The Macintosh IIsi (2015) (Patreon)

The Macintosh IIsi is one of my favorite case designs, and so was chosen for my third video in the series. Views of my last two videos were rare, so some of the humour in this video was more for my entertainment. Examples: My friend, Rich, as the 'Technical User' and voice of the Scotty alert sound, Apple's cringe IIsi introduction and merging it with Single White Female, along with a reference to Jerry Seinfeld scolding the laughing audience on David Letterman. But the 'don't care' attitude I think benefited the video. After this video I started to get comments asking if I would be doing more. Also, endless inquiries for where I found Apple's IIsi launch video.

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I used this compact and capable colour Macintosh in a laboratory in the mid-90's. When the company dictated that their random mix of computers be rounded-up and destroyed as they rolled out new IBM desktops and laptops based on Windows 95.. it was lost. Just another sign that Apple's days were numbered. 

So, in 2005, I got one of my own from eBay:

In the following years I would get several more. That was handy with how the power supplies, hard drives and floppy drives tended to fail. But this first one was always the best, and the only one where the rear expansion panel was still intact.

I got more than a few from my friend at the University.  On one I found Eudora with the email box still intact "humourously" titled 'non-testicular mail sack'. Of course these units were used by students.

The final one I got in 2011, and it had the Portrait Display with the special cable along with an ImageWriter I.