Apple PowerBook Duo: The Laptop That Was Also a Desktop

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In the early 1990's, there was an industry trend to make laptops smaller and lighter. These so-called subnotebooks often resulted in a compromise between portability and practicality. Apple's PowerBook Duo series, however, tried to do everything.
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@Slay1337pl 3 года назад

"a lot of potential buyers felt like they were getting nickeled and dimed by all the accessories' Oh Apple, you never change

@CommodoreFan64 3 года назад

This 100% 👍

@JasperJanssen 3 года назад

That was the pre-Jobs era. They wouldn’t ever do that today.

@thecryingsoul 3 года назад

@@JasperJanssen lol

@fryke 3 года назад

On the other hand, you could simply buy a non-DUO PowerBook and be alright without all the accessories. So: No, it wasn't just "the Apple thing to do".

@vedde7309 3 года назад

@@fryke JuSt DoNt BuY iT

@ActionRetro 3 года назад

My Aunt had a Duo when I was a kid. It felt like a computer from the future.

@LKComputes 3 года назад

Cool!

@Joshua_N-A 3 года назад

How much it cost back in 1992?

@rydoggo 3 года назад

Thunderbolt 3 making this stuff possible again.

@nexxusty 3 года назад

The idea would fly today. Especially today. It's no longer a bad idea to buy a laptop if you require high performance. Not Apple though. Fuck Apple. Samsung, or Asus or Dell (Alienware) should do this.

@ShiroCh_ID 2 года назад

@@nexxusty ah yess the docking gaming laptops migh be cool too

@jakesyoutubezone9808 3 года назад

Your videos are an unlikely source of peace and stability during these hectic times, just like I imagine you use these projects to lose yourself and escape your day-to-day concerns, the audience gets to follow you to that tinkerer's nirvana. Thank you for doing such a wonderful job on these videos.

@HolowatyVlogs 3 года назад

So happy my dad kept his Duo Dock and a handful of Duo laptops.

@SalivatingSteve 3 года назад

Still have mine too.

@CanXVasteel 3 года назад

That was my dream setup 👍🏽

@AngeloTelesforo 3 года назад

I still have my 2300, my minidoc and my QuickTake (as shown in the advertising lol).

@jasonhoch7105 8 месяцев назад

I still have my duo 2300c, along with the full duo dock. I bought it (lightly) used in the late 90s, and used it through middle and high school. It was a surprising powerhouse for the day…especially when in the dock. I boot it up every so often for nostalgia purposes, and to show people a docking-style laptop was around in the early 90s. A few years ago, I put an SSD in it, and it made the battery last significantly longer. Yes, even my battery still holds a charge. Definitely ahead of its time, and looks good next to my SE/30.

@iceefrags8770 3 года назад

18:02 "they mustve had experience installing car stereos too". I feel personally attacked lol

@jSyndeoMusic 3 года назад

I legit laughed out loud from that… it’s so freaking true. 😆

@AshtonSnapp 3 года назад

“ARE YOU *quack*ING KIDDING ME”

@MmntechCa 3 года назад

"They weren't comfortable to use back at the office." Looks at the horrible keyboard and trackpad on my work provided HP ProBook. Yep, some things never change.

@s8wc3 3 года назад

Laptop manufacturers these days seem to have a vendetta against sensible keyboard layouts and usable pointing devices. "Clickpads" are unacceptable.

@thyeweiping9094 3 года назад

Which version of the ProBook? My HP ProBook 440 G7 has a good enough keyboard (except when the P key fcks up when it overheats) and a usable glass clickpad (although I prefer my Logitech wireless mouse)

@ArchLinuxTux 3 года назад

@@s8wc3 ya for my two cents, I still like the stick between the F and G keys , but still seems to only be on some Lenovo models

@Kalvinjj 3 года назад

When looks takes priority over usability these things happen for sure. You would imagine that something with the name "Pro" on it would be work focused tho instead of a shiny looks grabbing thing but I guess they just wanna capitalize on people buying stuff with a "pro" tag to seem better.

