I know that place in Boca Raton...I did work there a little over a year ago, opened up a DR site for my company. Heard the whole place was designed by the same guy who did the Pentagon lol.
Hey, I heard you mention tech facility in Baca Raton...do you mean that big building in the shape of a circle on TRex Ave? Just wondering...was there not long ago doing work.
That reel to reel tape deck probably had RCA valves in worth selling! Probably an EZ81 rectifier and a ECL82 pentode/triode. Very worth saving - someone on eBay would want it.
nice collection of stuff in there! cant wait till you make more vids! love all the old apple stuff, id kill to have that many apple II diskettes. my apple iie just sits there and looks nice :-P!!
HOLY SHIT SO MUCH APPLE STUFF! You even have the Lisa!! one of the Legacy brands of apple before it got fully replaced by Macintosh otherwise now known as Mac ^_^ -Throws ant piss at ya- XD funny vid
A few things here. One is that I totally agree with you about microsoft being needed for apple at that time, and its really all microsoft did was doing software and DOS until windows unless I am wrong.
dude, that issue of macweek was published on the month and year i was born on. nice collectors item, i bet if you were to sell that on ebay you would make a lot of money for both of those magazines
Hi Jack - ACTUALLY, Steve Wozniak HAS watched these movies, and was nice enough to send me an email. If you watch my Thanksgiving preview movie, I turn the camera onto the computer's monitor to check email, and if you freeze it, you will see that the email is from Woz. Very cool. Very nice of him - he really got a laugh out of this stuff! Thanks for watching, Jack!
Oh, you mean my "FF Class" Urban Assault Vehicle? I'll tell you the truth - I was going to get another Xterra, but they got rid of the leather package and I have an allergy to synthetics -- but the H3 had a leather interior, so there you have it!
An audio cassette player in a computer? Wow, that's something I've never seen. Those things were only used for audio, right? You couldn't save data on them too? Because I just remember recording songs off the radio onto them as a kid and then sticking them in my little sister's Teddy Ruxbin and then start pretending Teddy was eating my hand. Imagination is a wonderful thing, especially if you were a kid in the early-mid 80s. ;)
Hi Colin - the point was to document a little bit of computer and 1980's history, with my style of 'bad comedy' -- I hope you enjoyed it. I still have another half of that damn storage facility to clean out!
thats was intresting, i didnt know that about AOL. IF apple did half the stuff it threw away it would be on the PS6 by now, lol. cheerz for that, you learn something every day
Hi George - I referred to my storage unit as a "Tomb", due to its contents and the fact that I had not been to it in years. The first video was called "Tomb" and the re-visit, to get more stuff was "Tomb Raider" - the third and final visit might be called "Tomb Stone".
People are so funny! I can't believe these 1 Kb pieces of hardware crap are state of the art those days. I really wish I can go back in time and show them my 8 GB Dual Core Intel PC to those techno-nerd cavemen of those days. LOL!
Agreed. It was all relative though -- the small microcomputers (we didn't call them PC's back then) were as powerful as machines that took up an entire room! We've come a long way. Thanks for watching! - Alfred
This is great. My earliest memories were stuff like the megadrive (Genesis in US) etc (I'm 18), but my parents don't seem to want me to keep things for the sake of nostalgia. I've always dreamed of working for apple, u lucky b****rd
Hey Boi - thanks for the note. I hope you got a good laugh and had some fun looking at my stuff - I will be returning to E-59 for 'Round 3' LOL! - Alfred
DMX - wow some of the crap in the storage facility is older than you then! Interesting that the magazine was 'in sync' with your birth month and year - some high level significance there? Who knows! :) Thanks for watching!
hey al thanks for the history lesson on Apple! i own a 5.5 gen 30 gig ipod video, and love it of course! i do however do not own a apple computer because i hear they crash alot!! what do these fuck-tards (excuse me for that) do with their apple computers to make em crash so often! an answer to the computer thing whould be cool also i hope you got that ant smell outta the hummer H2. dude those manuals go back before i was born LOL
Hey Ich (Trevor, right?) - The Mac's running OSX are very stable. Apple's prior operating system, OS9, was a bit flakey, and that would lock up quite a bit! YES, the Hummer is now free of ant piss smell! LOL! Thanks for watching! - Alfred
I really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing the past. The earliest thing I got from the "past" is my game consoles such as a Super Nintendo, Sega Saturn, and Sega Genesis. :D I'm 16.
Molo - ahh, so you know exactly what I'm meaning when I sing "Do do do do do do do do do doooooo... Daya-Tone-aaaaahhhh" LOL! I skipped the Nintendo era and went right for the Atari Jaguar, Saturn, etc. I will be yanking out the old video game systems and filming them as well! Stay tuned! - Alfred
Zik - naah, things are much better 'now' than back 'then.' Could you imagine using a 300 baud modem (data transfer of 30 characters a second - I can almost type that fast!). Thanks for watching! - Alfred
yeah man, I guess you're right. but I just love watching the history and development of all this old school stuff.
I mean, I remember using the apple II back in first grade for typing lessons and stuff. it seemed so high tech back, everybody was using computers. it just blows your mind how far we've come in so little time
I'm just wondering how far we'll go in the years to come.
Zik! Don't worry -- there is more to come. The damn Lisa video has over 70,000 views, and even Tomb Raider is over 2,000 - so there is a good crew into the 'retro thing' - you are not alone! So YES, more to come. I hope I don't have any more problems with ant piss. LOL! Thanks for watching! - Alfred
Alfred will there be a part 3? I hope so, I love looking at all that stuff. You go way back. What did Woz say about all your stuff? Im thinking I am going to start keeping alot of my own stuff (Mac boxes, Ipods, Nanos, Shuffles, everything tech so 30 years from now I can also have something to look back at. You gave me a great idea. I love these kind of videos.
