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I am very grateful for all the wonderful donations viewers send in to the Digital Basement. Sometimes, I get one that really takes me off guard. This was such a case due to the fact this computer really holds a special place in my heart.
In this video, I unbox the machine, give it a once over, do some some exterior cleaning, power supply maintenance and then see if it's working. Let's get right to it!
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@Themanfromglad 3 года назад

Hey Adrian, great[est] video for me, being your brother and having shared that very APPLE ][+ during those early days of computing! I must say I was touched watching this video! It really brought me back, just seeing you pop open that Apple ][ top and pulling cards! We both started our Information Technology careers because of the use of these early computers and that proves one thing loud and clear: our parents knew, that putting computers in the hands of young kids was a positive thing for our future. Remember just how expensive (relatively speaking) computers were at the start in the 70’s and early 80’s and for many families it was a stretch. Thank you Dad and mom as I know you will read this comment, it was the right thing to do for us back then, look at us now! I love that Adrian is now the digital custodian of these amazing first steps of information technology. Also Adrian, about the yellow stains, I know what that is. It’s a smoker that was using that computer for years. In my PC hardware days we saw a lot of this type of discolouration, it’s just a smoker’s machine. Use a heavier solvent if you want to go back to the original colour. Thanks again for this video, Adrian, it was awesome to watch! eBXo

@michaelburns8073 3 года назад

I was too very lucky to have a Dad that worked at 'a large telephone research facility'. They had a group of guys that would hack and build their own Apple ]['s from scratch, and so my Dad got involved with them and we 'built' ours. I still have it. I'll mention more about it in a separate comment below, but just wanted to say yes, I too started my career in this way as well. I was programming 6502 assembler in High School, which I was able to then breeze through the Assembly Language class in college. I ended up getting a BS and MS in Computer Science, and have been working as a Software Developer ever since. It's also a reason why I work with kids and STEM projects in my local schools and community. When their faces light up because their program or their little robot starts working, it transports me back to the fun times I had when I was their age. One other thing you are right on as well. It was not cheap back then. I'm not sure what we spent on the A2+, but when I went to grad school, my dad forked out 3000 dollars for a fully-tricked out Gateway PC at the time. Because of that, when my Dad needs a new machine or any kind of technical support, it is provided by me, no cost. He always asks me how much the stuff costs, and I tell him don't worry about the cost. That is my thanks to him.

@waltersobchak7275 3 года назад

Sounds like you had a great upbringing and some awesome parents. I bet they are proud.

@macfixer01 3 года назад

Smoking was one source of the yellowing, another I’ve seen was sunlight exposure if the computer was sitting for years on a desk adjacent to a window. Another thing I forgot to mention in my other comment was that the primary reason for not putting the monitor on top of the drives was because some monitors had enough RFI to cause I/O errors or not allow the drives to boot or read at all.

@akkudakkupl 3 года назад

@@macfixer01 I don't see how EMI is going to destroy a floppy though the metal casing of the drive. Unless its not properly grounded.

@macfixer01 3 года назад

I never said having the monitor on top of the drives destroyed any diskettes. It just caused temporary read errors (I/O errors) sometimes, which would go away if you moved the monitor further away or off to the side. Customers having problems didn’t want to hear that since Apple always showed the monitor on top of the drives in their ads, although they eventually did start recommending against it. The drives originally had no shielding and had no ground connection to the cover, or to the metal lower chassis of the drive either. Some brands and models of monitors didn’t cause any problem, others did. Also remember many folks were using small TV’s for a display on the Apple ][, if they didn’t have an 80 column card and were likely playing games mostly anyway. Actually the 5.25 inch floppy’s were notoriously hard to destroy though except through physical damage or exposure to an actual degaussing coil or bulk tape eraser.

@BertGrink 3 года назад

I think Stewart deserves a big round of applause; not only was his packaging technique one of the best I've ever seen, but the tone of his letter was very humorous. However, I'd also like to mention how awesome I think Adrian's father was, without whose encouragement of young Adrian we might not have had this exceptionally great youtube channel.

@parrottm76262 3 года назад

Stewart is the hero of this video, no doubt. I'm floored at his attention to detail.

@TooLazyToFail 3 года назад

Stewart is the hero we need right now.

@zmonchamp 3 года назад

Adrian almost crying was oddly emotional and touching.

@stephenlord1539 3 года назад

Dr Dr the guy loves his job/hobby

@BertGrink 3 года назад

The fact that Adrian shows his feelings so openly is one of the things I love most about this channel.

@performa9523 3 года назад

In this awful year, it's awesome to see anyone that happy, let alone someone as awesome as Adrian!

