Forget TV, you need to make money on TV to greenlit a documentary and hope that someone doesn't distort some facts to make it "more sensationalism." UA-cam allows true enthusiasts to make genuine documentaries that cater to the enthusiasts and historians community first.
¡Muchas gracias por el vídeo! Un trabajo excelente donde deja claro que había proyectos muy interesantes y avanzados en la época donde no estaba Jobs. / Thank you very much for the video! An excellent job that clearly shows there were very interesting and advanced projects during the time when Jobs was not there.
This was the first project I worked on at Apple for what was supposed to be a summer internship. It turned into a career. It was magical to be part of a team of so incredibly talented people. Still, we were all gutted when the project was canceled. It would have been a great device. I still have mine!
"It was a rite of passage at Apple - if you make your own product, you get to make your own connector" - thanks for making things a pain in the ass for decades
Wow. That was an amazing story, with amazing storytelling. As a product guy, I found this to be nothing short of moving. Congratulations on the release, and great job!
absolutely love that you got to talk to the engineers behind this, there's so many fascinating stories out there about projects that died on the vine and I love hearing them
This was the era of Apple I love the most. Modern Apple is just "iOS and friends", there doesn't seem to be this level of innovation there... but I love to be proven wrong.
neural networks have been around since before we had transistor based computers. All this AI hype in the last decade is just that, hype. It's not new. It not even useful in most cases. It just happens that we have powerful enough computers that it no longer SEEMS quite as wasteful to make the toys with AI than it used to.
@@gasun1274 What is your point? We have made very little progress on neural networks in half a century. It's hype. GANs are interesting, and can actually be made now, but even those aren't "new". LLMs literally don't do what people think they do. They are a whole different problem. The bottom line is that for all this "AI" hype, it isn't really useful. Almost all of it is a toy to play with, not a tool to do a job. We HAVE massively increased available processing power. That certainly makes it look like we are progressing. In reality we are just obfuscating the hardware and electricity costs of these toys.
@@Prophes0rI think this is one of the most misconceptions about this whole thing. This is the kind of take that an average person with zero knowledge on the topic has. Just because a lot of the fundamentals aren't new doesn't mean the package isn't new. There has been a lot of sleepless nights working on this problem for the past few years (I know, I am in the field) that this statement suggesting that none of it is new and its just a toy lack a lot of maybe updated knowledge on the matter. A lot of the models power a lot of things behind the scenes and have been for a while. Example practical uses are identifying inappropriate content in videos, text, comments and images. I picked that example because this is one of those things thst you csn make some argument fhst it's not new fundamentally but a lot has changed to adapt to the new technological advancements we've made over time and new techniques to be able to do more with less power. It's a lot of behind the scenes improvements that eventually lead to the current state of things (and things have been dramatically improving since then due to competition)
@@AnesuC One of my hats from 2006-2018ish was Machine Learning research. I'm well versed in the topic at both the graduate level and the personal level (Since we all know how things like this can consume hobby time as well.) I never said there was zero use for this. Image recognition is useful. Upscaling is also useful. I'm claiming that the VAST majority of "AI" (And BOY do I hate having to call it that...) is a toy. LLMs are a toy. They are a glorified search engine in a pretty package, and ALL of their results are just a repackaging of their training material, which makes them theft in nearly all cases. Diffusion based image generation is a toy. It is also theft, or near-theft at best. Even calling it "generation" is like calling a box full of books, a pair of scissors, and a glue stick a "Book generator". "AI" is a grift. This entire trillion dollar industry is built on false promises, smoke and mirrors, and intentionally misleading marketing. The fact that major companies like Nvidia even broach the subject of General AI is SO laughable, that it indicates how little anyone with a voice in this game actually understands. "AI" isn't useless. But, it isn't 3 trillion dollars and 0.1% of all electricity generation "useful".
Huh. This video is how I learned that QuickTime is one of the VERY FEW products that survived Steve's return and even sticks around to this day. It exists as the default video player in macOS and process for video playback in iOS and iPadOS even in the 2020's.
