Me and another engineer designed and built an oil refinery on that machine. It was cutting edge. We had to write our own software and it worked perfectly. Its still in service today even though I'm long since retired. And we were about one thousand miles distant from each other. Nobody worked remote then, but we did. We were a couple of decades ahead of our time. Great memories, thanks Marques for this blast from the past.
In 1984 I walked into a Toronto computer store and saw one of these for the first time and was blown away. I thought "THAT IS HOW COMPUTERS SHOULD WORK!" I immediately ordered one. It was one of the first Macs to be imported to Canada and I loved it for the next 10 years. No lists of arcane keyboard commands to memorize. No weird CTRL sequences. Graphical confirmation of what I wanted to do. It GAVE me my options at every turn. I didn't have to look anything up. The Operating Manual instantly became useless. All I had to do to learn to use any program was browse the menus and play with the functions. It was magic.🥰
This takes me back. I was born in '86, we had Apple IIs in school. Several floppy disks with learning games. However... the GOAT of this time, The Oregon Trail. Awesome content.
Oregon Trail will always be the best. Had some version of it in elementary school. Also had Oregon Trail 3 at home on my dad’s huge Windows 95 desktop when I was 11.
His production quality is way better. This feels too scripted and also awkward. Feels like watching TV. The bill Nye segment is solid cringe, time to go back to Marques-only videos!
I died when he literally took the entire macintosh into a coffee shop. JESUS CHRIST, this guy is a legend and this is the reason that I subscribed to this channel.
It was the GUI interface that set Apple apart from everybody. I had one of these Mac Plus models in 1988 and I remember expanding the memory from 1MB to a massive 2.5MB‼️ Don’t talk about the costs lol…
@@kabo123 Graphical User Interface! The point and click mouse. It was revolutionary at the time and it meant the ability to use apps such as Pagemaker for design work. Its what set Macs apart from the PC world…✌🌻
Absolutely amazing video. Very well done. I was one of those "kids" that started working on those early "personal" computers. My coding machine back then was an Atari 1200XL, then a TRS-80 in high school, then the Commodore Amiga. It was such an amazing time for technology which laid the groundwork for what we all take for granted today.
This is the best UA-cam video I have watched. History. Documentary. The platform and how a tech UA-camr is doing this while collaborating with actual Apple employers, historians, experts, enthusiasts, educators and artists.. This video is art. What an homage to Apple. By the way, Bill Nye was soooo adorbs!!!! And Mr. Pinot was AMAZING!! Huge shout-out to the direction and editing. Great work.
The sheer energy and optimism of the early microcomputer era was incredible. People knew they were in the middle of history being made. And the Mac was a profound example of what could be created when a company makes quality a top priority. The look, the GUI, the icons, the manuals, the packaging, the proportional spaced fonts, a screen with perfectly square pixels, the elegant PostScript imaging system in the LaserWriter, etc. At the time, people were stunned; computers before then (and even after) were ugly, difficult things. Apple dared to shout No, computers can be so much more: they can be fun, beautiful, friendly, inspiring, artistic. They can extend your mind in every direction and even in directions we haven't yet conceived.
@Lupi the Yorkie It wasn't about the capabilities as much as the shift in focus onto the user. Apple was also the first to embody the "for the rest of us" concept. As colorful as the Amiga was, Workbench was hideous, a perfect example of engineers thinking that users shared their lack of concern for aesthetics.
Hey Marques, I’m taking the time to write a couple words to admire your work, the passion you have towards tech is incredible. I love where you have gotten in life with hard work and dedication. I watch every single video of yours & hope to someday meet you in person. Thanks for the great tech content.
I remember the original Macs and Apples,, they were big deals back in the day. When they were demoed, we were all like WOW,,,,, Same with old cell phones. And these ancient Machines were EXPENSIVE Back in the day! I remember at Radio Shack in the Late 80s,, Laptops with less than a 1 gig hard drive and about 16 mb of ram was priced at around $2800.00. The store only carried 3 at a time and the display was always under lock and key and a store associate had to assist you if you wanted to see one.
It all started at the XEROX research center (aka Xerox PARC - Palo Alto Research Center). They invented stuff like the mouse and the graphic user interface but didn't know what to do with it, and that's where both kids, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates came in and made use of it. Thank you, Marques, for another wonderful video. You sure brought back memories.
The Macintosh was special to me! I wrote the final drafts of fiction novels on my Mac, edited stories for 12 years on it for the monthly progressive newspaper I produced (before switching to Internet access systems). The Mac was a friend. I will never forget it!
Thanks for that! Loved it. I remember when all three of the machines you and Justine were playing with came out. I started with an Apple II. My buddy started with a Trash 80 which is what we called the TRS 80. I moved up to a dual floppy 8088 IBM PC with an 8087 math coprocessor and an AST card that extended the RAM to 448K and later 640K which allowed me to have a 128K RAM drive. Holy cow that was fast! I remember when the 1984 Mac came out. I was a working engineering manager at Rockwell International (FWIW: I was out of the Army, done with my EE Degree in 1968 - my 80th birthday was yesterday). Punch cards, paper tape and the TI35 were a big deal. My wife was busy holding candy sales to finance a couple of Apple IIs for her middle school classroom. Our first home computer was the dual floppy IBM PC with a green screen character based monitor, later converted to graphics with an after market display card. They Apple Lisa, which you didn't mention, proceeded the Mac, but was insanely expensive. The first Macintosh was in innovative but absurd machine. Using the word processor that came with it you could write a 3 page document. That was it. There was no room in RAM for more pages! It had a ton of limitations that seem to be lost in the hype including how expensive it was for it's limited capability. I knew people who had Compact Luggables. Hauled them to and from work. They weren't very reliable and didn't take kindly to being lugged around, but they had about 10X the productive capability of the first Mac. When I was given the job of creating and installing a 1,000 user network in 1988, I could provide a computer to each engineer if I used IBM, only one for every two or there if I went with apple. It was a no-brainer to go for IBM. The network used DECNET as the ethernet protocol and a pair of VAX 8800s as the host and an VAX 8350 as the network interface. It was the TMIS system for the Rocketdyne Power System Contract for Space Station Freedom which became the International Space Station we have today. Using the VAX as the network host turned out to be a gifted move because it radically limited virus propagation. We could isolate an infection to one or two machines and get rid of it. It also allowed us to manage the SW installations on all the network connected machines from the host/server. The 1984 Mac was a huge harbinger of things to come, but it was almost useless as a productivity machine in a corporate environment. That's why it's market share was so abysmal. Jobs seemed to specialize in seeing how advanced and jazzy he could make a computer that was still useless. It peaked with the 1984 Mac. He got over that, sort of, but that legacy mentality was still evident in the transition from 2015 to 2016 MacBook pros. I'm all Mac now, but I cut my teeth with dual floppies writing Autoexec.bat files on EDLN. Sigh...
