- [Krazy Ken] Yeah, that was
an old Computer Clan wallpaper,
yeah, we're gonna pretend
that never happened.
Oh man, I remember back in my days
making PowerPoint
presentations with my clip art
and my Dad's Tie template.
I totally forgot how good
this screen was, my gosh.
I'm in love with it.
I'm in love.
This was a real thing,
ladies and gentlemen.
Oh (beep)
(beeping)
(upbeat dance music)
Hey guys, how you all doing?
Really?
That's just great.
You know, I'm doing really great today too
because I decided to
bust out my old buddy,
the iMac G3 Bondi Blue.
I dug down below the asylum
to the secret storage
container and found my old iMac
that was confiscated from me,
so we're gonna have some fun with it.
Because it was taken away
from my precious life
so many years ago, I legitimately have
no idea what's on here.
It's been year's since I've booted it up.
I have no idea what's on it.
I think it has two
operating systems on it,
and I think OS X is one of them,
but OS X really doesn't
run too well on here,
last time I remember.
So we're gonna explore that.
And take a look at the hardware.
Man, this thing is beautiful.
Now, the mystery is, I
know this is a first gen,
but I don't know if it's
revision A or revision B.
I tried researching that once,
and I gave up when I
couldn't find the answer.
I may have to get back to that.
Any whoozle, I'm just
gonna crawl over here
and get the keyboard.
Beautiful transparent key caps there.
The matching Bondi Blue design.
And now, ladies and
gentlemen, that's not all.
Prepare yourselves.
Everyone's favorite puck mouse.
Now, the official name
is the Apple USB mouse,
but we all call this the puck mouse
because of its beautiful puck shape.
I think a lot of people did not like
the circular mouse.
It was probably very uncomfortable.
And I'm holding a
physical piece of evidence
that proves that many people did not
like the circular shape
and feel of the mouse.
This is an accessory to make
the mouse more mouse-shaped.
This was a real thing,
ladies and gentlemen.
It's called Catch from Mac
Sensetech, macsensetech.com.
I don't know if that website is still up.
But you know, it works,
and we could hook it up
to our keyboard right here with USB
and USB was one of the big new features
debuted with this Mac.
It was the first Mac with USB.
And I think it was the
first personal computer sold
on the market with USB,
at least in volume,
you know, to a lot of people.
I could be wrong about that.
Not 100% sure.
What else do we got?
Well, what else do we not got?
Infrared, speakers.
These speakers sound
pretty freakin' awesome.
And tray-loading disc drive.
So let's hook everything up.
So when it came time to
hook up the peripherals,
Apple used this beautiful door,
which did not last on the
second generation iMac.
There was one updated version of the iMac
that had this door still, but
after that they killed it,
just like with the MacBook Air.
It was only the first
design of the Macbook Air
that had that door for the
IO, and then Apple killed it.
So doors weren't really
a long-lasting trend.
However, we have a door
today, so we will use it.
I just got to find, okay, I'm
going a little blind here.
So we use this hole to,
little bit of a struggle there.
Pretty simple.
And what we can do is run
the cable in like that,
give it a little jiggle,
plug it in, close it up.
So now, there we go, almost got it.
So now the cord just kind of
runs out of the side here.
It looks really neat.
And then power goes right into here.
I am hearing it hiss a little bit,
so that's a good sign, it
means power is getting there,
but it's also a bad sign because it means
it might explode in 10 seconds.
So let's move fast.
Guys, we're ready, let's boot it up.
Boy, I'm excited.
All right, let's do
the countdown from 200.
200, 199, 198, 197...
There it goes.
(chiming)
Ah, the original startup sound,
how it's supposed to be heard.
And by original, I didn't mean original.
I just meant iconic.
That is not the original sound.
It sounds really good on these
speakers though, holy crap.
All right, we got a happy Mac.
All right, we're going into Mac OS first.
I think eight is on here.
I'm gonna need a mouse pad for this.
Yeah, it booted up.
Wow, oh my gosh.
Pajama Sam?
I haven't played that game in forever.
Pajama Sam is on here.
Microsoft Office.
