The Power Macintosh 6100 (2016) (Patreon)

(This is the 2022 update.) The 6100/60AV was the first Mac that I bought myself and I brought it home Nov 21, 1994. Quite pricey at the time, but I didn't have many expenses in those days. I had hoped to use it for video editing, but it wasn't powerful enough for that. But, it did bring me into the internet age and introduced me to Marathon, as well as being a great word processor and database. I used it until I bought my G4 tower on 2000. Video editing was no problem for that machine.

I did end up trading it for two Macintosh II's in the early 2000's and it took some effort to replace it. I tell the story of where I got the 6100's used for this video in an earlier post. And luckily, I never got rid of the monitor or any of the boxes and packaging from my original 6100. Having all that made this video worth making.

On October 21, 2015, Back to the Future returned to the theaters to mark the day that Doc Brown and Marty McFly arrived from 1985 in the sequel film. I had been on a family trip to California in 1989 and took the Universal Tour of the Back to the Future II set with our giant 8mm camcorder. While I shared the video on YouTube in mid-2014, the views spiked on October 21st. 

In addition, just before I posted the 6100 video, I got some good 'press' from The Mac Observer regarding my old Retrobright video. 

Between these random boosts and the really good response to the 6100 video, it propelled me past 100 subscribers and into the 200 range.