@redwillrise 3 года назад

@@Kalvinjj newer (~

@jsirius94 3 года назад

I love the careful repair you did on the standoffs. Great video! It reminded me of my early teenage years when I would buy out the local thrift stores of their outdated computer hardware to mess with at home

@Vermilicious 3 года назад

One word comes to mind when thinking about Apple products: expensive. This seems to be no exception.

@JasperJanssen 3 года назад

Ultraportable ultralight comes at a price. For all manufacturers.

@Vermilicious 3 года назад

@@JasperJanssen That's only half the story.

@davidfrischknecht8261 3 года назад

Their products weren't super expensive when they first started out. The Apple II line was relatively inexpensive.

@TarsoFranchis 3 года назад

@@davidfrischknecht8261 After the Apple 1 and Apple 2 they made the Lisa's for fucking 10.000 dolars in 83. 100.000 dolars now, each. Today no are 20 Lisas in operation, and most were discarded from the stock to the trash for obsolescence in 84, or transform in Macintosh XL.

@mojoblues66 3 года назад

So how much would a comparable Windows Laptop sell for?

@bjaarki 3 года назад

Using the soldering iron to get the brass threads in was genius! Thoroughly enjoyed the vid

@pkneeyahx 3 года назад

glad to see these machines brought back to life. I'm the guy who donated the external floppy and the duo mini dock to you. Hope they were of some use to you and your project. Great video. I had been curious as to when i'd see this powerbook duo vid. no wonder it took so long with the display issues. Nice work. I really love your closeup shots.

@ThisDoesNotCompute 3 года назад

Thanks again for sending them along! I’ve also got another long-term project in the works that they’ll come in useful for...

@elenchus 3 года назад

one of my teachers had one of these setups and it genuinely inspired me to think differently about computers and form factors.

@illhaveawtrplz 2 года назад

Right? This was so ahead of it's time. This is literally how I run my setup now: laptop > usb-c cable -> monitor with extended I/O.

@jonasdatlas4668 3 года назад

There's just something about "desktop replacement" machines from that era that fascinates me. Probably a mix of the immensely advanced and expensive technology combined with how rapidly it was totally obsoleted by even better things. This stuff is amazing.

@woodengamer 3 года назад

that grease pencil pricing is the same thing that they use to price items at Savers thrift store.

@renfauster 3 года назад

finally some more stuff about the Duo that isn’t just “this laptop is rare, oh right the battery will die”

@p_mouse8676 3 года назад

Although not entirely original, I think I have seen SATA to SCSI adapters. Also the OS is still available. So at least you can get a working machine.

@maighstir3003 3 года назад

There's also the SCSI2SD Powerbook Edition.

@dustojnikhummer 3 года назад

I would love to see a solid state disk in one of these. A 1GB CompactFlash card might be perfect if you can find a scsi adapter for it

@questionablecommands9423 3 года назад

25:24 Woooah. Serious nostalgia over that Netscape logo.

@wal 3 года назад

Your vids are the best, great job! Also, I take no offense to the car stereo comment about wiring :-P

@silvernode 3 года назад

It would be fun, if you were the original owner who hacked that wiring together.

@wal 3 года назад

@@silvernode right, that guy is probably still out there. Maybe he'll run across this video and explain himself....

@flebnard 3 года назад

I dont know id find Big D heeeeere

@ThisDoesNotCompute 3 года назад

we've all been there lol

@rotocooki 3 года назад

yeah

@VEN0M415 3 года назад

26 min in and I just realized this basically was the first switch and switch dock haha. I love the idea and the complexity to each part. Thanks for the great and informative video!

@jSyndeoMusic 3 года назад

I scrolled and scrolled to find this comment! Just goes to show that this was a solid idea, just ahead of its time.

