[Music]foreign[Music]library and labs I wanted to introducemy YouTube audience to my awesomeLibrary Annex or as I like to call it myJennifer Memorial next computer LibraryAnnexand Jennifer is still with us I justwanted to thank her for these awesomemachines that she gave me for a reallyawesome price so what we have here is anext computer which is next computer'sfirst machine that was released in 1988and over here we have a next color slabright now they're both running prettyold spinning hard drives that are makinga lot of noise and they have troublebooting sometimes in particular thisnext Cube has trouble booting up and sowhat I want to do is back up that harddrive and move it to Blue scuzzies sowe're going to be putting blue scuzziesin both of these machines so for alittle overview of what next is in caseyou don't know and why is it relevant toApple next is a company that Steve Jobsfounded after he was fired from Appleand at next he sought to produce thefirst 3M machine or the 3M stand forthat it has one megabyte of memory ithas a megapixel display and it canoperate at one mips or one millioninstructions per second when Steve Jobsrejoined Apple in the late 90sThe Next Step operating system that wasthe basis of these machines got foldedback into the Macintosh architecturewhich became the basis of os 10 which weused todayso what is a library Annex without somebooks and an awesome fan of mine KendallWhitehouse donated some awesome nextmagazines and books that he had in hiscollection and here's an old copy ofnext World magazine that he gave to mewhich is really awesomeanother really cool thing that hedonated was this next computer brochurewhich was a awesome little brochure thatshows the front and back of the nextcomputer and inside it has reallydetailed colored drawings of the nextHardware like here's a Magneto opticaldisc and talks about the specs and thedevelopment of the next computerand there's even a little letter in herefrom Steve Jobs I think it was signedwith auto pen but it's still really neatto have in the collection essentiallywhat it's saying is thank you forgetting the next system brochure you canbuy the next machine at businessland sothis is kind of an ad for business landand business land was kind of like theComp USA of the day and they had a dealwhere they would sell the next computerexclusively for next and this page isreally awesome because it shows a reallynice detailed image of the motherboardof the next Cubeand Kendall also gave me some awesomebooks that are up here like the nextinformation kit and some other nextbrochures that I'll have to show you ina later video but today let's go aheadand try to get those blue scuzzies intothese machines and get them booted offof SD cards so let's go up to the laband get to soldering[Music]so the blue scuzzy is a device thatallows the user to mount hard driveimages as files on an SD card and thenthe blue scuzzy will then translatethese images to a hard drive that theold computer can then read essentiallythis will help you replace your oldspinning hard drive with a SD cardthis also gives us the flexibility ofhaving multiple hard drives on onedeviceby simply changing the files on the bluescuzzy you're able to mount multiplehard drives or even CD drives on the onelittle blue scuzzy device setting up theblue scuzzy isn't actually very hard yousimply have to rename the files on theSD card to match the scuzzy device youwant to emulate in this case you want toemulate a hard drive so our file namewould be something like thisin this case I'm using HD for hard diskto emulate the third device I'm usingthree zero where three represents theThird scuzzy ID and zero is The Logicalunit number but that's always zeroand then I use 512 for the sector sizeand I give it a name which in this caseI'm using 2000 megabytes and then Irename the extension to HDA and I pop itonto the SD cardand the reason why I use scuzzy ID3 isbecause this is based on the control altres guide for setting up the scuzzy toSD I just use similar methodology to setit up for the blue scuzzy and if youwant more information on setting up yourscuzzy to SD on your next computer checkout Sean of action retro who recentlyreleased a video of him using a scuzzyto SD in his next color slab so I didbuild two blue scuzzies for this projectand it's actually kind of anintermediate soldering job it's not toohard the hardest part is soldering onthe SD card readers which are surfacemount soldering so I had to practice mydrag soldering on thatin a future video I'll have moresoldering footage of me building theblue scuzzy I wanted the core of thisvideo to be about actually setting upthe blue scuzzy with the next machinesrather than doing the solderingso the source of these next hard driveimages came from oneworldpc.comI use Next Step 3.3 HD image withprevious and previous is actually anemulator that you can run on your Mac oryour PC that will allow you to use thenext step operating system in anemulator one thing I did do was I madesure that the hard drive image wasbootable with previous and then I loadedup the hard drive image with games thatI had downloaded from the internetan awesome feature of the previousemulator is that you're able to not onlyemulate a 68k next Cube or next slab butyou're also able to connect it to alocal drive on your computer much likebasilisk the emulator that you use forMacintosh so now we're back up here inthe main library and I brought the nextstation color with me and they'vealready done some prep work the slit isreally