Vintage Apple Macintosh SE Computer Review

[GhyslainAR]

I actually have the previous model ! I find it so awesome ! I use it to play the brick game !

[Dell0304]

I found one of these at the dump. Powers on and works, even came with the original manual.

[iToasterman]

@Gamester81 Very Wrong about windows Xerox made the first GUI...

[homg85]

o man we had these in preschool i was so amazed by it!

[er10b]

Great video. Reminds me of my old Grade 1 teacher's Mac SE - was given to her by the school district but she never used it.

[bobakalama]

Hey Gamester, Where can i pick up a mouse and keyboard for this machine

[gameboy3800]

i have the dual drive model as well. very nice. keep up the great work!

[whotaughtyou]

XM.?/OSAFECRACKER

[whotaughtyou]

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[whotaughtyou]

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[4iamPJ]

i have a macintosh SE/30, but i dont have the keyboard or mouse :(

[retrogamerSam]

@4iamPJ ditto

[gocountry1391]

you type fast 3:51

[dvamateur]

Great computer for MIDI applications with software like MOTU Performer, Opcode Vision, Logic, and Cubase. Why does none of the vintage computer guys even mention that?

[TheSpike3000]

Did you have to put a floppy in to get on Macdraw?

[scleme316]

Wow, never saw this... I have one too...

[kasm279]

I've got one of these, a pristene dual 800k floppy drive model with an external GCC Technologies UltraDrive 40S hard drive, which is 40MB.

[benharyo]

I very much wish to buy a Mac SE, I used to play with my uncle's back then in 1987-1988, and I can afford to buy now, but alas, the price for shipping from USA to my country Indonesia is so very expensive..woe to me.. :(

[kasm279]

@benharyo Make sure you get an SE FDHD. Otherwise its a pain to find 800k diskettes for the thing..

[benharyo]

@kasm279 : thank you for the reminder! :)



[curvaciousMammi]

Hahaha that's awesome just bought a new Mac for 1300. Crazy to think Thats what started it lol

[dumpstermower]

I have 4 of these that I rescued from the dumpster. One is an SE and the other 3 are 512's. I also have the rare external hard drive. I don't use them often but couldn't bear to see them get trashed. Great video.

[cmarshall1018]

@dumpstermower are you willing to sell the 512

[dumpstermower]

@cmarshall1018 Hi. Yes, I was thinking of putting two of them on eBay. The SE I found a keyboard for last Saturday at the same place I got the computers, and I ordered a vintage mouse off eBay for it. But yes, I would like to sell two of the 512's.

[16mmDJ]

Cool. I have almost exactly the same setup. The keys on the keyboard of mine look a tad different though.

[dumpstermower]

I have 2 MAC 512's and an SE that I rescued from my town drop-off center. I have no keyboard or mouse for the SE though so all I can do is boot it up to the desktop. I love these old machines though. Thanks for posting this.

[Danny77uk]

The 20mb HD was an option. The basic model had two floppy drives and was a lot cheaper. I had one. Really, really nice screen. There was nothing else like it for a long time. While PCs shipped with color monitors, they were really low-res and blurry.

Favorite games were Warlords, SimAnt, Curse of the Asure Bonds.

What's up with the horrible video?!

[Tronlegacy22]

Does the top drive house the hard disk?

[wretchedstare]

I had a Macintosh Plus it was a great little computer, I had to give it up to make room for my Performa 520 all-in one and my Power Mac 6100/60 (PC) that I no longer have.

I do miss them I hope to get a Power Macintosh G3 266 or a Color Classic II someday.

[Frankkaiba]

i remeber having one of those. i wish i had another one.

[Fender7083]

Trade you for a ti-99!

[Lachlant1984]

Have you uploaded any footage of computer games running on this machine?

[mewdude98]

do you know about the apple lisa? They're like a hybrid between the early macs and the late apple computers.

[Jgump20]

Do you know why it is bad to crash the computer?

Awesome video!!

[atomikrobot300099]

Reader Rabbit FTW!

[forrestgumby]

Oh man. I remember using these kind of computers in junior high. The one I used had some startup sound had a sound bite from Star Trek. Thats when I thought, "Wow, computers can't get any better than this." I still say that today lol

[ilovmaccomputers]

wow thats really amazing!

[522viper]

Holy fuck, almost 4 grand?! I could buy a decent car with that money back then, lol.

[TheMetroidMurderer]

I have a Apple Macintosh Powerbook 100 its a rare laptop I have the disk drive with a floppy disk and the original a/c adaptor after watching this it looks like a portable version this computer.

[TheUnixCube]

the sad part is... I had 2 of these and I threw them out a few years back.