@electronicengineer 3 года назад

Just further proof of how genuine and honest Adrian is. This man's character is what finds me always checking my subscriptions list for a dot next to "Adrian's Digital Basement", in the hopes that Adrian has posted another new video for us. This guy is the real deal and at the risk of sounding like a broken record, is what keeps me coming back for more. Thank You Adrian! Fred

@anonytube1679 3 года назад

@@electronicengineer Absolutely, that's why I watch Adrian's digital basement. What a genuine, honest and modest man. Compare that to the 8bit guy: "Nah, don't send me all this crap, I don't have enough space, I don't have enough time. Why should I say thank you to people who spend a lot of time and effort to send me stuff for free? Too bad that I have to make these damn RU-vid videos and deal with these annoying watchers. It would be so much better if RU-vid just gave me the money without all the nasty work. And oh, I got a super rare computer. Let's just randomly put in paperclips at any of the connectors. And while I am at it, let's dremel into the case. Whatever, I don't know what I am doing, anyway."

@markdjdeenix6846 3 года назад

If there’s an yearly packaging award!.steward has wone

@jmpattillo 3 года назад

Your father did a great job supporting your interests and the development of your passions.

@domramsey 3 года назад

Admit it, you were secretly hoping it wouldn't work just so you'd get to spend more time working on it...

@adriansdigitalbasement 3 года назад

Heh it is half the fun!

@BlackEpyon 3 года назад

I love to look out for the "for parts/repair" listings on eBay. Often it's something very simple, like blown RIFA or tantalums. In the case of the Tandy 1100FD I picked up earlier in the year, it needed a power block (just had to look through the thrift stores to fine one that would match specs), and a new belt for the floppy drive. The VIC-20 I picked up just had a loose fuse holder on the 9VAC rail which was causing intermittent operation of the tape deck. If you've got the patience and the knowhow to repair them, it's usually cheaper this way than buying a known working unit. I've got an XT clone on the way that, from the pictures and description, needs some tantalums replaced, and then a good cleaning. I'll have to wait till it arrives to find out if the rest of it works, but it's got an MFM hard drive, so fingers crossed the drive was parked!

@henrymach 3 года назад

This was Steve Wozniak's Apple. Open and serviceable and expansible

@morgansinclair6318 3 года назад

Woz was a hacker, a bodger and a tinkerer. His machines reflected that mentality.

@Calphool222 3 года назад

@@morgansinclair6318 is, not was. He's still with us, and he still tinkers!

@morgansinclair6318 3 года назад

@@Calphool222 Good to know that Woz isn't was.

@absurdengineering 3 года назад

Reading between the lines: Apple could make the iPhone “open and serviceable and expansible”. It’d fit snugly in a VCR tape box and weigh way more than a VCR tape did. I hope you got big sturdy pockets to fit one in, and to pay for all that extra material and shipping and processing costs - big things aren’t cheaper at all! Small or open. Pick one. All the connectors and shields so that your fingers won’t shear off components small enough that they get hard to see without glasses and so on: it takes space and weight. I am totally sure that Apple could make such a phone and nobody would buy it. I am all for open and expansible stuff. I want my phone to be small, light and practical. You can attach all your nerdy peripherals to it via lightning to USB cable and an Ethernet adapter. Your own peripheral can provide an Ethernet USB function and be totally compatible with an iPhone. Your own app can talk to it no problem. So as far as expansion goes, it already allows you to add your own peripherals - whatever you wish for. And to easily code for them. What else would one want?

@Tigereye2k6 3 года назад

Kuba Ober Well we talk here about computers and not phones. The computers that apple built today are not really fixable at all and apple does everything they can that they are not fixable. I recommend you the youtube channel of louis rossmann, he repairs macbooks on a component level and has much to say about this topic :)

@markjohnson3737 3 года назад

In elementary school there was one computer in the entire school, an Apple II Plus, owned by one of the second grade teachers. I was lucky enough to get her as a teacher, spawning a lifelong passion for computers and technology.

@adriansdigitalbasement 3 года назад

That is amazing -- teachers are so underappreciated and underpaid. I have several teachers from my youth I will never forget -- even 30+ years later, they had a huge impact on my life that is still with me.

@danilko1 3 года назад

@@adriansdigitalbasement My middle school teacher wrote this: www.thequartermile.com - Mr. Barnum. We used to play his program in class, having a score board and contests. Did you ever play with Fire Organ? He had it and would play it for us, in class. He never would let us "borrow" a copy.

@Frank-Thoresen 3 года назад

I have never seen Adrian so emotional on his channel. It was touching. Even I am grateful for this gift he received.

@cappaculla 3 года назад

Gotta be said, Adrian is hands down the nicest guy on RU-vid, great attitude, personality, and seriously knows his shit... And won't use a dremel to open a rare computer.. 😉

@guayabito6946 3 года назад

For sure, he is a very humble guy, unlike some others....

@simontay4851 3 года назад

That huge box must've cost a fortune to send across the US from east to west.. He was extremely generous.

@GalileoAV 3 года назад

Between his intro letter and his packing skills, I love this guy lmao

@skonkfactory 3 года назад

That metal isn't painted, it's powder coated. So it yellows like any other plastic.