Woooo yes! cant wait. You also didnt quite shows us the Lisa powered up you ubm, after the explosion alarm you left us hanging. But hey at least your a bum with a bussiness, but how does that mekae you a bum? I guess you own the bussiness but you dont get any of the profits, so hence your a bum! lol. TTYL
Eric - watch it again! For two seconds, you WILL see her successfully boot the Lisa 7/7 system! Third installment will be "Tomb Stone", and that should be filmed sometime in March (I'm booked every weekend in Feb). More to come, and thanks for all of your support! - Alfred (PS: I'm attending the SuperBowl this Sunday! Woo-Hoo!)
Thnx Alfred, I cant wait for Part 3. OMG! Superbowl Sunday! Bum you have got to tape it in person, who knows something historical could happen or better yet the alftime show could have some "Janet Jackson" type of incident and you could tape it live. Im also looking forward to a Superbowl video fo yours. TTYL. WoO!
Alfred! Good GOd you are so amazing, the stuff you know and have is just insane! You practically have a time capsule there, you can start a museum with all that stuff, please dont trash all the goodies, you have historic stuff that wont be made ever again. I bet David would be going all crazy over Apple stuff. How I love Apple, so unique and different.
Eric! Thanks for the very nice compliment. I appreciate it. Please know that I do all that I am doing know for YOU GUYS. Really, and I am glad you appreciate it. It's posts like this that keep me going with all this crap! - Alfred
Luke! - Oh no, trust me on this one, it was ant shit, piss, and carcasses. It was some nasty stuff. LOL! Thanks for watching! Make sure you watch Part I - Tomb as well! - Alfred
have you said it can fit on a drive? i say it would fit on a single cd and still you could put some mp3's in there! hehe I can understand this, we got my father's old data in a trash last july!
Thanks for showing this! You have some really cool stuff there. :) I'm thinking about doing the same with all my boxes in the basement and my dads garage. There should be around 10-15 home computers there and probably some nice accessories too.
As for clickety-click kayboards, I'm using an good old IBM keyboard from ~1994.
Hey Alfred, again another excellent video. I laughed so hard with your findings, and deep down I am insanely jealous with the "crap" that you had in your storage facility. I loved the keyboard the most, I still use a clickety-clack d|i|g|i|t|a|l keyboard for my PC (remember them?), which is a luxury since it has a PS/2 port, and they still come with PCs nowadays.
Hey AC! Thanks for watching. I'm glad I'm able to share this stuff with everyone via the videos -- it finally has a purpose! More to come, so please stay tuned. I have a Lisa and a Next Cube in my office at work I"ll be videoing soon! - Alfred
Dude, you never cease to amaze me with your sense of humour.. That's some pretty old Apple-crap ya got there... I recently made a picture tutorial on how to add a DVD burner to your G4 Powermac on my website, inspired by your G4 Upgrade video. I've got some more G4 upgrades coming in soon (cpu, 2gb ram, 9800 pro 256mb).. AND I have access to a digital camcorder, so once everything's sorted, I'll posta vid of it all coming together.
Im a sucker for this kinda nostalgic stuff. But man WHAT a collection, admittedly though most of that stuff was around before i was even born, Excellant work Alfred(as usual) keep it up!!
MC! Oh yes, there are def. old stinkers in that storage facility. Wait a moment, technically, while clearing it out, "I" was in that storage facility, so that makes me an 'old stinker' as well! Thanks for watching! - Alfred
Do you have an Apple II to look at some of those floppies? Or are you going to not even bother? Shit, either way, great video, I wish I had a bunch of old hardware and stuff pc, mac, whatever ya know.
Vox! YES, there are Apple II's (notice the plural). If all goes as planned, you may even see an 'on location boot' - keep your fingers crossed, because it's been YEARS! - Alfred
Alfred -- Great video! I wish our family had bought a Mac in the mid-80's instead of that IBM POS we had. We went the route of the IBM PC and I always wondered what Apple was doing after I stopped seeing them in school. I was in the computer club at my elementary school, using Kid Pix on Macs! Hah! :) -- Jared
Kid Pix! Wow, we sold A LOT of that particular software program, to schools and to homes! That's a good one -- I had forgotten all about that software title. So what computer are you using 'right now'? Right this moment, I'm on the heavily upgraded G4 system. It just keeps going... :)
I have a P4 2.6GHz Shuttle MicroATX w/ 1GB RAM that I put together and normally work on. However, ever since I borrowed this 12" PowerBook "until further notice" from my boss I've been using it more than my desktop. Although it's only an 867MHz PPC G4, I love the software that much!
Hah, I remember doing that as well! Heck, it was hours of fun just making simple animations with the stamp sets. I still have the latest version on CD somewhere. Gotta dig that out. I wonder if it was a Mac/PC hybrid disk...
Alfred, you've got to do a video demo of your favorite "vintage" software!
Hi Antonio - thanks for watching. I think Part III will be entitled "Tomb Stone" LOL! I might have a friend work the camera, so I can jump around a bit more. Thanks for the support - Alfred.
All that junk is basically worthless, why do you keep it? Also, no one really cares about the history, it is about as interesting as talking about quill pens.
Gem-junk to some, treasures to others. I've already had two Apple collectors email me to probe item sales. Regarding why I kept it, the purposes was to do what I'm doing now, to share the history. And now I ask you - why did you upload that cheesy music video from 1985?
