Lost Apple History... FOUND on a Floppy Disk! 💾 Macintosh 40th Birthday Surprise (1984-2024)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- While celebrating the 40th anniversary of my Apple Macintosh 128K, I stumbled upon something unique that hasn't seen the light of day in 40 years! Happy Birthday, Mac!
Learn more about Rick's Prototype Macintosh 128k:
• Testing An Ultra Rare ...
Read the Apple letters from Joanna Hoffman's disk here: archive.org/details/1984-appl...
👕Get your own geeky Mac84 shirts & gear here! shop.mac84.net/
👍Be sure to like the video and subscribe to the channel!
❤️Support me on Patreon • / mac84
🐘Follow me on Mastodon • bitbang.social/@mac84tv
📸Follow me on Instagram • / mac84tv
🐦Follow me on Twitter • / mac84tv
💾Join the Tinker Different Community • www.tinkerdifferent.com
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:19 Booting like it's 1984
03:25 A Special Surprise
4:18 How did this happen?
7:00 Finally!
8:02 Shutdown
Music, from the UA-cam Audio Library:
Leveled Up! by Bad Snacks - Розваги
This is really cool! I’m very sure this is the “Macintosh Day” for its 40th birthday!
Congratulations on those finds! That was a great video! In 1988, my Dad got a Macintosh 512K. It was the first time I’d ever used a GUI on a computer, because my elementary school had Apple IIe computers. I wrote a lot of papers in MacWrite, had fun messing around with MacPaint, and also had a lot of fun playing games on it. Happy 40th Anniversary to the Macintosh!
Amazing. I saw a prototype of the first Mac in 1983 when I visited my father's family home. They had a small computer company and qualified to get a developer machine. My dad got me the Apple II. To this day I wish I had asked to have a go of the Mac. I would have clearly told them it was the future...ah well.
Absolutely crazy to think it’s been that long, but here’s to 40 more! Definitely an unexpected surprise, cool piece of early Apple! Thanks for all the archiving work you do, who knows how much would have been lost to time by now without it!
Impressive digital anthropology, Steve! What a neat find!
40 more years of re-cap videos! Perfect!
Your media archaeology work is exceptional, and really entertaining. Thanks for all you do!
"Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!"
"On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984'."
Happy 40th Anniversary, Macintosh! 🎉 🎉 🎉
Congrats on the great finds! It's always exciting to find something that hasn't been found before, even if it's a new (or old!) version of something we otherwise already have. And the letters are a great look into the goings-on of a critical period in computer history.
》Hey, you've gotten a nice peace of History there, man, congratulations!
Wow - I've seen a 512 in person but I've never seen a 128. My first Mac was a Mac Plus. I wish I still had it. My second Mac was an LC III. That one I don't miss. Excellent video as always!
I'm surprised that 40-year-old floppies are generally readable. I thought the little magnets migrated sooner than that.
Happy Birthday Macintosh! 🎉 🍎
Pretty cool. Love these little time capsules
Little did Apple know that the Amiga would be very much successful in Europe in the late 80s, giving much more for your money than a Mac.
I remember using that tutorial disk back when I first used a Mac Plus. Seeing you use it brought back great memories. And what a find with those letters by Joanna!
Very cool find!
Great find. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Steve. You wouldn't be Mac84 if you couldn't do a video on an original Macintosh from 1984! Just recycle this video in 10 years time for the 50th Anniversary!
For the Macintosh's 40th Anniversary (or so I'm going to claim now), I bought a Mac Plus... which United Package Smashers tried their worst on. I'm glad your efforts here were more successful.
(Yes, the Plus is OK electrically, and I'll get another shell for it so you'll never know what happened to it in transit.)
Oh, that sucks. Been there, done that. Here's to hoping there's someone out there with connections to replacement case plastics for that Plus.
@@minty_Joe Already have one, they’re going to send me a new case shell later this week. Happy Macs will be here before I know it!
Ah. UPS, pronounced "Oops!"
@@Nimboid-20 And if UPS merged with FedEx, that would change their name to Fed-UPS.
UPS...United Parsal Smashers.
Would be great if you archive original disks
I did, but the non-Joanna disks are readily available on Macintosh Garden and the Internet Archive.
Ive been messing around with my 68020 /68881 accelerated SE lately, now I need to get my plus out for some fun. Very cool history there. I love coming across long ago forgotten documents and resumes.
It’s nice to look back at now historical documents! I like the warning to the Apple brass, don’t make these computers too expensive. If they could only remember those wise words…….
Thanks for the memories!!!
Great find - and thanks for sharing!
Well done Steve I bought my first Macintosh 128k the first month it was available in 1984 I wish I had it today
Wow, very cool find. Thanks for sharing
🤘
That is indeed a very special find. Love to see it. Always gotta review contents before deleting old media. The people who just willy nilly blow away old disks and drives rankle me.
Fascinating
So cool!!!!
👍
Could you upload the original MacWrite files? Thanks, love your vids!
Thanks for the Super Thanks! I am working on doing this.
@@Mac84 Excited for this! Awesome work getting the files converted up to a more modern format, but man, I love any reason to boot up my SE and write a disk!
Well done Steve!! So crazy finding that disk, now I wonder what other unknown treasures there are in the basement
Come on over with a shovel and a disk drive and we’ll find out! 🤓
What a cool find!
Amazing finds.
hi from poland! where joanna hoffman was born… :)
If you'd be willing, The Internet desperately needs quality audio recordings of that glorious original growly 400k floppy drive. I wonder if after all these years I could still hum along to the "melody" of booting the original disks. Gosh, I miss that 128k Macintosh.
I miss apple. After the 2015 MacBook pro it was all downhill.
Barbara Koalkin was apparently a computer scientist by education but she ended up in management instead.
I would LOVE to know where I can get one of those shirts.
You can find them at shop.mac84.net 👍
It is worth adding that Joanna Hoffman (you are pronouncing her name wrong) is the daughter of a famous Polish director who created some of the most popular high-budget films.
I do have trouble with pronunciation.
@@Mac84 No, this is not your individual problem. You read it according to the rules of the English language. ;)
⚙️ 🍎 ⚙️
Wow, it's been that long already...
Is Mac 84 an actual "easter egg" style app? Or is that just part of your custom intro?
Wow. Corporate privacy and digital privacy in general have come a long way in the last 40 years. Too bad this kind of thing will happen less and less in future, what with cloud storage and the like.
MacOS:
40 years
January 24
1984-2024
MacOS' 40th anniversary
Awesome video 😊 But can you please make a backup of System 1.0 Disk, that would be Epic 😉
I’m working on making a bootable 1.0 disk, however a set of install disks for 1.0 are available on the popular Apple Legacy restore CD it seems.