The Power Macintosh 8100
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- The Power Macintosh 8100 of the mid-90’s has been my most sought-after Mac for many years, so I decided to do a video about it despite there not being any audience demand or interest in such a video.
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And don't forget to celebrate Retro Macintosh month with "MARCHintosh" this March and every March.
![The Power Macintosh 6100 [re-release + bonus]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DlFuD4f_fEI/mqdefault.jpg)
I am the mystery editor who updated the Wikipedia entry after this video and corrected the article properly.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_8100
Love your videos!
Great job fixing that! Hopefully once and for all.
Bless you.
@@65scribe I have the server version of this and the restore cd rom. Currently restoring it with proper os versions .
Dang it hank that was our only ball.
65scribe is back, nothing can ruin this day
gente, é o peter xp do twitter?
@@ferrreira sou eu
The return of the legend!
Don't change your camera until you physically have to. There's a charm to the aged look. That said, awesome to see you posting a video again.
Vwestlife has a similar camera and similar accent, wonder if it's the same guy?
No, not the same guy.
Definitely more 'for' than 'against' the old camera look in the feedback. I'm glad people aren't stuck on wanting HD, because it's a much easier to frame shots and focus on the subject with the more narrow aspect.
Maybe the interlace artifacts can be fixed, though.
@@65scribe hey just a suggestion: I'm using a modern"ish" computer with my old Acer CRT from the early 2000s (works great, vibrant colors) and most videos, even when the "actual" video is in 4:3, is RENDERED in 16:9:
your camera shots and most of the archival footage you use are in this video are already in4:3 (except from 1:16 til 5:00 or so), so why not making the whole video in 4:3 at that point? You would be the first (and only to my knowledge) retrocomputer UA-camr to do so since the advent of HD UA-cam!
65scribe, back from his 10 month purgatory
You seem like a man I could be best friends with.
one of my favorite channels. they don’t make em like this anymore
The idea that anyone at Apple thought it would be a good idea to abandon the 68k install base is absolutely bonkers to me
Any video with, 'wah wah', 'damn!' and the Oil Museum scene gets my upvote.
OMG OIL MUSEUM UPDATE, this is the best.
Honestly, that treat was better than Christmas! 🥳
Amazing
They must have sold out of the cups though
I found that part a bit C.R.U.D.E.
Every video we get closer to the full tape
I think we all have an unrequited childhood crush on that tour guide.
What an incredibly special day you guys had back in '98. As a tour guide it was probably
a quiet day: so she had all the time to laugh it up with you guys.
I too was once experienced such a fun afternoon with a service rep who
was bored of her job. We too laughed it up.
I still think of that day from time to time.
Your storytelling and editing style is relaxing yet easy to follow, cheeky enough to not be drab but excessive like some other youtubers. Never change man.
Thanks for the feedback, Marco!
@@65scribe He said what I was trying to say!
In addition to being an amazing day just because 65scribe posted a video, I had an incredible discovery watching it and I want to share my story with you all: I live in Brazil, and since I was a child I was very fond of apple, but, as you can imagine, it’s not easy to find old devices around here. When I was 16, in 2013, I found a guy in my city on the internet selling an iMac G3 from the first month of manufacture with the original mouse and keyboard. I got there and found out he was an accumulator, living with his grandmother and she wanted him to get rid of all the “trash in her house”. At the time, everything I knew about Apple was very mainstream, so all I was interested in was seeing the iMac G3 working. But as the guy needed to get rid of a lot, he looked at me and said: hey, if you like vintage macs, I have a powermac here that i know nothing about, I don't have a mouse or keyboard for it, I don't know if it works or not, and if you want it is yours, free of charge.
I wanted, he gave me the computer and a VGA adapter. I brought it home, found a site of old macs software, downloaded System 7, burned it to a CD and boot it. The computer turned on, everything seemed to be working, but since I didn't have the ADB mouse or keyboard and finding used ones around here is an impossible mission, I couldn't do anything except watch that old computer powered on and its noise. I turned everything off, wrapped the computer in plastic and kept it for all these years, to remember about it today and, while watching the video, unroll it from the plastic to find out that I have a perfectly functional PowerMac 8100/100 at home, in Brazil, with all drive bezels and in good cosmetic condition.