I have a Macintosh Classic which I bought circa 1988, and it is still in working order. The Apple Stylewriter printer has long since turned up its toes and died, but the computer itself still works. I am able to use MacWrite on it, the train and puzzle games still work, as do my special Star Trek sounds that I loaded onto it way back then. I still have a huge affection for this little machine. It was awesome in its day.
I was working in a computer store in San Diego when this came out. I remember watching young kids walking up to the demo unit (it had a monochrome, paper white display) and after seeing that they could use the mouse to draw pictures, parents had to drag the kids out of the store. Two things crossed my mind, this is going to be huge (first GUI for the masses I think), and, businesses aren't going to want something that looks like a toy in their office environment. I really like your Retro Tech segment but, man, I'm feelin' old👨🦳👨🦳👨🦳
I'm old too. The first place I worked after college had a bunch of PCs and one Mac but everyone wanted to use the Mac. I distinctly remember a woman walking into the computer room to access our database, then turning around and leaving because the Mac was busy. She completely ignored the four other PCs that were available.
@@edwardbataitis6809 That gui on the Lisa was I think actually originally developed by Xerox and Jobs bought it. I remember training to repair the Lisa in addition to the Mac when the store I worked at sent me to what was called then "Apple Level 1" training.
@Hitogokochi Thanks, I'll give it a read. I did get to see a version of Xerox's commercial implementation of their GUI on a dedicated word processor I was trained to repair that they sold to the US Navy in the early 80's. Pretty cool machine, had a paper white, WYSIWYG monitor, dual floppy drives, I think you could play pong on it as well😁
Why would a piece of tech that would take a huge workload off be bad for business environment? Cus it looks like a toy? You need to give a better reason.
@@nnnnnn496 No need to give a reason. I'm not sure how old you are but that was the attitude regarding Apple computers back then and I think MS/Windows computers still dominate the business world although I think larger companies are giving their employees a choice.
I remember my first Mac experience. I went to a computer store, not long after IBM shipped the PC Jr. I went there specifically to try out the Mac. The store was about 40' by 40' (10m by 10m). The one Mac they had was in a dark corner about four feet from the door to the bathroom. I asked for help three times, from three different people. After waiting for twenty minutes nobody was even looking at me. I started alone. After 20 minutes (still alone) without any manuals or instruction I knew how three programs worked and was in love with the Mac. I couldn't recommend the buying experience, but I've always recommended the Mac as a first choice.
I entered the world of work as the room-sized IBM system 38 (with its huge tape spools) was dying out and I first used the IBM PC in about 1984-5. I would load it onto a train, travel hundreds of miles to a work location, set up and operate it there for months before bringing back to the office. After that I had one of those exact Compaq portables you showed with the luggage handle. Next came the late 80s colour IBMs (I forget their names). Next stop for me was writing college papers on the original Mac you showed here...and I was from that point onwards a Mac convert. What I actually came here to recall is something only someone who lived through those times will remember: removing the ultra-weighty ball from that mac mouse to scrape the 'mouse cheese' from the little rollers inside in order to make the mouse work properly again. Great video - thanks for the memory jog!
Honestly it is a GOOD move considering most people who are getting iphone 12's have had iphones before. This enables them to give us better stuff for cheaper. I guess you would be happy if you can save 30$ if you have the earphones and the power adapter lying around and doing nothing
Apple then: I can make a pc that can be used by someone 40 years later to surf the net Apple now: Omg I 1 year old pls replace me or I be broken and sad
Wow! Did this bring back memories! I started my journey in 1970 on an IBM 360 model 20 - it had 16K memory you first wrote your program out on paper then that was converted by hand into punch cards and then feed into the computer. The first computer language I learnt was RPG I then COBOL and then assembler. When I first saw the Macintosh I was impressed and I would have become an Apple developer but in order to develop for the Mac at that time you had to buy a $10,000 dollar Apple Lisa. The first Apple I owned was the iMAC which I liked but was really too involved with Windows computers as most of my computer jobs involved main frame or unix computers/ Currently, I own a Mac Mini M2 with plans to upgrade to the Apple Book Pro M4 when it comes out.
@@Thegangsta00711 I think most people fail to appreciate that the computers of today are a direct result of those "dinosaur" computers of the past. they just snicker and giggle at them.
I grew up in the Apple II era and in my 9th grade year saw the first Macintosh in a store and *knew* this was the future of computers and I so desperately wanted one (parents had other ideas). Fast forward to 2014 and I finally bought one for my collection off eBay. The nostalgia is just palpable. I still love turning it on and playing around. Even my elementary school aged kids at the time loved playing with it.
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I'm the same age as iJustine and we had the 1984 Apple II in our "computer classroom" at my elementary school. It's where I learned to type. And also spend many hours playing Oregon Trail!
The more I grow, the more I’ve learned that our generations grew up really similar in both the U.S and Canada. Makes sense why we’ve never been at war and never will surely. We’re just the same just one more cold and tundra, and the other more warm and desert
3:00 You have no idea the emotion I feel just by hearing the sound of that floppy disk drive. It instantly transports me to a much happier and simpler time. 3:24 Actually, MOST (or at least roughly half) of the system was in ROM, because the RAM was so paltry (128k). But it still wasn’t complete without the system disk. 18:12 Before using the paper clip, it’s better to just shut it off, hold down the mouse button, and start it up again. That will force an ejection to happen. Only use the paper clip if it cannot physically eject at all. Most macs came with a little plastic “programmer’s switch” in the box, which provided a reset and interrupt button. The reset button did the obvious thing and just soft-booted the device, and the interrupt button brought up a debugger screen. 21:50 At 11 years old in 1984, sitting in front of MacPaint for the first time: “This changes EVERYTHING.” I want to find that alternate universe where Apple never existed so I can bring that worlds bestselling phone and computer and show everyone how clunky they are. They’re not nearly as awesome as they used to be, and truth be told, I’m not enthused by ANY of their products anymore. But they did their job. They DID put a dent in our universe, and they deserve their spot in history.
Yes, I remember this. In 1984 I was a student, in The Netherlands. The Mac was incredibly expensive, no student could afford it. But the Computer Science department of the university had one and sometimes I could use it. I had my own 3.5” disk. The keyboard was fantastic, but this video actually taught me that it didn’t have arrow keys, I didn’t notice it at the time 😄 I recently bought a mechanical keyboard that reminds me of that Mac. In 2001 I bought my first Mac, it was a PowerMac with OS X.
I lived through all this, as my first computer was an Apple II and I had one of these 84 macs at launch. I’m not sure which was first but Take One for the Apple II was a surprisingly capable animation and drawing program. You could do elaborate multi scene “movies” and even program elements. When I founded Naughty Dog (Crash Bandicoot, the Last of Us etc) with my biz partner in the 80s we used Take One for the graphics and animation on some of our first games. Eventually as a paint program it was replaced by Deluxe Paint and then Photoshop (which I’ve been using for almost 30 years!)