Quick time was so much more than that. It was a wrapper for video encoding. That was used on almost all platforms and almost all video software supporting it. What I think you are talking about is the QuickTime Player app right?
The modern QuickTime app is related only in name to the 1990s product. It's now derived from the iPhone video player, not the old media engine. The QuickTime MOV file format has lasted a little better, being the basis of MP4, now.
@@Mainyehc sorry inkwell had been gone for almost five years and most likely replaced with same stuff used in ipadOS scribble. From what I know iOS don’t have text recognition
A trip down memory lane. I think I owned pretty much every device shown, with exception of the the PenLite. I was a huge Newton fan and user. Funny to look back at a time that I mostly forgot.
Thoroughly enjoyed that - it's amazing how bone-headed C-suite execs can be, they had a killer product in their lap with years of legacy software available for it, ready to go, already starting to ship - they could have done another production run of say 5000 units and see how they sold, then decided instead which way to go...but no, they put everything into Newton...
I was in college at this time interning at a local mom-and-pop Apple Store in Binghamton, NY. The owner kept talking about this device and when we'd receive inventory. But only the Newtons showed up. Amazing video. Thank you.
This is actually insane how the PenLite is basically an iPad before the iPad And it even ran proper Mac OS, just with a few drivers and other software to fully utilise the pen What's even crazier to me is that they had the "hover" gesture already in the 90s It's a shame that it got cancelled, maybe it would've had some market for enterprise settings at tech companies for some sort of a carriable device for employees, so they could jot down notes in a meeting, attach it to a dock and get to use their notes while doing the work.
BTW, technologically it was too early anyway. E.g. Jobs has wanted to do a touch tablet since the 1980s (!), but there was simply no way to do it right until circa 2010.
Watching this documentary on my M4 iPad Pro really makes me appreciate all those decades of ideas, talent, hardware and hard work that went into every little technological step that brought us into where we are now.
The drop test reminds me of how Peter Traynor would demonstrate how sturdy his guitar amps were by dropping them from the top of his shop into the concrete floor below. The valves would all shatter but the amp was still fully functional after you replaced them.
What an amazing video! These designers and engineers were definitely ahead of their time, just insane creativity and problem solving skills. Thanks for showcasing these prototypes and their creators!
"If you made a computer you got to make your own connector" OMG. This is one of the most horrible aspects of Apple hardware over their entire life span. Custom connectors. I don't care if it was a "right of passage", that floored me. I had a hand-me-down Newton that was USELESS because of the custom connector for the serial port, that was impossible to find by the time I got it.
I'm sitting here watching this on an iPad getting misty eyed... It feels like I'm telling one of my kids about their grandparents... Thanks Collin, for sharing this with us!
Honestly, I dunno if Colin will do more longer form stuff int he future, but I wouldn't mind Colins own adventures into looking into retro computer stuff, its always nice to see how people cover a topic (even one that I might know about) and also what they might find that I didn't know :) Anyways, great video buds! I
@@gmcnewlook The first Surface, and the Surface Pro, shipped years are Jobs' died. So he most certainly did not mocked the surface. He mocked the stylus, but if we extrapolate on that a little since he was no stranger to art and graphics tablets, I would venture he mocked the stylus because (to extend and paraphrase) "if you see a (user interface designed around and requiring) a stylus, they blew it." - like this penlite concept. You're using an on screen keyboard or handwriting recognition. It's not too dissimilar from Windows for Pen Computing from the 1990's as well. With iPhone (where the the stylus comment came from) you can actually type really fast, not just peck away at letters with a stylus. Same with iPad. iPad launched under Job's with a fixed desk oriented portrait style iPad Keyboard dock, nothing like Surface. Apple didn't ship Surface style magnetically attached iPad keyboards until many years after Jobs' death.
@@darwiniandudethe first Surface, i.e. the big ass projection-based tabletop computer, did ship way before Steve died, and he may very well have mocked it.