Now I'm very excited to open it and clean it well, since today I know more about it, and if possible find an ADB keyboard and mouse to be able to restore this computer in all its glory
Excellent! Maybe pull the battery in case it decides to leak acid on the circuits.
Great story, Lucas. Thanks for sharing that!
Man that Marathon box, that brings back some memories.
Frog blast the vent core!
I still have all mine. Plus the bungie mac action sack. All the marathons and abuse in a bob sack
that tour guide had no idea she'd be in so many of your videos back in 1998.
I found your channel because I bought a Mac IIsi from some guy an hour from where I live for 35$. I wanted to learn about it and I found your channel. So glad I did because you make such interesting videos!
< bumps fist >
@@mutoneon thank you!
Thanks very much! Great to hear that you got some real-world use out of the IIsi video.
aaaaa this channel is amazingggg
Thanks very much!
Having watched this many, many, *many* times, that concert segment is my fav.
26:15 this dudes tie is NUTS! i love it!
Another Triumph. Adding the oil museum always entertains.
Thanks !! Glad you hung around for the bonus oil museum.
So glad to see you back. Was worried! Thank you for all the content!
I've learned so much about the disaster years of Apple from this channel. Everyone else seems to laser focus on the G3 - G5 era or newer Intel stuff.
Yay! A new 65scribe video!
I cannot tell you how happy I was to see this notification, albeit an hour late.
Thanks for your consistent enthusiasm, Paul. Watch for something new tomorrow.
Requisite Marathon Segment!
Hi Paul! Glad you remembered that.
Omg you’re back!!!! I almost forgot about this channel, but I’m glad I was subscribed.
65subscribed am i right haha
Me too!
what a pleasant surprise, literally do a video on any mac and i'll watch it. also i hope you keep using old standard definition camcorders they make it look like your videos were all made in the early 2000's and i feel like something would be lost if that changed.
I just enjoy the quirky humour. Keep it up!
"1984 would've made a good game". *Half-Life 2 Beta enters the chat*.
Jokes aside, nice video as usual. Seeing that G5 in here makes me wish for that G5 video review... ;)
Ha! Thanks! No full G5 video yet, but I like to bring it into a video whenever I can.
Whee! OMG, other peoples' computers, right? Sheesh!
After I met my future wife online (on Genie), I moved to be with her in California in the summer of '93.
Together we started a home desktop publishing and graphic design company with the Macintosh IIsi, Apple LaserWriter NTR and Apple OneScanner that she got with her education discount from the local junior college.
When the PowerPC Macs started comping out we upgraded to a Performa 637CD and a Performa 638CDV. We were not interested in new tech when our business was really booming. Besides, Apple was clearly confused about where they were going and we weren't ready to bet on their future at that time.
I was working on a Quadra 800 at the local junior college, which brought me here because the 8100 reminds me of that one.
Delightful and fun video! Thanks!
"...and that was it. Got in my buddy's 1983 Chevette and hit the road."
I honestly let out a yelp when I saw the notification for this video pop up on my phone.
lol
lmao the reference library ads are basically just the IRL version of the Tim & Eric Innernette skit
65scribe videos are like getting a letter from a friend - unexpected but brightens up my day
Rejoice as the man, the legend, is back
A coworker gave me her 8100 when she got a G3. It was a really nice machine. We had the 8600 at work running the then new Quark 4.0 and Indesign 1.0 (Trash that Adobe almost immediately upgraded to 1.5). Our 8500 was the Laserwriter 8500. We were using a Itek platemaker and quickly learned that the 8500 had a flaw and didn't actually print at 100%, not great for printing camera ready copy. Oh 90's apple you crazy kids.
Great first-hand account of Apple equipment in use in the 90’s. Thanks Ray!
Another excellent video- thanks 65scribe!! (always worth the wait between uploads) Looking forward to MARCHintosh!
I used to watch videos on older macs like 10 years ago. Haven't in a long time. I can confirm, I found your channel through UA-cam's recommended algorithm.
Thanks for the feedback! Good to know. I started this channel because there was so little out there years ago. Now it’s a little more crowded.
Ah yes, I was really looking forward to this! I watched all your videos on your channel before this :)
Oh no, now I've watched every video on his channel and I need another new video again. It's even worse now than it was before!
