems that, unlike Spindler, Amelio was a competent CEO and was taking the right actions.

[@65scribe]

Thank you! That's the impression I got from everything I watched and read. I don't think Amelio could have brought Apple back as dramatically as Steve Jobs, but he did all the necessary dirty work to keep Apple from disappearing before the famous comeback. He does deserve more credit than history gives him.

[@drygnfyre]

Amelio understood, like Jobs did, that Apple was not Microsoft and could not survive trying to pretend they were. I doubt Apple ever could have successfully sold Mac clones. And even if they could, it would have been a decade earlier than their actual attempt. As Jobs pointed out, Apple was highly profitable during the early 90s, but that faded fast. They lost their brand identity and their products became dull and uninspiring.

[@pureluck8767]

I just love you Canadian 🇨🇦 humor 😆

[@65scribe]

Thank you... and on Canada Day! Nice!

[@NYyazoofan]

What a fantastic video...brought back so many memories.

[@65scribe]

That's great to hear that you enjoyed the video, and that it stirred some good memories from the past.

[@paulmuaddib451]

I've been eagerly awaiting this video and I wasn't disappointed.

[@insanelydigitalvids]

I've watched this video 89,000 times since it appeared on KZbin Classic Edition™ 6 years ago (yes, it was all me...) and discover new delights every single time. The mix of information and comedy here is second to none - and Mr None is indeed quite amusing. This video is not just about the Power Macintosh 9500, but is an Apple lover's romp through the Clone Wars (I think the ™ for that is already taken... "damn!") and the ever increasingly "blazing fast" speeds of the PowerPC 604/604e Mac OS computers. Today, the Apple Power Macintosh 9500/180MP would be named "PowerMac 9500 Pro Max Ultra". How times have changed... into something much more dapper and less hairy than the late 1990s.

[@65scribe]

89,000! That's more times than I watched it when I was editing. If Google figures out you are the only viewer, they might want their AdSense money back. I'm glad you like the video so much, and appreciate the very fun review of the video. Ha!

[@RafaGreenfur]

Your videos are almost meditative, I really enjoy watching them. Good job, keep it on!

[@65scribe]

Rafa Greenfur I’ve never heard the videos described that way. Thanks and I’m glad you are liking what I’m doing!

[@JordanOrlando]

Hey, just discovered your channel and I love it! I had an original 128K Mac, a Mac Plus, an SE, a 9500 and a 1st-generation G4, and I eagerly watched the videos for each. Wonderful detail; fascinating insights and nostalgia. Thank you so much for doing all this! Jordan in NYC

[@65scribe]

Hey Jordan. Thanks so much for the feedback, and I'm glad they brought back enjoyable memories from your long history with Macintosh. And great to hear from NYC. I was only there once in 1998 but loved it. I also got to see the new Powerbook G3 at a store while I was there.

[@mgladders]

Love the channel. Really like your humour and your delivery is spot on. And the information is really in depth and interesting! More please!

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much for the feedback! I do have another video in the works.

[@Explainercaptain]

Amazing! Nice to see a new video again! Have been looking forward to it for a long time! Enjoyed it!

[@halnor777]

Thank you. I was hoping that you continue making these Apple videos. Keep up the good work.

[@dukeseb]

It was the startup chime that blew me away. I loved that machine.

[@paulmuaddib451]

That "Hell Yeah!" fist followed by the music was the best part of this.

[@65scribe]

Glad you enjoyed that bit

[@cameraman655]

Oh, the memories...thanks for the trip back, you have a new subscriber. 22:18 Made In Thailand.....oh if we only knew back then what we know now and paying the price for our greed.

[@65scribe]

Glad you enjoyed the nostalgia trip and thanks for subscribing!

[@inexternalrecords]

This was a long video but man was it good the whole way through. The bad RAM skit was great.

[@65scribe]

Thanks! Good to hear you liked the bit about the bad RAM. Hope you liked the Elf Bowling mention, too.

[@tenthconcept]

These presentations are overall informative and hilarious.

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much!!

[@alphaLONE]

Your videos are really well made and super nice! I can't wait for a new one!

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much! I appreciate you watching and commenting. I'm working on a couple more videos right now, so I hope you'll stay tuned.