Excellent work Colin. Man it'd be nice if they came full circle, or did a 180 depending on your point of view, and allowed Mac OS on the iPad Pros. Gilley's point about having the tablet be the extension of the desktop with the full suite of software available has been something I've thought was common sense for years now and have been wishing Apple would do.
This is one of the finest documentaries on old tech out there. Thank you so much for finding the original guys who worked on it and getting us their stories!
I just want to let you know I love your videos! They are clear and concise, with absolutely no fluff. And the production quality is top notch. Whenever I have a new repair to do, or one I haven't done in a while I always go to your channel first for tutorials. And you have lots of great tutorials about repairs in general. Please keep up the good work!
Truly fantastic. I wish that Apple had stuck around in the edge of innovation space instead of sitting around and waiting for others to make the cool stuff for them.
A big, big part of Apple’s history told here. Some unsung heroes, some great products that never see the light of day… until, something like 20 years later, the creators of this incredibly advanced product can think « Hey, that’s my work ! It finally made it to the sunlight ! ». There’s a lot of human feelings through this video. A lot of love and hopes. That’s why we’re humans, and that’s why we always go beyond the limits.
Great video, and amazing job pulling all this hidden stuff out into view again! That WWDC demo makes me think of Doug Englebart's "Mother of all demos" 20+ years earlier - Laurie had a similar low-key, conversational presentation style as Englebart as well.
a actual good video on these devices! Like no other video came close to this even LGR. Its crazy how far tech has come now and where we are at because of these beginning foot steps. Developments like these def aint like how it used to be where everything was being done from scratch compared to today.
You have outdone yourself, Colin, with this incredible video! What an absolute gem of Apple Computer history (and such a sad story for PenLite). Thanks to everyone involved in creating this masterpiece. 🙂
Absolutely wonderful. Thank you for putting this together. The quality easily matches the best documentaries from the 90s that I grew up with. It was really cool to see more models and learn more of the history behind Apple's pen computing era.
That was awesome, Colin! Nice work! So cool that you were able to get in touch with the PenLite engineers and interview them. This presentation was great!
An absolutely amazing documentary made by Colin👍. This is the first ever in-depth revelation into a heart-felt creation (and cancelation)of a project far ahead of its time at Apple in the 90s.
This is excellent! More of this! Yes! Preserve this history now before it's lost. Personally, I wish that these geniuses would have had the support and the technology advances to bring their ideas to life at the time. Even now, their work seems astonishingly good. I think we're missing something.
Thank you so much for making this- really loved the interviews with the people who were there. So great to get the thoughtful story behind the scenes. Nice work- and it must have been a lot of work to make this video! Thank you.
Even though I don't like Apple much for a few reasons, it's not that often you could find those ancient hardwares which is a pleasant surprise especially if you actually like computer history like I do. And plus, reconfigurable computing is a thing now, especially for AI neural processing, naturally with even more computing horsepower compared to the early Macintosh Reconfigurable System cards, to the point water cooling or heatpipe heatsink is required to keep FPGA from cooking itself.
Above and beyond Colin, you've gone above and beyond! Love this. Lots of fantastic clips and references and things I didn't know about, which was unexpected. And very nicely put together. May the algorithm let this soar far and wide...
Was not expecting a full on documentary Colin, this was fantastic. Congratulations and thank you !! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Glad I saved it for my Saturday morning coffee ☕
Back in the days when they really cared about their work and product. Today's just about the shareholder value. Very nice video! Keep 'em coming. Ditched my usual lunch-break Star Trek episode for this...and I usually do not do that at all.
This is amazing! Thank-you for putting this together. And to think Steve walked in and sacked the Newton team... only to then release iPad in 2010. Ok - Newton and iPad are worlds apart, but I still have my MP2000...
I enjoy all your videos, but this one is the best I've seen so far. Loved the interviews with the engineers and that you let them tell so much of the story. Congratulations of publishing such a high quality documentary!