Naughty Dog is owned by Sony, so of course it’s PS exclusive. MSFT owns lots of developers too (in fact they bought a ton today). Just how the console game is played so to speak.
too many people are unaware on how influential Apple was to the entire personal computing industry early on; most think Apple's success started with the iPod or iMac but that was the start of their second wave of success
Something about my 52 year old self cries listening to these guys talk about the technology that not only did I grow up with but felt was amazingly ground breaking. It is like listening to them bust on the first gen iPhone (which they never used in its day).
@@rapid13 These places are all over. Just search for E-Waste locations in google. In 2003 I worked at an e-waste/computer recycling center called CompRenew (its actually still around) and we would get the craziest stuff dropped off by the truck load. Things like oscilloscopes, video production gear from news stations, laptops and pcs from banks and large corporations... Most of my days were spent removing hard drives and shredding them to be recycled as scrap metal. Then we would sell the bare bones laptops and tower PCs to resellers. Later on they tried to sell the PCs as whole working systems. but that is hard because people like to complain and are never happy so that ended quickly. The best part was I could buy whatever I wanted cheap. Needless to say I ran a rather lucrative Ebay store. Was a great college job.
Oh my god! This video brings me right back to my Dad bringing home those early computer cards and folded reams of output paper to draw on and play with in the 60’s!!! Great video…thanks, got a tear in my eye remembering all my early Mac and PC days!
Just that they all forgot to say that this was an imitation of the Smalltalk computer, top to bottom. The language concept to create the UI, the mouse and the whole concept were all done by Xerox park and the team around Alan Kay. Why is everyone seemingly forgetting about that?
Matthias Schuster its because xerox had no idea what to use the mouse for until steve heard it and turned it into something very useful that change people’s lives. Same like small HDD toshiba made, steve turned it into ipod. Same like touchscreen technology that has been around, nobody noticed it until apple released iphone.
Matthias Schusterhe got the idea from it, but is not a copy. The successful one always win. He was the one who put the machine to work together and got all the sells.
@A Tangerine Actually, there were quite a few other printers you could use (e.g. the Star NX-10). All they had to do was output a bitmap, and rely on the Mac itself to generate the image, using the same graphics and font engine that worked for on-screen drawing, just at a higher resolution.
What a throwback! Makes me feel old though. This Macintosh was part of my childhood .windows 3.1 introduced me to the world of DOS. The evolution of technology in general is fascinating and easily taken for granted.
I know history remembers Apple really running with the GUI, mouse driven stuff and how Xerox just had some mad engineering experiments but its just not true. I challenge anyone to look this up. Xerox Alto You just need to see that in action. It doesn't look like it belongs in 1973. You expect paper card punching room sized monsters at this time. But the Alto had the first truly high resolution monitor that blew away anything Apple would have for many many years to drive the most advanced graphical interface anyone had ever seen. . I don't remember the exact resolution but it was something insane like 1280x1080 and Apple had something like 320x200 as the very limit to what was possible. Very limit my ass, just look at UA-cam videos of Alto. It had paint and word processing, cut and paste. It flat out invented so many things we just see today as part of regular computers. But ask even techies today what the Alto is and they'll probably shrug and not know. Some have vague ideas there was this one xerox machine Steve Jobs saw in a lab. Total BS as there were a few thousand made that were in use around the world in universities for instance. I believe someone wrote a bitcoin miner for the Alto recently that runs online today. Try that with anything Apple had a decade later and it'll seem like its just too early for anything that advanced to exist. So Xerox knew what they had. They just never got a chance to build up to a truly big volume mass produced machine because someone stole the idea, copied it and brought out a vastly inferior product that was a massive success. But erase Apple and Microsoft from history and the Alto would have eventually spawned the first mass produced computers far ahead of anything else that actually did come out. You just had to go near one to know this was the future. And as a techy myself I grew up not knowing Alto existed. I discovered it on UA-cam and really couldn't believe what I was seeing. Its a bit like looking at Cybertruck now and all these designs that seem to fit into this cyberpunk theme and then discovering that 30 years before there was Blade Runner that was not only doing it all but had it all worked out too. At least as movie goers, fans appreciate Blade Runner for the impact it had and how everything that came after it that was sci-fi pretty much copied from it in some way. The Alto is the Blade Runner of the computer world but general history has forgotten it ever existed.
@@ChrisKlosowski Well, what it did do was recognize the potential and refine the concept to make it practical for everyday use. Sometimes innovation is about making something accessible rather than inventing it out of whole cloth.
@@LuisMercadoorg you also have to remember that an Alto workstation the Xerox GUI runs on costs about 12 macintoshes. Even if they did bring it to the market (and they eventually did, see "Xerox Star") no consumer is going to buy what basically amounts to a Dev kit for more than most people's yearly salary. (And that's exactly what happened, only 25000 were sold) And the same story goes for the Apple Lisa a year before the Mac. $9995, lack of software to actually do stuff with, and then the Mac came out and ate it's lunch.
In it´s time the Mac was the Ferrari of personal computers (and the price tag showed it) but one thing that was not mentioned in this video, is the capabilities of this little computer connected to a network, that was awesome!!! In the university I studied they had a bunch of these connected to a network and a laser printer, everybody tried to grab one to print homeworks and such (the True Type Fonts were the rage).
Marques just out-hipstered the hipsters at the cafe😂
😂😂😂
Stellvia Hoenheim brown lee
@Stellvia Hoenheim Awh ! That's hawt that's hawwt !
@@theoneprofaned *brownie
nice one 🤣🤣
Me and another engineer designed and built an oil refinery on that machine. It was cutting edge. We had to write our own software and it worked perfectly. Its still in service today even though I'm long since retired. And we were about one thousand miles distant from each other. Nobody worked remote then, but we did. We were a couple of decades ahead of our time. Great memories, thanks Marques for this blast from the past.
Wow
wowzaa ka-bowzaa
Wow! As a petroleum child who both respects and has many criticisms of the oil industry, I'm impressed.
what did you code it in? pascal?
Bro Bill Nye is high as a kite in this lmao “LeT tHe ELeCtrOniCs DrAiN”
He likes dope
He has been snorting that good shit
When he said drain man , I’m like yea we have a stoner 💨 lol 😂
You can tell he knows how to trip
Imagine getting some funny hats and dropping some strong tabs with this dude! I don't think I'd ever return to earth
BILL NYE HIGH AS A KITE BOI! 😆
In 1984 I walked into a Toronto computer store and saw one of these for the first time and was blown away. I thought "THAT IS HOW COMPUTERS SHOULD WORK!" I immediately ordered one. It was one of the first Macs to be imported to Canada and I loved it for the next 10 years. No lists of arcane keyboard commands to memorize. No weird CTRL sequences. Graphical confirmation of what I wanted to do. It GAVE me my options at every turn. I didn't have to look anything up. The Operating Manual instantly became useless. All I had to do to learn to use any program was browse the menus and play with the functions.
It was magic.🥰
I hope you still have it
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Whats premium bruh?😅😅
Gaming FOR NO REASON - Just a subscription to remove ads from the app.