Continued - Computer 'history' is just not appreciated, most of my computer junk went to a drop off station, then on to a landfill. Now I just toss everything out as soon as it is obsolete and replaced by newer technology. I do not like flat-panel monitors so my CRTs remain, the new monitors just aren't the same at all in my opinion - this is the 'first' time I have stuck with 'old' technology, ha ha!
Hi Gem - everyone is entitled to an opinion, and this is certainly your opinion, which is well stated here. Thanks for contrbuting to the discussion. Please DO NOT watch Part III: Tomb Stone (coming soon) - Alfred
Oh I'll watch it, just to see if you pull something really valuable out, like maybe a nice Irish pipe or some really serious historical camera equipment, or maybe a really cool coin or stamp collection! ;)
Ah-ha! No I am not an expert, but it is easy to find those who are if you live near or in a city, just look in the phone book or find someone online. Uncanceled stamps are of the most value, unless the canceled stamp is really old and rare. Good luck!
Computer history and music history are completely different things and it costs basically nothing and takes up almost no space to archive music. Once upon a time I had piles of computer crap and I would say that 99 percent plus of the population could care less about slow and now useless machines and their obsolete software. Continued -
Serious about what - a "massive sale" or "still more to come?" LOL! I might film "Tomb Stone" (E-59, round III) this weekend -- would you want to see that?
Hummer is smelling fine now - damn, all that garbage really stunk it up BIG TIME! There was a power struggle when Sculley was at the helm, and the board voted to throw him out. It was all about 'control', in my opinion. Crazy times, back then! Thanks for watching! - Alfred
K, you know me. If I sell it -- I will sell EVERYTHING in ONE SHOT for an aggressive number. The Lisa, Apple ///, NeXT Cube, the books, magazines, EVERYTHING. I'm not ready to do that.. yet :) I still have more to share with you all! - Alfred
You should have gotten yourself a storage unit with climate control... it might have preserved all that stuff for a long time! And those fire ants might not have had the chance to get in all your shit! But anyways, sorry to take so long to comment even one of your vids. Keep 'em coming!
Haha... this video is another DiBlasi classic. You really could have used one of those cans of KnockItOff, with all the ant piss around and whatnot. Damn... I never knew the story about America Online - you're a plethora of great info on Apple history! Dude... you need to hang on to that Mac Weekly mag with the article on "what NeXT means to Apple" -- that HAS to be worth money, if not just for the history. WHAT THE HELL was up with that shrunken head?!? Lol...
HAH! You are prepared! I love it! You're bringing back the memories. Ant doodie...LOL. F-tards...LOL. You're killing me! I love it! Happy New Year...baby!
Red. Damn. I didn't even THINK about that. Sorry. Really. wow. Having to start at me for a 30 seconds awaiting Laura. :) I owe you one, really. Thanks for commenting - Alfred
Al, if you have 1750 of those old Apple floppies (at 140K each), you can fill up a 256MB thumb drive. I've got a spare if you need one. ;-) And some Apple ][ stuff of my own...
JAY! I enjoyed reading EVERY ONE of your comments. And YOUR videos, editing, style, technique has been an inspiration for me (those watching, please check out Jay's GREAT videos). Thank you very much for your support! More to come. - Alfred
Alfred, awesome video as usual! That keyboard is so awesomely loud!!! Haha! I think it's so awesome how Steve Wozniak is actually viewng these videos. I'm sure Jobs is doing the same! Do you realize how cool that is? =D Anyway keep the "good stuff" coming! I'm favoriting and 5-starring this!
False alarm on the deleting stuff. YouTube was being an F-Tard and showing my comments one minute, then not showing them the next. Anyways, I queued these comments in a Notepad file and posted them when I could. I don't do this stuff for just any video. Good job. =)
On the Apple III poster. Do you really want to glamorize a computer that was infamous for melting itself? LOL. On the old keyboard, believe it or not they still make beige keyboards that type and feel like 80s keyboards. You just have to look around really hard to find them. Those plaques are cool though.
Holy crap. Sorry for the comment train if you deleted everything. I just had so much to say about this awesome video that I was shaking my fist at YouTube's 500 character limit. 500 characters doesn't do this film justice man. 5 stars, favorited, and featured. =)
On AOL from Applelink. Wow. I'm glad Apple didn't have anything to do with that mess, or maybe if they stayed involved things would have been different. Isn't that wide printer from the Imagewriter 1 generation? LOL. I've used those before, as well as their Imagewriter II descendants.
More random stuff. First of which, don't slam CRTs. I still prefer CRTs over LCDs for gaming. I only got an LCD to save on my electric bill. =) Secondly, that Microsoft guide looks like it's from the Windows 1.0 era with how they spell Microsoft. Definitely geek museum material. =D
I'll second that (for the most part)... pixel refresh rate is still way behind CRT's. But also, I don't think LCD's are quite as good as CRT's for color correcting photos. Viewing angle is always going to be a disadvantage. But the space & energy savings, and crispness are huge pluses!
Absolutely. It's pretty much a given that LCDs have eaten up the CRT's market from the inside-out, leaving only the extreme low- and high-end these days. CRTs will be a niche product once LCD technology becomes comparable across most applications. Darn. Maybe I should post the video response I made yesterday now. =)
Floppy disks. LOL. See if you can dig up some 8" floppies. You know, the predecessor to 5.25" floppies? =) My high school had an ancient CAM machine that ran on 8" floppies. Truly a sight.
You're not that much of an old battleaxe to use cars on electric tracks. My generation had those too. We always used to love running those cars too fast and watching them fly off the track in between rounds of Atari 2600 back in the 80s.
YEAH!!! Comment train en route. I favorited this one and I'm gonna use up all my comments on this one video. First off, yeah I remember Hypercard. A friend of mine programmed a cheesy Mac game in it back in the early 1990s. I tried something in Hypercard once, but never really made anything too successful on Macs other than alert sounds.