Colin! Thank you for this amazing production. You have a wonderful style that really recreates the magic I used to feel about technology. I always look forward to your videos, but this was truly unexpected.
It's unfortunate the fathers of this product ended up seeing it stillborn. A lot of emotion there. At the same time, a lot of those innovations did carry forward into other products.
Nice, a full blown device documentary. This is TV quality to be honest.
tv today ? no i think it's much better
Forget TV, you need to make money on TV to greenlit a documentary and hope that someone doesn't distort some facts to make it "more sensationalism."
UA-cam allows true enthusiasts to make genuine documentaries that cater to the enthusiasts and historians community first.
Better than TV tbh
Just watch this on tv. Not cable tv
¡Muchas gracias por el vídeo! Un trabajo excelente donde deja claro que había proyectos muy interesantes y avanzados en la época donde no estaba Jobs. / Thank you very much for the video! An excellent job that clearly shows there were very interesting and advanced projects during the time when Jobs was not there.
This was the first project I worked on at Apple for what was supposed to be a summer internship. It turned into a career. It was magical to be part of a team of so incredibly talented people. Still, we were all gutted when the project was canceled. It would have been a great device. I still have mine!
"It was a rite of passage at Apple - if you make your own product, you get to make your own connector" - thanks for making things a pain in the ass for decades
I though that 42 minutes would be too long. It felt too short actually. This is one of the best videos about tech history I've seem so far.
i agree, and i just came from the spiff brits video about longer form videos as well. sometime i feel that topics like this should get longer videos.
Same! I started watching and thought it was gonna be too long but before I knew it, it was ending.
@@Kafj302 I actually felt asleep watching spiff brits talking about the sleeping viewers.
Tbh I was halfway through the video and I thought it was coming to an end, so I was like "aww really?" but turns out I still had 20 minutes to go.
Wow. That was an amazing story, with amazing storytelling. As a product guy, I found this to be nothing short of moving. Congratulations on the release, and great job!
didnt expect to click on a 42 min documentary this morning but here we are. absolute peak content!
absolutely love that you got to talk to the engineers behind this, there's so many fascinating stories out there about projects that died on the vine and I love hearing them
This was the era of Apple I love the most. Modern Apple is just "iOS and friends", there doesn't seem to be this level of innovation there... but I love to be proven wrong.
What an incredible episode. Thank you so much for bringing this story back from the dead
We need more creators highlighting the great engineers that built the computing foundations that many of us take for granted
Crazy to think how many of these “ahead of their time” ideas were eventually added into Mac, iOS, and now Apple intelligence. Great video Colin!
35:07 wow, that’s one hell of a story. Imagine being 20 years ahead of iPad and flubbing the corpo demo. Good self reflection
Neural network handwriting recognition in the early 90s?? This was wayyy ahead of its time. They were geniuses!
neural networks have been around since before we had transistor based computers.
All this AI hype in the last decade is just that, hype.
It's not new. It not even useful in most cases.
It just happens that we have powerful enough computers that it no longer SEEMS quite as wasteful to make the toys with AI than it used to.
@@Prophes0r Autograd is new though
@@gasun1274 What is your point?
We have made very little progress on neural networks in half a century. It's hype.
GANs are interesting, and can actually be made now, but even those aren't "new".
LLMs literally don't do what people think they do. They are a whole different problem.
The bottom line is that for all this "AI" hype, it isn't really useful. Almost all of it is a toy to play with, not a tool to do a job.
We HAVE massively increased available processing power. That certainly makes it look like we are progressing.
In reality we are just obfuscating the hardware and electricity costs of these toys.