Brobert lol
@@bbdoook and to allow the audio from a video to continue playing even when you turn the screen off
"Hello, I am Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag." The two greatest sentences ever spoken by machine or man. Thank you Steve Jobs.
It sure is great*
Thanks.
Amen to that.
Good thing nobody at the reveal knew that the base machine they’d be able to buy wasn’t capable of reproducing that demo!
hello. i'm a bag and i am a mac. so bag, what have you got there?
This is probably the best UA-cam Originals of 2019.
Agreed
31:52 when apple used to be Made in USA.
definitely
Better than Cobra Kai?
@@edvinbryntesson2028 agreed👍
This takes me back. I was born in '86, we had Apple IIs in school. Several floppy disks with learning games. However... the GOAT of this time, The Oregon Trail. Awesome content.
Dude same! ☺️
Oregon Trail will always be the best. Had some version of it in elementary school. Also had Oregon Trail 3 at home on my dad’s huge Windows 95 desktop when I was 11.
Can we talk about how marques’ own production quality is basically as good, if not better than the production quality of this show
I’m pretty sure it’s him and his team on both shows
@@DJFiezta The Retro Tech series is produced by Vox Media
His production quality is way better. This feels too scripted and also awkward. Feels like watching TV. The bill Nye segment is solid cringe, time to go back to Marques-only videos!
Soo trueeee
I promise i didn’t even notice the “UA-cam Originals”, i thought this is marques’ video up until seeing this comment
The fact that Justine is 10 years older than marques is astonishing
Damn they literally both look 20
Bro, I didn’t know that. I thought she was 27 or 30😢😢.
tf!?
she really doesn't age. looks incredible.
@@arielfeasts seems so... yea :D
He’s been using this Macintosh 40 years ago and this is his review
Pablo Nuñez its because it takes a long time to load
Wow that was a wayback video full of memories, most of which I experienced first hand. DOPE 10
I died when he literally took the entire macintosh into a coffee shop. JESUS CHRIST, this guy is a legend and this is the reason that I subscribed to this channel.
The first 'laughed to tears' moment! Hilarious.
Agreed. Well played Marcus, well played.
Yep
He's a legend because he carried a computer into a coffee shop?? Man, you have a low expectation of a legend.
@@philjones45 No he’s a legend because he carried a Mac 1 into a coffee shop....
Some dad somewhere: “why get a new one when it still works?”
The original Macs are collectors items now. Nobody is still using them now to do something productive.
@@Tom2404 it was a joke
@@Tom2404 damn bro really? fr? just like that? on god?
@@Tom2404
You didn’t watch the video?
@MrDheer and there’s good reason for that.
Steve Jobs physically looks like a combination of Ashton Kutcher and Tom Cruise
He is secretly their Potara fusion. He didnt die he just defused
@@omit4727 LMFAO 😂
Such an accurate description 😂
000oll
*If they had a child
It was the GUI interface that set Apple apart from everybody. I had one of these Mac Plus models in 1988 and I remember expanding the memory from 1MB to a massive 2.5MB‼️ Don’t talk about the costs lol…
The interface they stole from Xerox?
The GUI user interface?
@@kabo123 Graphical User Interface! The point and click mouse. It was revolutionary at the time and it meant the ability to use apps such as Pagemaker for design work. Its what set Macs apart from the PC world…✌🌻
Set them apart ;) apart from their blatent theft lol
@@WhatALoadOfTosca eyewatering $$ per Mb!
"1984 won't be like 1984" that gave me the chills.
my entire body got chills
The whole 1984 Macintosh release was legendary, you can check it out on UA-cam. Steve was really a great Showman.
fOrTnItE
Bill is what Linus would be like when he get older.
I am younger and find Linus to be overrated and cringe
@@Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un But he's ridiculously good at what he does.
@@Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un live long
Thats actually very true
When you say "would," you imply Linus will either never age or just die before he has a chance to 🤷♂️🤣
I like how they asked "Is this a Mac?" With the apple logo on the front of the case...
The rainbow colors threw them off. They're only accustomed to the luminous white Apple logo...
People thought it's a bootleg because of the rainbow Apple lmao.
@@mtaufanrp26 honestly makes me wonder sometimes haha
@@nunyabidniz2868 they must be commoners hahaha
HEY TWATTY
Absolutely amazing video. Very well done. I was one of those "kids" that started working on those early "personal" computers. My coding machine back then was an Atari 1200XL, then a TRS-80 in high school, then the Commodore Amiga. It was such an amazing time for technology which laid the groundwork for what we all take for granted today.
Millennials: *looks at Macintosh* “ is that an Apple?!?!?”
8 bit guy: hold my commodore
Kinda wish he reviews the Commodore, esp with Sierra Games
I really expected to see 8-bit guy in this film.
Gen z actually
average millennial is over 30 yrs old
@@Mr_Moktoosai yeah I'm surprized he wasn't on this
it literally has an apple logo on it
....
20 years later
RETRO TECH: iMac Pro
"People back then had to USE their FINGERS to give an INPUT. CRAZY RIGHT??"
"Retro tech: iPhone 12 pro
Macintosh 1 36 years later
Ok this is actually pretty original comment right there
RETRO TECH: Macbook Pro
This is the best UA-cam video I have watched. History. Documentary. The platform and how a tech UA-camr is doing this while collaborating with actual Apple employers, historians, experts, enthusiasts, educators and artists..
This video is art. What an homage to Apple.
By the way, Bill Nye was soooo adorbs!!!! And Mr. Pinot was AMAZING!!
Huge shout-out to the direction and editing. Great work.
Just imagine Apple if Steve Jobs was still with us. ❤️
The sheer energy and optimism of the early microcomputer era was incredible. People knew they were in the middle of history being made. And the Mac was a profound example of what could be created when a company makes quality a top priority. The look, the GUI, the icons, the manuals, the packaging, the proportional spaced fonts, a screen with perfectly square pixels, the elegant PostScript imaging system in the LaserWriter, etc. At the time, people were stunned; computers before then (and even after) were ugly, difficult things. Apple dared to shout No, computers can be so much more: they can be fun, beautiful, friendly, inspiring, artistic. They can extend your mind in every direction and even in directions we haven't yet conceived.
Jesus wept... fanboi much? In 1985 there was a true multimedia capable computer on the market but it wasn't a Mac.
@@Gerardus1970 That's the beauty of it, the Mac helped inspire other companies to be bold.
@Lupi the Yorkie It wasn't about the capabilities as much as the shift in focus onto the user. Apple was also the first to embody the "for the rest of us" concept. As colorful as the Amiga was, Workbench was hideous, a perfect example of engineers thinking that users shared their lack of concern for aesthetics.
@@perfectionbox no they didn't. Steve Jobs stole the icon idea from a different company that never ended up releasing. Everything was stolen.
@@HonkeyKong54 The Xerox Alto GUI was also pretty ugly. Jobs hired designers specifically to make icons etc. more pleasing.