@misterkite 3 года назад

Fun Fact: It's called "Applesoft BASIC" because it was made by Microsoft. Integer BASIC was made by Woz, but was called Integer basic because it didn't support floating point.

@bobblum5973 3 года назад

Fun Fact Part 2: Steve Wozniak also included in the Integer Basic ROMs the Sweet-16, a virtual 16-bit machine. Another example of how wonderfully creative Woz could be. Fun Fact Part 3: Floppy disk controllers were too expensive back when the Apple ][ came out. So Woz designed a state machine based controller and bought just the floppy drive mechanicals, allowing Apple to come out with the Disk ][ drive.

@manuell3505 3 года назад

Hard to imagine. You have to program the float/carrier system yourself?

@TheJeremyHolloway 3 года назад

Fun Fact: Apple licensing Microsoft BASIC saved Microsoft from bankruptcy after their disaster of a licensing deal with Jack Tramiel at Commodore. If only had Apple gone instead with the company that wrote Atari BASIC shortly thereafter...

@manuell3505 3 года назад

@@TheJeremyHolloway I think it was scened. They all became aware of the fact that locking in the user in an artificially limited environment with no way out was the way to go. The DOS command line guaranteed a crippled computer Next step was protected mode witn an API. Now, everybody's running apps instead of programs, fully abstracted from the real computer underneath, only to spam and track you while all authorative control is hijacked.

@rbrtck 2 года назад

@@bobblum5973 He also had the computer's 6502 processor do all the work that a disk controller ASIC would have done--yet another simple hardware + software solution to save on cost. That's good--Woz's work is elegant in this way, and highly effective (within limits in some cases). Then Apple jacked the price up as much as they could get away with anyway. ;) By the way, while Woz was undeniably creative and even a certifiable genius at certain things like reducing chip count, there were some...oddities regarding his design philosophy. For example, he didn't like interrupts and didn't understand why they were considered useful. At least that's what he told some people (literally that he didn't understand interrupts). And sure enough, the Apple II series does not natively support interrupts (there is some support in the expansion slots and the motherboard, but that was probably someone else's work, as Woz did not design the Apple II all by himself). I guess he was largely right, since his computer designs were clearly functional and remained on the market for many years, with their CPUs polling and counting (with some exceptions) all the way. He didn't save much hardware this way--he just didn't see the point. Note that he could have saved on hardware and cost by having the CPU drive the display, like the Atari VCS/2600 and Sinclair ZX series do, but he didn't go to that extreme. I won't go into this in detail right now, but suffice to say that interrupts do have their uses, much like his autonomous video logic. I guess eccentricity is often coincident with genius. :)

@PeterMountUK 3 года назад

I'd dare you to take that power supply into the Genius bar - just to put them in their place with a PSU that's most likely older than they are - I'd love to see their faces when they try to think what it is!

@fumthings 3 года назад

none would have the slightest idea what it was, but they would try to throw it in the trash...

@gmirwin 3 года назад

That would be a great hidden camera video.

@biggiejohn3360 3 года назад

please, no paperclips jammed in random ports

@nyw11 3 года назад

Hahaha this is gonna be a joke for years. Love it

@newagederpderp 3 года назад

me, a smartass: _jams paperclips in every single port i can see_

@mikhail6289 3 года назад

Adrian: carefully clean and observe everything, changed capacitors. 8-bit guy: yuhuu, smoke test!!

@BlackEpyon 3 года назад

That's what happens when you're unable to find a technical reference manual :(

@rbrtck 3 года назад

@@BlackEpyon Or your sense.

@LunaManar 3 года назад

Watching you restore this Apple II+ while This Does Not Compute simultaneously restores a trashpicked Apple IIe has warmed my heart. These machines were fulcrums of our childhoods. These are the best videos. Thanks for keeping them alive and sharing your experiences.

@photolabguy 3 года назад

Stewart, thank you for providing us viewers, for an awesome computer, and the best packaging / unboxing ever on Adrian's channel!

@BertGrink 3 года назад

Or on any channel for that matter.

@buddyweiz 3 года назад

So, by sheer luck you put your insulation the right way on the walls, always put the metallic side towards warmth, foam side insulates cold and metallic side reflects warmth (back inside).

@BlackEpyon 3 года назад

Unless you want to keep it cold, of course.

@buddyweiz 3 года назад

@@BlackEpyon even then it's metallic side towards warmth, only difference is where you are on the warm or cold side.

@johnbecker8768 3 года назад

My first computer was a VIC20 also. Loved that thing and programmed for hours and hours. In college I scored an Apple 2E, and also have such a great time with my apple cat modem and programming and running a BBS from my room in our rented house filled with electrical engineers and software guys. Such good times!! Lots of programming with the assembler Merlin?? spent a lot of time pouring thru the Rom of that computer. Steve Wozniac was a genius programmer and I modeled my coding style after him.