@@Prophes0rI think this is one of the most misconceptions about this whole thing. This is the kind of take that an average person with zero knowledge on the topic has. Just because a lot of the fundamentals aren't new doesn't mean the package isn't new. There has been a lot of sleepless nights working on this problem for the past few years (I know, I am in the field) that this statement suggesting that none of it is new and its just a toy lack a lot of maybe updated knowledge on the matter. A lot of the models power a lot of things behind the scenes and have been for a while. Example practical uses are identifying inappropriate content in videos, text, comments and images. I picked that example because this is one of those things thst you csn make some argument fhst it's not new fundamentally but a lot has changed to adapt to the new technological advancements we've made over time and new techniques to be able to do more with less power. It's a lot of behind the scenes improvements that eventually lead to the current state of things (and things have been dramatically improving since then due to competition)
@@AnesuC One of my hats from 2006-2018ish was Machine Learning research.
I'm well versed in the topic at both the graduate level and the personal level (Since we all know how things like this can consume hobby time as well.)
I never said there was zero use for this.
Image recognition is useful.
Upscaling is also useful.
I'm claiming that the VAST majority of "AI" (And BOY do I hate having to call it that...) is a toy.
LLMs are a toy. They are a glorified search engine in a pretty package, and ALL of their results are just a repackaging of their training material, which makes them theft in nearly all cases.
Diffusion based image generation is a toy. It is also theft, or near-theft at best. Even calling it "generation" is like calling a box full of books, a pair of scissors, and a glue stick a "Book generator".
"AI" is a grift.
This entire trillion dollar industry is built on false promises, smoke and mirrors, and intentionally misleading marketing.
The fact that major companies like Nvidia even broach the subject of General AI is SO laughable, that it indicates how little anyone with a voice in this game actually understands.
"AI" isn't useless. But, it isn't 3 trillion dollars and 0.1% of all electricity generation "useful".
I love seeing her do the same scroll Steve did for iPhone for the tablet, and get a applause in the same way.
Huh. This video is how I learned that QuickTime is one of the VERY FEW products that survived Steve's return and even sticks around to this day. It exists as the default video player in macOS and process for video playback in iOS and iPadOS even in the 2020's.
Quick time was so much more than that. It was a wrapper for video encoding. That was used on almost all platforms and almost all video software supporting it.
What I think you are talking about is the QuickTime Player app right?
The modern QuickTime app is related only in name to the 1990s product. It's now derived from the iPhone video player, not the old media engine. The QuickTime MOV file format has lasted a little better, being the basis of MP4, now.
Inkwell, the text recognition software from Newton, still survives to this day in macOS and, I suspect, in iPadOS and iOS.
@@Mainyehc sorry inkwell had been gone for almost five years and most likely replaced with same stuff used in ipadOS scribble.
From what I know iOS don’t have text recognition
@@MainyehcWhich started out from this project as Rosetta. The text recognition engine from Newton OS 1 was completely replaced in version 2.
I wasn't expecting that restoration video to lead into a documentary on the Ipad 0. Good job.
A trip down memory lane. I think I owned pretty much every device shown, with exception of the the PenLite. I was a huge Newton fan and user. Funny to look back at a time that I mostly forgot.
Nice, let me just put in a note of that: "Eat up Martha"
Egg freckles?
Was this in the video somewhere?
@@handsomerob1223 I don't think so
Happy Falker Satherhood!
@@handsomerob1223 No.
I watch hundreds of hours of UA-cam a week and have loved Apple my whole life and didn’t know any of this. Well done.
Hundreds of hours per week ?
@@doobybrother21 yes
@@UnknownName5050 then you must be Sherlock Holmes
@@doobybrother21 definitely between 85-140 hours lol.
i would wager that we didn't know any of this because we weren't supposed to know any of this.
Thoroughly enjoyed that - it's amazing how bone-headed C-suite execs can be, they had a killer product in their lap with years of legacy software available for it, ready to go, already starting to ship - they could have done another production run of say 5000 units and see how they sold, then decided instead which way to go...but no, they put everything into Newton...
This is an impressive piece of work. Having Tom Gilley, Steve Young and Tom Erickson explain what was going on was great.
Tears i think im growing a soft spot For technology
I was in college at this time interning at a local mom-and-pop Apple Store in Binghamton, NY. The owner kept talking about this device and when we'd receive inventory. But only the Newtons showed up. Amazing video. Thank you.
