The long wait is over! I finally acquire a true collectable Mac with funds from Patreon. This video defines collectable models (in my opinion) and reveals the new model!
Feel free to give you...
2023-08-31 05:14:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I saw this posted on the Ontario classifieds today and thought I should share it.
A young local iMac G3 collector with presence on YouTube as TheMacintoshBuyer was looking for a strawberry iMac DV slot load, which was the only colour he hadn't owned before. I had bought one a co...
2023-08-05 02:14:57 +0000 UTC View PostAs you may have noticed in my 'behind the scenes', G5/Mac Pro towers make up the support structure for my display shelving. Unfortunately, doing a video on G5 towers means pulling many of them out....
2023-07-31 03:26:24 +0000 UTC View PostI think of writing a video script as a series of questions to be answered. It's rare that I have many answers at the outset, and even more rare that my presumptions about the Mac model are correct....
2023-07-24 00:58:39 +0000 UTC View PostSome suggested a little more 'behind the scenes', so here's a quick glimpse as I work on the next video.
2023-07-01 05:34:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I am releasing this video tonight, just to answer those who asked for my thoughts on Bungie's announcement of a new Marathon game and shining light on misinformation in certain 'for profit' YouTube...
2023-06-28 01:47:54 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I’m trying the modern FCPX on a modified 2010 Mac Pro that can run 10.14 "Mojave". However, the version of FCPX that is compatible with Mojave 10.14 is no longer for sale. In fact you need a ...
2023-05-28 17:10:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I noticed the views on my Marathon video really spiked around May 24th. Why? The rumours that surfaced while I was making the Marathon video came true. Bungie is bringing back the Marathon franchis...
2023-05-28 06:55:15 +0000 UTC View PostIn June 2019, I was actually getting cold feet about releasing this 10th video to a subscriber base of nearly 2,000 people. At 40 minutes running time, I was expecting a lot from the audience's pat...
2023-05-21 19:18:42 +0000 UTC View Post
When it became apparent I needed a iSight for my next video, I checked the online classifieds. There we...
2023-05-14 21:49:29 +0000 UTC View PostAfter watching me argue with Act Man in my Marathon video, viewer Khanh Tran Quang pointed me to a Mac video by a big tech YouTuber to get my impressions.
2023-04-30 00:03:52 +0000 UTC
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The first is a Macintosh IIsi. This one caught my interest because it had a 12" NuBus card installed. Connected via a genuine Apple NuBus Adapter. The machine is also Y2K compliant...
2023-04-29 04:06:33 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a wild coincidence that The Act Man released a video about "The Rise and Fall of Arena Shooters" the day I released my Marathon video . In that video he acknowledges Marathon and Unreal, but...
2023-04-28 04:00:57 +0000 UTC View PostAfter six months, the Power Macintosh 9500 video had amassed 3,500 views on YouTube, and now it was time to release a companion video, picking up where the 9500 left off. This was my 9th video, fea...
2023-04-18 05:08:18 +0000 UTC View PostI'm sure everyone wants to see the 70's fitness promotional film that I used in the 9500 video. Here it is!! To my knowledge, this is one of those rare videos that you can't find on YouTube, theref...
2023-04-17 03:55:58 +0000 UTC View PostMy 8th feature video in the series was inspired by getting at 9500/180MP during the previous summer for $75, including a Macintosh Color Display. The take apart led to some surprises as I attempted...
2023-04-08 16:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostTo celebrate 1,000 subscribers, I posted this video to show my work-around for making Potato Stroganoff Hamburger Helper, which has been completely discontinued in my area.
After realiz...
2023-04-07 16:45:17 +0000 UTC View PostI was quite happy with the responses to the Marathon video. After one week it's had almost as many views as Denfield Part 3, plus more comments & 'likes'. There was no angry backlash although s...
2023-04-07 03:12:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I got an interesting comment the other day on my Apple Network Server video from a retired Apple employee who worked on porting NetWare to the server. The project was cancelled late in the developm...
2023-02-14 06:27:42 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time in a couple months I was able to dedicate a whole day to the new video with the working title Denfield 4. It was great to be able to do that!
I think it's turning out...
2023-02-13 02:32:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I have been searching for this display since my early days of collecting. It's not what I expected to be a difficult one to find, and maybe you have had a different experience. Above, paired with t...
2023-02-13 01:37:04 +0000 UTC View PostA video about the Power Macintosh G4 was something I had to make at this point. Having purchased a new Power Mac G4 during the most interesting time in Apple's history gave me a lot of material for...
2023-01-30 00:13:30 +0000 UTC View PostI can't remember what inspired me to do a video about the Macintosh LC. It could be that it was the computer that changed me from a Mac user to Mac collector. This was a unit my wife bought me for ...
2023-01-25 02:27:05 +0000 UTC View PostIf you thought posting my old videos on Patreon was an attempt to buy time while I worked on the next video, you couldn't be more partially correct.
Here's the opening to my next video (Denfi...
2022-12-31 05:07:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 ...
2022-12-24 00:14:53 +0000 UTC View Post(This is the 2022 update.) The 6100/60AV was the first Mac that I bought myself and I brought it home Nov 21, 1994. Quite pricey at the time, but I didn't have many expenses in those days. I had ho...
2022-12-21 05:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Macintosh IIsi is one of my favorite case designs, and so was chosen for my third video in the series. Views of my last two videos were rare, so some of the humour in this video was more for my...
2022-12-17 23:21:22 +0000 UTC View PostOn August 23, 2014, I responded to an ad that had been up for awhile. It was for a Beige G3 desktop and a Quadra 800, both with monitors, $50.
2022-12-16 02:04:56 +0000 UTC
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With Patreon now offering Video Hosting services, it's a great opportunity to allow members to watch my past videos outside of YouTube and ad-free. YouTube still has that 'watch anywhere' advantage...
2022-12-15 06:51:44 +0000 UTC View Post