@aaronjamt 3 года назад

From Ben Eater to Adrian's Digital Basement, plus Perifractic's Retro Recipes queued... what a great day! Edit: And Ben Heck, and Retro Man Cave, and LGR, and, and, and...

@RuSrsbro 3 года назад

Ben Heck too, a good day to be on RU-vid

@mikesilva3868 3 года назад

🥳📼

@ToTheGAMES 3 года назад

And LGR! :)

@VincentGroenewold 3 года назад

Check out RMC Retro Man Cave, very nice as well

@Okurka. 3 года назад

Perifractic is a shill.

@thedungeondelver 3 года назад

Adrian, yours is one of the best if not THE best hands-on vintage computing channels on RU-vid (honestly you should have 100x the subs you do, and I drive everyone I know with even a passing interest in old tech to your channel), so trust me when I say that I do not lightly "insist" you do anything but...I insist you play some Wizardry! (Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord will suffice), Lode Runner, Choplifter and Temple of Aphsai on it ;) Those were my favorite games to play in Computer Class back in 7th grade (which would've been...84ish or so?), although I did like writing programs in Logo.

@wishusknight3009 3 года назад

Definitely up there for sure. Although he sticks to overviews mostly, they are quite detailed enough to give a really good impression of the machines. Even for those of us who really get into the nuts and bolts of these things.

@danilko1 3 года назад

For me it was Load Runner and Ultima II/III,IV. I didn't play Choplifter much, I thought it was too hard, and I wasn't a real big joystick user. Wizardry was mysterious for me, as it was written in Pascal. I didn't get into Pascal until high school and I recall it required the 80 col card. In the day some games were purchased while others were copied. Wizardry, I think, had copy protection. I Logo, wasn't much a part of the curriculum, but I did recall maybe a unit which included it, a day or two worth of instruction, that was it, in Summer school. Otherwise I had BASIC, Advanced BASIC, and Assembly for classes.

@garykidwell4051 3 года назад

Tiltowait! Take that Werdna and Vampire Lord!

@guayabito6946 3 года назад

For sure, out of all of them I enjoy Adrian the most. I feel he is a super humble person, unlike some others.

@killab138 3 года назад

I got teared up reading the note. This was a great episode. Stuart you are a great dude. Adrian I'm glad I found your channel when I did. I was bored with a lot of the other "retro" guys on here. You're legit, super knowledgeable and fun to watch.

@marcgforc3 3 года назад

+ 1 amen !

@Dan-TechAndMusic 3 года назад

Even though Apple didn't want you to stack the drives on top of the Apple II with the monitor on top of that, both Woz and Jobs were seen doing it :P

@adriansdigitalbasement 3 года назад

Haha! Must have been lawyers not waiting it then? LOL

@BlackEpyon 3 года назад

@KAPT Kipper Actually, floppies aren't nearly as sensitive as people think, and even less so with those metal chassis. Sure, you'll wreck the data on your disk if you swipe a magnet straight across it a few times, but remember that magnetic fields follow the inverse square law, just as light does, so the further away you are, the weaker the field. The magnetic field on a monitor is centred around the yoke on the neck of the tube, which is usually at least 10-12 inches away from wherever you might have a floppy disk, and that's more than far enough. You can have a box of floppies sitting on top of your monitor, and they'll probably be just fine, though I prefer to keep mine to the side where there's less chance of knocking them down by accident.

@TheJeremyHolloway 3 года назад

That's how they stacked them at my schools. I think Apple corporate gave in by the time they released that double disk drive set-up in a single stackable case later in the Apple II line's commercial life...

@jeromewink557 2 года назад

@@TheJeremyHolloway same as my High School. The dial drives were sandwiched between the computer and the monitor. Seemed like a standard procedure.

@chainq68k 3 года назад

I just watched Ben Eater's new 6502 Interrupts video, so I was 10 minutes late to this one, only to find yet another 6502 based machine! Well, it's a 6502 day then, so be it.

@williamsquires3070 3 года назад

Yeah, if last month was #SepTandy, then maybe this month is #65OC2BER, eh? 😊

@BertGrink 3 года назад

@@williamsquires3070 haha good one :D

@aaronjamt 3 года назад

@@williamsquires3070 Petition for this to become a thing

@pragmax 3 года назад

8-bit Show and Tell posted recently too. The title? "Programming the 6502"

@chainq68k 3 года назад

@@pragmax Yeah, that was after my comment here tho'. But watched that one as well. :) So it indeed turned to a 6502 day.

@cbrahmar Год назад

You are Bob Ross of classic computers. This is art. Thank you

@NoelsRetroLab 3 года назад

I love your enthusiasm for that computer and the story of your own personal background with it. Those early computers are always very dear to us as we continue our careers. As for the yellowing, I found the Apple IIs can be restored to their natural color very easily with some gentle retrobrighting (some combination of hydrogen peroxide and sun--or you could even just try sun exposure and see if that helps since it doesn't seem super yellow). Looking forward to the repair and restoration video!

