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I'm very excited to show you this it's

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the original Macintosh the computer that paved the way for how we use computers

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over the last 40 years and I can't believe I have one now the last time I

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took it out it did all work which is pretty impressive for something this old

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the question now is does this family heirloom still work today well there's

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only one way to find out okay Moment of

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Truth okay it made the sound oh it needs

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a disc that's right these didn't have hard drive so the operating system

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software and all your files were stored on a floppy

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disc it's broken oh this is disappointing I was hoping to show you

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how this works but it's a little Haggard the disc drives need to fix and kids

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have drawn all over the case I hope that's

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it I see a nightmare in front of me is what I see what seriously guiding me on

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this journey is David Murray whom you might know as the 8bit guy on this very

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website if you're like me you've seen him restore yellowed and tired old

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technology back to their original Glory which is exactly what I'm hoping to do

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yeah I'm not real fond of working on those how many macintoshes have you have

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you fixed yourself of that particular style I don't know four or five not not

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a whole lot I kind of avoid them like a plague now just because every one that

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I've tried to work on has ended up being a nightmare not exactly confidence

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inspiring but there is a reason why I reached out to David how did you get

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into fixing these old computers and and what do you love about it well I don't

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always love it sometimes it can be extraordinarily

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frustrating I do like collecting and playing on the old computers it is very

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satisfying when you manage to fix one or restore one that was not previously

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working I have my work cut out for me is what you're saying I got a lot of my

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skills for repairing computers when I worked at a computer store for many many

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years and not only did I learn G gain a lot of experience in repairing but I

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also learned how to clean them and things that I would originally thought

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were impossible to get rid of like you know sticker residue and permanent

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marker and stuff like that I learned how to clean all that stuff off so that we

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could put this stuff back on the shelf and it would look presentable again to

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to the customer you know when my Mac broke I was like I think there's I know

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who to call so I appreciate you helping me out with this I'm both a bit

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intimidated but also inspired to do this so it's exciting to see how this goes

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all right here we go I'm so nervous I

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have to work around a CRT screen which apparently is Magic and full of lots of

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volts and I have to somehow remove the

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disc drive so one of the things I'm probably most worried about is opening

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it up because I'm a bit of a delicate soul and I don't want to break anything

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so what should I know about uh you know opening the computer up okay so the

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number one Challenge on an old compact Mac like that is you're going to need

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need what we call the Mac cracker it's a Torx driver it's a number T15 but it has

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to be really long I what about like getting in the plastic and like

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splitting it apart once you get the screws off it won't be a problem oh my

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gosh check this out this is really cool these original Mac they had everyone who

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worked on the project sign in the plastic casing old technology like this

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is delightfully mechanical but of course that means there are more parts and

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points where things can go wrong it also means I need to figure out how these old

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disc drives even work so we got this logic board on the bottom this is the

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motor for moving the head this is the motor for the eject

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mechanism oh well that went in do you think it was just like it was just so

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dirty that the whole reason I can't get discs in here is just cuz it just got

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groy and I just need to clean it it's possible okay so this one that one's

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working actually this one is not cuz if

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I push on this oh there we go okay this one's really stiff the other problem is

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the disc drives almost every one of them is broken there's a one particular gear

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in there that uh over time just with age

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it becomes brittle and breaks and so the disc drops don't work anymore yes it

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turns out that my drives don't even use those problematic gears they're the old

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400k drives with a completely different eject mechanism but we did order the

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gears anyway just in case I found three options on eBay from the sell's Retro

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shopbox happy gesture and Steven lulls

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and they sell for between $ 12 and $15 for a three or 4 pack so which one works

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it's hard to say cuz I actually don't need to use these but I think the best

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looking one is from Steven LS which are the white ones on eBay everything needs

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to be regreased that's all there is it's all just stiff and goopy old and that's

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just what happens let's screw this back together and see if I have made a

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difference and fixed my own drive I'm not going to push it all the way

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in cuz then I need to I'll need to get it out I so tempted to though you have

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to how else are you going to know if it works great now it's stuck you did it it

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works you know I always have anxiety for

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like doing things like this because everything's new and I'm so afraid of

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doing something wrong but there is a you know a

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satisfaction to kind of figuring things out you kind of feel like a

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genius well these aren't going in nicely

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why look okay I'm going to have to take it apart anyway so I'm just going to put

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in just lightly lightly tightly it's

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time to try the disc and before I do me refurbishing this Macintosh reminds me

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below okay let's actually see if the dis

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drives work from like a writing and reading perspective and so that requires

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setting this thing up again so all the

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discs I actually have for this Mac aren't available um so we have to make

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discs and so I bought a set of these floppies from eBay and you can't just

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buy any floppy from the store they have to be an old style DD style floppy which

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um I hope works and then this is the floppy emu so what it does is it

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emulates an external floppy drive like this into the mac and it's one of the

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only ways you can get any data in and

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out of the Mac outside of using Mac formatted floppies so hopefully we can

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reformat these from dos floppies into Mac floppies and upload the software

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hopefully this just works now all I have to do is plug this in the back and this

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in here I should probably read the manual first shouldn't I it doesn't let's just turn

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it on and see what happens oh that's cool it lit up Fu bwow

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one zero binary I haven't seen binary since I was a kid that's not sure I

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didn't see any binary as a kid

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look it works okay I'm going to try and

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open up a version of the Macintosh operating system system 1.2

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system 2 1.1 okay let's just open up system 1.1

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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

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we got font mover we got a clipboard we got fonts look at that um what I want to

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do now is I want to see if I can format this disc in the Mac system and then

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maybe like put the software on look at I

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mean that was in its plastic wrap after

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how long it's so new it's in in French

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if I format this with the French operating system is it going to format in French let's try

