RETRO TECH: MACINTOSH




Everyone knows the 1984 Macintosh computer was a game changer for the tech industry. But why was this particular computer so iconic? I learn how Steve Jobs …

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  1. This video has been lurking in the corners of my YouTube app for months.. turns out it is a quite fun video!! Thanks 🙏 (minutes later)… BILL NYE!!! The science guy!!! Whuuuutttt!!!

  2. Showing my age here, but that was the first computer I ever used, try photoshop with out any "Command Z" to get you out of trouble, Fun?

  3. It was so ahead of its time. I remember using it for the first time at uni and was blown away by the word processor and the easy to use user interface, It was soo sexy. 🙂

  4. 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

  5. Now, now. Let's not forget about Digital Research, Inc. It took almost 20 years for Apple and Microsoft to write an OS that came even close to the power of GEOS and CP/M. Not only was DR's operating systems so advanced, but they were written by one man: Gary Kildall. He basically invented pre-emptive multitasking in the 1970's which Apple and Microsoft didn't understand till the late 1990's (if that).

  6. 12:34 – I have a computer museum in my home office – an Apple II, IBM PC, and original Macintosh (among others) lined up on the bookshelf behind me.

    My teenage kid will occasionally come in and just start typing away on the OG Macintosh keyboard. The Apple II doesn't interest him, the IBM PC with its super-clicky Model F doesn't do it. It's the Macintosh with that arrow-less keyboard. (Although my all-time favorite keyboard is on the Apple IIc.)

  7. This is probably the best original Mac video out there. Although I thought the Bill Nye section was annoying filler and wished that section of the show was used on someone more integral to the conception of the Mac like one of the original team members who engineered the Mac.

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