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seriously guiding me on this journey is David Murray whom you might know as the 8bit guy on this very website if you're like me you've seen him restore yellowed and tired old technology back to their original Glory which is exactly what I'm hoping to do yeah I'm not real fond of working on those how many macintoshes have you have you fixed yourself of that particular style I don't know four or five not not a whole lot I kind of avoid them like a plague now just because every one that I've tried to work on has ended up being a nightmare not exactly confidence inspiring but there is a reason why I reached out to David how did you get into fixing these old computers and and what do you love about it well I don't always love it sometimes it can be extraordinarily frustrating I do like collecting and playing on the old computers it is very satisfying when you manage to fix one or restore one that was not previously working I have my work cut out for me is what you're saying I got a lot of my skills for repairing computers when I worked at a computer store for many many years and not only did I learn G gain a lot of experience in repairing but I also learned how to clean them and things that I would originally thought were impossible to get rid of like you know sticker residue and permanent marker and stuff like that I learned how to clean all that stuff off so that we could put this stuff back on the shelf and it would look presentable again to to the customer you know when my Mac broke I was like I think there's I know who to call so I appreciate you helping me out with this I'm both a bit intimidated but also inspired to do this so it's exciting to see how this goes all right here we go I'm so nervous I have to work around a CRT screen which apparently is Magic and full of lots of volts and I have to somehow remove the disc drive so one of the things I'm probably most worried about is opening it up because I'm a bit of a delicate soul and I don't want to break anything so what should I know about uh you know opening the computer up okay so the number one Challenge on an old compact Mac like that is you're going to need need what we call the Mac cracker it's a Torx driver it's a number T15 but it has to be really long I what about like getting in the plastic and like splitting it apart once you get the screws off it won't be a problem oh my gosh check this out this is really cool these original Mac they had everyone who worked on the project sign in the plastic casing old technology like this is delightfully mechanical but of course that means there are more parts and points where things can go wrong it also means I need to figure out how these old disc drives even work so we got this logic board on the bottom this is the motor for moving the head this is the motor for the eject mechanism oh well that went in do you think it was just like it was just so dirty that the whole reason I can't get discs in here is just cuz it just got groy and I just need to clean it it's possible okay so this one that one's working actually this one is not cuz if I push on this oh there we go okay this one's really stiff the other problem is the disc drives almost every one of them is broken there's a one particular gear in there that uh over time just with age it becomes brittle and breaks and so the disc drops don't work anymore yes it turns out that my drives don't even use those problematic gears they're the old 400k drives with a completely different eject mechanism but we did order the gears anyway just in case I found three options on eBay from the sell's Retro shopbox happy gesture and Steven lulls and they sell for between $ 12 and $15 for a three or 4 pack so which one works it's hard to say cuz I actually don't need to use these but I think the best looking one is from Steven LS which are the white ones on eBay everything needs to be regreased that's all there is it's all just stiff and goopy old and that's just what happens let's screw this back together and see if I have made a difference and fixed my own drive I'm not going to push it all the way in cuz then I need to I'll need to get it out I so tempted to though you have to how else are you going to know if it works great now it's stuck you did it it works you know I always have anxiety for like doing things like this because everything's new and I'm so afraid of doing something wrong but there is a you know a satisfaction to kind of figuring things out you kind of feel like a genius well these aren't going in nicely why look okay I'm going to have to take it apart anyway so I'm just going to put in just lightly lightly tightly it's time to try the disc and before I do me refurbishing this Macintosh reminds me of this video's sponsor new EG because you might be interested in knowing that the online tech Superstore known for its computer parts launched a brand new program where you can buy refurbished Apple products you won't find this old Macintosh there but you will find deals on iPhones iPads airpods Apple watches and MacBooks so you can find those rare Apple savings at the link below okay let's actually see if the dis drives work from like a writing and reading perspective and so that requires setting this thing up again so all the discs I actually have for this Mac aren't available um so we have to make discs and so I bought a set of these floppies from eBay and you can't just buy any floppy from the store they have to be an old style DD style floppy which um I hope works and then this is the floppy emu so what it does is it emulates an external floppy drive like this into the mac and it's one of the only ways you can get any data in and out of the Mac outside of using Mac formatted floppies so hopefully we can reformat these from dos floppies into Mac floppies and upload the software hopefully this just works now all I have to do is plug this in the back and this in here I should probably read the manual first shouldn't I it doesn't let's just turn it on and see what happens oh that's cool it lit up Fu bwow one zero binary I haven't seen binary since I was a kid that's not sure I didn't see any binary as a kid look it works okay I'm going to try and open up a version of the Macintosh operating system system 1.2 system 2 1.1 okay let's just open up system 1.1 since that's sort of like what the original was and see what happens of when we put a dis in we got image writer we got font mover we got a clipboard we got fonts look at that um what I want to do now is I want to see if I can format this disc in the Mac system and then maybe like put the software on look at I mean that was in its plastic wrap after how long it's so new it's in in French if I format this with the French operating system is it going to format in French let's try it it's working I can hear it making dis noises all right it's copying no progress bars even back in the Mac days so I guess when we were complaining about it on the iPad we are being unfair we're