easy to take off it's just onescrew that's in the back right here andthat just comes right outand then inside we have a Seagate harddrive I believe this is a 400 megabytehard drive I've already took the libertyof disconnecting it from the bracket andI've installed these nylon standoffsright here so let's get our blue scuzzyand let's see how this is going toamount to our next station cover I dohave this 3D printed case that was onthe blue scuzzy Wiki I'm not going to beusing this as it's intended to be usedbecause the stock scuzzy cable is reallyshort it's intended to be used with ahard drive that's essentially mountedright here one solution I thought of isinstead of having the blue scuzzymounted right here and the cable comingto it I instead would Mount the bluescuzzy kind of like this in the case andthat way it'll still have clearance Idon't plan on changing out the SD cardvery often so if we ever do it's itshould be a simple pop out and replacesituation but since the scuzzy cable isso short essentially it would need tocome all the way over here if I want touse the actual mounting holes and alsowe don't need a power cable to power theblue scuzzy the scuzzy bus providesenough power to run the St micro and theblue scuzzy and it works perfectlywithout the power cables so I'm gonnajust leave this floating herelike that so I'm just putting a littlebit of double-sided tape right here ontop of these ports and I'm fitting thecase on it like this it's very temporaryas you can see it still wobbles but thisisn't a portable Machine by any means sothis will hold it down well enough untilI can get a longer scuzzy ribbon cablethat way I can actually properly mountit over herebut for now I think this is totally fineokay so that concludes putting in theblue scuzzy into the next color slabs solet's try opening up the next Cube andreplacing the hard drive in that oh goshthis is heavy there you goall right we have the next Cube the backof the cube simply to open it up we justhave to remove this back door which hasfour screws on the backso let's go ahead and get ourscrewdriver andopen it upand the hard drive in this Cube doeshave some neat software on it so I'mgoing to try and preserve it by using aexternal drive but first let's see if wecan get it outawesome for this hard drive we're goingto do something a little different sincethis hard drive works it just takes awhile to boot up and there is someinteresting piles on this dry I believethis used to be owned by someone whoworked for next and they were involvedin theeducational teaching Department internalteaching I believe and so what I want todo is back up this hard drive using DDwhich is a Unix command that allows usto do a direct disk copy from one diskto another So the plan would be to useanother tool that I have which is theexternal blue scuzzy so I have this bluescuzzy that allows us tohas a db25 port I believe and that sitson this scuzzy port on the back and thatshould allow us to boot up this nextCube and then use DD to transfer thefiles onto this solid state drive oncewe do that we can then use that sameexact image that was in here to boot upthis next machineusing an internal blue scuzzy device solet's go about and do thatokay so I've taken out the chassis ofthe next Cube and I'm going to bereplacing the hard drive with the bluescuzzy I'm a little sick today so Iapologize if I sound a little extranasally but I did want to get this videodone and thankfully it's just a headcold right now so I should be okay let'smove the cube out of the way so that wecan just work on this main guy righthere okay so the main component of thecube is this modular little chassisright here and it actually has thisconnector in the front and that goesinto the back plane of the next Cubethat's inside of the cube chassisthis hard drive that's inside is reallybig let me see if I can show it to youit's right here it's a very tall fiveand a quarter inch hard drive so whatwe're gonna do is I've already backed upthis hard drive something I plan ondoing in the future is showing how toback up a physical next computer harddrive onto a blue scuzzy and get itbooting off the blue scuzzy I thinkthat's a very important thing to haveespecially since these next machinessome of them have software or files thatcould be interesting to peruse throughthis machine in particular was owned bysomeone that worked at next and so Iwant to make sure that I have thosefiles backed upso I am going to make a separate videotalking about how I did that and how youcan do it too on your Unix based machineso to take out this big hard drive weneed to use just trailer Phillipsscrewdriver andjust attach attack these four screwsthat are on the sideif you've changed a CD-ROM drive to a CDburner back in the turn of the centurythen you'll understand how this worksit's not hard at all foreignit does look like this hard drive mayhave been replaced in the past justbecause it has Phillips head screws andthe other ones down there have hex bitscrews and also what we're going to bedoing to mount the blue scuzzy is usingthis adapter that I found on thingiversethat adapts ahard drive slot into I guess essentiallywhatever you want says it has this hexpattern on it so we can place the bluescuzzy on it like so and then attach thescuzzy cable to it and we're good to gothis is a mega Big Mac storehard drive so 380 megabytes in the palmof my hand can you believe itthese things used to be massive so yeahlet's get this clunker out of here it'salready been backed upso we don't have to