@adriansdigitalbasement 3 года назад

Thanks Noel! What is interesting -- is this machine is definitely painted. Apple switched from painting their computers to just having the plastic be the color they wanted some time while making the IIe... and I don't see how retrobrite could possibly work on a painted machine.

@MultiArrie 3 года назад

That is one happy Adrian.

@thedysk1 3 года назад

Hi Adrian, much respect to your dad. My story is similar. Back in 1981 I begged my dad for a ZX81 for Christmas. My friends were getting Vic20s and other higher end computers but I knew what we could afford. Christmas day came and a ZX81 is exactly what I got. From there I progressed through Acorn BBC Electrons and BBC's and then into PC's When I left school I started by career in I.T. and I am still doing that today. All through the support of my dad and the leap he took on buying me that ZX81. I also spend as much time using the old 8Bit computers, I buy then whenever I can and have my loft space pretty full with ongoing projects.

@0xTJ 3 года назад

I might have teared up a touch around 6:00. This is a really good video, great content, great editing. One thing I really like about your channel is how humble and appreciative you are.

@FriendlyWire 3 года назад

This was just so wholesome. Thank you for sharing your stories, Adrian! I did not grow up with these computers, my first machine already had Windows 95 on it, but I am learning a lot and I am happy that you share this fascinating period of computers with us. Thank you, fantastic video!

@brianmarshall6746 3 года назад

Ha! Small world. I also grew up in Montreal and my jaw hit the floor when you mentioned that you went to the same elementary school in NDG, Willingdon. I was there from about 1981 to 1987, when I went on to Royal West. I can confirm that we used those Apple II computers in those years in the elementary school's computer lab. I have some fond memories of those machines, my only real exposure to Apple computers as I've always favored PC compatibles. We made our own move for good to the States in 1990.

@TheMalMeninga 3 года назад

Just started watching and this is an incredibly generous donation. Lovely stuff.

@mikesilva3868 3 года назад

Agreed ☻

@JapanPop 3 года назад

Echoing the other comments - I have such respect for your dad and his investment in you. Look at all the dividends of joy his investment has paid out to us visitors to the basement.

@BollingHolt 3 года назад

So cool. I hope you get it up and running. I loved the back story about your childhood and how much that computer means to you!

@anthonyblacker8471 6 месяцев назад

I know this is an old video and you probably won't have a chance to read this considering you're full time recording videos now, but Adrian the feeling I'm getting (along with all the viewers and your followers I'm sure) is the absolute joy and nostalgia. I too, just as Stewart and you (and many more) had these at home and then took the class in school where I got into a little bit of trouble myself because I knew computers very well and the teachers had NO IDEA back in the 80s.. haha it was a great time to be alive.. Thank you for sharing these great stories!

@juliannesermon8057 3 года назад

It was quite touching to see you so moved by this beautiful old machine :-)

@ctrlaltrees 3 года назад

What a great life story - so many parallels with my own. Incredible packing job there too! I knew nothing about the Apple II going into this so thanks so much for the detailed exploration and info.

@SledgeFox 3 года назад

Thank you very much, it was wonderful to hear about your youth and the computers you grew up with!

@jamiegwhite30 3 года назад

Love your channel, that opening jingle is awesome!

@frankowalker4662 3 года назад

Loved the packaging, fantastic job. What a donation.

@neddreadmaynard 3 года назад

Great episode dude, amazing how these lumps of plastic and metal can transport us back to hazy days and exciting new knowledge. Respect from the UK.

@MaCJaX88 3 года назад

Another amazing video Adrian ! Thank you !! Always love whatever you do ! You just make it so fun !

@gallgreg 3 года назад

Awesome donation!! Apple II Plus was my first computer and have very fond memories of it! I still play around with Apple II’s today! Thanks for all the inspiration from your videos to keep my retro-computers in tip-top shape, Adrian!!

@johnsonlam 3 года назад

Thank you for your video (as always), and appreciate people who share their own belongs, maybe from childhood or pickup in old shack, love to see old computer being rescued from junkyard. Just watching these computer working and fixed by Adrian is very satisfying.

@dantaraska9410 3 года назад

This video really connected with me. The story you tell about your first computers is almost identical to my first computers. I also work in IT and really had the same start like you. Really cool. Love your videos.

@awilliams1701 3 года назад

LMAO there are 2 stories that I definitely want to hear about.

@Skyhawk1998 3 года назад

His first and second brush with gamer rage? Who knows!

@cheeseparis1 3 года назад

Just subscribed! I thought I was since RU-vid always recommended me your latest work. But they did it because it's awesome, not because I was subbed... Now it will be for those two reasons. Looking forward to the next episode!

@75slaine 3 года назад

Excellent video Adrian. Fair play to Stewart for donating such a lovely setup (and major kudos on the A+ packing job). Really looking forward to seeing this machine restored to it’s full glory.