@RinoaL 2 года назад

Thankfully you can still find a lot of this stuff for super cheap out in the wild. Just sad that it is getting harder to find.

@horacegentleman3296 2 года назад

Hey Rin.

@jm036 2 года назад

Ywnbaw

@blackhawkthepirate 3 года назад

Superglue and plastic works great! I like to add some baking soda on it. It hardens to rock-solid immediately. No wait and what seems like a stronger hold!

@CommodoreFan64 3 года назад

Yep, plus if you don't have a 3D printer, and need to say fill in a small gap it works wonders along with a small file to make it smooth once it's dried.

@JaredJanhsen 3 года назад

I was in middle school when these were new. I remember the principals all had one in their offices, but never undocked them.

@Kane-B 3 года назад

Loved this video and the soldering iron tip is brilliant!

@kjamison5951 3 года назад

Good on you for saving this! I saved two of these from being thrown out and stored them carefully at work. Then I fell ill and when I returned to work they had been dumped. They weren’t fast but they were a great talking point and that push button eject was amazing. Somewhere I still have the locking keys that physically locked it into the desk unit and disabled the switch that ejected the Duo.

@munnsie100 3 года назад

Great video, Colin! You perfectly portrayed the frustration of trying to find parts for these machines, let alone waiting for them, only for the part to be the wrong one. I have had that happen many times, it makes the repair itself seem like a quarter of the total effort involved. Your 3D printed parts were thoroughly impressive. It's hard to maintain and preserve plastic that is getting older and older, but with solutions like yours, we can try our best.

@dennisud 3 года назад

Back in the day I really wanted this because as a teacher I could take my work home then pop it in as a daily thing.! Instead I had a 520C and an LC II at home using floppies to do the daily transfer for my work in class. But the prices were ridiculous back then especially for a teacher. Either way, I do love watching these restorations.

@Falstaff-mr8fk 2 года назад

Jerry had a Duo setup on his desk for a while on Seinfeld. The dock for the color models required a taller desktop dock to fit. But you could just replace the removable top to get it to fit. I’ve had several including the 2300c. They all had a lot of flex on the plastics. Neat units though.

@ThinkDifferentlier 3 года назад

I used to have the same PowerBook. It was an amazing machine.

@tulippasta 2 года назад

Very impressive video. Your commitment to repairing these cool old machines is really nice to see! Thanks for letting us see your process step by step.

@chrishenrico4576 3 года назад

I love how in depth you go in your videos! You spend loads of time bringing great quality and information!

@alistairblaire6001 3 года назад

This was a great watch. Repairing a classic and throwing in an abundance of well researched material.

@philippbokrand26 3 года назад

Really quality video production! I enjoyed it a lot. Also I admire the efforts you put into restoring these. Great job on the broken standoffs!!!

@john_ace 2 года назад

From 2000-2001 I worked for a medium sized newspaper in IT-support. It was the time when the whole vintage IT was thrown out that had been collected in several cellars from the 80s onwards. There were about 10 PowerBook Duo with DuoDock from the media department (as well as CBM, Apple, Atari, Amiga and other computers and even terminals). The photographers had used the PB Duo machines together with early digital cameras that used a serial connection for image transfer. They had (of course) analog cameras as well. They usually took several photos with both digital and analog cameras on events, connected the digital camera after the event and transferred the digital pictures to the Duo. Sometimes they used a landline modem (maybe even quite expensive and slow mobile modems) for direct transfer to the newspaper for fast integration into articles for the next day. The serial port on the PB Duo was perfectly fitting for this use-case. When the photographer was back in his office, he just had to connect the PB Duo to the Dock to transfer the digital images to the network-archive. The analog developing and scanning of the analog camera film often took 1-2 days depending of the backlog the department had. Going digital was often the only way to have on-time reports of events from the pervious day in the current newspaper with pictures. The cameras had resolution (around 1.0 - 2.5 MP) that was good enough for a newspaper. I can remember that even in 2000, i was quite baffled that they had this kind of streamlined process since the early 90s.

