The Macintosh 512K (2016) (Patreon)

The 5th video of the series stepped way back to 1984, way before I was involved with Macintosh. This video was initiated by getting a 512K (upgraded) machine from Goodwill earlier that year. Now I already had a 512K machine that I got back in 2010. A complete system in the box, no yellowing, set of 6 disks in the accessories box - $60 from an online classified. And it wasn't that I was quick on the trigger. It had been posted for months when I finally decided to buy it. Times have changed.

It was an upgraded 128K, so not an official 512K. The box showed it had been originally purchased in Saudi Arabia and the keyboard caps were arabic. 

I also had an actual 512K that I bought for $10 plus $70 shipping on eBay even further back, which is where I got the first gen Kensington Turbo Mouse. 

The video was an amalgamation of these three machines, but I focused on the Goodwill machine because it had come with information about the deceased owner (Joseph Samuels), who was a big Macintosh fan from Day 1. Making this a tribute video to him was something viewers really liked.

The opening got the attention of Alexander Brandon, music composer for the Unreal games. He immediately recognized the music from Jim Butterfield's Commodore 64 training video.

This video let me talk about the early Macintosh software and games, as well as the history of the Macintosh operating system up until System 6. It also let me mention 'BJ and The Bear'.

It was followed by an Appendix video, describing how I got something off Macintosh Garden onto a Macintosh 512K (mostly for my own reference, really). And most recently, a video of me getting Joseph's machine working.