Awesome nostalgic video ^^
I know that place in Boca Raton...I did work there a little over a year ago, opened up a DR site for my company. Heard the whole place was designed by the same guy who did the Pentagon lol.
Silent157 3 months ago
@Silent157 Hi Edward; thanks. More retro 'crap' coming soon - Alfred.
adiblasi 3 months ago
you speak reaaaallll fast but its awesome
spleenandpie 1 year ago
:P I was born in 1995. So like 99,5% of the stuff in the storage facility is older than i am. I really enjoyed this video tough.
Hugo2608 1 year ago
wow.... will my stuff last that long... maybe in 20 years ill make my video
AaronBalitskyz 2 years ago
Wow, I should get Steel Battalion. The First Leon.
CarManiac225 2 years ago
I still own a working PET. :)
mvogt 2 years ago
Hey Al, really enjoyed this. It's Chica incase you were not sure.
@carManiac225, yes, he really does know Woz.
Take care and hope to see you on the "stream" (lol) soon, been so freakin busy I keep missing you!
jerryschica 2 years ago
Do You Really Know Woz?? OR ARE U FREAKING LIYING!!
CarManiac225 2 years ago
i think he promoted apple products in the 80's
Captnuendo 2 years ago
I have just subscribed - great video!
matthew376 2 years ago
Pretty cool finds ^^
Hey, I heard you mention tech facility in Baca Raton...do you mean that big building in the shape of a circle on TRex Ave? Just wondering...was there not long ago doing work.
Silent157 3 years ago
Woops, meant Boca Raton, FL
Silent157 3 years ago
funny video lets chat
great vid sd
Giomarsito 3 years ago
can i have those floppies i have a apple 2e
cmarshall1018 3 years ago
No i want em! give em to me!
Captnuendo 2 years ago
10:16 - 10:28 LOL!
garry12gg 3 years ago
lol coconut ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ninjajumper14 3 years ago
? What??
COCONUT202 3 years ago
That reel to reel tape deck probably had RCA valves in worth selling! Probably an EZ81 rectifier and a ECL82 pentode/triode. Very worth saving - someone on eBay would want it.
3Deity 3 years ago
wow I'm born on december 8th !!!
you should open up a museum
youngLaraCroft 3 years ago
Did Woz ever get back to you on the Apple II motherboard?
JoshuaClark1 3 years ago
hey alfred!
nice collection of stuff in there! cant wait till you make more vids! love all the old apple stuff, id kill to have that many apple II diskettes. my apple iie just sits there and looks nice :-P!!
thanks for posting
valliseasons1 3 years ago
HOLY SHIT SO MUCH APPLE STUFF! You even have the Lisa!! one of the Legacy brands of apple before it got fully replaced by Macintosh otherwise now known as Mac ^_^ -Throws ant piss at ya- XD funny vid
xxDemonAngelZainxx 4 years ago
OMG! I had that exact same wide imagewriter dot matrix printer. That thing was loud.
BobbyBrady2000 4 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
macweek
ha
more like crapweek
am i right
nightmareofxmas 4 years ago
no yo are not
djneo92nl 3 years ago 4
Dude! You videos are awesome! I love all this I.T history stuff!! Wish I was around then... :( I'm 16 lol, accept my hotmail address please
Oneworld87 4 years ago
LOL @ the face.
negativeeffect 4 years ago
lol
XxXRicky172XxX 4 years ago
Circle jerks. Funny.
thephoenixforce 4 years ago
A few things here. One is that I totally agree with you about microsoft being needed for apple at that time, and its really all microsoft did was doing software and DOS until windows unless I am wrong.
hansolo1024 4 years ago
oops I mean "ant".
supershaun91 4 years ago
Hey Al, I guess It took a long time too get rid of the smell of art piss and shit in your hummer. HUH?
supershaun91 4 years ago 2
Good One Al. Kinda neat seeing your stuff you acquired over the years.
PaganEgyptian 4 years ago 3
shit
lolopololo 4 years ago
that end was so funny i couldnt stop laughing sorry to hear it smells like shit cool stuff you found did u bomb the spider?
skateAR6 4 years ago
dude, that issue of macweek was published on the month and year i was born on. nice collectors item, i bet if you were to sell that on ebay you would make a lot of money for both of those magazines
dj9volt 4 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
boring.....
cinthialekso 4 years ago
Half a year since....How about an update? :-)
PuppyZwolle 4 years ago
Did you kill the spider the size of NJ when you bombed the storage room or was it still scuttling around when you came back?
Skwisgaar999 4 years ago
crap....
you could make an absoloute mint from that
jackpierce10 4 years ago
let me guess steve never got back to you
jackpierce10 4 years ago
Hi Jack - ACTUALLY, Steve Wozniak HAS watched these movies, and was nice enough to send me an email. If you watch my Thanksgiving preview movie, I turn the camera onto the computer's monitor to check email, and if you freeze it, you will see that the email is from Woz. Very cool. Very nice of him - he really got a laugh out of this stuff! Thanks for watching, Jack!
adiblasi 4 years ago
No offense, but why do you have a hummer, Al?
Skwisgaar999 4 years ago
Oh, you mean my "FF Class" Urban Assault Vehicle? I'll tell you the truth - I was going to get another Xterra, but they got rid of the leather package and I have an allergy to synthetics -- but the H3 had a leather interior, so there you have it!
adiblasi 4 years ago
That's really cool man! I'm not much into Apple or anything but I'm really interested in learning more about them, their history and stuff.