This video gave me feels
It took me 40 minutes to realize I watched part of the history of the device I‘m looking it on and use everyday. Thanks to all of you.
This is your most important work! Really nicely researched, restored and presented.
This is actually insane how the PenLite is basically an iPad before the iPad
And it even ran proper Mac OS, just with a few drivers and other software to fully utilise the pen
What's even crazier to me is that they had the "hover" gesture already in the 90s
It's a shame that it got cancelled, maybe it would've had some market for enterprise settings at tech companies for
some sort of a carriable device for employees, so they could jot down notes in a meeting, attach it to a dock and get
to use their notes while doing the work.
That is literally what we need on the m series iPads right now lol
Someone at Apple needs to look at the archives and have a huzzah moment with this idea lol
It's really more like the Microsoft Surface.
It was not iPad at all conceptually, but great on its own. Just too pricey. It would have been another Lisa.
BTW, technologically it was too early anyway. E.g. Jobs has wanted to do a touch tablet since the 1980s (!), but there was simply no way to do it right until circa 2010.
Watching this documentary on my M4 iPad Pro really makes me appreciate all those decades of ideas, talent, hardware and hard work that went into every little technological step that brought us into where we are now.
We need to make this video a world wide tv documentary Collin and the people who made it all need to be recognized by the world
Thanks for taking the time to put this together. This belongs on TV.
Too good for TV.
Videos like this are why you're one of my favorite channels on UA-cam. So much interesting information presented so well.
Long form, impeccably researched *and* with interviews from the engineers who actually worked on this?! Heck yeah. More of this please!
The drop test reminds me of how Peter Traynor would demonstrate how sturdy his guitar amps were by dropping them from the top of his shop into the concrete floor below. The valves would all shatter but the amp was still fully functional after you replaced them.
this was top notch tech journalism and a true historical treasure in video fornat. congrats!
What an amazing video! These designers and engineers were definitely ahead of their time, just insane creativity and problem solving skills. Thanks for showcasing these prototypes and their creators!
I'm so glad to see documentaries like this that include interviews with the original team of engineers.
Awesome story ! Thanks for having the guys who are the reason we have so much of this beloved tech on!
"If you made a computer you got to make your own connector" OMG. This is one of the most horrible aspects of Apple hardware over their entire life span. Custom connectors. I don't care if it was a "right of passage", that floored me. I had a hand-me-down Newton that was USELESS because of the custom connector for the serial port, that was impossible to find by the time I got it.
I didn't expect for the engineers to show up - that is really, really cool!
You have outdone yourself with this one! 😮 Incredibly good and worth a much broader audience! 👏
I'm sitting here watching this on an iPad getting misty eyed... It feels like I'm telling one of my kids about their grandparents... Thanks Collin, for sharing this with us!
Honestly, I dunno if Colin will do more longer form stuff int he future, but I wouldn't mind Colins own adventures into looking into retro computer stuff, its always nice to see how people cover a topic (even one that I might know about) and also what they might find that I didn't know :)
Anyways, great video buds! I
Excellent documentary. It hurts to see that even now Apple refuses to have a touchscreen on a notebook. It was all there in the 90’s.
I just find it funny jobs mocked the surface pro and yet they do similar things with the iPad with detachable keyboard cases 😂
@@gmcnewlook Jobs didn't come back to Apple until 1997 to be fair.
@@gmcnewlook The first Surface, and the Surface Pro, shipped years are Jobs' died. So he most certainly did not mocked the surface. He mocked the stylus, but if we extrapolate on that a little since he was no stranger to art and graphics tablets, I would venture he mocked the stylus because (to extend and paraphrase) "if you see a (user interface designed around and requiring) a stylus, they blew it." - like this penlite concept. You're using an on screen keyboard or handwriting recognition. It's not too dissimilar from Windows for Pen Computing from the 1990's as well. With iPhone (where the the stylus comment came from) you can actually type really fast, not just peck away at letters with a stylus. Same with iPad. iPad launched under Job's with a fixed desk oriented portrait style iPad Keyboard dock, nothing like Surface. Apple didn't ship Surface style magnetically attached iPad keyboards until many years after Jobs' death.