“It wasn’t the good old days, it was the old days.” Lmaooo
Our memories of a past time may be good. And memory is current.
life was simpler then. no internet or cellphones. you hung out with friends around your home. that was good if you ask me.
Video Games Are Fun i agree, but I don’t know if your name does lol
@@beaujarvis9510 video games weren't around!! hehe!! but yes i would trade all tech except medical advances to live in a simpler time.
Video Games Are Fun I wonder what effects of screen addiction and exposure to radiation will have on humans in the future
i can't believe there's a drawing tablet for this thing! That's definitely dope.
drawing tablets were around long before that one.
@@gregd6022 Yup. I have one for my Commodore C64.
Dope 100
I thought that was cool, I didn't realize one existed. I was relying on a mouse.
They even had drawing tablets for the Apple II.
1984 : Making Movies About The Future
2019 : Making Movies About The past
that means we’re in the future
When the lady said the floppy disks would be cute coasters, Marques looked at the camera like Jim Halpert😂
They did that back then to
Hey Marques, I’m taking the time to write a couple words to admire your work, the passion you have towards tech is incredible. I love where you have gotten in life with hard work and dedication. I watch every single video of yours & hope to someday meet you in person. Thanks for the great tech content.
1984: matte brown all the things
2019: matte black all the things
Yeah, but it wasn't matte brown. It was beige. Beige box was actually a meme.
ksb2112: beige or taupe
1999: silver everything
what about iphone xs
You know computers have come a long way when grandpa has to show you how to use it lol
grandpa bill nye
@@malikw222 *papi bill nye😩
@@DanielDissanayake reason 2837 on why i dont use Twitter:
@@Rhakjellg 😂😂
Grandpas and Grandmas invented computers, and the Internet, and the Web.
now imagine 50 more years from now talking about 2020's tech
That will turn this into Ancient tech 😂
I remember the original Macs and Apples,, they were big deals back in the day. When they were demoed, we were all like WOW,,,,, Same with old cell phones. And these ancient Machines were EXPENSIVE Back in the day! I remember at Radio Shack in the Late 80s,, Laptops with less than a 1 gig hard drive and about 16 mb of ram was priced at around $2800.00. The store only carried 3 at a time and the display was always under lock and key and a store associate had to assist you if you wanted to see one.
@@zeusincoming282 16mb of ram 2800? It must have been a weird time back then.
we have reached almost a saturation point. Not much left to improve.
@@Asiandramas99 there will always be someone that breaks the boundaries, that's just how the tech industry goes
It all started at the XEROX research center (aka Xerox PARC - Palo Alto Research Center). They invented stuff like the mouse and the graphic user interface but didn't know what to do with it, and that's where both kids, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates came in and made use of it. Thank you, Marques, for another wonderful video. You sure brought back memories.
Love it when Bill Nye is “Doping up”
Is that the stop motion studio logo?
Akari Insko Yeah i did some Stop motion videos years ago, just never got to change it
@@AkariInsko Oh
Dude, you got a fistbump from Bill Nye the science guy. You officially made it, you can rest in peace now.
that sounds like a threat
@@TheOnlyGamingDML may be
Bill Nye is an Actor and a Freemason.
@@MatrixDiscovery hes an old tv hack with an attitude problem. Nothing to be admired
@@johnmaurer3097 Shut up, don't disrespect the science guy. That's all I have to say
The Macintosh was special to me! I wrote the final drafts of fiction novels on my Mac, edited stories for 12 years on it for the monthly progressive newspaper I produced (before switching to Internet access systems). The Mac was a friend. I will never forget it!
Thanks for that! Loved it. I remember when all three of the machines you and Justine were playing with came out. I started with an Apple II. My buddy started with a Trash 80 which is what we called the TRS 80. I moved up to a dual floppy 8088 IBM PC with an 8087 math coprocessor and an AST card that extended the RAM to 448K and later 640K which allowed me to have a 128K RAM drive. Holy cow that was fast!
I remember when the 1984 Mac came out. I was a working engineering manager at Rockwell International (FWIW: I was out of the Army, done with my EE Degree in 1968 - my 80th birthday was yesterday). Punch cards, paper tape and the TI35 were a big deal. My wife was busy holding candy sales to finance a couple of Apple IIs for her middle school classroom. Our first home computer was the dual floppy IBM PC with a green screen character based monitor, later converted to graphics with an after market display card. They Apple Lisa, which you didn't mention, proceeded the Mac, but was insanely expensive.
The first Macintosh was in innovative but absurd machine. Using the word processor that came with it you could write a 3 page document. That was it. There was no room in RAM for more pages! It had a ton of limitations that seem to be lost in the hype including how expensive it was for it's limited capability.
I knew people who had Compact Luggables. Hauled them to and from work. They weren't very reliable and didn't take kindly to being lugged around, but they had about 10X the productive capability of the first Mac. When I was given the job of creating and installing a 1,000 user network in 1988, I could provide a computer to each engineer if I used IBM, only one for every two or there if I went with apple. It was a no-brainer to go for IBM. The network used DECNET as the ethernet protocol and a pair of VAX 8800s as the host and an VAX 8350 as the network interface. It was the TMIS system for the Rocketdyne Power System Contract for Space Station Freedom which became the International Space Station we have today.
Using the VAX as the network host turned out to be a gifted move because it radically limited virus propagation. We could isolate an infection to one or two machines and get rid of it. It also allowed us to manage the SW installations on all the network connected machines from the host/server.
The 1984 Mac was a huge harbinger of things to come, but it was almost useless as a productivity machine in a corporate environment. That's why it's market share was so abysmal. Jobs seemed to specialize in seeing how advanced and jazzy he could make a computer that was still useless. It peaked with the 1984 Mac. He got over that, sort of, but that legacy mentality was still evident in the transition from 2015 to 2016 MacBook pros.
I'm all Mac now, but I cut my teeth with dual floppies writing Autoexec.bat files on EDLN.
Sigh...
1984: What’s a computer?
2019: What’s a computer?
😃😂
deep
Dumbass
Jeff Hicks he’s saying that apple’s iPad commercials saying “what’s a computer” it’s saying that the iPad is powerful as a computer
@@jeffhicks1294 who cares
“This is definitely a computer “
Astute observations, sir
Loooooool
I don't like doing things I don't like
*sees old Apple logo*
i gUeSs tHiS aN ApPLe cOmPuTeR
I’m a 70’s baby, And I use this Macintosh Computer in the 5th grade.... feeling old and proud right now lol 😂
im a 69's baby im a year oldar
@@tobeynegsyourfavoriteverse yeah sure kid
@@debilko278 stfu I’m 29 and it was just a joke. Get a life
@@tobeynegsyourfavoriteversedurh Like 2a1i
@@snigdhasenha917 ??
I have a Macintosh Classic which I bought circa 1988, and it is still in working order. The Apple Stylewriter printer has long since turned up its toes and died, but the computer itself still works. I am able to use MacWrite on it, the train and puzzle games still work, as do my special Star Trek sounds that I loaded onto it way back then. I still have a huge affection for this little machine. It was awesome in its day.