Yeah, wow.
I think this is eight something.
Mac OS 8.5, there we go.
This is a Mac OS computer
with a picture of the globe.
Mac OS computer, was that
because of the clones?
Like it doesn't just say Macintosh,
it says Mac OS computer.
I thought those died when they switched
to version eight though.
I'm gonna have to check
my homework on that one,
check my math.
Ooh, let's do the marvelous shortcut.
Or not, well, shortcut/Easter egg,
holding down the Option
key, about the Finder,
and boom, we get the mountain scene
in beautiful dithered color.
So yeah, I am getting a bit of a strobe
crawling across there.
Now let's see, the refresh rate.
Control panels.
Monitor and sound, oh yes.
We got the platinum sound effects.
I love it.
Let's actually turn that up.
(beeping)
Ooh, 3D surround sound, SRS.
See, I thought there were
SRS speakers in here.
Now we can enjoy the sounds even better.
(clicking)
Both platinum sound effects, man.
Hell, yeah.
Oh, and we have Sosumi in here.
(piano chord)
(laughing) The origin story
behind that sound is delightful.
Anywhoozle, rabbit hole.
Millions of colors on here, really?
Shit.
That probably isn't supported
if I go to 1024 by 768.
Yeah, it goes down to a thousand then.
Yeah, and then it stays at a thousand.
That must have been what happened earlier.
Well, I'm gonna keep it at a million,
because yo, that's great.
800 by 600 is plenty for me.
I want millions of colors, man.
The refresh rate is 95
and the other one is 117.
Man, that is a smooth refresh rate.
I didn't know this CRT went to 117 hertz.
But yeah, wow, that is smooth.
Man, I'm looking at my
mouse cursor moving.
I know you can't see this
over the tech video log,
but that is smooth as frick.
That's smoother than what
you get on modern Macs,
because modern Macs have
a refresh rate of 60.
This is 95.
Holy shit.
I want to do 117 just for the LOLs.
Oh my gosh, I'm gonna cream something.
Let's not go there.
Yeah, wow, I never really paid attention
to how smooth that is.
That is unbelievable.
Damn, this is a good CRT,
and that is a crisp picture.
Holy shit.
I totally forgot how good
this screen was, my gosh.
I'm in love with it.
I'm in love.
Okay, so let's get rid of this wallpaper,
because it is probably someone
else's artistic creation
and I would like to change
it to something else.
I probably don't have any
of my own photos on here
because this goes back to,
this was probably last booted up in like,
I don't know, 2012 maybe, longer ago.
Wow.
I have no idea where stuff is stored.
Where'd I store my pictures?
Let's go to Appearance.
Can probably collapse this for now.
Custom theme.
Ooh, bubbles.
Golden poppy.
Convergence.
Mac OS default.
Yep, charcoal.
Ooh, that's pretty.
Somewhere in an art museum,
this painting is worth 10
thousand billion dollars.
Sure, why not.
All right, now that that is set,
let's look at what we got.
Pajama Sam.
I doubt this will work
because I don't have a CD.
But maybe it's copied in here.
Set to 256 colors, I think
that's a fair compromise.
Oh my gosh.
The shit?
- [Cartoon Character]
Deep in the bowels of
an old power plant a
sinister plot is hatching.
Ha ha!
At last the time has come
to hatch my sinister plot.
- [Krazy Ken] Well, this brings back
a metric shit ton of memories.
I remember you had to go around and like
collect your lunch box and
your flashlight and your mask
so you could go fight darkness
in the land of darkness,
and you had to collect
all your missing socks
and pair them together.
Wow, this goes back.
Do I have a saved game?
Like, is there like a, hang on.
No background sounds, slow machine, oh.
Pause game.
Load game.
I'm pretty sure I have game saved.
Oh my gosh.
This is my cousin's
name, spelt wrong though.
Hang on.
Oh boy.
Dude, this thing right
here, this is the game.
The game within a game that got me
interested in game development.
This is where it all started,
in this frickin' game right here.
- Time to play Nuggets.
- [Krazy Ken] Nuggets.
What level was I on?