[@Darimonde]

Wow! I just discovered your channel. This was a fantastic presentation of not just the Apple 9500, but also the historical context surrounding it's creation. I forgot a number of things before seeing this video, such as, why Apple called the new operating system "Mac OS 8" rather than "System 8". And great job getting that 9500 going again. It obviously was suffering from a serious lack of love. When you have a chance, I'd love to see a presentation for the PowerMac 8600. I've kept mine all these years to have a platform that can still read floppy and Zip discs as well as being able to run the odd 68000 code program that I never upgraded to PowerPc code.

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much! I'm glad you found the channel. I look forward to doing a video on the 8600. One of my favorite Macs. I first saw one at a Mac Users Group when it first came out. I had a mere 6100 at home, so I was amazed at how big and powerful it looked and, I agree, still useful today to access those old files.

[@MicrobyteAlan]

Thanks, good episode. I was working for digital equipment corp during this time and used a microVAX as my personal computer. I missed most of the 90s Apple endeavors, I’m a big macOS fan/user and appreciate the history of the going’s on that I missed.

[@65scribe]

Interesting! I'm glad I could fill you in.

[@GarthBeagle]

Nicely done homage to Dr. Strangelove. And wow that alert sound, I hope you *didn't* get rid of it - encourages you to not make any mistakes that'd trigger the sound hahaa

[@65scribe]

yes, I love that scene from Dr. Strangelove. It was fun vaguely recreating it. I'm glad to hear you recognized it for what it was. And that alert... When I was looking through the hard drive, it froze, so I did the first thing you do when troubleshooting.. randomly hit keys on the keyboard. But then it kicked back in, and that sound effect played about 25 times. That was a long few minutes...

[@puwazatza]

I love your editing skills..so subtly funny hahah

[@65scribe]

Thank you, Chanjai! Good to hear that.

[@JoelTopf]

I had a PowerMac 7500. Loved that machine. This was a great video. Thank-you.

[@65scribe]

You're welcome, Joel! The 7500 was a great Mac. Thanks for watching.

[@mordecaiepsilon]

Amazing video. I especially enjoyed the in depth look at the motherboard

[@65scribe]

Thanks! Good to hear you liked the motherboard overview. That makes it worthwhile cleaning that board up. :)

[@paulmuaddib451]

That section with the piano music keep me coming back again and again.

[@BollingHolt]

Yet another great video. I'm diggin' your channel!

[@10MARC]

I love the part showing the Mac copying and emptying the trash in the 1996 version of MacOS. I promised myself not to mention the Amiga could do that in 1985. I lied.

[@65scribe]

It’s unfortunate that the popular platforms of choice had little to do with technical merits.

[@10MARC]

@@65scribe Still true to this day!

[@VSigma725]

I have a Power Mac 9600/300 that has literally never worked right. It's a shame, because it's a cool machine and powerful as hell by 1997 standards.

[@fradd182]

Damn, this is great channel.

[@maltoNitho]

Very informative and entertaining retrospective! You packed more than just a 9500 review in.

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much. I'm glad you liked it.

[@AlexCBrandon]

Came for the classic mac info. Stayed for the humor.

[@65scribe]

Glad you enjoyed the video, Alexander. Thanks for the feedback!

[@irisfailsafe]

I really wanted one of those! BTW you have the coolest voice!

[@k1lkenny]

3rd time through, always a joy! Keep it up!

[@joejdl]

Wonderful explanation of the 7.5.x naming and differences...loved the “you’re confusing me!” :-)

[@65scribe]

Thanks Joe! Glad to hear I’m not alone in thinking that was funny. :)

[@labrador_wow_wow]

Great videos, I really enjoyed that one as it brought back many memories (showing my ages). The 9500/9600 had 6 PCI slots, but the lower ones didn't work that well. I can't remember the details, but some cards would not work at all in the lower slots (USB cards for examples) and this problem got really bad when you used a G4 upgrade card. People ended up doing the "PCI card dance", trying all sorts of combinations to even get their Mac to boot. Memory interleaving was great on paper. Interleave the RAM and your benchmark tool claimed a 10% performance increase, wooooooo. In real life (ie with applications), you actually lost speed, awwwww. Mind you, this may have had something to do with the mix and match of different RAM sticks.

[@65scribe]

Thanks Eric! Those are great hands-on details that you don't read about anywhere.