I was working in a computer store in San Diego when this came out. I remember watching young kids walking up to the demo unit (it had a monochrome, paper white display) and after seeing that they could use the mouse to draw pictures, parents had to drag the kids out of the store. Two things crossed my mind, this is going to be huge (first GUI for the masses I think), and, businesses aren't going to want something that looks like a toy in their office environment. I really like your Retro Tech segment but, man, I'm feelin' old👨🦳👨🦳👨🦳
I'm old too. The first place I worked after college had a bunch of PCs and one Mac but everyone wanted to use the Mac. I distinctly remember a woman walking into the computer room to access our database, then turning around and leaving because the Mac was busy. She completely ignored the four other PCs that were available.
@@edwardbataitis6809 That gui on the Lisa was I think actually originally developed by Xerox and Jobs bought it. I remember training to repair the Lisa in addition to the Mac when the store I worked at sent me to what was called then "Apple Level 1" training.
@Hitogokochi Thanks, I'll give it a read. I did get to see a version of Xerox's commercial implementation of their GUI on a dedicated word processor I was trained to repair that they sold to the US Navy in the early 80's. Pretty cool machine, had a paper white, WYSIWYG monitor, dual floppy drives, I think you could play pong on it as well😁
Why would a piece of tech that would take a huge workload off be bad for business environment? Cus it looks like a toy? You need to give a better reason.
@@nnnnnn496 No need to give a reason. I'm not sure how old you are but that was the attitude regarding Apple computers back then and I think MS/Windows computers still dominate the business world although I think larger companies are giving their employees a choice.
Steve Jobs really does look like Ashton Kutcher
😂😂 isn’t that has to be this way “Ashton kutcher look like Steve jobs”
I came here to say the same thing
@@AshishKumar-zi9gy did you have a stroke while typing holyyy
@@axelox8026 he's not a native english speaker
Ashish Kumar 🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽
Imagine writing an essay in a coffee shop and some dude brings a whole ass vintage computer next to you
not quite the same but have you watched the video of the guy who takes his Macintosh into an Apple store...?
I remember my first Mac experience. I went to a computer store, not long after IBM shipped the PC Jr. I went there specifically to try out the Mac. The store was about 40' by 40' (10m by 10m). The one Mac they had was in a dark corner about four feet from the door to the bathroom. I asked for help three times, from three different people. After waiting for twenty minutes nobody was even looking at me. I started alone. After 20 minutes (still alone) without any manuals or instruction I knew how three programs worked and was in love with the Mac. I couldn't recommend the buying experience, but I've always recommended the Mac as a first choice.
Seeing you sit in the coffee shop with that is interesting.
Hmm, it needs electricity and in coffee shop isnt socket for public
Trinity I would have not known that. They don’t have outlets for computers at all?
Everyone's gangsta until someone pull-up their original Macintosh.
arw
if I was in that coffee shop I would be thinking "who is this hipster mofo coming in here with some retro ass computer?"
The animator guy was so wholesome
Derek Fester ikr what a chill dude
He still living in 80s
@@rivaldi7286 So?
@@rivaldi7286so?
@@rivaldi7286 So?
Nobody:
Bill Nye in the hood: DOPE!!
also him: ADORBS!!
When was he in the hood? LOL
@@FusionC6 You have no idea that just means neighborhood?
I entered the world of work as the room-sized IBM system 38 (with its huge tape spools) was dying out and I first used the IBM PC in about 1984-5. I would load it onto a train, travel hundreds of miles to a work location, set up and operate it there for months before bringing back to the office. After that I had one of those exact Compaq portables you showed with the luggage handle. Next came the late 80s colour IBMs (I forget their names). Next stop for me was writing college papers on the original Mac you showed here...and I was from that point onwards a Mac convert. What I actually came here to recall is something only someone who lived through those times will remember: removing the ultra-weighty ball from that mac mouse to scrape the 'mouse cheese' from the little rollers inside in order to make the mouse work properly again. Great video - thanks for the memory jog!
I love that the music matches the theme of this series.
It creates the right vibe to it, making the video feel so nostalgic even though I didn't live that era.
Just imagine Apple if Steve Jobs was still with us. ❤️
iPhone X-11 wouldn’t exists and we’d still have a home button
Apple would suck Steve Jobs is very stubborn.
Arieyal Landfair no home bottom jobs would like.
No ios 7
@@user-nl5jf2xb8y well a stubborn man created the first proper smart phone and first popular pc
Apple then : "Free stickers for you!"
Apple today: "No more in-box charger, pay for it now on."
Honestly it is a GOOD move considering most people who are getting iphone 12's have had iphones before. This enables them to give us better stuff for cheaper. I guess you would be happy if you can save 30$ if you have the earphones and the power adapter lying around and doing nothing
Do you know how much e waste it produces ?!
Aiden Duray yeah... that is another good point...
Samsung too :)
Samsung: write it down, write it down!
I’ve never heard of this youtuber until this video showed up in my recommended.
"It's making noises"
-Marques, 2019.
😂 this quote is gonna be remembered forever
@@trevorjames7490 xD ikr
The UA-cam original series has a lower camera quality than Marques's own content
@free mindset the red probably costs more then they are paying him for the series
“I feel like I’m in a hospital.”
True
I wrote my first college term papers on a Macintosh.
Almost 40 years, I'm watching this on a Macintosh. Good job, Steve.
On a 12 Pro Max here, whose screen is probably almost as big as the original Macintosh
Apple then: I can make a pc that can be used by someone 40 years later to surf the net
Apple now: Omg I 1 year old pls replace me or I be broken and sad
@Not Convinced Imagine buying a space heater
@@loki.8435 I buyed the space heater
@@CreatorPolar he’s not watching it on an OG Macintosh you dolt
It's weird to see that computer in high resolution
Yea
Seeing that in person is an equalivement
2019: RIP "Dope". Long lived "Dope".
It needed to die. Years ago.
Wow! Did this bring back memories! I started my journey in 1970 on an IBM 360 model 20 - it had 16K memory you first wrote your program out on paper then that was converted by hand into punch cards and then feed into the computer. The first computer language I learnt was RPG I then COBOL and then assembler. When I first saw the Macintosh I was impressed and I would have become an Apple developer but in order to develop for the Mac at that time you had to buy a $10,000 dollar Apple Lisa. The first Apple I owned was the iMAC which I liked but was really too involved with Windows computers as most of my computer jobs involved main frame or unix computers/
Currently, I own a Mac Mini M2 with plans to upgrade to the Apple Book Pro M4 when it comes out.
No one: has YT Premium
UA-cam: Here it is, watch it for free
not all youtube originals are premium only
hola niños
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Lol
I have yt premium
His blood pressure is dropping
Marques: He'll be fine
i knew that there would be a guy doing this
I played that game definitely. killed many people. Definitely. a big learning curve. Dope tech.