@lemketron 3 месяца назад

So much to love in this video! The disassembly and repairs and the whole trip down memory lane for one of my favorite Macintosh product families. I’ve loved most of the smallest PowerBooks from the PB100 and Duo series to the 12” MacBook Pro Retina and my current portable powerhouse, a 14” m1 MacBook Pro. I had a Duo Dock at home and at work, and several different PowerBook Duos over the years. The 270c and 280c were my favorites. I previously used a Syquest (removable hard drive) cartridge for software development and carried it back and forth to work, but the Duo was like a Syquest that was also a whole computer which worked in or out of the Duo Dock. ❤

@toa95 3 года назад

It’s so cool to see something like this was still an idea back in the late 90s. Now a days USB C docks allow this kinda thing with so many laptops and it’s much more common place.

@ncc74656m 3 года назад

As those of us who had the original Chromebook test units from Google found out, super glue will NOT hold for those inserts. You have to use a proper epoxy like JB Weld.

@CommodoreFan64 3 года назад

that would work, or he could try super glue mixed with baking soda. Tech Tangents did a video about it a while back with good results, and I've used the trick before in the past on a pair Philips headphones one of my nephews broke, and it's held up well for about a year so far.

@cannagame3933 Год назад

This video brought me peace for some reason. Just hearing those nostalgic clicks when that hard drive booted for the first time in 20 something years is music to my ears lol thanks for this awesome upload I know making these videos solo is not easy

@vnolton 3 года назад

I loved my Duo 230 with doc. reminded me of an oversized vcr. still loved it go to back and forth between work

@mecha417 3 года назад

TDNC: repairs a PowerBook Duo * Louis Rossman has entered the chat.

@pwissink1 3 года назад

Again good video Collin. Love to see your devotion to repair the laptop. And cool to see such dock with it.

@Cyraxworg 3 года назад

Loved the video, and the thread repair on the caselid and 3d print replacements was ingenious, thank you colin!

@alexandermikhailov2481 2 года назад

I’m new to this channel but I love it already. One of the greatest vintage electronics restoration channels on RU-vid. The camera work is amazing, the story flow is natural and the narration is very professional. Kudos, thumbs up and a subscription on me. 👍😀

@robertbutscher6824 3 месяца назад

very interesting, thank you so much for that video and the patience for repairing the Duo

@jellepetje 3 года назад

Just bought one as well! Your video has kindled my interest in them.

@thereallantesh 3 года назад

I love watching videos like this restoring old tech. You did a great job on the repairs, and certainly had a few hurdles along the way. For as fascinating as this series of machines are though I definitely would not have wanted one back in the day. I have never cared for laptops. I've worked various jobs that have issued them to me, but my preference has always been to have a regular desktop PC.

@howardbaldwin1226 3 года назад

Top job Colin. A challenging project expertly completed. Great video and historical commentary. Thanks for sharing. Very enjoyable.

@PooopBro420 2 года назад

I don't know how you say it so calmly when you find out the hard drive works. Best feeling ever lol

@KYUBIMATIAS 3 года назад

Always a joy to watch these, Colin. As some born in 95' whose first computer was a Windows 2000 it's really interesting to learn what other companies like Apple were doing both before and during the decade.

@richardharding760 3 года назад

Colin this is a great video,as always from you. You show both historical and repair content.

@tomnelson1301 Год назад

Love it, thanks man! I never knew these back in the day since I was only like 2 when they released lol but due to my work as a computer technician and love for retro tech, I've admired these from afar for a very long time! I always thought the idea of sticking the entire laptop in like a cartridge and thereby expanding its capabilities was pretty awesome and extremely revolutionary for that time, and I am more than a little envious of the fact you have not one but TWO of them PLUS the dock and accessories!!! I collect old laptops (as well as other misc. tech like PDA's, Pocket PC's, old video game consoles, etc) and try to snag them off ebay whenever I can, however I haven't managed to get around to any of the Duos yet.. (mosty DUE-O to the price lol! [sry... couldn't help myself]). Also, I wanted to mention I was thoroughly impressed with your ability to repair the units as well as you did, specifically with the 3D printed pieces which was very cool! And I appreciate you demonstrating that trick you used melting the metal screw insert in with the soldering iron - that's valuable knowledge to me that I won't soon forget! Anyway, thanks again man! I really enjoyed the video!!!

