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Quietly restoring old tech while making calm videos about it. Mostly vintage Apple :)

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iiidiy, to random
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@gruber @viticci I enjoyed the latest The Talk Show, and have GOOD NEWS! Apple already made John's keyboard!

BAD NEWS: It's probably not Vision Pro compatible, and will definitely cost more than a Magic Keyboard, if you can even find one.

The 20th Anniversary Macintosh on a steel desk showing MacOS 9's desktop

iiidiy, to Vintage
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New video!

Love or hate it, the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh is a bold computer with a fascinating story.

To celebrate my 1st birthday, I take a deeper look my 1st video subject. I wrote a love-letter to the machine I couldn't afford for 25 years, and then attempt to (mostly) restore it.

Have a watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mabH-YB6kn4

iiidiy,
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@geerlingguy Still in diapers! (metaphorically)

janbeta, to apple
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Some 630 capacitor shenanigans going on in the Beta lab today. Main board got recapped although none of the caps had leaked. The power supply is not so fortunate, found 2 severely leaky smaller caps and some traces beginning to dissolve in the electrolyte. I think I caught it in time though, should totally be salvageable.

The removed old SMD electrolytic capacitors in a pile on my workbench.
Closeup of the power supply from the Mac. A pretty standard switch mode power supply by the looks of it. Nicely built with large heat sinks on the components that tend to get warm.
Fluoride of the power supply PCB after some cleaning. The solder mask is missing from some parts around where one of the capacitors has leaked. Some corrosion is visible on the through-hole plating it was connected to.

iiidiy,
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@janbeta Very excited for this one! The 630 has a special place in my heart :)

The logic board is super easy to get to, but is the power supply painful?

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Upgraded my filming aesthetic, thanks to @mac84tv ’s capture setup at

NanoRaptor, to random
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More from my redo-product-photography era.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Danamania&ilshowall=1

I'm sure I've gone through multiple times to give them the most permissive possible licenses, but either it doesn't stick or I screw up with the obtuse site.

Use the images how you like, just don't claim directly that you made them is as much a license as I use.

iiidiy,
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@NanoRaptor Thanks for taking good photos, and posting with reasonable licences! It's really appreciated.

I used your G3 photo last month for a video about the Studio Display, which was released at the same time. Yes, I actually credited you! Hopefully correctly ;)

It's no Steve Jobs event, but the brief appearance is at 25 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3PraXQ8XaA

NanoRaptor, to random
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Slightly belated time to post this but here's a version of one of the original Mac 128k brochures cleaned, restored, made ready for print to have your own crisp clear copy laying about.

I thought I'd uploaded this a year ago but apparently these things happen inside my head but not out, sometimes.

https://archive.org/details/apple-macintosh-128k-1984-brochure-8x-11in/

iiidiy,
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@NanoRaptor You even did the bleeds & crops!! A++

iiidiy, to archive
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Very long-shot request here... but does anyone have an original VHS rip of the Seybold New York keynote by Steve Jobs? The MP4 available on archive.org has some nightmarish codec issues, and the only version on YT is 144p.

Even if it's not a first-generation rip, I'm sure we can do better than this 😮

Sorry for all the hashtags here, trying to get a little exposure on this.

Thanks!

iiidiy,
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Thanks to everyone boosting this! Of course, I forgot to add the YEAR... Whoops! This is the keynote from Seybold New York 1998. Specifically, March 17th 1998.

Here's the Archive.org link: https://archive.org/details/1998-03-17-seybold-new-york-keynote

janbeta, to random
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So basically the 8-Bit Guy is worried about being able to live an "upper middle class" life, opening an arcade with around 90 cabinets he bought, putting his name on a new retro style system that was mostly community driven in the end, releasing his own games to a massively broad audience unheard of elsewhere in the retro community and sometimes only getting 200000 views on a YouTube video in the first couple of days. I’m usually not the person to rant about things like that but: Sorry, LOL. 💸

iiidiy,
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@janbeta Yeah, I certainly have thoughts on this one... You don't know me, so apologies if this is coming in hot :)

First, I think he should be taken at face value when he says plainly "I'm not complaining, just stating facts" (paraphrased). I suspect he deals with a lot of mis-read verbal social cues... Once I viewed the video through the lens of "here are the numbers, why the numbers are down, and how I'm adapting" it made more sense. I believe he was trying to be open about a content shift

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@janbeta Second, people very quickly acclimatize to their level of income / wealth / success and (on the whole) tend to want more. That's not everyone, of course, but it is a common theme.

So while it's absolutely WILD to hear multi-hundreds-of-thousands-views as disappointing... things are all relative. Not just to others on the platform, but also to your past performance, and it's a moving target :)

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@janbeta His reasons for lower numbers though... I believe that's what he THINKS, but it's where it goes off the rails a bit.

As you said, the main reason is: he cut the number of videos DRAMATICALLY. That's a smaller potential view count in finite terms, but it's ALSO well known that the YT system favours frequent posters.

Pointing to smaller creators is a false zero-sum way of looking at things. Building interest around a video genre helps to draw people in and grow the overall audience

iiidiy,
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@janbeta Like, that zero-sum way of thinking works at the platform scale to some extent (Disney v. Netflix v. YouTube)... but at the individual program or channel level, it falls apart.

If you like murder mysteries, you probably watch more than one crime show, right? You probably want to watch many different shows within the genre, all with a different take or twist on the idea. And the different twists might open of the genre to different audiences

iiidiy,
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@janbeta He ignored the CPM metric as well. He's comparing peak pandemic viewership at a time when advertisers were still shifting spending from TV to streaming... to a time now when ad spending is in decline and people are watching less.

He did mention the pandemic thing, but I really think THAT and the lower video output are his actual problems. Easy for me to "backseat drive" though :)

iiidiy,
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@janbeta I don't want my posts to seem like I'm defending him. I commented on the video and wished him well on the arcade & docs, but also didn't know about some of the shady stuff I'm seeing in this thread.

I guess my thesis here is: people are flawed, and the world is complicated. Hahaha Thanks for entertaining my rant :)

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@janbeta On an even lower-lower-level, I only started making videos this past March. I took the summer off to focus on work and some pressing commitments. It completely killed any small momentum I had built.

For me, it's a fun hobby, so there are no stakes. I'm sure it's completely different when your mortgage depends on AdSense and Patreon though.

iiidiy,
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@janbeta OK, so we're a bit deep in the weeds here, but I wanted to take the opportunity to say: THANK YOU!

I didn't know that about you, so I'm glad that you've found a balance!

For what it's worth, I came super late to this YT party, so I found David, Adrian Black, and you all around the same time. You played a critical role in teaching me how to do things, and giving me the confidence to try fixing computers that I honestly thought were trash previously.

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iiidiy,
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@janbeta I love your grounded, chill presentation style, and enjoy following your interests from computers into video games and vintage audio too (which I happen to share.

So, I wanted to extend a heartfelt thank-you for everything that you do. Knowing that the rollercoaster ride affects your main income makes me a little more worried for you :) But I super appreciate you sharing your interest and knowledge with us.

Just wanted to gush a little while I had your attention :) Thanks!

iiidiy, to retrocomputing
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New video is out! I try to restore a Macintosh Classic that has been sitting on a smoky shelf for decades! :)

Of course, mistakes were made...

https://youtu.be/lb-LA5urgt0?si=Vhl-7KapHycBEwDZ

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Apple Mice. 🐁

iiidiy,
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@BasicAppleGuy "One of these things is not like the other" 😬

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