I love how she appreciates everything about Apple products even it is old.
You have to appreciate how we got here, vintage everything is amazing in its own way.
@@Thegangsta00711 I think most people fail to appreciate that the computers of today are a direct result of those "dinosaur" computers of the past. they just snicker and giggle at them.
I grew up in the Apple II era and in my 9th grade year saw the first Macintosh in a store and *knew* this was the future of computers and I so desperately wanted one (parents had other ideas). Fast forward to 2014 and I finally bought one for my collection off eBay. The nostalgia is just palpable. I still love turning it on and playing around. Even my elementary school aged kids at the time loved playing with it.
The production value of this is so incredibly high I am shocked. This was a seriously good video. Well done to the whole MKBHD team
Yo Marques. Loving the series, premium suddenly gets some worthwhile content. Make more!
When the lady said the floppy disks would be cute coasters, Marques looked at the camera like Jim Halpert😂
Marques "This came out 9 years before I was born"
School IT Purchasing Department has entered the chat.
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I'm the same age as iJustine and we had the 1984 Apple II in our "computer classroom" at my elementary school. It's where I learned to type. And also spend many hours playing Oregon Trail!
It must be a trip to have Bill Nye the Science Guy as your freaking guest on your giant UA-cam channel. Dude was a legend in Canada.
Bro same here in the us
The more I grow, the more I’ve learned that our generations grew up really similar in both the U.S and Canada. Makes sense why we’ve never been at war and never will surely. We’re just the same just one more cold and tundra, and the other more warm and desert
@@deadboy3646 yeah… I mean not all Canada is tundra and not all us is desert but yeah
@@pigeonette1 Yes. That’s exactly why I said “more” meaning mostly
@@deadboy3646 mhm
Now imagine: Apple made a Mac and told ‘OS sold separately’
Do you mean sold?
@@k.a.r.s4543 what did I type?
@@k.a.r.s4543 that's what he wrote?
@@k.a.r.s4543 read it again slowly
now imagine: apple made a mac and sold 'OS separately
Marques: "The mice!"
Cameraman: Hm yes there sure are some interesting Nintendos over here...
I respect that cameraman
‘I like I nice loud keyboard, It makes me feel like I’m doing something.’
_Wiser words have never been spoken._
3:00 You have no idea the emotion I feel just by hearing the sound of that floppy disk drive.
It instantly transports me to a much happier and simpler time.
3:24 Actually, MOST (or at least roughly half) of the system was in ROM, because the RAM was so paltry (128k). But it still wasn’t complete without the system disk.
18:12 Before using the paper clip, it’s better to just shut it off, hold down the mouse button, and start it up again. That will force an ejection to happen. Only use the paper clip if it cannot physically eject at all.
Most macs came with a little plastic “programmer’s switch” in the box, which provided a reset and interrupt button. The reset button did the obvious thing and just soft-booted the device, and the interrupt button brought up a debugger screen.
21:50 At 11 years old in 1984, sitting in front of MacPaint for the first time: “This changes EVERYTHING.”
I want to find that alternate universe where Apple never existed so I can bring that worlds bestselling phone and computer and show everyone how clunky they are.
They’re not nearly as awesome as they used to be, and truth be told, I’m not enthused by ANY of their products anymore.
But they did their job. They DID put a dent in our universe, and they deserve their spot in history.
MKBHD:
"So I've been using the 1984 Mac for a little over 35 years now."
;););););) havent stopped laughing...;););););)
@@chenellynjutsu what do u think nutty
"So I've been using the 1984 Macintosh 9 years before I was born..."
Keep it running my friend^^
🤣
Yes, I remember this. In 1984 I was a student, in The Netherlands. The Mac was incredibly expensive, no student could afford it. But the Computer Science department of the university had one and sometimes I could use it. I had my own 3.5” disk. The keyboard was fantastic, but this video actually taught me that it didn’t have arrow keys, I didn’t notice it at the time 😄 I recently bought a mechanical keyboard that reminds me of that Mac. In 2001 I bought my first Mac, it was a PowerMac with OS X.
The section with Bill Nye was *chef’s kiss* 😘 fun to watch!
"Im doping up" this is when bill nye was no longer able to keep access to the science lab
Is that Bill Nye the Sex Junk Guy? I'm pretty sure he tar and feathered his reputation years ago
Frankenscuzz wait what did he do
@@matthew1992 youtube "sex junk" if you dare. bring your cringe suit because it's pretty painful
*Ahem* HE FUCKED ME
*_WITH A TOOTHBRUSH_*
@@matthew1992 dhdkcmh
I lived through all this, as my first computer was an Apple II and I had one of these 84 macs at launch. I’m not sure which was first but Take One for the Apple II was a surprisingly capable animation and drawing program. You could do elaborate multi scene “movies” and even program elements. When I founded Naughty Dog (Crash Bandicoot, the Last of Us etc) with my biz partner in the 80s we used Take One for the graphics and animation on some of our first games. Eventually as a paint program it was replaced by Deluxe Paint and then Photoshop (which I’ve been using for almost 30 years!)
Andrew Gavin that is so cool! :D
I wish I was you, I wouldve loved coding on old tech, before c and mostly assembly
Wow incredible story
it saddens me that your company is always PS exclusive. i'l probably never get to play these games.
Naughty Dog is owned by Sony, so of course it’s PS exclusive. MSFT owns lots of developers too (in fact they bought a ton today). Just how the console game is played so to speak.
To be honest, kinda disappointed that the 8 bit guy wasn't featured.
His name is Pinot
Yeah. I feel he passed over the whole retro computing tuber community.
Actually, the 8bit guy himsélf seems to pass on many opportunities offered to him, quite often!!!
He's probably not "cool enough" for these, they're trying to appeal to the mainstream
What did you expect? This content is absolute normie trash.
*@Marques: this is hands-down the most interesting video you have ever made!* PLEASE MAKE MORE CONTENT LIKE THIS! 😳🤩🙌🔥
Marques flexing on all the coffee house hipsters hardcore
the moment he said kids today to Marques is pretty dope
too many people are unaware on how influential Apple was to the entire personal computing industry early on; most think Apple's success started with the iPod or iMac but that was the start of their second wave of success
oOoOOOooOooO
Even fewer are unaware of the Amiga and ST or even the Archimedes. You might say the Amiga, with its custom chips, was years ahead of Apple.
Influential, yes. Successful, not so much.
Something about my 52 year old self cries listening to these guys talk about the technology that not only did I grow up with but felt was amazingly ground breaking.
It is like listening to them bust on the first gen iPhone (which they never used in its day).
“Definitely a computer” definitely not a scripted line 😂
well noted
I'm a retro loving guy and I'm drooling over the stuff that was in that warehouse! 🤤
Same, I saw that gameboy and NES and inmediatly said:
Yup, this place is pretty cool.
Love how technology was used back then.
Seriously, I need to find a place like that in Ohio.