Hah! That's great!
I had a 8500 in the early 2000's ... as a starving student I sold off my monster truck gaming PC and used that thing as my main computer for almost 4 solid years, good platform and as a bonus mine had the av pack so at least it could double as a tv lol (edit 8:56 AMD has been doing 7nm chips for over a year now) edit edit, I had the second radius machine, it was a chunk of shi
Intel introduced 10nm over a year before AMD went to 7.... In a cpu that.. well... didn't work very well. lol
Thanks for the video. I was overseas for 20 years, and the Power Mac 8100 was in a series of storage sheds. For the last month after unpacking it, I could not start it up. But tonight, just on a whim, I tried again, and finally the hard drive kicked in and it lives again. Now I need to figure out how to hook it to wifi. No hurry. I have a handful of new Macs to use. While I was elsewhere I used a G5 heavily, and the machine was a workhorse. I mean seven days a week, 10 hours a day spewing out text, graphics and emails.
Thanks for watching! Glad to hear you had better luck with your 8100 than I did. Especially being in storage for so long.
The first mac I've ever seen/used, my father got one on 94 and I was blow away!
I remember that It didn't even had a CD drive.. It was added later that year because the computer was soo expensive. I think I still can track It.. must be at a cousin's house
Very cool that this machine was your first experience with a Mac. Thanks for sharing that!
I assumed you were done making vids. Your low-key 90s Mac humor is what I needed today.
Good to hear that, Dan. Making the videos is still great fun.
I love your humor.
Thanks! I’m glad it gave you a laugh.
I share your pursuit of a 6400/6500. In 1997 I used our Performa 6400/200 Video Editing Edition for a school video project. I loved the way the beefy internal speaker switched to a subwoofer when you plugged in external speakers.
Yes, it would be an interesting machine to look into. I hope you can connect with one.
Literally watched 1984 last night. Almost spit out my drink at the last scene drinking under Steve Jobs' poster.
That’s a great coincidence! I’m glad to hear you liked that.
This is easily your most brilliant video yet. I don't know how you take the most dull, prosaic information and make it hilarious AND interesting, but you have it down to a fine art. That 1984 game concept is just genius and I was chortling at the end when you lamented the Wikipedia revision. Thanks for the entertainment.
Thanks very much! I appreciate the detailed feedback on the video and glad you liked the 1984 bits. Though shorter, I hope you'll enjoy my next video tomorrow.
Is so cool you are still using SD video equipment.
Glad to hear you like that. Thanks!
I like the subtle humor and the interest in the vintage 8100. A tower I also looked up upon at the time but never could get.
Fascinating. Hilarious.The tour guide is a gem.
Thanks Michael! Glad you liked the video!
he’s returned!
Fond memories, I loved the look, an 8100 was my first PowerMac, it replaced my burned out 840 AV and it served me well. I did miss the dedicated DSP, but the PPC was otherwise massively more capable.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Interesting!
@@65scribe I really enjoy your videos about vintage Mac equipment, you really convey that oldschool Macintosh feel
29:52 - thanks to the context you’ve presented here, I think I finally know what the ‘f’ means, in application names or folder names. I have always wondered that :)
@0:03 ...and the 1983 Chevrolet Chevette
and deer
and oil
loved it all
Nice use of the 1984 soundtrack. Brought a gin scented tear to my eye.
Deep reference. Thumbs up for that!
I bought the 7100/66 back in the day. The mac in no-mans land. lol. And for the better part of 6 years it was my main computer eventually being pushed with a g4 accelerator. Still own it and use it as a vintage machine to this day with it being fully restored and functional. Been the best purchase I ever made on a new machine.
Holy crap, Star Trek Omnipedia! That takes me back... I had it for my PC back in the day, I spent A LOT of time with that one...
You are the best!! Impossible not to love your videos!
Thanks very much, Retro Guy!
8100 discussion AND Gowan !! What are the odds. You have a new subscriber Sir.
Thank you for subscribing! Knowing both the 8100 and Gowan makes you a strange animal indeed.
Great video. 1984 reference is so fitting now.
Thank you very much!