@TRONMAGNUM2099 3 года назад

I love this channel. Always great stuff happening!

@quincy1048 3 года назад

Blown away by the quality of the shipping here. Going to be nice to see you breath life into it.

@Even-Steven 3 года назад

Epic Packing! You can tell that rig meant a lot to the previous owner to be packed so well to safely find its way to its new home.

@frazzleface753 3 года назад

Ah, this was great! What a generous donation that obviously means a lot to Adrian :)

@nghermit4922 3 года назад

Stewart, I’m pretty much your neighbor up here in Maine! Also just insulated my basement with that pink foam. Logo, those were good times!!

@pipp33 3 года назад

Man, do I love the photo of you outside holding your new Apple //c! Soaked full of nostalgia. What an awesome day that must’ve been for you.

@RocketCityTech 3 года назад

I'm too young to have ever used 99% of the technology in your videos, yet I find this channel fascinating to watch! Great videos and great channel. Thanks! P.S. That packaging job is legit

@Schooner316 3 года назад

Props to Stewart! Excellent donation!

@totophi 3 года назад

You are surely a better man than I. If somebody had sent me a non-working machine and I had not easy access to appropriate tools and replacement parts, PLUS I were not already knowledgeable and/or enthusiastic about that model, I'm not sure I would have considered it a gift... Thanks for your inspirational videos.

@TheFanOrTheMask 3 года назад

wow, I honestly feel the love here from you Adrian, lovely and humbling, excellent vid, keep up the good work

@mc0burn 3 года назад

I felt this one. Keep up the great work Adrian.

@preiter20 3 года назад

Very cool donation from Stewart and it's clear to see how much it means to you Adrian.

@TheRealMarkS 3 года назад

It's so nice to see people with a true love and passion for what they do. And, though Adrian said his career is/has been in IT, the job never defines the person. It's the hobby and excitement that comes from it, that's really who a person is. I've probably got 15 to 20 years on Adrian, so my initial exposure to electronics was CB radio, which lead to an electronics technology program, then consumer electronics repair. Fortunately, I bought a VIC20, and that initiation defined the rest of my working life. From VIC20 to C64 to Atari SE, then to home-built x86 machines. More recently (last 15+ years), I've been an Apple user, and tinker with Linux, Raspberry Pi. Like so many involved in consumer electronics, ultimately, I had to reinvent myself as a tech in Neonatal equipment, software QA, and software customer support for medical related products. Anyway, none of that would have happened if not for the VIC20. It's also good that I got involved in computers and gadgets when I did, as people just a few years older than me often missed the boat, if they had wanted to board. Two things I found invaluable in the tech/troubleshooting business: 1) Half splitting, 2) When interviewing for a tech position, never say that you know all about something, when you don't, because sure as the sun's gonna rise tomorrow, the person who invented it will be sitting in the next room, and they'll bring him/her into the room to talk to you. And yes, though Beavis and Butthead never said it: Stewart rules! 😃

@bobblum5973 3 года назад

Sounds like we're of similar vintage! I turned my electronics hobby into my career. I was working on CBs before going off to a technical college, then got into computers, data communications and networking. Lots of stories to tell throughout my career, many from the CB era. I can honestly say I've seen someone wire a PL-259 plug onto RG58 coax and swap the polarity (shield to center pin, center conductor to outer shell). Wish I'd had a camera! More or less the CB equivalent of using a PC CD-ROM drive tray as a cup holder; an urban legend, but someone was bound to do it for real eventually!

@TheRealMarkS 3 года назад

Bob Blum Haha! There's really no end to the craziness that was CB radio at that time. Likewise, of course, the cast of characters (including me) was just as bizarre. After reading your reply, I spent a few minutes thinking back to some of the gear and people of the day. Not so different from the internet in some ways. Today, there are young people on scooters or boards with a fancy gaming laptop in their backpack. I knew a kid who had a 5 watt, 12 channel Lafayette Radio Electronics walkie-talkie and a 102" whip attached to his stingray bicycle. Today, a fancy RGB keyboard or mouse makes an awesome input device. I had a D-104 desktop mic. Come to think of it, "past me" was pretty nerdy. Thanks for taking the time to reply. 😃

@dhpbear2 3 года назад

It's definitely painted, Adrian. You'll see the original dark gray on the inside! :)

@lindoran 3 года назад

Excellent explanation on x and y caps. Glad for the detailed explanation! Just great 😀

@marcgforc3 3 года назад

I'm very happy for you, getting an apple II plus is a very special present, and i'm sure that you will love troubleshooting this monument of computer's history, i've heard that he told you to give it back to life again ! sure you'll put it in your hall of fame computer's museum thanks...

@DarthEd77 3 года назад

Great T-shirt! I used to drool over the Beagle Bros. software catalog. The couple of Beagle Bros. disks I had were some of my favorites. My first computer was an Apple ][e, and I loved that thing. Waking up on Christmas morning and seeing it in the living room was the best Christmas ever.

