Can we REPAIR Apple's FIRST EVER laptop?
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In a recent video I bought a huge pile of vintage Macintoshes, and while I was in California I was given another massive fascination of mine: The Macintosh Portable! Sadly, it needs some work before it can be fully working... so today I took the machine to a man who knows these things inside and out! Steve from Mac84 is going to help us get this Macintosh Portable back to perfect working order!
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My signature is one of those in the bottom case as I was the chief software engineer on the Portable. Among other responsibilities on the project, I wrote the ROM code, the Power Manager embedded micro code, and the code for the keyboard controller. As one of the primary team members I received (and still have) a clear plastic Portable.
Heads up, the first reply that’s trying to give you a gift is a scam. But that’s awesome! About the Mac portable of course.
@@Blindtechnician Yep. Didn't bite. Thanks.
@@vmhanlon nice, I reported the account just to be safe so hopefully that gets taken care of.
So interesting! Is there any way you could make a short video of the clear case portable?
@@jesper99 I could do that. Unfortunately it doesn't work, but I could at least show it off. It will be a few days before I can get to it.
Can we appreciate the absolute JAM of a beat the Macintosh Portable layed down the first time Luke tried to start it at 1:19 ?
My thoughts exactly.
What a banger
YES!!! Gonna sample it!
@@jonathanharvey2156 “the old Mac beat” 😂😂
@@charliesretrocomputing I’ll use that, thanks!
👋Thanks for giving me the opportunity to fix up this Mac! I'm so glad it's a happy Mac once again. I look forward to seeing what you do with it next! 👍
The man, the myth, the legend! Love your content as well, sir, thank you for the entertainment and education these past few years.
@Mac84 whats the trick to replace the batteries in the battery pack? Ive been reading that you cant run these computers without the battery back.
@@jaws10278 You can find a slim 6V SLA battery that will fit in the original pack, or 3D print a case. I personally use more modern 6V LiFePO4 batteries in mine.
Stop beatbox
I have an old Power Macintosh 8100 & Power Mac G4 from my dad that I might be trying to revive as I grew up with those machines. I might have to check out your content :D
Luke, I am so happy you are doing a video on the Mac Portable! I can't believe your original hard drive is working, as the Connor units in these actually fail quite frequently. I also have a Mac Portable, and I'm planning on converting it to flash storage with BlueSCSI. Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks to Steve for helping you out, Luke. I think the Mac Portable just might be the peak of the Snow White era of Apple design, even at about 16 pounds for a "laptop". It's a bit nuts how easy it was to disassemble, given the possible fragility of 30+ year old plastic.
Awesome Luke! I love that you are collaborating with people who tinker with old tech/vintage macs. I loved this video, its great to go on a journey with you in the time machine and see how older tech can sometimes still have life and (function?) Keep it up hardly anyone else is doing this. I wish everyone well!
so glad you found Steve's channel, he's one of the good guys :-)
watch the video where he has his dad on, it's well worth it
Steve is a miracle worker! He's repaired a board or two for me. Glad to have him as a friend!
The really amazing thing about this Portable is that they somehow fit all its innards into the PowerBook 100! (miniaturized of course)
Those were really great at the time. Very heavy to tote around but so were the few other Laptops around. I sold a few in the day for a cool $9K, which, for $6K - $7K you could get a DOS running desktop with a green or amber display and WordPerfect & Lotus. Let’s just say I worked with more Mac users then PC users.
That man is a big leaguer , that beautiful machine came alive!!! :) great collaboration Luke.
Another point - they used a PP9 9V battery as a clock/pram backup. If you removed the main lead acid battery it would try to start up from that PP9 battery - that's why you see the blinking screen at the start of this video...
I must be vintage to as I remember using one of these in 1990. We had one in the office in Paris and I had to lug it home on the metro when there was going to be a strike. It was amazing to be able to work on a computer at home and not have to join the 30km traffic jams caused by frequent metro strikes. It was definitely a luggable rather than a portable but a great piece of tech for the time.