@vernonbishop Год назад

I used to have a Duo 2300c back when I was in my early twenties. (2001). I learned that you could transfer files, and even whole programs, over Appletalk. It was painfully slow, going through the printer/serial port, but it worked! 🙂

@lemketron 3 месяца назад

It’s hard to imagine how much of my early professional and student life were spent waiting for files to transfer over AppleTalk or worse, slow dial-up modems in hardware like this. Ethernet was amazing, and I was thrilled to eventually upgrade to 10base2 (coax) and ISDN in my home office.

@ShiggitayMediaProductions 3 года назад

Thanks for including the Duo 2300 in this retro look! I never had any of these Duo products but I was very familiar with them growing up (I would gawk at them in MacMall/MacWarehouse etc catalogs). Great video!

@FX4Level2 3 года назад

Lots of good tricks to get everything to work. I’m glad everything worked out well.

@1magazine 3 года назад

Hi Colin! Love your Macintosh videos that also kind of are restoration videos :) It’s really cool with the Macs that basically there are uniform replacement parts that are still sourcable. And the modern touch with the 3D printed parts. Hope to see much more cool Mac videos!

@wojiaobill 3 года назад

This was a great video. The innovative repair solutions were a treat to watch!

@geekdomo 3 года назад

I still have a Libretto 70CT in my box of old stuff. It worked the last time I used it. Cool interface with mouse buttons on the back of the screen.

@areitz 3 года назад

I loved this! I've really been enjoying content based upon old Macs this year, and this was really informative. I wish I could give more than one like!

@Viggen61 3 года назад

Thanks for the video! Brought back memories of supporting a bunch of young creatives with Duos. Loved the big dock, but some folks thought a good spot for the dock was the shelf above their desk. Had to repair (ok, replace...) screens on several of them, because they’d put it in the dock asleep - not shut down - and the dock ejected the duo, tossing it to the desk or to the floor! Thank goodness you could renew AppleCare almost eternally back then!

@dave4shmups 3 года назад

Wonderful video as always! It's neat to see what external docks looked like in the 1990s, vs what a Thunderbolt 3 dock looks like today!

@mayor_dj 3 года назад

What a lovely video. Thanks for the explanation and the repair.

@wildstar41 3 года назад

Great video. It brought back memories for me.I had one of the 2300Cs in 1996-97 with a Newer Ultradock, external floppy and later got a duo dock from work. (a mac reseller). Also got the duo through them at a good price on an EPP. It was not a powerhouse machine, but a neat computer to own. I played WC2 on it with friends using a phone net adapter and used it for school work. I also connected a giagantic Lacie CD-R drive to the ultradock at home and used it to burn CDs and install Crystal Caliburn PInball Fun times. Your restoration was great and had some suspenseful moments!

@clandestine5959 3 года назад

In 1992 I worked on the board line manufacturing the mother boards in Fountain Colorado. 12 hr. shifts alternating 4 days a week then 3 days. I recall those days vividly. All the jobs have long since been out sourced over seas decades ago now. Sad what happened to most all of our manufacturing jobs. Thanks for the blast from the past.

@GPOTOM 2 года назад

Glad you mentioned the upgrades at the end, I used to have a Duo 2300c which had a track ball and I always wondered why. Must have been a 280c that had been upgraded, it had no model number on the screen bezel. Was a great machine, and also had the full size dock and the mini dock, along with a few other accessories. Sold it on eBay many years ago for far too little (compared to today’s prices).