[@labrador_wow_wow]

@@65scribe Pleasure. I have a couple of forgotten funny stories about the B&W G3 if you ever make a video

[@curtisbradley1500]

Yessss new video thank you and I’ve never seen a computer so dirty I feel bad that you had to touch it

[@MacPhantom]

29:33 Anybody ever noticed how it says "Balck & White" in the menu?

[@65scribe]

Good eye! Definitely a “work in progress”.

[@MacPhantom]

@@65scribe Absolutely love your videos by the way! I hope you'll keep your style and format! :)

[@65scribe]

Thank you! Yes, I will be releasing a new video soon in the same style. I hope you will enjoy it. Probably the longest video I have done.

[@mattblumenstein]

Recently got an e-waste beige G3 tower and started refurbishing it. Got it to boot after some work, but no display. Tried different fixes for a couple months to no avail. A couple of Saturday nights ago I was relaxing with a nightcap while watching tech videos like I often do (esp with lockdown and all) and decided to rewatch this one. Got to the part about the 9500 booting but showing no display and I was like "wait what?" A couple days later I swapped out the RAM on the beige G3 and, sure enough, display worked.

[@65scribe]

It's great to hear the video actually helped somebody. I was actually nearly finished making the 9500 video when I finally got it working. I had almost given up on it myself. Thanks for sharing that story.

[@kaitlyn__L]

That promotional video for clone makers... was that the original music? The tongue-in-cheek style the visuals were produced with really made me laugh too. I love how you include so much other period media in these. A lot of other history-focused channels show pics, not video. Especially finding the more obscure internal videos. I swear, back in 2008 I watched every Apple archive video the speciality channels posted, and you’re still including tons of things I’ve never seen (I usually recognise about half of them)

[@65scribe]

That clone video was an internal project by Dave Garr, who wrote and sang it. He released it to KZbin in later years so others could enjoy it. Thanks for your feedback on the video! I’m glad that I could surprise you with some video content that you haven’t seen.

[@CaptainBuzzBee]

Enjoyed your videos. I had a 7500 that eventually ended up with a G3 ZIF daughter card. Was a good time to work on graphics and desktop publishing.

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much. The 7500 was a nice machine and you were able to keep up with the times with the upgrade. Cool.

[@salamanderw2843]

Fantastic F.U. line drop, Mark. Thanks for the reminder of that iconic expression from the original/UK House of Cards.

[@NikoKourouklis]

Finally, tech reviews that are almost the same as mine, except better than mine...

[@Gmoney6422]

Thanks for the new video!

[@Vlad-1986]

You are a funny and informative guy. I like your videos a lot

[@65scribe]

Thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated!

[@alexandrossotiropoulos5621]

This video is great! I like also powermacs. I had a PowerPC 7100 in 1998. Now I have a Mac mini g4 to play old games

[@65scribe]

Thanks Alexandros! You’re right. Those old machines are great for playing the old games and very inexpensive.

[@alexandrossotiropoulos5621]

@@65scribe Those cases that the Powermacs have still looks awesome today!

[@65scribe]

Agree!

[@Striker-ql1mg]

8:06 that beep scared the sh*t out of me

[@zgbapl]

Man, I love your videos and your sense of humor, immd:)

[@Webwielder]

Thanks for continuing to keep the early-to-mid-90s Mac flame alive. A time most people would choose to forget if they remembered it in the first place, but for us select few, one filled with many great memories. An ask: do you happen to have a link to an Apple business video produced in that time that featured, presumably among other things, someone sketching a helicopter car and it turning into a 3D rendering and flying away? I think I saw a glimpse of it in one of your earlier videos.

[@65scribe]

I agree. Thanks for commenting. The helicopter is familiar. It appears briefly in Dave Garr's video that I reference, But, yeah, I was trying to think where that might have come from. I'll let you know if I see it.

[@Aus-gw4gn]

What do you mean! I rock out to the quicktime video like all day!

[@Sandler23]

I think in the mid-90s, most consumers just wanted something fast that could connect them to the internet and maybe play a game or two.

[@65scribe]

When I bought my 6100 in 1994, I wasn't even thinking about internet. It was about high resolution colour, bringing video into the computer, CD-ROM software .. and, yeah, speed and a game or two.