@@darwiniandude yeah I got him confused with cook I realized that afterwards
@@darwiniandudethe first Surface, i.e. the big ass projection-based tabletop computer, did ship way before Steve died, and he may very well have mocked it.
Excellent work Colin. Man it'd be nice if they came full circle, or did a 180 depending on your point of view, and allowed Mac OS on the iPad Pros. Gilley's point about having the tablet be the extension of the desktop with the full suite of software available has been something I've thought was common sense for years now and have been wishing Apple would do.
Absolutely fantastic video, Colin. I love your "normal" content, but this - this is a step above. Thanks!
Att had multi touch touch screen with stylus support in the early 90’s???? That was insanely ahead of its time
This is one of the finest documentaries on old tech out there. Thank you so much for finding the original guys who worked on it and getting us their stories!
All these features and functionality, almost made it to a wider audience more than 30 years ago.. Well done documentary, great stuff!
I would love to see more of these types of vids! Alongside repair vids of course.
Really love the long form interview style. It's always great to see the evolution of the industry to what we enjoy today.
This channels production is getting so sophisticated so quickly. Mind boggling. I take my hat off.
Thanks for this awesome and informative video! Thanks as well to those featured in this video for sharing their stories 😁
This is fantastic! Would love to see more computer history documentaries. 🍎
This is your best video. Ever. What an excellent documentary.
Amazing documentary Collin. You've really outdone yourself. This belongs on TV.
I just want to let you know I love your videos! They are clear and concise, with absolutely no fluff. And the production quality is top notch.
Whenever I have a new repair to do, or one I haven't done in a while I always go to your channel first for tutorials. And you have lots of great tutorials about repairs in general.
Please keep up the good work!
Wow Colin, here I am watching this on my iPad and seeing a history I had no idea existed. Thank you for bringing this to light!
The time when apple was innovative..... Totally was a golden era🥹
This is incredible. Ambitious and you totally pulled it off and honored the device and the people who made it. Bravo.
Excellent! I had nearly forgotten that this had existed. So cool you were able to find original people to talk to about it.
Truly fantastic. I wish that Apple had stuck around in the edge of innovation space instead of sitting around and waiting for others to make the cool stuff for them.
A big, big part of Apple’s history told here. Some unsung heroes, some great products that never see the light of day… until, something like 20 years later, the creators of this incredibly advanced product can think « Hey, that’s my work ! It finally made it to the sunlight ! ». There’s a lot of human feelings through this video. A lot of love and hopes. That’s why we’re humans, and that’s why we always go beyond the limits.
So cool to see the developer overlay with the handwriting recognition percentage!
Watching this on my Samsung galaxy s 24 ultra. it,s amazing to see how things have progressed over the years, what a great upload !
Great video, and amazing job pulling all this hidden stuff out into view again! That WWDC demo makes me think of Doug Englebart's "Mother of all demos" 20+ years earlier - Laurie had a similar low-key, conversational presentation style as Englebart as well.
a actual good video on these devices! Like no other video came close to this even LGR. Its crazy how far tech has come now and where we are at because of these beginning foot steps. Developments like these def aint like how it used to be where everything was being done from scratch compared to today.
Was not expecting a documentary level piece of work for this tablet, but I loved every minute. Thanks for all the work you put into your content.
Fantastic video. I've been a Mac junkie since the late 80s, but I have never heard of the PenLite. Thank you!
Even if this was not the video I was expecting, this is such a nice story with top notch production. Hats off!!!
You have outdone yourself, Colin, with this incredible video! What an absolute gem of Apple Computer history (and such a sad story for PenLite). Thanks to everyone involved in creating this masterpiece. 🙂
Absolutely wonderful. Thank you for putting this together. The quality easily matches the best documentaries from the 90s that I grew up with. It was really cool to see more models and learn more of the history behind Apple's pen computing era.