going to do one more disc I want two discs cuz then I can see how the other Drive works okay so I'm going to now turn the computer off we're going to unplug the floppy Emil we're going to plug this in this was causing me the most grief put this down here put this in here what it now can't read this disc anymore is it all the discs I made have have forked it doesn't like them oh yeah I should admit with the disc drives I have two disc drives and right now if I make a disc in one drive it won't work in the other and vice versa so I don't know what's going on there say a head alignment issue if it uh I've never seen that in a 3 and 1 half in Drive although I can't imagine why couldn't have that problem yeah oh that's not a good thing and I don't have any proper Macintosh discs at the moment so I can't verify which Drive is out of alignment so now I have to clean the computer which I actually think is going to be the most annoying part because it's tedious um and I'm not sure if I want to do a retro bright but as you can see it has yellowed somewhat actually quite a bit oh the dust bunnies one of the things that I get most anxiety about when like fixing or cleaning things is that sometimes I feel like when you fix something you make it worse cuz you're getting in there and messing about with stuff and you may have fixed one thing but you jostled something else that's what I'm worried about and now I will clean I think the biggest concern for you would be getting all that pencil and stuff off of there if you haven't tried wet baking soda yet I would recommend giving that a try just sprinkle baking soda all over it and then spray it with like water and then just scrub it with either like a scrub brush or just a folded paper towel or something like that and just really work uh work it in there I bet that we'll get that cleared up pretty good like all the like dirt that gets ingrained into the Rin of the plastic is like is out which is actually like really satisfying to see but if you want to make the plastic lighter you have to do what's retrobrite which is submerging it in a uh hydrogen peroxide solution out in the sun for multiple hours and the heat so that's a different step this is just everyday sort of like domestic dishes what about like in the in the great the little like kind of louvers and the greates and stuff like that just use like a a like a toothbrush or something like that to get in there real good and uh and then of course be prepared you're going to need to rinse it rinse it off afterwards but I found a number of occasions where baking soda like I thought something needed to be retr brighten and then after I did baking soda to it I kind of looked at it I'm like oh everywhere I've scrubbed it it's much brighter now I'm really pleased with how this turned out the baking soda for the win um also I don't think I need to retrobrite the whole computer just the keyboard cuz if you look the keyboard's a little bit yellower than the Mac if you compare the inside Plastics to the outside Plastics if they're the same color chances are it probably does not need to be retrored usually when they yellow it's only going to be on the outside if you can find a crate big enough to submerge the whole thing under liquid then I would go that route um you're far less likely to wind up with streaks or or marbling effect or anything like that hi are you retr bride expert yeah don't why so here's what happens when you retro prite okay it will go back to the original color and then 2 3 4 years down the road it will be twice as dark as that really yeah also you're better off by actually using a heated solution but what if it's out in the sun if the water's already warm well if it's out in the sun then it's going to heat up the hydrogen peroxide yeah that's what my plan was but you're saying this is a bad idea retr brighting in general I'm not a big fan of the problem is like it's not that bad this yellowing mhm and so like I'm only need to really retro like the only thing I need to retrade is this like space bar and this top and like I guess this a little bit otherwise it's fine all right but you're now making me scared well you're not going to destroy it but this is my beloved computer well that's my cute exit so I got the computer done look at it it's beautiful it looks very good congratulations it really does I wasn't expecting this transformation for years I've put off cleaning this Old Mac mainly because of how tedious it all seemed and it is tedious but seeing it right here right now I can tell you that it's certainly worth it I guess what would you say to people who might be in a similar situation who might have an old computer and maybe don't know you know if it's worth anything or if it's worth fixing what should they do well I guess a Google search would be one thing obviously I always recommend reaching out to um various social media groups that are focused on that particular computer it doesn't matter what kind it is whether it's a Tandy or an apple or a Commodore or whatever you find a community of people like that and just ask do you did you have any sort of heirlooms that you've restored over the years unfortunately um not really because everything that I had back then was essentially lost a time and I've reacquired similar machines but they're they're not the originals that I had do you wish you still had the originals or was it like it was perfectly fine just getting the you know taking advantage well yeah I have a friend who um I knew back at that time and he still has his original commodor 64 and I'm kind of jealous about that for a couple of reasons one just from the like you say the heirloom aspect of it but the other thing is he still has all of the discs with programs that he wrote uh or programs that he typed in for magazines and and things like that and I don't have any of that so I had written all these programs back in the'80s and they're all lost and so yeah I would love to be able to look through these old discs and look at you know programs I wrote when I was 6 Seven 8 years old I don't have any of that so that's that's what I really wish I had more than the actual computers themselves the content yeah no totally it's so hard to know like what you're going to want to keep when you're cleaning out out right so I'm really pleased with how this turned out it looks and feels far better than the day I got it a small old computer like this is perfect for putting on display just like you would with any other antique only this is better because you can turn it on use it and wow you're friends thank you for all your help I really appreciate it thanks for restoring this Mac Address back to its original Glory if you're big on decorating your home with antique computers give this video a like and if you only care about new computers well then I guess you can subscribe now I'm curious who of you has an old Relic like this that needs some TLC comment below what it is what needs to be done or if you've actually fixed it how it went"}