[@drygnfyre]

The Internet was really more a late 90s/early 00s thing. The iMac was released in May 1998 and had expressly that purpose. The early/mid 90s was all about "multimedia," which basically meant a computer with a CD drive (and speakers). Games from that era like Myst really played into that. The transition was around 1996-97 or so. You can see a big difference in how Win95 and Win98 were marketed. The latter had a lot of Internet-centric features because that was when the perception of computers changed from "a luxury" to "a necessity."

[@65scribe]

@@drygnfyre Great summary, Joseph!

[@phonghai87]

6:16 with the new Apple M1/2 I think this graph maybe come true 💀

[@MorgonautHackintosh]

I'm always glad, when I see someone putting lot of effort to videos about good old powemacs. Thank you...

[@sebastianp.279]

These videos are just awesome. I keep coming back to check for new ones. Please feed us :-)

[@wezm]

Just picked up a 9500/150. Looking forward to cleaning it up and trying it out.

[@65scribe]

Very cool!

[@seshpenguin]

Love these videos... great to watch

[@65scribe]

Thanks! I’ll hopefully have a new one posted this weekend.

[@seshpenguin]

Awesome, I'm looking forward to watching it.

[@hatsuneadc]

These videos are peak comedy, at least for me.

[@65scribe]

Thank you very much!

[@wasdwasdwwasd]

Wow what a tune at the end!

[@glezpik]

27:21 it´s like a pandemic prophecy

[@jero_lead]

Addicted bad to this channel!

[@yd3941]

Great stuff! You got a huge talent, bravo!

[@65scribe]

Thank you very much. Good to hear that!

[@TheReformedSinner]

Lol. The Nigerian email earned you a subscriber.

[@65scribe]

Great! Glad to hear you liked that one.

[@kilrahvp]

Wonder when the first of these appeared. Seems like that thing's been around forever...

[@NDHFilms]

5:13 I think I'm a clone now?

[@NDHFilms]

2:50 Now there’s a face that inspires confidence.

[@the_master_of_beans]

I subbed because of his funny humor and cool videos.

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much! Good to hear that.

[@gentuxable]

3:30 Wise words, companies who make "too much" profit won't do it for a long time. Looking at Apple's website... hmm.

[@kaoshonen]

Another great Mac, and another great video. Thank you.

[@superstar64]

I have no idea why the Mac Pro early 2037 thinks this stinks. This is a great and well constructed video. I think the AI of that computer was busy playing fortnite during this time

[@65scribe]

LOL Great call back! Thanks. I had figured Mac Pro early 2037 was a bit only I thought was funny.

[@superstar64]

65scribe Well apparently not I guess. I just don’t get why they changed it to speakable items in Mac OS 9

[@alexandergross7132]

Good old times. Had a 9500MP back then as my main dtp machine. Together with an adaptec 2940uw I think it was and 2x external 6.4gb LaCie drives. Only about the graphics card I’m not sure. I think it was a radius in that machine. Kept it for working till 99 before I switched to a G3. Lots of memories

[@Phylonyous]

Another great vid! Love the comedy!

[@KabelkowyJoe]

Itäs not 65 time, but at least 5th im watching your videos, i watched every possible channel, every possible info about every possible machine, while installing Basilisk II (68k MacOS), SheepShaver (PowerPC), Virtual PC 2007 (All Windows, OS2), VortualBox 5.44 (all Linuxes, Haiku), VMware (Blackberry OS), Android Studio, on each SDK, oh and Embedded Visual C++ to emulate Windows CE, and planing to conquer the world 🙂

[@65scribe]

Such command of knowledge and all conceivable operating systems, you can become Big Brother, himself. :)

[@KabelkowyJoe]

@@65scribe We will, Stewie Griffin is my best pal he never surrender. Already Big Brother of TODOlandia :)

[@KabelkowyJoe]

@@65scribe Starting from scratch over and over again i could basically work for Apple in 90s, porting like Borland C++ Builder / Kylix to MacOS what is only needed wayback machine

[@ubiquitouschris]

Have a great summer vacation! And DON'T be late for school next year!!!

[@TheNovum]

Fantastic video. You sir are brilliant!

[@65scribe]

Thanks very much! I’m glad you are enjoying the videos.