@CornishCarper Год назад

What such a genuine thankfulness video! Love it!! More YT should be like you! Kudos!

@jessiec4128 2 месяца назад

Adrian, i am Canadian from my mothers side, and I have visited my family there in Montreal. And I froze Big Time during the winter time. I could not wait until I came back home. I loved the summer time there, but Not the Winter time at all.

@theViomax 3 года назад

It's wonderful to hear you reminisce about your youth. While it was a generation later my school computer lab experiences are deeply ingrained in me. In those days I and my teachers thought certain my future held computers in it. Unfortunately all sorts of circumstances conspired to prevent my achieving any of my dreams and here I sit a carpenter in his home town who regularly gets to bump into his old teachers and mentors who then spoil my day asking why I'm not "in computers." I'm still an avid enthusiast but it pains me to hear the path you followed that I did not. Kids: if you have a passion please don't hesitate to develop it!

@mk500 3 года назад

Wow, this is awesome! I remember using one of those to win a programming competition in high school held at a local technical school. As a Commodore guy (Vic20 and C64) I had to practice at a local library to figure out the VERY different editing system for BASIC that Apple used. At least it felt very different to me. I was so proud of myself for beating everyone who had been programming on Apple for years. It was probably the sense of accomplishment from that competition that lead me to my career in tech. Geeks who grew up in the 70s owe a lot to our family, schools, and libraries who supported us with equipment that was very expensive, and didn’t seem super practical to most people at the time.

@VioletGiraffe 3 года назад

Thank you for putting that index / chapter navigator into the video description of every video! I landed on part III by mercy of RU-vid, tried to find part I by just browsing through your uploads and it wasn't easy! (esp. since this video doesn't say "Apple" in the title). Then I thought to look in the description - and voila! Appreciate your attention to the viewers :)

@FinalBaton 3 года назад

I didn't know you were from Québec, pretty rad! I had only seen a couple of your vids so far. This one is really heart warming and fun, I'll definitely more content from you.

@MadsonOnTheWeb 3 года назад

Fantastic piece

@RodrigoPerez79 3 года назад

I had the wxact same Apple II. Thank you Stewart!

@Kylefassbinderful 3 года назад

5:53 That little portable TV is awesome. You had a very humble beginning and I respect that a lot.

@dave4shmups 3 года назад

Nice! My local elementary school had Apple IIe computers for years, and that’s the first computer that I ever used.

@TheRetroChannel 3 года назад

Another awesome video Adrian, you clearly are working very hard getting so much great content out. When you powered it on, I was thinking please don't work, we want to see some troubleshooting. Not to wish you bad luck, I love it when things I get don't work and I think you do too

@EternalxFrost 2 года назад

Hi there Adrian, I'm watching your channel for quite a while now, and I wanted to first and foremost thank you for your amazing content. Despite the fact that I'm a little bit younger than you are, I still grew up in the 386-486 era, and seeing all those goodies from your channel (like the Amiga 1000 for example) gives me some sort of a warm feeling inside. By the way, I didn't know you grew up in Montreal :O It's almost like my hometown haha I was borned and raised in Drummondville, which is like an hour away from Montreal in the east, but now I'm in Sherbrooke for my studies in chemistry. Once again, thank you for your content, and I really hope your channel will last for years to come. Keep it up man !

@homeyshlitz 3 года назад

Totally should've went to the Genius Bar for this with a hidden camera just to see what their response was.

@ceebee23 Год назад

oh the joy of watching you open that box.... talk about Christmas morning moment.... I was already working when the Apple II arrived. My first exposure to a personal computer was an Apple II which was used to run a program to generate shadow diagrams for building proposals. Revolutionary in 1980.

@tonanornottonull7132 3 года назад

Oh man does this bring back memories. I was sent to the office A LOT (lol) when I was a kid in Ontario, they had me working on the ICON workstations in the library and the C64s we had in each class since I was getting in trouble for finishing my work way before the other kids, and that combined with my dad buying me a 386 to keep me off of his computers and my experience with family in the UK with their Beebs and Archimedes machines started what ended up to be my career as a consulting software engineer

@endlesswanderer1753 3 года назад

I'm only 5 minutes in and I'm floored by Stewart's packing job. Absolutely incredible.

@henrygreijer3518 3 года назад

What a incredible father you have, I had to work hard with small jobs to save up to my Commodore Amiga 500. At the time when I got my A500 my dad considered computers as completely useless, half a year later he was using my Amiga too and a couple of years later he bought his own PC. When we brought it in our house I asked "I thought you said that computers are completely useless?" and he replied "I never said that!", so nowadays when he asks for advice on Windows or anything else I always start by saying "computers are useless, don't use them" ;-)

@adriansdigitalbasement 3 года назад

LOL!