I could have sold it !!!

[nityking1]

if there are rare my school is fucking lucky because they have at least 250 in there warehouses and in a few classrooms...ill have to call them and see if they will sell them

[JOESONYNERD]

How expencive are vintage computers

[Gamester81]

Hey Joe, it really depends on what type of vintage computer you are looking into getting.

[GmTruckCarLove]

@Gamester81 I have an Tandy, I got it for about $3

[yuiopads100]

@Gamester81 hey how do the people on youtube that do reviews get so much stuff please reply soon

[tjfan48]

@Gamester81 I have one of these, perfect condition and working, how much would it sell do you think?

[VaderNES]

@JOESONYNERD Most classic Macs are fairly cheap, in the range of $70 US to $20 US. Apple IIs are somewhere in the range of $70 to $200, depending on included accessories and software. Moving up, original 1984 128k Macs can go to $500 or more. The most expensive, though, would be Apple IIIs and Apple Lisas, which can go upwards from $1000, or if you are very lucky, for cheaper. (though usually it is more).

If you want one, though, your best bet is a Macintosh SE, which usually retails for $50.

[ZwienerZ]

Oh man. I remember playing Yahtzee back in the day!

[rescuehero942]

$3,900? ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh to expenise

[duvisa]

very nice apple man!!! its in great shape, congrats!! i have a apple mac G3 and i lovet, apple rules!

[gamesessions]

Great to see the old mac going there :)

I used to play on my friend's mac all the time and it was a great little system. Would have been nice to see some gameplay action on there too - you have any games for it?

One of my faves was actually Battle Chess, great game with some wonderful animations. I grew up with Battle Chess on the Amiga, it was my first game for the system, but I preferred a lot of the death animations on the Mac version despite it only being B&W.

Thanks for the review! :)

[KamratSvenneryd]

I've got a macintosh classic myself, I got it free in the 90's.

I saw it in a container outside the university in town (we used to live close by) they had thrown it out and it might sound a bit funky but I just had to have it so I dug it out.

Sadly to this day I haven't gotten any new programs for it and it just had a couple installed so right now it just sits in my closet.

Need to check some auction sites, thanks for making this video, it's kind of cool. :)

[Gamester81]

Nice one man's trash is another's treasure.

[richardmaudsley77]

Can you fit a CF card to it? It would speed up disk access a LOT.

[CarManiac225]

Does it happen to have a Hyperdrive?

[hddr3]

the se weighed 17 pounds but the imac g3 weighed 40 pounds!

[Adem242]

I still have my apple Mac SE. It is my favorite computer. I wish professors of mine would let me do work on it rather than the other computers. It booted up in less than 10 seconds.

[VaderNES]

This is the greatest Macintosh of all time. I am honoured to own one, and I am honoured to have it on my desktop.

[hazzardwantcookies]

if you have like a mac II or III i suggest those microsoft flight sim games like3.0 and 4.0. they were very smooth and had nice colors for the time. and they mastered 3D before most others

[Gamester81]

Cool I don't own a Mac II or II, but if I pick one up, I'll keep that in mind.

[nickiscool15]

i had one of those, my brother put a game called kill barney, i think it was made by a friend of his, but i could be mistaken. awesome though

[shock25sr]

mankind is fresh out of new ideas!everything we all know has already been thought out or invented before anyone thought about it!ì just thought its funny that the os we see here is similar in so many ways similar to the windows we`ve all come to know a long,long time ago!thats something no one can deny!

[shock25sr]

I`m amazed as to how bill gates stoll all these ideas and gott away with it!lol!im not a mac fan,but this must have been a really cool computer back in the days!nice work gamester!keep at it!

[tonightwefly]

he didnt steal anything, he had a simmilar idea. just cos he made a simmilar system it doesnt mean its copierd otherwise you could say the nintendo wii is a ps3 copy or the ps3 is a xbox copy. hmmm the Nokia n95 is a copy of a samsung g600.

[nintengirl79]

I remember these. I think my elementary school had them. I think these were the kind of computers you could play Oregon Trail in DOS format or something.

[strictlysega]

just reading jakes comment,,, how on earth did Sobs settle with a black and white monitor for so long... even when he went on to NEXT the pc was still basic monochrome.. seems odd that with such a show off machine they would of pushed colour into it earlier.. i mean the apple2e's were colour... hmmm quite odd.

[kennytheamazing]

Ubuntu Linux's gui still looks a lot like that.

great review

[LCDragonrats]

That is an awesome review, I feel guilty now, I destroyed the Mac SE at Virginia Tech during a rally on Mac haters, now I like Mac, the event was on October 24, 2001, and I destroyed 2 of them I bought for $60 total, now I wish I never done that!