Hey you uploaded again! You love to see it! Great video, as always
That Marathon joke was great. My friends Dad had an 8100/80av, I haven’t seen one since then but believe it or not have the boxed starter kit with all the original documentation. Found it last year from a former Apple reseller who sold off his entire collection to me. Still on the hunt for a 8100, but I do have a 7100/66av..
Good to hear you liked the Marathon piece! It took a bit of memory work of how to mod that game, but a lot of fun making a video around the 1984 theme. Great that you found a starter kit. More rare than the computer itself. The 8100 is a tough one to find, though one got posted locally just as I was finishing this video (just to prove me wrong, I think), but it's quite a major fixer-upper.
@@65scribe You should make a part II on that 8100. My 7100 does start but is unstable. I’ve replaced half of the surface mount capacitors. A huge job to replace them, when I have time I’ll finish the job. I used to make my own Marathon maps, man I had so much fun with that game.
"It doesn't do anything?" by good ol' Orson Welles, I have no idea why, just keeps getting funnier. When I went to college, a friend had one of these. I was very impressed by the case aesthetics (had no idea what kind of bad design it had practically), and he made music with an early version of Digital Performer on it. "If I could just get one of those I'd be a REAL musician" was not far from thoughts in my head. I'm still impressed by these things!
Cool! Great to hear your experience with the 8100. And I’ll try to get Orson in the next video.
Sorry to hear that you're struggling to get through this pandemic. I'm in Australia, and not to blow my own horn, but we still have concerts and stuff because we've managed to keep Covid from getting out of the quarantine hotels. I went to a concert on NYE 2020! Good luck for the rest of the pandemic and hopefully things will return to normal for you soon. Thanks for the great content on the channel and it's great that you've been boosted by the algorithm. And your Marathon/Nineteen-Eighty-Four crossover was hilarious!
Thanks Chris. Yes, everything is still very locked-down here. Concerts seem a long way off yet. But good to hear you’ve returned to a more normal life.
Please don’t ever change your style. Your videos have an unmatched charm and I need more!
Thanks Tyler! Appreciate the feedback. I should have something more out soon.
Just started getting into old *macs* (Windows user) and your channel has been on autoplay. Really dig these videos, easily one of the easiest watching/listening channels in this vein of hobbyism.
Thanks Jesse. Welcome to the hobby! I'm glad to hear you connected with my channel. I hope you stay tuned for the next video.
Funniest video I've watched today. I love your delivery and jokes. Best narration voice ever. It's almost as if 'vwestllife' had a brain injury and woke up funny.
Thanks very much! I’ve always thought the narration was the worst part.
I was just checking out your channel again a month ago!!! Was wondering where you were!
I think I came back just in time. Internet memory fades quickly.
Love it. Did not expect the 1984 movie deep cuts :D
Thanks! The 1984 theme was fun to weave through the video. It was the wikipedia experience that got me started on that line of thinking.
I bought a Power Mac 8100AV in spring 1995. I bought it with a 17' trinitron display and the ergonomic keyboard. It was my second Mac after my mother’s pizza box Mac (can’t remember the model, think it was pre-power pc). I discovered your videos last year and they have kept me amused ever since. Good to see a new one.
Its me again. So I bought the 8100/100 and I can report that my 8100 has that springy thing, to ground the case to the PSU as well 👍
That's great to get confirmation on that. Thanks for letting me know and enjoy the 8100!
Aw man it's too late for me now, I just saw the notification as I was heading to bed! On the bright side I guess this gives me something good to look forward to tomorrow.
I hope you enjoyed the video, Noofle. I'll put the next one out early tomorrow for the early risers.
@@65scribe It was a great video as always! Looking forward to tomorrow's video.
Your videos are bizarrely amusing and relaxing trips down memory lane of my youth... Thanks!
You’re welcome! Thanks for the feedback.
Awesome video, thank you very much
Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
We need more Mac videos please
Agreed Kevin. I will have a new one this month.
Looks like after this video was released, someone finally undid that incorrect Wikipedia edit after no edits were made to the article for 10 months.
Yes, that was done amazingly fast after I released the video. Hats off to them! I did most of this video in the spring and summer last year before I got pulled away from it for 5 months. At the time, it was maddening to see my changes reverted after I did this whole piece for the video about me making the correction... and then I figured, that just makes the story better! I'm just sorry to any wayward souls who went searching for the 110AV during that time.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing this great video! That is very interesting. I love watching and I am always searching for informative content like payday loans online.