What a brilliant machine, I have always loved these early "portables". I had an Amstrad PPC640 back in the day, hours and hours of fun even with it's non backlit monochrome LCD, wish I still had it.
Hmmm, SCSI, haven't heard that since I used my Apple Laserwriter 16/600 PS. I even had an extra paper 'whatzit' under the whole printer that allowed me to print a whole ream of stuff !!!
Best laser printer I've ever had.
Cheers Luke, good to go back to those great "Apple" days.
😉🙃🙂😊
You will need the backlight model, glad this one was recapped. When dealing with 90's apple, you must recap them before powering them on.
I've met Steve once, he's a really nice guy and great to talk about Macs with 🙂
Great video and love the new direction with the vintage mac's theme!
By the way, please use your normal mic in the studio. The Anker ones are okay, but there's a clear difference in quality and your normal one is much clearer.
I actually owned this back in the mid-nineties. It was quite fun for an overweight "portable" (I called it a "socket buster" as in it would bust your elbow socket if carried long enough).
Love the surge in vintage mac content
Maybe you can use a port on the back of the computer, and pass it to another computer that can be picked up by OBS. Kind of like a capture card.
Don’t you love it when these old Apple products hold up after all this time? Wow. Very good condition on this!
When I was an Apple employee in the late 80s, I used to have one of these. And they were tough. Big but tough.
The flip capable between track ball and keyboard is an amazing idea. As a “lefty” who has always used the mouse with the left hand, can REALLY appreciate the thought process… ❤
Nice job Steve! 😊
Steve was gone - fired; at NeXT. This was a Sculley project through and through.
The problem is that no one ever changed the trackpad position, but everyone had to pay for an extra connector on the keyboard module. Typical apple.
Short personal story. Many years ago I had a Mac Portable I was carrying across the country in my job. I got this idea to write a book and while flying from the UK to Florida, I spent that entire creating a detailed outline that later became my second book, “INSIDE MicroStation”. During that long trip home, the Mac Portable was running the entire time on it’s battery. When we landed I think it had about 10% left. Unfortunately, I sold that Mac way back when. Thirty some years later and more than 60,000 books sold (and recently retired) I need to find a repairable portable given how important it was to the success of my career. Hopefully I’ll get lucky on that.
everyone in this video comes across as so genuinely passionate, its really great to see.
I knew it, apple used to do nice devices, great job! I love to do that but I haven't got the gear to go that deep! well done mate! this is a dream place!!!
Great video! Also, I'm so proud of my boy Steve!
😍
What a hero you are Luke (and Steve of course). I hardly understood anything of what you did but it was hugely entertaining and nostalgic. If you do make the video you mentioned at the end, how about carrying out one of its minor involved tasks, eg writing a script or bulleted to do list, on the portable? Thank you!
You're absolutely killing it lately such a fantastic mix of content viariance I hope your metrics reflect that
This video was REALLY cool. I’m learning so much from these new vintage Mac videos! Keep going!
if you want to learn more about them i recommend you watch steve's channel or action retro
"No. No. No!" Don't eat the PCB! That was my favorite part.
Also, Steve's a wizard.
Love the vintage Mac content! Keep it up!
One of the modular features of these was the trackball can be replaced by a numeric keypad, and you then use a standard ADB external mouse with it.
Since it's an Apple Desktop Bus mac, you can also use an ADB keyboard / mouse with it, there were joysticks and a few other ADB peripherals made as well, such as graphics tablets and even the Teleport modem.
And you can also swap the position of the trackball/keypad to the left side and the keyboard to the right.
Wow man, this video really pushes the boundaries... Of ad length.
Fun video! Definitely hope to see more vintage Mac videos from you in the future. Just curious, how tall are you?