@acamilop Год назад

I had a duo 210 in 1992 for my first year of college. I used that machine to death. I was the only person I ever met to bring my laptop to class to take notes at that time. I never had the main dock- just the big one with those menacing pins. I remember having to clean the track ball constantly. Great video.

@Skyspace187 3 года назад

Repairing Retro Tech is always a love and hate relationship. I know the feelings of trying to rebuild some neat old tech to only leads to further problems as you return it to working order... Sometimes it's a difficult process and leads to depression with thought of quoting the project. Glad you kept at it! Appreciate the retro tech review!

@SweetBean92 3 года назад

The original laptop dock, nice!

@richardbaker974 3 года назад

Really enjoyed that. Good work Colin, one of the best.

@khalidhamzakheyl 3 года назад

This was an excellent video. Great content, fun to watch, a ton to learn.

@fistbumpbros 3 года назад

Colin, way too much love and professionality go into these videos. I'm voting you up for a show in repairs on Netflix.

@cesar122111 3 года назад

man i have always loved the use of docks, seeing my brothers arriving and just droping the laptop and everything is connected at once was handy, i have always been a laptop user but none of them had a compatible dock until i got one with thunderbolt 2 and got the Belkin dock (have been using it for 4 years now) and is still kicking

@umamibeef 3 года назад

This is an incredible refurbishment. This inspires me to 3D print standoffs for my PowerBook 180. Thank you for sharing this Colin.

@JackBandicootsBunker 3 года назад

Wonder if they’ll do this again someday with future iPads, now that Apple Silicon is common to all Apple devices...

@onometre 3 года назад

it's like a prototype DeX

@JaredConnell 3 года назад

Why would they do that when you could buy two devices instead of one? Maybe if the dock cost as much as an iMac lol but otherwise they would lose money if your iPad could be your laptop, desktop, and tablet

@onometre 3 года назад

@@JaredConnell they already advertise ipads as laptop replacements and have for several years.

@6581punk 3 года назад

Except on a laptop I can code, I can get apps from anywhere. A tablet computer is basically an overgrown kids computer.

@JackBandicootsBunker 3 года назад

@@6581punk Some AppStore apps are available only for iPads; I know this because I purchased ProCreate but once I sold my iPad, was unable to honor the purchase any longer since I only have iPhones... With this I’m saying: there are some dedicated productivity apps on iPadOS; Android on the other hand...

@arround1 2 года назад

So much attention and love for these old machines!

@jamiecruickshank9697 3 года назад

This was a really enjoyable episode. I really liked the 3D printing method for the standoffs. I think this technique might be used a lot more in the future. I like a nice clean fix like that.

@YourIdeologyIsDelusional 3 года назад

Apple: Removing ports since 1992.

@pikachulikesgambling5645 3 года назад

And selling docks🤣

@Fede_uyz 3 года назад

Razor companies: Give them the razors, sell them the cartridges Printer companies: Give then the printer, sell them thr ink Apple: Sell them the item without necessary features, sell them the features.

@StuffIHave 3 года назад

I usually glue the broken off inserts to the old plastic parts with a little bit of superglue to position them and then remodel the missing plastic with 2-part-acrylate resin.

@michaelgoodrich247 3 года назад

Brings back fond memories of my Powerbook 100 and Duo 210 I got second had. In those days I was the only one with anything that slightly resembled a laptop

@weok-doing-things 2 года назад

this is a very great series of videos. I really love this deep dive into lovely topic

@beitie 3 года назад

I really do find it relaxing when I'm watching cool videos about Apple products while using a Mac Pro 5,1 with a 30" Cinema Display. Thanks for the video :)

@stevenvallarsa1765 Год назад

I worked as an ad builder at the Windsor Star (Ontario) at the end of 1994, and the reporters all had Duos to bring with them as they chased stories, with the full-sized docks on their desks at the office.