Five?
Let's do this.
We can collect this shit, right?
This is easy.
I don't know if there's a way
to speed this up any more.
You're going pretty slow.
See, it was kind of like Snake.
You couldn't run into
yourself, and you had to
collect all the stuff,
and then as you kept going
more obstacles would show up.
Oh my gosh, I have not
played this in forever.
I remember, probably when
I was like five or so,
and I was playing this with
my brother and my father
and we were probably too dumb to realize
you could save the game, so we got to like
level 100 or so on this, and
we just left the computer on
because we didn't want to start over.
(laughing) We just left
the computer running.
And all this time, you
could just save your game.
Yeah, well, now, yeah.
Now I know that stuff.
But back in the day, I did not.
I was really stupid back then.
Well, I still am, but I
was more stupid back then.
There's gotta be a way
to move faster than this.
I swear there was.
Oh my gosh.
This is, this is--
- That was fun.
- [Krazy Ken] That about
sums it up right there.
I'm gonna save that.
Wow.
That was a blast from the past.
Didn't even know that was on here.
Looks like we have the
Microsoft Office Suite.
PowerPoint.
Wow, that just loaded immediately.
Oh yeah, I remember this default screen.
Let's go to a template.
Is Dad's Tie in here?
That's like a classic one.
Dad's Tie, yeah.
Oh man, I remember back in my days
making Power Point
presentations with my clip art
and my Dad's Tie template.
Oh my gosh, the clip art
is actually loaded on here.
Shit, I never have looked at this before.
Oh yeah.
This was like the shit back then.
All of like the elementary school
and middle school teachers
would use the clip art,
and everything would be
repetitive in the same...
(laughing) Oh my gosh.
Let's do a presentation on arrows.
Now you see the arrow
is a beautiful design,
especially these arrows.
They share very common principles.
For example, they have a quasi
three-dimensional representation
with the extrusion.
It's an illusion.
They also are colored cyan.
That is a beautiful presentation.
Well done, you get the grant.
Oh, there's recent files in here.
Montage?
Montage, okay.
I don't know, this must have been on here
from the previous owner.
Oh, that's it.
Okay.
Poster?
Please insert the disk untitled.
Well, that's not happening.
Oh, oh, whoa.
We're gonna revisit this, but, oh my gosh.
Hang on.
These are where the wallpapers are.
I was looking for those earlier.
I did not look at the image,
I just saw the file name,
and I was like, oh my gosh,
you guys gotta see this.
If you're a longtime Computer Clan viewer,
you maybe remember this, but
I'm willing to bed most aren't,
and that's totally, like, understandable.
I think I saw a file that is
really like bringing me back.
Oh, it's already loaded up in this folder.
No preview available.
Okay, some of these are old
Computer Clan wallpapers.
Before we used photography to, like,
distribute wallpapers
online, we just made things
in like Pixelmator or whatever.
And I bet some of that
old stuff is in here
and I might vomit.
Okay, that wasn't mine.
Computer Clan Circles.
This one might be.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, that's something.
Oh, I just stretched it, that's not right.
There's no way to actually,
like, fill it properly.
Ah, whatever.
Close enough.
Yeah, that was an old
Computer Clan wallpaper,
yeah (laughing) we're gonna
pretend that never happened.
This is the only other
wallpaper that's ours.
Okay, so two of our
wallpapers are on here.
Oh, the old circuits.
The old circuit wallpapers.
Look at that beauty.
Oh my gosh, that is a time
travel trip right there.
All right, we're gonna go
back to the Mac OS default.
Okay, well what else is on here?
Some programs I didn't see.
I wonder what other,
like, documents or stuff
might be on here.
Blackboard.
Whoa, CD extras?
There's a whole bunch of,
like, Apple software on here.
QuickTime samples.
QuickTime 3 effects.
I don't even know.
One Week, BNL.
I have no clue.
BNL, By and Large from Wall-E?
Oh, what?
Oh shit, it's, yeah.
I didn't know they included this.
I remember Steve Jobs
played this music video
doing the Mac OS X server
demo with those 50 iMacs.