Great host system to have in your collection. Might think about just using it from time to time if for nothing else to use it to create a text document.
loved the "just be careful with the plastic" yea old brittle plastic is the actual Devil hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Back in the day when Apple made computers, not consumer disposables...
My first Mac portable came just over 10 years later - the Pismo... which I still feel is the ultimate Mac laptop. The keyboard easily popped off too, it had 2 bays you could hot swap things in, infra-red, wifi... But seeing this piece of history - and as you say - 30 years later and it's still running! Beautiful, and content I'll come back for. (And now wanted to go power up my Pismo and play around in Classic OS... :)
I think doing vintage Apple stuff is a natural progression, forhe can only do so much with Apple Silicone. Like when you can't switch parts, there's not much he can do besides benchmarking.
Turn it into a sleeper laptop, put an m1, screen and massive battery in it 😁
I was about to say that
The Apple IIc was the first portable/laptop. The Mac Portable wasn't any more of a laptop the IIC. Apple actually sold a small LCD for it. It was also capable of being powered using a car 12V outlet with an adapter.
It's funny to see these young folks so crazy about old tech. I owned an Apple iic when in high school. Wish I still had it to sell to one of these guys. I do have an Apple Hi-Fi to sell.
Agree, I consider the IIc to be the first portable mac. I had the IIe but had 2 friends in high school with the IIc.
I love Anker.. been the best cables and bricks ever. Solved all my issues.
That was awesome! Looking forward to the retrospective.
Steve seems like a good guy!
This was the tech back then… Now I’m sooooo excited about the tech in the future 😊😊😊
Hey Luke, love the video, but please don't accept sponsorships from Anker. They do not respect people's privacy and have (under their eufy brand) lied about their product's capabilities for their smart home cameras. I know these microphones likely do not share these issues but this is a company that needs to feel some repercussions from their actions.
Damn that’s wild, I didn’t know that. This kind of thing is pretty common for RUclips sponsorships. Everyone’s sponsored by raycon, but raycon is notoriously a scammy company who lies about their products. I wish more creators did sufficient research on what they’re promoting
Smart cameras I don't even trust to start with and is this the same company "AnkerWorks" as "Anker" that makes bluetooth speakers, cables, and power banks?
@@virgomunoz It’s not really their fault at all though. Like honestly the company YOU work for is probably terrible and has scandalous history. Literally every form of employment except for working for yourself or a small local business involves you in scummy behavior.
So I don’t really understand people virtue signaling against RUclipsrs trying to make rent, but then you go work at target or McDonald’s or a bank or something lol. Look the reality is customers should look out for ourselves and let the people make rent.
@@ghost-user559 how do i deflect 101
@@rartolak Except it’s literally not deflecting it’s reality? In fact you not acknowledging I’m completely right is deflecting lol.
Please, I’d love to hear it. What virtuous company do you work for?
Thats in really good condition!
One my favorite classic Macintosh models congrats!!
1:19 Nice remix 🔥
Remember seeing one "in the wild" back in the 80's in a Wendy's in Athens, GA. Thought "Wow, luggable" but too big. I later bought a Duo 210...
iFixit would problably give this a 10/10 for repairability.
According to the specs from Apple, that machine should be able to have a single chip with 8 MB of ram, and run most systems between 6.0.4 to 7.5.5!
That's makes it a surprisingly nifty machine.
Worth pointing out that whilst it does sport a SCSI interface the hard drive is a unique design for the Portable - it is a low power model. I wonder how that will effect any after market SCSI devices such as BlueSCSI? Will they be able to get enough power?
The hard drive is supplied with +12V and +5V, the BlueSCSI only needs the +5V. It runs without issue.
Can we fix it?
YES WE CAN!!!
Amazing video, but wow that mic is terrible.
I had no idea the hybrid board has a modern replacement
Dog Cow! I have to share... I was going through some of my old 90s era Mac stuff, and found a business card. It was for Mark "The Red" Harlan, who gave the dog-cow the name "Clarus". The reverse of the card had a hand-written "Enjoy!". I have no idea any more what I was meant to be enjoying... But I still have the card.