[MN12BIRD]

Looks like a great GUI/OS but damn no color in the late 80's at that price is kinda odd!

[ItsMyNaturalColour]

yeah, no color is a bummer.

I have a similar Mac that came out in 1991 (Macintosh Classic), and that is still using a very similar black and white screen that this SE is using.

Tom

[Gamester81]

Cool isn't the Macintosh Classic one of the last Macs they made in this model.

[ItsMyNaturalColour]

Yeah - it is. They made the Macintosh Classic, Macintosh Classic II, Macintosh Colour Classic, and a few different models of that I believe, and then that was it for the original styled all in one design.

I would love to get either the SE, SE/30, or the original Macintosh 128k...

Thanks for the vid,

Tom

[TigerClawTV]

I had an old mac like that 20 years ago. I really enjoyed this vid. good job man.

[gamerjr92]

ive got an old TI in my closet; i lost the monitor cable from when i moved. even got the speech synthisizer, floppy drive and 1 floppy, speech synthesizer, and the super sketch. i once had it hooked up and it works fine but i was only in 6th grade when i tried last. one day ill buy the cable for like 15$ and hook it up.

[clonetrooper009]

Monitor! Thats what it's called

[clonetrooper009]

I have this Compaq Evo. I brought it from my school for 100 dollers. But sadly, they replaced the keyboard, mouse, and screen thing (I forgot the correct term). So evon though it's old ( little joke. get it? evon and even?), it's not that vintage. Actually, it's not that old. But I think it was made in 2002.

[PhatPhunk]

Wow.. Pure retro goodness! I've never used a Mac before :( I remember admiring it's mouse capabilities back in the days.. I miss my 8088 PC which is my very first one I got.. That could only run the most, DOS 6.22. Wish I still have it with me..

[The16bitwarrior]

I'm always learning some thing new from watching your videos as we get screwed alot in the U.K. with games and systems not released.

Thanks for expanding my horizons

[WARPUDDY666]

what are these worth now to a collector I saw one last year in a thriftstore still mint in unopened boxes for $50 think it was same one

[Gamester81]

I was lucky because I got this for free from a friend. Usually I see them sell on ebay for over $100+ $50 shipping.

[dbozan99]

I have an SE/30 in the garage in a nice carrying case and my dad has done some custom paint jobs on some and sold them on eBay.

[vintagevideogamegeek]

Oh man, this is great man. We had these in middle school. I actually used this to make my own point and click adventure game like Kings Quest. It was set in the school and you could go around and break stuff. It was awesome. I always wanted one of these, but our first computer was a Packard Bell 286 with Dos Shell.

[zeldajunkielol2]

Reader Rabbit is a great game those learning company games are awesome.

[Pikminking56]

Nostalgia explosion!

[graftwins3]

cool review a have a new (2008) imac.

[sieglines]

my school has tons of these and transparent ones.

[vipor29]

i would love to get ahold of a mac,i used to play with these when i was a kid

[Ready03]

look forward to your video's. They are always interesting. keep it up.

[111CountDooku111]

haha I love old computers! Gonan dig out my old windows 95 system! (obviously not as old as this but still cool)

[KieranD212]

graphical user interface GUI as compared to CLI command line interface like DOS

[nickpj9695]

Oregon Trail, ahh that game brings back great memories. That was my first computer game.

[pixle101]

I wish I would have started with mac back then.

[nathanallan1]

what, no screen capture?? YEAH RIGHT! Great video!

[gateway123456778900]

we had one those in my school and i think a C64 good video man. i always enjoy watching ur videos. keep up the good work.

[jackomaco]

lol when i was in elementary school they used windows 1995 hahaha

[atari94]

wow that was one of the first computers my family owend.

[ARProductions2009]

When I was in grade school we had PC's like this, and some newer macs, and what not.....I am not a big fan of the MAC, but damnit, i miss them old days.

[sinistermoon]

Right on man I saw a couple of really nice Apple 2s at a yard sale a couple of weeks ago and the guy said I could have them. And I really wanted them but I just don't have any where to put them so I passed. But if I would have had room I would have took them that is for sure. I see them all the time at thrift stores for cheap so one day I will pick one up. Cool video man.

[member0900]

D:<<<< agian u have somthing i want to see cool though 5/5

[DeanoTheLegend87]

Don't forget the coleco Adam that you also did.

[elbryan42]

My high school had an entire computer lab full of those. Plenty of Guantlet clones on it.

[jackomaco]

very nice man!