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@rodrigodias9925 3 года назад

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@ItChannel420 2 года назад

i love the focusing on the small parts great job on camera shots!

@eicas_11 2 года назад

This video was great, even on the second watch a year later! Thanks to it I happened to notice this very computer in the background of an episode of Seinfeld on Jerry's desk, I guess the set dressers were feeling a bit fun that season!

@timkaragias213 3 года назад

Love it! My first laptop was an inherited Duo 230 in 1999, along with the Duo Dock. I feel like my MacBook Pro is a spiritual successor to it, and I also keep it docked on my desk with a TB3 dock.

@CockroachMunchingKrabbyPatty 3 года назад

What an awesome video. Prior to this I had no interest in 90s era mobile computing, but this has easily woken up a hobby in me.

@travistalkington9297 9 месяцев назад

My mother was given one of these as a teacher at her school and i remember as a kid my mom getting to take it home during the summer. Me and my brother use to play hellcats, lemmings and prince of Persia on it all summer long. It was an awesome design. One thing I Rembrandt that sucked though was the battery life on the laptop. This might have been just because of the age of batteries( it was 95-98) when using this and she had had it for years by this point. Good memories!

@mccobsta 3 года назад

Best thing about colins videos are the no BS intro it's just hey here's the thing. It's brilliant

@Kylefassbinderful 3 года назад

Jerry Seinfeld had one on his desk on the show - yaddi yaddi yadda, it served him well.

@qwertzy121212 3 года назад

The one I always remember from Seinfeld is the 20th Anniversary Mac, hard to forget a weird one like that though!

@organiccold 3 года назад

Lol indeed

@JaredConnell 3 года назад

He had a few different macs during the run of the show. First was an original all in one style model

@Kylefassbinderful 3 года назад

@@JaredConnell Yep that was a SE/30. My fav all in one model.

@pupdiogenes2548 3 года назад

i came to the comments for this

@macoppock 3 года назад

I *lusted* over the Duo back in the day, so great to see one saved from the trash heap. Excellent video!

@alan_browne_ 3 года назад

look fwd to every repair video you put out. stupendous quality.

@dogeymon83 2 года назад

I get curious about all these computers but can never invest the kind of money necessary to get into them. I enjoy them vicariously through all your videos. Your presentation is so in-depth and high definition, I feel like I’m there having fun with them.

@Saphykitten 3 года назад

This is a fantastic video. Thank you for making it

@GarthBeagle 3 года назад

Nicely done restorations!

@andyexplains 2 года назад

When I was in middle school, I bought a Powerbook Duo 230 off eBay (circa 2001). I was into tinkering around on old Macs, and completely fell in love with this 68k gem. One day I made the mistake of renaming the system folder and rebooting-only to get the dreaded Floppy Desk "?" on start-up. I cried and cried until my parents would buy me one of those full desktop docks (then going for about $100 on eBay) so I could boot from a floppy and fix my careless error. Clearly, I was very popular.

@NedjoKovacevic 3 года назад

your patience alone deserves sub! Content is superb!

@ZeeWatcher1000 Год назад

Just discovered your channel. Absolutely brilliant stuff!

@pandelismanikas5453 3 года назад

Man, that was the most epic one you've made so far.

@OroborOSX11 3 года назад

Great video! Love to see your entire process. But man! You should have explored those drives before wiping them! That’s probably the most fun part about ancient computer tech: a snapshot of some person’s life frozen in time! :)

@ThisDoesNotCompute 3 года назад

While I’m occasionally curious as to when an old computer may have been used, I’m not going to start digging through files and looking at their contents - all machines I come across ultimately get wiped.

@CassandraCarter 3 года назад

I owned a 280c and Duo Dock during the era where G3s were first getting announced. Bought both for about $300, including monitor and keyboard (had to reuse a mouse I had on hand), and it still did most stuff I needed a Mac laptop for. Was very satisfying to dock it at night.