Restoring Apple's fastest Mac (in 1990)
By the 1990s, desktop computers were being pushed to do far more than simple desktop publishing...so Apple pulled out all the stops. Mac II/IIx/IIfx BlueSCSI bracket model: https://www.printables.com/model/1115451-macintosh-ii-series-bluescsi-v2-bracket "CR2032 Toaster" battery adapters: https://github.com/alxlab-zone66x/cr2032_toaster IIfx recreation motherboards: https://github.com/TheRealBolle/IIfx Sources: TinkerDifferent forum thread with hybrid-capped IIfx: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/massive-filthy-find-in-south-carolina.4020/post-34126 "Apple's Special fx," Byte, April 1990. Mac IIfx used on Terminator 2: https://history.siggraph.org/animation-video-pod/terminator-2-computer-graphics-effects-by-cameron/ Apple Developer Note 15: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/DV_15_-_SCSI_Termination Black IIfx terminator photo: https://www.finn.no/recommerce/forsale/item/377329360? "Study ranks Mac first in class," Computerworld, April 8, 1991. "Apple offers low-cost printers, cuts PC prices," Computerworld, March 18, 1991. "Dual Dynamos," MacUser, December 1991. "Apple bids farewell to Frank Casanova after pivotal 36-year tenure," https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/24/apple-bids-farewell-to-frank-casanova-after-pivotal-36-year-tenure IIfx logic board recreation GitHub: https://github.com/TheRealBolle/IIfx 00:00 - Introduction 01:26 - What's in the box??? 03:25 - Double trouble 06:07 - Everyone loves a montage 08:09 - Why did you skip the montage?! 09:38 - Gotta go fast 12:06 - Ready for liftoff 13:41 - TWO montages in one video, wow 14:57 - dddddddddddddddddd 16:35 - If you have to ask how much it costs... 18:59 - The final chapter ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on social media! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com). Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).
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