I didn't know they actually included this
sample music video.
I'm not gonna play it
because of copyright reasons,
but I'm gonna enjoy it
for myself for a bit.
Check out that old QuickTime player.
Look at that brushed metal.
That is beautiful.
Oh my gosh.
Planet Rise.
Oh shit.
Budget.
Well, it can't heard to have a peek.
Oh, (beep), it's an Excel document.
No, not, nah, asshole.
Pressed the wrong button.
Let's see.
There, I did it myself.
Screw you, Mac OS.
Let's zoom in here.
Hell, it looks like
someone was spending money.
Now, I'm not connected to the internet.
To install, just copy this
folder to your hard disk.
Oh.
iMovie.
Really, did I put that on here?
Nope, that must, no
wait, that's an app file.
That's an OS X executable.
That won't run on OS 8.5.
Yeah, preview.app, sherlock.app, yeah.
Why are these Mac OS X executable
in the OS nine folder?
Maybe I screwed that up.
I don't remember.
You Don't Know Jack.
Oh, well Brainiac Brent's gonna love that.
Yeah, we need the CD.
I figured.
Well, we tried.
I have a feeling I have opened up
Internet Explorer on this Mac
before, so it should work.
I mean, it won't connect anywhere, but...
Oh dear, did I just freeze shit?
Oh no, it's frozen.
Command + Option + Escape.
Force quit.
Of course, leave it to Internet Explorer
to freeze the computer.
Well maybe in a future
episode I may have to
try to get this thing online.
That might be fun.
I saw another game on
here that I used to play.
I played piano for most of my life,
not much recently, but when I did play,
I used to use a program,
or a game called Music Ace
which helped me learn.
And I swear I saw that
folder on, yep, Music Ace.
Also, what's in here?
Oh, (beep), oh, I'm dropping
frames, look at that mouse.
What?
Did I seriously just get a
frickin' bomb screen on OS 8.5?
What?
Restart, I guess.
Wow.
Okay, well, the restart
button's not working.
I'm gonna have to use the
physical restart button
that's on the side of the computer.
Yeah.
At least I think it's back here somewhere.
Oh, I need a pin.
Control + Command + Power?
No.
That's not doing it either.
Okay.
I'm just gonna hold down the power button.
Yeah, I'm just gonna hold
down the power button
and hope we don't kill it like
what happened with that Mac TV.
I am holding down the
power button right now,
and it's not turning off.
Are you...
Do I really need to find like a pin
to poke into that reset hole?
Shit.
Well this sucks.
I don't really have one on standby,
but I'm gonna go search around I guess.
So I did some digging, and I found one of
the most useful tools in
the computer industry.
Paper clip, yeah.
Just gonna bend this in the right way,
like that right there, shove
it in the reset button.
All right.
We're navigating to the reset button.
Three, two, one.
(chiming)
There we go, restart initiated, Houston.
We have cathode ray tube.
All right, so let's boot
back into Mac OS 8.5.
So I'm checking my math
on Mac Tracker here,
and I want to cross track
this onto another resource.
But it says revision A
originally shipped with 8.1.
Revision B shipped with 8.5.
So either this is B and
it shipped with 8.5,
or it was A with 8.1 and
then upgraded to 8.5.
So I'm not 100% sure
what revision this is.
There's gotta be like a different
model number or something.
But no, according to
this, the model identifier
is iMac one and the model number
is M4984 for both of them.
So that could be wrong, or
maybe that is what it is,
but I want to find out if this is A or B,
because I don't know.
It is a first gen, I just don't
know which revision it is.
But yeah, it could run up to Panther,
but last time I remember I tried putting
Cheetah on here, which was
the first version of Mac OS X
publicly released, and it
did not perform very well.
But I think Cheetah in general
didn't perform very well.
(laughing) There were some complaints.
I think Puma fixed some of that shit.
Anywhoozle, that was a marvelous crash.
Well done.
Let's not do that again.
Let's forget that ever happened, yay.
Let's try opening that
Music Ace thing again,
and then let's boot into Mac OS X.
I am curious about, like if
Mac OS X is actually on here
and if it works.
