Microsoft already got the opportunity to feel old while watching young people
test drive their 90s software and guess what
now it's Apple's turn don't you love that sound come along as we take another
trip back in time and see if our diverse
User Group here at Linus Media Group both Windows heads and Mac heads alike
can wrap their heads around
um some of Apple's darker year decisions
let's see if you can wrap your head around this Segway to our sponsor cable
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a pretty fast boot process Emily got this Macintosh lc475 from Brian the
electrician a few years ago and the eagle-eyed among you might have noticed
that it is the same Mac that we used for our Photoshop VFX challenge video
nothing has changed about the hardware here but we should probably quickly go
over it just you know for historical context powering this retro Workhorse is
a 25 megahertz Motorola processor four
megabytes of onboard RAM with a 16 Meg
stick installed and a whopping 512 kilobytes of video
memory in summary Workhorse yes Powerhouse not so much but that was by
Design This pizza box lineup was the
first Macintosh lineup to be sold near a thousand US Dollars and Savvy users
could upgrade the CPU the memory and vram and even overclock them making
these great entry-level machines or at
least it was when it was first released for today we're gonna fast forward to
1996 which is significant for a number of reasons one it was the end of this
machine's commercial life and the year the final update to system 7.5 was
released so this is it this is as mature as this thing ever got number two the
computer world was changing around it in a big way DVDs hadn't really gone
mainstream yet but multimedia was already the next big thing with
Quicktime and Real Player leading the charge thanks of course to this
newfangled thing called the internet that was starting to really take off
thankfully System 7 boasted robust new
features like multitasking as standard built-in TCP IP support and true type
fonts so let's see how our Intrepid youngsters
get along in this Brave New World
wow look at this beauty hi I'm Ariana
hey I'm Arthur I'm the social media manager here at LMG hi I'm Emily I'm one
of our video editors here hello my name is Sammy uh I'm a PC guy uh how good am
I with PCS not really the oldest Mac
that I used was the blueberry Max at my
elementary school when I was like whatever six or seven years old I have
been a PC user basically all my life until a couple of years ago when it
comes to Max I've dibbled and dabbled here from time to time but I'm usually a
PC user it was only Windows in my house a little worried about this one it's not
that I'm So Young I've never seen this it's that I'm so barely ever used a Mac
that I've never seen this I already was just sitting here playing with it trying
to figure out why I keep clicking this and the menu goes away
gotta hold it down hit me with my first challenge your first task is to try out
text to speech that was Apple's killer app for the original Macintosh why is it
so hard to find stuff on this it is on the screen right now no way I don't I
think I'm being pranked I doubt something oops okay holy crap you
couldn't have come up with something easy okay no no no no no no no no no no
no no no no no no no I'm gonna do it
okay well the only thing that I would think is related is simple text text to
speech what's going on in here see this whoa whoa I haven't seen one of
these since elementary school I think you're dating crazy I remember I think
we had one of these in my library are you scared to like destroy the shoot or
something should I just like [ __ ] off okay always all right recent
applications Simple Text would that be it oh come on
did I cheat a little there I feel like I did that was a bit of a cheat but it's
okay don't worry about it we'll play with it how do I make the computer yes
yes yes help speak all hi I got it
that's amazing okay wait let me switch it to bad news I want to hear what bad
news sounds like hell
yeah
now I want you to change the desktop
background Dickies look at him he's so controlling
I can do this for sure I'm pretty sure I learned some stuff before control panels
yeah yeah yeah desktop patterns let's go
uh wait what
sure whatever there done done record
time okay David pick a number between
174 9 okay well
it's ugly the Bears
yay it's terrifying you did it it's
nightmare bears like these rocks that
was hard that would have been cool one thing you might not have noticed is
that when you close simple text you didn't actually close it
where would you go to find it how would you switch apps where the heck
is that if it was a PC I would do alt
tab but that is not working I figured it out
already you you kind of did yes God although you were told that by the help
so that's again no no I found this I
found the top right thing yeah because every time I've hit a button I see it
like zoom into that one corner so I figure there's something here
I'll quit follow the quit write a
document with formatting okay
um okay so everything seems to be under this Apple icon right here what's the
Mac equivalent award well that's not what I was expecting
okay never mind I should style this though oh no oh oh
scrapbook what that sounds fun this is just wow
good for repository oh well now
to write good you first must take some
English classes it's not Adobe Acrobat that's for PDFs
right create a new document I am going to win
this challenge maybe you've taken some okay we got it
and your high school slash elements
Elementary School everything's pretty recognizable it's
cool to see how word processing hasn't really changed over the years okay I'll
give you a hint this isn't working
no it's doing it look at you Mr okay how do we get the we
need to yeah and then we need to get the picture in
oh my God you're trying too far yeah I realize
I'm saying quit simple text oh
try out kid picks oh yes the sounds of
kid picks take me back you're gonna want
to turn that down a bit no are you sure no no
you're going to do you're not even the first person to do
that today wait am I not oh am I not original this is my nft
wow I'm really good at making art
the tree oh it
it drops a whole tree wherever you click
it was such a noisy app and it was wonderful it was just this din in the
computer lab David do you want to watch Fishbowl or ghost ghost baby ghost
okay this is getting quite abstract now yes
the Mac Address Loco yes I gotta add a dinosaur there we go wow games let's go
oh incredible machine wow we have some options here Duke Nukem
3D jigsaw puzzle does that count
I guess where are you going oh is it
everybody does that okay now how do you play Holy I can
barely see anything the resolution is like non-existent almost okay can I can
I be honest I've actually never played Doom in my life really yeah so this is
my very first time ever how do I shoot
oh wow that's so pretty what is this is
what did I miss out on all my life this little jump
huh can I jump oh
oh no he scratched me oh you gotta watch
out for those I died you died because
this tiny window is driving me nuts here's some cheese
and a mouse oh there's still no floor all right
we're going through every key oh God wait where my gun go oh
kills I'm a gamer you know I don't think
I've ever seen anybody legitimately die no wait really E1 M1
no no this is the first time for everything
how about we browse the internet okay let's do that well that's gonna be a
safari obviously oh wait hurry up that's Cape what did you use to
browse the internet no you're going back there again you can help it is it in here somewhere
okay this this came up before I was born so
Escape Navigator welcome to the internet
of 1996. this is really exciting 96 this
doesn't exist no lttstore.com
what did we make this what is this is that Hillary Duff
what am I looking at oh
wow oh I was so jealous of people who had that phone no you can't do that I
have to enter a whole URL HTTP colon
okay wow wow
this is ugly what a great web design oh my goodness
where do we go what should we do go to behind the gym all right
oh one Triple Eight NCIX 888 right there
baby thousand dollars will get you 32 Megs of
RAM well how was your experience with the old Mac would you like to go back to
it it's hard to say that I would like to
grow up with it because obviously my experience with
um computers was a lot smoother you were able to do a little bit more I feel like
at the end I kind of got the hang of it a little bit more would you want to use
a Mac like this no I still would not want to
all right that was chaotic thank you I
hope it works out thank you for yourself oh no problem the fun part about this is
that I have it set up to automatically proxy through the internet archive ah so
everything is as close to 1996 as it could be I see uh there's another
browser that is not set up to do that icab which you can try at ttstore.com I
don't know about that okay too old to support https notice it's getting old
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