@@rapid13 These places are all over. Just search for E-Waste locations in google. In 2003 I worked at an e-waste/computer recycling center called CompRenew (its actually still around) and we would get the craziest stuff dropped off by the truck load. Things like oscilloscopes, video production gear from news stations, laptops and pcs from banks and large corporations... Most of my days were spent removing hard drives and shredding them to be recycled as scrap metal. Then we would sell the bare bones laptops and tower PCs to resellers. Later on they tried to sell the PCs as whole working systems. but that is hard because people like to complain and are never happy so that ended quickly. The best part was I could buy whatever I wanted cheap. Needless to say I ran a rather lucrative Ebay store. Was a great college job.
@@scottcol23 Yeah, haven’t found one near me that allows people to shop. They just take and send away.
Bill: HIS BLOOD PRESSURE IS DROPPING!
Marques: He'll be fine
Oh my god! This video brings me right back to my Dad bringing home those early computer cards and folded reams of output paper to draw on and play with in the 60’s!!! Great video…thanks, got a tear in my eye remembering all my early Mac and PC days!
Who else thinks Macintosh sounds wayy cooler than just "Mac"???😉
Because Mac sounds like a food.
Nah
@@aerasross2911 Macintosh is food. lol. It is a type of Apple. :)
Mac is like gay
But macintosh sounds like a gay lingo
@@RobertDavisAdman I have no idea. I'm sorry, I should have made more research before saying anything :(, my bad.
That moment when you realize you're old enough to remember old tech. Mind. Blown.
The fact that you could animate on a machine like that... Damn.
Just that they all forgot to say that this was an imitation of the Smalltalk computer, top to bottom. The language concept to create the UI, the mouse and the whole concept were all done by Xerox park and the team around Alan Kay. Why is everyone seemingly forgetting about that?
Matthias Schuster its because xerox had no idea what to use the mouse for until steve heard it and turned it into something very useful that change people’s lives. Same like small HDD toshiba made, steve turned it into ipod. Same like touchscreen technology that has been around, nobody noticed it until apple released iphone.
Matthias Schusterhe got the idea from it, but is not a copy. The successful one always win. He was the one who put the machine to work together and got all the sells.
I saw this video without knowing the title and the intro blew my mind, so well done
An old school printer would trip these people out.
Or a Walkman...
the cHroNic nOize co. How about an old school printer laptop? About 4 inches thick and weighs the same as 2 bricks haha
Daisy wheel...like having Thor hammer your homework onto stone tablets.
@A Tangerine Actually, there were quite a few other printers you could use (e.g. the Star NX-10). All they had to do was output a bitmap, and rely on the Mac itself to generate the image, using the same graphics and font engine that worked for on-screen drawing, just at a higher resolution.
Kilobytes?
“Yes! Tss, kids today.”
94156705
Ok boomer
Its things like this that discredit MKBHD a lot. As someone who makes videos for the tech community, he should know this.
@@chandlerh2103 As someone who makes content for the modern tech community, he doesn't usually come across such a small amount (I would hope)
@@belland_dog8235 He still should know how it works.
This one is better than the one in my computer lab
Suyash LoneWolf hmm
Nah
What a throwback! Makes me feel old though. This Macintosh was part of my childhood .windows 3.1 introduced me to the world of DOS. The evolution of technology in general is fascinating and easily taken for granted.
Shout out to those who played Oregon Trail on Macs in school.
Our school couldn't afford Macs, so we had to play Oregon Trail on the green screen Apple IIs lol
Or Apple IIE
Number munchers though.
@@andrewh4026 though what?
🙌
I still can’t believe the Seahawks didn’t run the ball.
I cant believe it either - a Patriots fan
Still hurts
Can’t bet worse than blowing a 21 lead in the super bowl - Falcons Fan that’s losing faith
It’s been a rough season for you guys
Hey, I'm a Bears fan and it doesn't get much worse than Mitchell Trubisky😬
I’m very surprised there was no mention that Steve took the Mouse and GUI from Xerox. Xerox had no idea what they had but Steve did.
They had the idea. They just weren't interested in the PC market nor had the means for mass production anyway.
I know history remembers Apple really running with the GUI, mouse driven stuff and how Xerox just had some mad engineering experiments but its just not true. I challenge anyone to look this up.
Xerox Alto
You just need to see that in action. It doesn't look like it belongs in 1973. You expect paper card punching room sized monsters at this time. But the Alto had the first truly high resolution monitor that blew away anything Apple would have for many many years to drive the most advanced graphical interface anyone had ever seen. . I don't remember the exact resolution but it was something insane like 1280x1080 and Apple had something like 320x200 as the very limit to what was possible. Very limit my ass, just look at UA-cam videos of Alto. It had paint and word processing, cut and paste. It flat out invented so many things we just see today as part of regular computers.
But ask even techies today what the Alto is and they'll probably shrug and not know. Some have vague ideas there was this one xerox machine Steve Jobs saw in a lab. Total BS as there were a few thousand made that were in use around the world in universities for instance. I believe someone wrote a bitcoin miner for the Alto recently that runs online today. Try that with anything Apple had a decade later and it'll seem like its just too early for anything that advanced to exist.
So Xerox knew what they had. They just never got a chance to build up to a truly big volume mass produced machine because someone stole the idea, copied it and brought out a vastly inferior product that was a massive success. But erase Apple and Microsoft from history and the Alto would have eventually spawned the first mass produced computers far ahead of anything else that actually did come out. You just had to go near one to know this was the future. And as a techy myself I grew up not knowing Alto existed. I discovered it on UA-cam and really couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Its a bit like looking at Cybertruck now and all these designs that seem to fit into this cyberpunk theme and then discovering that 30 years before there was Blade Runner that was not only doing it all but had it all worked out too. At least as movie goers, fans appreciate Blade Runner for the impact it had and how everything that came after it that was sci-fi pretty much copied from it in some way. The Alto is the Blade Runner of the computer world but general history has forgotten it ever existed.
Came here to say the same thing. Hard to ignore the fact that Apple didn't "invent" this idea as it's lead to be told here.
@@ChrisKlosowski Well, what it did do was recognize the potential and refine the concept to make it practical for everyday use. Sometimes innovation is about making something accessible rather than inventing it out of whole cloth.
@@LuisMercadoorg you also have to remember that an Alto workstation the Xerox GUI runs on costs about 12 macintoshes. Even if they did bring it to the market (and they eventually did, see "Xerox Star") no consumer is going to buy what basically amounts to a Dev kit for more than most people's yearly salary. (And that's exactly what happened, only 25000 were sold)
And the same story goes for the Apple Lisa a year before the Mac. $9995, lack of software to actually do stuff with, and then the Mac came out and ate it's lunch.
In it´s time the Mac was the Ferrari of personal computers (and the price tag showed it) but one thing that was not mentioned in this video, is the capabilities of this little computer connected to a network, that was awesome!!! In the university I studied they had a bunch of these connected to a network and a laser printer, everybody tried to grab one to print homeworks and such (the True Type Fonts were the rage).