Yep, unable to find CD-ROM.
Well, that's the end of that.
Okay, Control Panels.
Startup, startup, startup, boop.
Oh, okay.
That's not helpful.
I know what to do.
We need to hold down the X key on startup.
Or not.
Maybe I'm a big fat liar.
There were Mac OS X executable in that
applications folder, so
I think OS X is on here
or was at one time.
I'll have to try something else.
And after closer examination
of the root of the hard drive,
there is no Mac OS X
installation on here.
Now, there must have been
at one time, because look.
Mach, mach.sym.
You have those app files or app packages
inside of this folder, but
there's no library folder.
There's no system folder.
This is the classic Mac OS system folder.
But there's no, you know,
Mac OS X system folder.
So yeah, it must have been uninstalled.
I do want to try it again, though.
I would love to try to
reinstall OS X on here.
Unfortunately, my 10.0
Cheetah CD has been damaged,
but I might have a Puma
disc lying around somewhere.
So a future installation
sensation will feature
a Mac OS X install on this iMac to see
if it can actually work properly.
So something I thought was
interesting about this iMac
was you can never put it into sleep mode,
at least not entirely.
Like, it would power down to an extent,
and the screen would turn
off, but the whole thing
would actually not go into sleep mode,
if I recall correctly.
Let's test it.
Yeah, that's interesting.
The screen turns off.
The hard drive turns off.
But the fan keeps running.
And in the second generation
iMac, there was no fan.
So I think that helped fix that problem.
But in this iMac, there is a fan.
Also, the power light turns orange.
Pretty cool.
Now we can make it turn green again.
And later they just replaced it
with the white one that pulsates.
But yeah, we had orange
and green in this version.
(horn blast)
Whoa, is that the sound
it's supposed to play,
or did I just bump a bad key?
And let's get the hard drive spun back up.
There it goes.
And we're back.
To reiterate, I absolutely
love the speakers
on this computer.
And you know, this may be debatable,
but I think the iMac G3 line
had the best built-in speakers
on any Apple product ever.
Let me know what you think.
I mean, I want to be challenged on that,
but I think that's the case.
Because if you look at
all the other speaker,
I mean, the iMac Pro
speakers are pretty good too.
Yeah, those are pretty good.
So maybe we'll say, before the iMac pro,
these were the best built-in speakers
on any Apple computer.
Let's open up the tray.
Wasn't a slot load just
yet, it was a tray.
And I think this is my demo music CD
to test out speakers
without copyright issues
because it's all my own music.
Let's pop that in.
Little light right there.
And let's test these puppies out.
Oh, it's a disc image.
Oh.
It has Resource Edit on it.
That is not helpful in the slightest.
Oh, you know what?
Hang on.
Let me eject that.
I think I know what I did wrong.
Oh no, oh shit.
Actually no, hang on.
I gotta go on a CD hunt.
Son of a bitch.
I'll figure this out.
You know, in hindsight
I probably should have,
like, labeled these, because there's
a couple unlabeled ones.
I think this is it, though.
There we go.
Audio CD.
Oh, and it just auto plays.
Yep, just like before.
And, there I go.
(suspenseful digital music)
This also wasn't professionally mastered,
so it's probably not the best test,
but it's what I've got.
(mellow rock music)
Does this go louder?
Yes it does.
Oh, that actually, it sounds
way better when it's louder.
Oh, that's nice.
Man, I wrote this a long time ago.
It was for, the lyrics never got finished,
but it was for a different film project.
But yeah, these speakers
are pretty frickin' badass.
(clicking)
Sound effects for everything.
Man, I love it.
That didn't make into OS X
or anything past OS nine,
but yeah, they were fun.
Yeah, the next goal would
be to get OS X on here
and, you know, I'm open to suggestions
about any other software things
you want me to try, or maybe
other operation systems.
I just want to get some
more stuff installed on here
and have some fun with
it now that it's busted
out of the asylum's deep storage layer.
Yeah, oh man, that place was scary.
Well thank you guys
very much for watching.
Catch the crazy and pass it on.
(upbeat dance music)