Azkridth 4 years ago
Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed this! - Alfred
adiblasi 4 years ago
An audio cassette player in a computer? Wow, that's something I've never seen. Those things were only used for audio, right? You couldn't save data on them too? Because I just remember recording songs off the radio onto them as a kid and then sticking them in my little sister's Teddy Ruxbin and then start pretending Teddy was eating my hand. Imagination is a wonderful thing, especially if you were a kid in the early-mid 80s. ;)
wednesday181 5 years ago
no it was only used for VERY slow data storage not audio cassettes
cassettiespagetie 5 years ago
whats the piont of thia? LMAO, LOL
lisaamonty 5 years ago
Hi Colin - the point was to document a little bit of computer and 1980's history, with my style of 'bad comedy' -- I hope you enjoyed it. I still have another half of that damn storage facility to clean out!
adiblasi 4 years ago
nice video- Thanks for taking the effort and showing a glimpse of computing history!
goreganza 5 years ago
Hi G - thanks for the nice comment, and for watching!
adiblasi 4 years ago
lol ant piss!!
djklink20009 5 years ago
I hate ant piss...
adiblasi 4 years ago 3
i wonder how much each of those companies paid this guy for the plugins
chunaslopez 5 years ago
thats was intresting, i didnt know that about AOL. IF apple did half the stuff it threw away it would be on the PS6 by now, lol. cheerz for that, you learn something every day
Pauluk33 5 years ago
And, why exactly is the name of the video "tomb raider" ?
O_o
Georgeganno 5 years ago
Hi George - I referred to my storage unit as a "Tomb", due to its contents and the fact that I had not been to it in years. The first video was called "Tomb" and the re-visit, to get more stuff was "Tomb Raider" - the third and final visit might be called "Tomb Stone".
adiblasi 5 years ago
not bad
Desintyx2 5 years ago
People are so funny! I can't believe these 1 Kb pieces of hardware crap are state of the art those days. I really wish I can go back in time and show them my 8 GB Dual Core Intel PC to those techno-nerd cavemen of those days. LOL!
ler0np0 5 years ago
Agreed. It was all relative though -- the small microcomputers (we didn't call them PC's back then) were as powerful as machines that took up an entire room! We've come a long way. Thanks for watching! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
Apple machines Crash a lot????
hahahahahahahahahaha
TERRANCIO 5 years ago
This is great. My earliest memories were stuff like the megadrive (Genesis in US) etc (I'm 18), but my parents don't seem to want me to keep things for the sake of nostalgia. I've always dreamed of working for apple, u lucky b****rd
sissyboi 5 years ago
Hey Boi - thanks for the note. I hope you got a good laugh and had some fun looking at my stuff - I will be returning to E-59 for 'Round 3' LOL! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
The magazine at around 4:20 that is.
DMXell 5 years ago
I was born in April 1989... Ironic that magazine date is, but cool nonetheless.
DMXell 5 years ago
DMX - wow some of the crap in the storage facility is older than you then! Interesting that the magazine was 'in sync' with your birth month and year - some high level significance there? Who knows! :) Thanks for watching!
adiblasi 5 years ago
hey al thanks for the history lesson on Apple! i own a 5.5 gen 30 gig ipod video, and love it of course! i do however do not own a apple computer because i hear they crash alot!! what do these fuck-tards (excuse me for that) do with their apple computers to make em crash so often! an answer to the computer thing whould be cool also i hope you got that ant smell outta the hummer H2. dude those manuals go back before i was born LOL
ichigo17 5 years ago
Hey Ich (Trevor, right?) - The Mac's running OSX are very stable. Apple's prior operating system, OS9, was a bit flakey, and that would lock up quite a bit! YES, the Hummer is now free of ant piss smell! LOL! Thanks for watching! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
I really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing the past. The earliest thing I got from the "past" is my game consoles such as a Super Nintendo, Sega Saturn, and Sega Genesis. :D I'm 16.
m0l0b0l0 5 years ago
Molo - ahh, so you know exactly what I'm meaning when I sing "Do do do do do do do do do doooooo... Daya-Tone-aaaaahhhh" LOL! I skipped the Nintendo era and went right for the Atari Jaguar, Saturn, etc. I will be yanking out the old video game systems and filming them as well! Stay tuned! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
damn, I totally wish I was alive back then.
zikman23 5 years ago
Zik - naah, things are much better 'now' than back 'then.' Could you imagine using a 300 baud modem (data transfer of 30 characters a second - I can almost type that fast!). Thanks for watching! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
yeah man, I guess you're right. but I just love watching the history and development of all this old school stuff.
I mean, I remember using the apple II back in first grade for typing lessons and stuff. it seemed so high tech back, everybody was using computers. it just blows your mind how far we've come in so little time
I'm just wondering how far we'll go in the years to come.
keep up the videos man
zikman23 5 years ago
Zik! Don't worry -- there is more to come. The damn Lisa video has over 70,000 views, and even Tomb Raider is over 2,000 - so there is a good crew into the 'retro thing' - you are not alone! So YES, more to come. I hope I don't have any more problems with ant piss. LOL! Thanks for watching! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
Alfred will there be a part 3? I hope so, I love looking at all that stuff. You go way back. What did Woz say about all your stuff? Im thinking I am going to start keeping alot of my own stuff (Mac boxes, Ipods, Nanos, Shuffles, everything tech so 30 years from now I can also have something to look back at. You gave me a great idea. I love these kind of videos.