Why did I not see that coming? lol
Excellent!
For it is the Kwisatz Tasseract!
Very few things on YT excite me as much as seeing a new 65scribe vid, and this was another good one!
That's great to hear, thanks! I hope you like the next one tomorrow.
@@65scribe Yes! :)
Got one (circa 95), a 8100/100 with apple monitor (15 AV). Stunning machine.
I love so much the m68k and PPC architecture...
**click** "What a bad idea." Great timing XD
I got a second hand 8100 in the 2000s. Very lucky to have it.
I love that you modded Marathon for a little comedy bit in this video. Funnily enough, I have a history with the 8100/80, the 6100/60 and Marathon, in that my charter school had these models of Mac and I got to spend a night playing it with fellow students on those machines. God, that was fun. First time I'd gotten to play a networked game, too. I remember I was so excited, I was shaking.
Thanks for the feedback, Eric. I’m glad you liked that Marathon bit. Your memories of the machines and Marathon are great to have. I appreciate you sharing them.
@@65scribeI used to edit the game a bit too. Did some custom sprites and made maps for M2 and Infinity, but never anything too serious or for public consumption. It was one of the few things my Performa 6214CD could manage :)
"Do I really have time to watch a 40 min video on the 8100?"... a few minutes in ... "Ahh, this is great!" :) The humour and edits, attention to detail, go a long way. Thank you for your efforts :)
You’re welcome. I appreciate hearing your thought process in watching the video!
@@65scribe Many machines from this era need a recap (PCB clean and capacitor replacement) in order to work, it's possible that's all the board needs. Maybe send the board to someone who does that sort of thing? Great video anyway. I actually have an 8100/100AV, err I mean 8100/110, but I suspect it needs recapping - but I never knew of the Peltier used for heatsink transfer, absolutely nuts they shipped that in there.
I'm glad I stuck around for the out-tro by Sarah! A complete 180 from the somber unobtainium list scene and a great way to remember why we long for these machines.
Thanks for sticking around to the end, Yue Fan. I appreciate the feedback! Sorry it took so long to reply.
@@65scribe It's an honor to get a second reply! :D
The 8100/110 was my very first Mac. I wish I still had it.
Appropriate video discussing the transition to PowerPC in the wake of the M1 Macs. I was kind of hoping to hear your take on the newest architecture change but these videos are amazing and I look forward to your next one.
I like the quality, 4:3 ratio, good information, interesting subjects. Keep going.
I grew up with an 8100/80 as my first Mac, I played a lot of marathon on it as well. It was the original one without the label on the front, it has the 8100/80 directly printed on the case.
That’s great! The ones painted directly on the case are the most cool.
Real fans watch for the oil museum clips! I somehow ran into your channel 8 months ago and Im glad you are still making videos. And although new macs arent your thing, the new M1 macbook pro is my favorite mac since the power pc days.
YES THANK YOU
Your videos are soothing, funny, educational. MORE PLEASE.
The fact that you film 4:3 and with fields is not lost on me. Please. More.
Good to hear you like the format. It’s not for everyone, but more people like it than I thought. Thanks!
Nothing better than waking up to a new 65scribe video. I’d love to see a video of the Mac mini, mainly the old polycarbonate ones and the earlier unibodies.
There is definitely demand here, keep at it - I have a weird gear-acquisition list (mostly Sun workstations) so it makes me happy to see other people getting the hardware they want too :)
Thanks Daniel! I hope you're having luck with your Sun acquisitions, too.
Great video 👌. I love that you are back. Congratulations on your 8100.
Holy cow I had an 8600 growing up as a kid! It’s a shame we got rid of it early on, I would have loved to kept it as a collectible.
Yes! The 8600 might be my favourite case design. Unfortunate that it's gone.
That case design was gorgeous but such a pain in the ass to work on!
Awesome video. My 8100 was working last I checked. Although the last time I looked at it more plastic broke off and I didn't even touch it. I hate that brittle plastic.
Thanks very much! Good to hear from another 8100 owner, and I know the frustration.
Great! New video. We miss you a lot. And... We love your camera yeeeh aaah XD
This.