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it it's working I can hear it making dis

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noises all right it's copying no progress bars even back in the Mac days

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so I guess when we were complaining about it on the iPad we are being

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unfair we're going to do one more disc I want two discs cuz then I can see how

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the other Drive works okay so I'm going to now turn the computer off we're going

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to unplug the floppy Emil we're going to plug this in this was causing me the

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most grief put this down

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here put this in here what it now can't read this disc

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anymore is

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it all the discs I made have have forked

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it doesn't like them oh yeah I should admit with the disc drives I have two

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disc drives and right now if I make a disc in one drive it won't work in the

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other and vice versa so I don't know what's going on there say a head

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alignment issue if it uh I've never seen that in a 3 and 1 half in Drive although

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I can't imagine why couldn't have that problem yeah oh that's not a good thing

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and I don't have any proper Macintosh discs at the moment so I can't verify

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which Drive is out of

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alignment so now I have to clean the computer which I actually think is going

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to be the most annoying part because it's

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tedious um and I'm not sure if I want to

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do a retro bright but as you can see it

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has yellowed somewhat actually quite a bit oh the dust

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bunnies one of the things that I get most anxiety about when like fixing or

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cleaning things is that sometimes I feel like when you fix something you make it

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worse cuz you're getting in there and messing about with stuff and you may

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have fixed one thing but you jostled something else that's what I'm worried

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about and now I will clean I think the biggest concern

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for you would be getting all that pencil and stuff off of there if you haven't

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tried wet baking soda yet I would recommend giving that a try just

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sprinkle baking soda all over it and then spray it with like water and then

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just scrub it with either like a scrub brush or just a folded paper towel or

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something like that and just really work uh work it in there I bet that we'll get

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that cleared up pretty good like all the like dirt that gets

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ingrained into the Rin of the plastic is

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like is out which is actually like really satisfying to see but if you want

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to make the plastic lighter you have to do what's retrobrite which is submerging

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it in a uh hydrogen peroxide solution

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out in the sun for multiple hours and the heat so that's a different step this

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is just everyday sort of like domestic

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dishes what about like in the in the great the little like kind of louvers

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and the greates and stuff like that just use like a a like a toothbrush or

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something like that to get in there real good and uh and then of course be

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prepared you're going to need to rinse it rinse it off afterwards but I found a number of occasions where baking soda

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like I thought something needed to be retr brighten and then after I did

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baking soda to it I kind of looked at it I'm like oh everywhere I've scrubbed it it's much brighter

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now I'm really pleased with how this turned out the baking soda for the win

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um also I don't think I need to retrobrite the whole computer just the

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keyboard cuz if you look the keyboard's a little bit yellower than the Mac if

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you compare the inside Plastics to the outside Plastics if they're the same

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color chances are it probably does not need to be retrored usually when they

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yellow it's only going to be on the outside if you can find a crate big

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enough to submerge the whole thing under liquid then I would go that route um

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you're far less likely to wind up with streaks or or marbling effect or

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anything like that hi are you retr bride expert yeah

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don't why so here's what happens when you retro prite okay it will go back to the

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original color and then 2 3 4 years down the road it will be twice as dark as

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that really yeah also you're better off by actually using a heated solution but

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what if it's out in the sun if the water's already warm well if it's out in

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the sun then it's going to heat up the hydrogen peroxide yeah that's what my

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plan was but you're saying this is a bad idea retr brighting in general I'm not a

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big fan of the problem is like it's not that bad this yellowing mhm and so like

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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

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guess this a little bit otherwise it's fine all right but you're

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now making me scared well you're not going to destroy it but this is my

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beloved computer well that's my cute

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exit

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so I got the computer done look at it it's beautiful it looks very good

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congratulations it really does I wasn't expecting this transformation for years

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I've put off cleaning this Old Mac mainly because of how tedious it all

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seemed and it is tedious but seeing it

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right here right now I can tell you that it's certainly worth it I guess what

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would you say to people who might be in a similar situation who might have an old computer and maybe don't know you

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know if it's worth anything or if it's worth fixing what should they do well I

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guess a Google search would be one thing obviously I always recommend reaching

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out to um various social media groups

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that are focused on that particular computer it doesn't matter what kind it

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is whether it's a Tandy or an apple or a Commodore or whatever you find a

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community of people like that and just ask do you did you have any sort of

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heirlooms that you've restored over the years unfortunately um not really

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because everything that I had back then was essentially lost a time and I've

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reacquired similar machines but they're they're not the originals that I had do

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you wish you still had the originals or was it like it was perfectly fine just

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getting the you know taking advantage well yeah I have a friend who um I knew

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back at that time and he still has his original commodor 64 and I'm kind of

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jealous about that for a couple of reasons one just from the like you say

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the heirloom aspect of it but the other thing is he still has all of the discs

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with programs that he wrote uh or programs that he typed in for

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magazines and and things like that and I don't have any of that so I had written

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all these programs back in the'80s and they're all lost and so yeah I would

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love to be able to look through these old discs and look at you know programs

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I wrote when I was 6 Seven 8 years old I don't have any of that so that's that's

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what I really wish I had more than the actual computers themselves the content

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yeah no totally it's so hard to know like what you're going to want to keep

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when you're cleaning out out right so I'm really pleased with how this turned

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out it looks and feels far better than the day I got it a small old computer

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like this is perfect for putting on display just like you would with any

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other antique only this is better because you can turn it on use it and

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wow you're friends thank you for all your help I really appreciate it thanks

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for restoring this Mac Address back to its original Glory if you're big on

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decorating your home with antique computers give this video a like and if

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you only care about new computers well then I guess you can subscribe now I'm

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curious who of you has an old Relic like this that needs some TLC comment below

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what it is what needs to be done or if you've actually fixed it how it went