16:52 triggered my echo dot twice (yes I actually hit rewind) 🤣🤣
If you could score a copy of Microsoft Word, version 5.1, that would be an awesome word processor. That was the best version of Word that was ever created, and the last one before Microsoft gave priority to developing for DOS/windows.
Damn, that Macintosh got better beats than me.
its incredible how apple have designed things over the years, even when they use older parts which dont really need upgrading, i forget the part but it was audio based, because software does most the real work, But the machines themselves have become smaller and more faster/powerful than competitors machines which are colossal, & they could take a leaf out of macs book and condense systems far smaller, because theres no excuse no more, the tech to do it all exists, Even with a.i around now to help ehere due. On another note, those anker mics look impressive, especially with the camera adaption option.
Nice... It would be awesome if a mini itx pc hardware fit in a laptop chassis similarly to the apple laptop above
Wow, that mic quality is rough!
Hey Luke. I got a iMac from one of my friends. Tried to fix it and was wondering how much you’d charge to fix it. Love your videos btw! The mac I got is 08 imac
Ahh, the “Luggable” :) a 15 lb laptop!
I loved Douglas Adams’ take on the Luggable in the “Salmon of Doubt” posthumous book…
“I will not be making any jokes about the ‘portable’, Apple made enough on their own …damn, I said I wouldn’t say that…”
“I lugged a dead Mac Portable around for two weeks, and occasionally ate my sandwiches off it, as it was marginally lighter than carrying a table… damn, I did it again…”
Such a great watch! Go Luke!
A video featuring good man Steve and making it about a 1-bit Macintosh?? Hello, there.
I have two of these Luke!
Also lovably called the Luggable as I recall.
Who needs to hit the gym just bring this everywhere you go
Great video. An Apple IIe got me through college and law school. I wonder how much those cost and compared with this portable computer.
I’m also surprised that the plastic hasn’t yellowed that much.
Bring back laptops with mechanical, full-travel keyboards! Also, trackballs!
Do you have the numerical keypad?
I swear if we ever have a killer a.I. hopefully there is a old school Mac to take it out these things are mind 🤯ly advanced for there time in certain ways
Luke said 4:20 👍
Scarab of Ra!!! There's a website somewhere where you can play it... but it's just not the same...
i used them in 1986, for school project, printing on the laser printers.
very good system in the days, the best !
PC could not do postscript fonts on laser printers this good, DTP, WOW, the best !
Thank u 4 the great Videos! Best regards from germany / Bamberg
It's one of the only classic macs that doesn't yellow (except the space bar) because it doesn't have the fire retardant chemical in the plastic. Just imagine how good they'd look if they all didn't use that chemical!
If you think that’s non-portable then consider the IBM portable with the tiny built in screen. It was as large a suitcase. Happy days.
I wonder if another screen might work so easier for filming
Love those old Mac mechanical keyboards….
great video…very happy for you!👍🏻
wonder what was the reason to use a ceramic part, if it's other than heat dissipation
what if we get one of those ancient machines and just fill it with the best of modern components that we can fit inside to utilize all of that extra space to see what we can do with all of that space using modern tech
Once you get the unit going. Make a video as if it was brand new back when this was new. Perhaps film it with an vhs camcorder.
I see your man loves his chip with dipp.
We need a sound test of the keyboard, Luke
Nice Piece!!!
This more reparable than a new one. :)) Nice
Chris Frome on a penny-farthing LOL
I swear you just keep getting cooler stuff.
i can smell that computer from here bro.... love that 80s computer smell
pittfall harry games were all the rage when this and the 2e were common
👏 👏 👏 P,ease take a bow sir!
Haha... I totally used to have one of those circa '93. It was k3wl.
Now you should retro-bright the space key