cssniper06 5 years ago
Woz gave me an 'incredible' via an email! LOL! OMG, another pack rat in the making! LOL! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
Woooo yes! cant wait. You also didnt quite shows us the Lisa powered up you ubm, after the explosion alarm you left us hanging. But hey at least your a bum with a bussiness, but how does that mekae you a bum? I guess you own the bussiness but you dont get any of the profits, so hence your a bum! lol. TTYL
cssniper06 5 years ago
Eric - watch it again! For two seconds, you WILL see her successfully boot the Lisa 7/7 system! Third installment will be "Tomb Stone", and that should be filmed sometime in March (I'm booked every weekend in Feb). More to come, and thanks for all of your support! - Alfred (PS: I'm attending the SuperBowl this Sunday! Woo-Hoo!)
adiblasi 5 years ago
Thnx Alfred, I cant wait for Part 3. OMG! Superbowl Sunday! Bum you have got to tape it in person, who knows something historical could happen or better yet the alftime show could have some "Janet Jackson" type of incident and you could tape it live. Im also looking forward to a Superbowl video fo yours. TTYL. WoO!
cssniper06 5 years ago
Alfred! Good GOd you are so amazing, the stuff you know and have is just insane! You practically have a time capsule there, you can start a museum with all that stuff, please dont trash all the goodies, you have historic stuff that wont be made ever again. I bet David would be going all crazy over Apple stuff. How I love Apple, so unique and different.
cssniper06 5 years ago
Eric! Thanks for the very nice compliment. I appreciate it. Please know that I do all that I am doing know for YOU GUYS. Really, and I am glad you appreciate it. It's posts like this that keep me going with all this crap! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
This is one of the most intertaning Vids Iv seen yet...and who said apple can't get any bugs..hee hee Hee
deedeefw 5 years ago
Ahhhh! VERY good joke! :) Thanks for watching! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
I think it might be mold rather than ant piss haha.
Luker1221 5 years ago
Luke! - Oh no, trust me on this one, it was ant shit, piss, and carcasses. It was some nasty stuff. LOL! Thanks for watching! Make sure you watch Part I - Tomb as well! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
have you said it can fit on a drive? i say it would fit on a single cd and still you could put some mp3's in there! hehe I can understand this, we got my father's old data in a trash last july!
padlworld 5 years ago
Haha.. ant piss ftw
userxx 5 years ago
Dude, it really did smell... Thanks for watching! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
Memories. Sweet sweet memories. Too bad mom and subsequent girlfriends made me chuck most of my memorabilia-junk.
AgNoSticPope666 5 years ago
ha i got OFF lol
RxBandits182 5 years ago
KNock it off, Robert. LOL! Hey, take pics of that bashed up face. Gotta preserve those memories. How is your nose doing?
adiblasi 5 years ago
Thanks for showing this! You have some really cool stuff there. :) I'm thinking about doing the same with all my boxes in the basement and my dads garage. There should be around 10-15 home computers there and probably some nice accessories too.
As for clickety-click kayboards, I'm using an good old IBM keyboard from ~1994.
cl3mens 5 years ago
Hey Alfred, again another excellent video. I laughed so hard with your findings, and deep down I am insanely jealous with the "crap" that you had in your storage facility. I loved the keyboard the most, I still use a clickety-clack d|i|g|i|t|a|l keyboard for my PC (remember them?), which is a luxury since it has a PS/2 port, and they still come with PCs nowadays.
acherion 5 years ago
Hey AC! Thanks for watching. I'm glad I'm able to share this stuff with everyone via the videos -- it finally has a purpose! More to come, so please stay tuned. I have a Lisa and a Next Cube in my office at work I"ll be videoing soon! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
BRILLIANT! Man! You should have been a comedian! You could put a saddle on it?! LMAO! Ant-shit! ROFL!
aribenzane 5 years ago
Ari! Oh man, this was fun. Wait till you see me go back for Round III! Stay tuned. I'm obsessed with this old crap now. :) - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
lmfao ur accent is awesome..
lynch390 5 years ago
Accent? What accent? LOL! Thanks for watching - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
Dude, you never cease to amaze me with your sense of humour.. That's some pretty old Apple-crap ya got there... I recently made a picture tutorial on how to add a DVD burner to your G4 Powermac on my website, inspired by your G4 Upgrade video. I've got some more G4 upgrades coming in soon (cpu, 2gb ram, 9800 pro 256mb).. AND I have access to a digital camcorder, so once everything's sorted, I'll posta vid of it all coming together.
punkr0x0r 5 years ago
Great comment - thank you so much. I really look forward to seeing your upgrade videos! Don't drop the screw into the computer! LOL! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
a Westinghouse Reel-to-Reel?!? No freakin' way! And ants are the lice of the devil... I hate those little bastards. Great stuff, Al.
-Mike Revenge
momFEARSmyMUSIC 5 years ago
My friend just watched it -- he told me that green VU meter? It spewed out X-Rays! Holy Shit! LOL!
adiblasi 5 years ago
haha, that bags hilarious.
RadioVox07 5 years ago
Vox, imaginen walking down the street with that bag? LOL! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
Can't wait to see what other little gems you have alfred. Love watching your videos.
Chris
cjvos1 5 years ago
Chris! Thanks for the nice compliment! I enjoy your guitar playing as well. Please post more! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
Thank you Alfred, thank you very much for the video. Some of the merchandise you carry is probably....older than I am, and I'm 19 years old, heh heh.
DogSeeker1987 5 years ago
Dog - yes, there is some old crap in there -- and there's MORE to come! Thanks for watching - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
alfred you packrat
Jag0n 5 years ago
Yes, I know. Wait till you see the crap I have in the OTHER storage facility! LOL!
adiblasi 5 years ago
Im a sucker for this kinda nostalgic stuff. But man WHAT a collection, admittedly though most of that stuff was around before i was even born, Excellant work Alfred(as usual) keep it up!!
mchief190 5 years ago
MC! Oh yes, there are def. old stinkers in that storage facility. Wait a moment, technically, while clearing it out, "I" was in that storage facility, so that makes me an 'old stinker' as well! Thanks for watching! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
Do you have an Apple II to look at some of those floppies? Or are you going to not even bother? Shit, either way, great video, I wish I had a bunch of old hardware and stuff pc, mac, whatever ya know.