@TheAnkMan 3 года назад

Very moving video. Thanks Adrian. Yes, good idea escaping the Canadian winter moving to Oregon. Greetings from MTL

@BillSzczytko 3 года назад

I mowed lawns to buy my first machine. When I had enough money to buy a VIC-20, my parents said to keep mowing and get the one you really want, the C64. I, like you, because of the machines influence, am also in IT and have based my entire life around computers. I owe my life to these 8-bit machines. Seems your feel the same.

@kawaiimariagamez872 3 года назад

Thanks, I don't work on switching power supplies and did not know about the X and Y designation on the cap.

@teemofie 3 года назад

Well someone has been watching @retromancave hahahaha Loved this video, your joy and emotion really came through, it was really moving.

@tim0steele Год назад

We had one of these at school, I have fond memories of it although I had a TRS-80 at home which was my favourite.

@mgas1237 3 года назад

Great video Adrian! And a special shout out to Stewart for providing the great subject. Can’t wait to see Adrian Magic bring it alive :)

@stathissim 3 года назад

I would love to have a dad like Adrian’s. Come to think of it I would love to have Adrian as a friend back in the day... Keep up with the great content! We love it

@SharpblueCreative 3 года назад

Here in the U.K. schools used the BBC Micro for the same usage as the Apple II in the USA. In 2004 I was given an Apple II+ with twin drives & a Apple green screen monitor - the company I worked for had previously used it to run a vinyl plotter for sign writing. It worked perfectly and I had all the discs. Eventually I donated it my local computer museum along with two Dragon 32’s and two BBC Micro’s - since I’ve been watching videos like this I’ve regretted it endlessly

@BAgodmode 3 года назад

He’s right tho, Adrian. This has been a touch stone, having a steady stream of great content (I love the classic apple and c64 repairs). My family didn’t own a computer until 2001, not because I’m younger than most, we were just poor. It’s great getting to see computers from my youth, or apples I used in school.

@Obie327 3 года назад

Hey Adrian, Love your episodes. I remember my great fondness using Apple 1,2,plus, 2E, And a 3 series over the years in grade school up to high school. I remembering seeing the original Apple series made of wood. (Amazingly primitive craftsman looking) The lab was full of these cool Apples from over the years.. The Apple 2 GS Woz version that was allowed to play with as well. I loved these and wished Apple would have developed the series further. (so ahead of its time) Thanks again for putting this video up/out... I got great pleasure reliving my early memories.

@nihilistsre 4 месяца назад

Catching up on this. I LOVE your t-shirt. This is the same story as me -- I had a vic 20, then a ti 99-4/a, then the Apple ][+ .... I loved my ][+ .... The IIgs was nice, but it didn't have the same joy that the ][+ did. Even at 52, I can still remember so many pieces of the zero page, the ROM entry points, and all sorts of stuff from 40 years ago! It's really amazing how it shaped my life. Hardware projects and programming, even cracking copy protection (like The Newsroom) and swapping software with friends. So much fun. Can't wait to watch the rest of the series. I gotta find one of those shirts.

@JessicaFEREM 3 года назад

damn someone sent your their childhood, and to an extent, your childhood. this is such a great video! thanks for posting this emotional video adrian has the same feeling as meeting an old friend who you were close with after a lot of years, and not a single thing changed. one of my favorite ADB videos so far

@redsmith9953 3 года назад

Great video, very generous donation, kudos to Stuart !

@cliffroesli5246 3 года назад

Thanks Adrian - always nice videos

@sachinkapur7569 3 года назад

Its so easy to understand that Stewart meticulous packing is a tribute to this channel, just another form of respect which people watch this channel are dying to give/show towards Adrian :) U looked so sweet as a child and have a rather pleasant personality even now like the "8-bit guy" and Techmoan, legends!

@sierraboney1394 3 года назад

That's a nice piece of kit, be good to see it working! Never ceases to amaze me as to what people donate to you, LGR and others, real nice stuff! That's probably the best packing job i've seen in ages as well! I find it kind of interesting hearing what schools in other countries used for computers back in the 70's/80's/90's. Being in the UK, I only remember BBC Micros or Acorn Archimedes in schools back then. I don't remember my lower school in the mid-late 80's having any computers although they may have had one BBC Model B (I don't think there was really any computers in most schools till the BBC Computers for schools thing), middle school had a computer room with A3000's and some BBC Micro's scattered around the school. Upper school in the mid-late 90's had some Archimedes I think and BBC Model B's on an Econet (the library had a BBC Model B with a Teletext adapter!), then later on they went and they replaced them with 286's used as terminals on what I think was a 486 server in one part of the school and I think soon after in another part they set up a room with brand new Evesham Vale 486 SX25's with 4mb ram! Must've cost a fortune back then!

@jdmcs 3 года назад

The Apple II+ was our first home computer, too, and it was given to us by one of my teachers at the time after she had upgraded to a Macintosh. This video brought back those memories.