That was awesome, Colin! Nice work! So cool that you were able to get in touch with the PenLite engineers and interview them. This presentation was great!
Awesome video! Is super cool that you got some of the people who worked on it.
An incredible video, Colin, genuinely fascinating insight into the wild years of cutting-edge development and innovation at Apple.
Such an exciting time in tech. I miss those days.
Excellent, I was a developer of applications on the Newton, loved them.
This was awesome storytelling, thank you! I loved how you integrated the interviews from the designers! Bravo!
An absolutely amazing documentary made by Colin👍. This is the first ever in-depth revelation into a heart-felt creation (and cancelation)of a project far ahead of its time at Apple in the 90s.
Great job on this video, probably your best work to-date!
This is excellent! More of this! Yes! Preserve this history now before it's lost. Personally, I wish that these geniuses would have had the support and the technology advances to bring their ideas to life at the time. Even now, their work seems astonishingly good. I think we're missing something.
Nice to see some longer content from you!
Man this is cool. Apple history/scrapped projects are on a NeXT level
Wow, this was so good. I started the video thinking it would be a quick look at a gadget and was transfixed until the end. Amazing work!
I dig this longform format. Definitely keep the shorter ones too, but I could see this being nice now and then.
Wow, I really appreciate the amount of work that must have gone on researching and creating this video. Very much appreciated!
Thank you so much for making this- really loved the interviews with the people who were there. So great to get the thoughtful story behind the scenes. Nice work- and it must have been a lot of work to make this video! Thank you.
A superb documentation of an important time in the history of computing, thank you.
This is seriously interesting. A facet of Apple trivia that i had never heard about before...
Thank you for this amazing video. :)
Even though I don't like Apple much for a few reasons, it's not that often you could find those ancient hardwares which is a pleasant surprise especially if you actually like computer history like I do.
And plus, reconfigurable computing is a thing now, especially for AI neural processing, naturally with even more computing horsepower compared to the early Macintosh Reconfigurable System cards, to the point water cooling or heatpipe heatsink is required to keep FPGA from cooking itself.
I would absolutely have lost my mind if i would have gotten such a thing back in the 90s
I really like this video format, gives a better understanding of the machine shown.
Above and beyond Colin, you've gone above and beyond! Love this. Lots of fantastic clips and references and things I didn't know about, which was unexpected. And very nicely put together. May the algorithm let this soar far and wide...
Was not expecting a full on documentary Colin, this was fantastic. Congratulations and thank you !! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Glad I saved it for my Saturday morning coffee ☕
What an amazing episode. I rewound it several times and think I need to watch it again. Loved it. Thanks for the insane effort ❤
Back in the days when they really cared about their work and product. Today's just about the shareholder value. Very nice video! Keep 'em coming. Ditched my usual lunch-break Star Trek episode for this...and I usually do not do that at all.
Long time subscriber here. This is my favorite thing you have made so far, a story of human interaction with technology and the minds behind that
This might be my new favorite episode you've ever produced. Well done!
This is amazing! Thank-you for putting this together. And to think Steve walked in and sacked the Newton team... only to then release iPad in 2010. Ok - Newton and iPad are worlds apart, but I still have my MP2000...
I enjoy all your videos, but this one is the best I've seen so far. Loved the interviews with the engineers and that you let them tell so much of the story. Congratulations of publishing such a high quality documentary!
Colin! Thank you for this amazing production. You have a wonderful style that really recreates the magic I used to feel about technology. I always look forward to your videos, but this was truly unexpected.
It's unfortunate the fathers of this product ended up seeing it stillborn. A lot of emotion there.
At the same time, a lot of those innovations did carry forward into other products.
Wow, I am amazed at the production quality of this! I have been following for a couple years and you have outdone yourself!! Congratulations!!
Beautiful, just beautiful. Thank you for this amazing view into apple history. You are incredible 🎉🎉