Hope to see a third movie, your stuff is great.
RadioVox07 5 years ago
Vox! YES, there are Apple II's (notice the plural). If all goes as planned, you may even see an 'on location boot' - keep your fingers crossed, because it's been YEARS! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
Alfred -- Great video! I wish our family had bought a Mac in the mid-80's instead of that IBM POS we had. We went the route of the IBM PC and I always wondered what Apple was doing after I stopped seeing them in school. I was in the computer club at my elementary school, using Kid Pix on Macs! Hah! :) -- Jared
jcjones86 5 years ago
Kid Pix! Wow, we sold A LOT of that particular software program, to schools and to homes! That's a good one -- I had forgotten all about that software title. So what computer are you using 'right now'? Right this moment, I'm on the heavily upgraded G4 system. It just keeps going... :)
adiblasi 5 years ago
I have a P4 2.6GHz Shuttle MicroATX w/ 1GB RAM that I put together and normally work on. However, ever since I borrowed this 12" PowerBook "until further notice" from my boss I've been using it more than my desktop. Although it's only an 867MHz PPC G4, I love the software that much!
jcjones86 5 years ago
I used Kid Pix as a sound recorder before because the Mac sound recorder had a time limit. :o)
MultimediaJay 5 years ago
Hah, I remember doing that as well! Heck, it was hours of fun just making simple animations with the stamp sets. I still have the latest version on CD somewhere. Gotta dig that out. I wonder if it was a Mac/PC hybrid disk...
Alfred, you've got to do a video demo of your favorite "vintage" software!
jcjones86 5 years ago
OMFG JAY - THAT is brilliant! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
I would
Nokorola 5 years ago
LOL. That's the spirit. That's what we do -- we buy and collect stuff :)
adiblasi 5 years ago
i wasn't even alive when most of my vintage stuff was made
Nokorola 5 years ago
What a fitting title for the video Alfred...hahaha! Cool video ;)
Skrapper 5 years ago
Hi Antonio - thanks for watching. I think Part III will be entitled "Tomb Stone" LOL! I might have a friend work the camera, so I can jump around a bit more. Thanks for the support - Alfred.
adiblasi 5 years ago
All that junk is basically worthless, why do you keep it? Also, no one really cares about the history, it is about as interesting as talking about quill pens.
Geminate7 5 years ago
Gem-junk to some, treasures to others. I've already had two Apple collectors email me to probe item sales. Regarding why I kept it, the purposes was to do what I'm doing now, to share the history. And now I ask you - why did you upload that cheesy music video from 1985?
adiblasi 5 years ago
Which one? Because I like them also the apple stickers in part 1 rock!
Nokorola 5 years ago
Continued - Computer 'history' is just not appreciated, most of my computer junk went to a drop off station, then on to a landfill. Now I just toss everything out as soon as it is obsolete and replaced by newer technology. I do not like flat-panel monitors so my CRTs remain, the new monitors just aren't the same at all in my opinion - this is the 'first' time I have stuck with 'old' technology, ha ha!
Geminate7 5 years ago
Hi Gem - everyone is entitled to an opinion, and this is certainly your opinion, which is well stated here. Thanks for contrbuting to the discussion. Please DO NOT watch Part III: Tomb Stone (coming soon) - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
Oh I'll watch it, just to see if you pull something really valuable out, like maybe a nice Irish pipe or some really serious historical camera equipment, or maybe a really cool coin or stamp collection! ;)
Geminate7 5 years ago
Gem, actually there is an old ratty stamp book in there. Do you know stamps?
adiblasi 5 years ago
Ah-ha! No I am not an expert, but it is easy to find those who are if you live near or in a city, just look in the phone book or find someone online. Uncanceled stamps are of the most value, unless the canceled stamp is really old and rare. Good luck!
Geminate7 5 years ago
Computer history and music history are completely different things and it costs basically nothing and takes up almost no space to archive music. Once upon a time I had piles of computer crap and I would say that 99 percent plus of the population could care less about slow and now useless machines and their obsolete software. Continued -
Geminate7 5 years ago
Haha, you cannot be serious. lol.
Ki33ran 5 years ago
Serious about what - a "massive sale" or "still more to come?" LOL! I might film "Tomb Stone" (E-59, round III) this weekend -- would you want to see that?
adiblasi 5 years ago
hahah cool video. hows the hummer does it still smell. why did steve jobs get kicked out of apple for.
theiMAC 5 years ago
Hummer is smelling fine now - damn, all that garbage really stunk it up BIG TIME! There was a power struggle when Sculley was at the helm, and the board voted to throw him out. It was all about 'control', in my opinion. Crazy times, back then! Thanks for watching! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
Haha, great lot of apple history there. It HAS to be worth some money right? but i doubt you're ever gonna sell those. =P
Ki33ran 5 years ago
K, you know me. If I sell it -- I will sell EVERYTHING in ONE SHOT for an aggressive number. The Lisa, Apple ///, NeXT Cube, the books, magazines, EVERYTHING. I'm not ready to do that.. yet :) I still have more to share with you all! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
You should have gotten yourself a storage unit with climate control... it might have preserved all that stuff for a long time! And those fire ants might not have had the chance to get in all your shit! But anyways, sorry to take so long to comment even one of your vids. Keep 'em coming!
tempusfugit0711 5 years ago
THAT is an OUTSTANDING point. The other facility (Alfred, wait a minute, did you say 'other' -- there's more??) is climate controlled :)
adiblasi 5 years ago
Haha... this video is another DiBlasi classic. You really could have used one of those cans of KnockItOff, with all the ant piss around and whatnot. Damn... I never knew the story about America Online - you're a plethora of great info on Apple history! Dude... you need to hang on to that Mac Weekly mag with the article on "what NeXT means to Apple" -- that HAS to be worth money, if not just for the history. WHAT THE HELL was up with that shrunken head?!? Lol...
XMattingly 5 years ago
Chris - Hahahahah I LOVE IT -- Label te can "KnockIt" Off! LOL. Excellent. Thanks for watching and commenting! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
HAH! You are prepared! I love it! You're bringing back the memories. Ant doodie...LOL. F-tards...LOL. You're killing me! I love it! Happy New Year...baby!
ShazzaFreak 5 years ago
Happy New Year Shazza!
adiblasi 5 years ago
Oh man, no Lara Croft. :þ
redsummers 5 years ago
Red. Damn. I didn't even THINK about that. Sorry. Really. wow. Having to start at me for a 30 seconds awaiting Laura. :) I owe you one, really. Thanks for commenting - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
Al, if you have 1750 of those old Apple floppies (at 140K each), you can fill up a 256MB thumb drive. I've got a spare if you need one. ;-) And some Apple ][ stuff of my own...
ThisIsAdamB 5 years ago
Nice. We will collaborate. I think I might have you film Part 3: Tomb Stone, if you'd like!
adiblasi 5 years ago
Ok you worked for Apple And now IBM holy crap!
Arsenium154 5 years ago
FFF Class - Favorited, Five-starred, Featured. =)
MultimediaJay 5 years ago
JAY! I enjoyed reading EVERY ONE of your comments. And YOUR videos, editing, style, technique has been an inspiration for me (those watching, please check out Jay's GREAT videos). Thank you very much for your support! More to come. - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
Alfred, awesome video as usual! That keyboard is so awesomely loud!!! Haha! I think it's so awesome how Steve Wozniak is actually viewng these videos. I'm sure Jobs is doing the same! Do you realize how cool that is? =D Anyway keep the "good stuff" coming! I'm favoriting and 5-starring this!
thecreativeone 5 years ago
I gotta put my old Dell into the basement! And in 50 years I'll have a look at it. :D
Great video, Alfred! Keep em' coming!
jalland 5 years ago
False alarm on the deleting stuff. YouTube was being an F-Tard and showing my comments one minute, then not showing them the next. Anyways, I queued these comments in a Notepad file and posted them when I could. I don't do this stuff for just any video. Good job. =)
MultimediaJay 5 years ago
On the Apple III poster. Do you really want to glamorize a computer that was infamous for melting itself? LOL. On the old keyboard, believe it or not they still make beige keyboards that type and feel like 80s keyboards. You just have to look around really hard to find them. Those plaques are cool though.
MultimediaJay 5 years ago
Holy crap. Sorry for the comment train if you deleted everything. I just had so much to say about this awesome video that I was shaking my fist at YouTube's 500 character limit. 500 characters doesn't do this film justice man. 5 stars, favorited, and featured. =)
MultimediaJay 5 years ago
On AOL from Applelink. Wow. I'm glad Apple didn't have anything to do with that mess, or maybe if they stayed involved things would have been different. Isn't that wide printer from the Imagewriter 1 generation? LOL. I've used those before, as well as their Imagewriter II descendants.
MultimediaJay 5 years ago
More random stuff. First of which, don't slam CRTs. I still prefer CRTs over LCDs for gaming. I only got an LCD to save on my electric bill. =) Secondly, that Microsoft guide looks like it's from the Windows 1.0 era with how they spell Microsoft. Definitely geek museum material. =D
MultimediaJay 5 years ago
I'll second that (for the most part)... pixel refresh rate is still way behind CRT's. But also, I don't think LCD's are quite as good as CRT's for color correcting photos. Viewing angle is always going to be a disadvantage. But the space & energy savings, and crispness are huge pluses!
XMattingly 5 years ago
Absolutely. It's pretty much a given that LCDs have eaten up the CRT's market from the inside-out, leaving only the extreme low- and high-end these days. CRTs will be a niche product once LCD technology becomes comparable across most applications. Darn. Maybe I should post the video response I made yesterday now. =)
MultimediaJay 5 years ago
Floppy disks. LOL. See if you can dig up some 8" floppies. You know, the predecessor to 5.25" floppies? =) My high school had an ancient CAM machine that ran on 8" floppies. Truly a sight.
MultimediaJay 5 years ago
You're not that much of an old battleaxe to use cars on electric tracks. My generation had those too. We always used to love running those cars too fast and watching them fly off the track in between rounds of Atari 2600 back in the 80s.
MultimediaJay 5 years ago
YEAH!!! Comment train en route. I favorited this one and I'm gonna use up all my comments on this one video. First off, yeah I remember Hypercard. A friend of mine programmed a cheesy Mac game in it back in the early 1990s. I tried something in Hypercard once, but never really made anything too successful on Macs other than alert sounds.
MultimediaJay 5 years ago
that was awesome. i am going to keep all of my computer crap so in like 2080 i can call my dual core ancient. lol
jchiaro 5 years ago
Damn. 2080? I'll be dead by then. How about 2040? :) Thanks JC! - Alfred
adiblasi 5 years ago
You'll be alive in 2080 easy.
worldpeace,
ben
w0rldpeace 5 years ago
That's insane!
MuggleSam 5 years ago
HOLY SHIT those plaques are gold, man. display those prominently. this video is classic.
w0rldpeace 5 years ago