worry about losingour precious files so that's awesome Iwould only take out a hard drive if it'salready been wiped before or if you'vedone the backup since this drive I wantto keep this as original as possible onething I did think about doing is maybemounting the blue scuzzy to the back ofthe drive and just have it precariouslysitting there while this big honking guyjust sits there unpowered I mightconsider doing that but for now I'mgonna have this on display on one of myshelves back here but for right nowlet's just place itright here there you gonext to my stack of Mac effects casesthat I have not opened yet okay so Ihave my blue scuzzy I have the littlemounting bracket that I printed outearlier in this polyterra pla I used ofcourse my new bamboo Labs 3D printer andso what I'm going to do it's a littlebit of a puzzle it's not a puzzle thisis actually really simple so I'm goingto use this three and a half inch harddrive to a five and a quarter inch harddrive down to blue scuzzy super simpleblue scuzzy goes in blue scuzzy adaptercheck blue scuzzy adapter goes into thefive and a quarter Drive Bay adaptercheck now I need some screws I'm goingto use these nylon screws to holdeverything down just because I have anabundance of nylon screws ah I almostforgot to install the SD card which isvery important and this already has thebackup image of the big hard drives thatwe just took out so it should be able toboot up into the exact same OS I alsoincluded a two gigabyte blink drive thatwe can also boot from and it can serveas a repository for applications so wehave extra space okay so now I'm goingto attach the viscosity with some nylonscrews and nylon standoffs putting thisthrough the bottom like thatand then you just simply cap them offwith the boltjust make sure these aremore than finger tightnot that this is going to be rollingaroundcooland the blue scuzzy just fits in theresnuggly like a bug in a rug yeah sothere you go so now we have it ready tomount inside of our Cube okay so notvery hardthis is the front of the case so we wantto make sure that the scuzzy cable isaccessible from the back of the case solet's put it in like thisor the scuzzy connectors are in the backand we just slide it in then we line upthe holes on the side except I'm goingto use the screws that it came withwhich should dig into the plastic that'sthe nice thing about 3D printed Parts isthat as long as the hole size is rightyou don't actually have to have threadsin a lot of these parts the if you'reusing a screw that has large enoughthreads it'll self-tap cool awesome sonow it's mounted inside the chassis solet's connect this back to the next Cubecase and put it all in and see if itboots okay let's get this Cube up andplace it right here or we caninsert this into the back plane okay sothis goes inlike this it's kind of slides in onthese little rails and it plugs in everso gently into the back planethere we go and that essentially givesus our connection to the motherboardand back to the power supply right hereso let's connectthe we don't need power anymore so nowthat we have the blue scuzzy in placethe only thing that's going to bepowering the blue scuzzy is the scuzzycable itself okay so now we have ourblue scuzzy mounted inside of thechassis you can see the scuzzy cablegoing to it right here the scuzzy cablewith the little ring on it and then wehave the Magneto optical drive which isright here attached back to its ribboncable so everything's in place and it'sgood to go so now we're connected let'sget on the back panel and see if we canboot yep yep yep okayso let's take this down back downstairsand see if it boots Into the Blue scuzzyokay so now we're back here in thelibrary Annex and I've been able to bootthe next Cube to a one for one copy ofthe original hard drive on the bluescuzzy so I'm able to see the oldusername on this machine which wasEllen's and I can see all the old filesthat were on here that were once on thephysical hard drivewhich is pretty cool so I think this isa success let's try some applications tosee if everything works let's go to appsthis one was pretty fun it's a Halloweenlittle Easter egg app that may have beenmade by someone internal or maybe it waspassed around and like email back in theday but let's open up Halloween 92.[Music]this is Happy Halloween 92 by SteveHerrickthis is very silly we have soft PC whichI think can actually run doslet's see cool now it's starting up softPC looks like it's loading up dustdrivers so I can type shell and pressreturn and that's shellso now we have DOS running on our nextCube which is really cooland here's a little dos shell loading upwe have MS-DOS key basic so now we haveour little dos machine running insideour next Cube let's try something funit's like one of those Tunnel runnergames let's see click Start to play anew game awesomeeveryone knows that a helicopter'snatural environment is in tunnels andcavesforeignso someone at next had this computer aseither their personal machine or theirmachine at work so there's also weirdfacts from the 90s remember fax machinesI guess the next could receive faxesusing its fax application and here's acomic I guess by Julie Logan and ArthurHoward called the world according to heand sheit's very dated so to speak she 8 45wake up thin 850 hugs and kisseshe 10 o'clock wake upthere's other stuff that happens andthen he eats food and then he has abunch of pizza and he drives his Ferrariwith his hot blonde wife at oh anywaystill little slices like this are funreasons whyum have these old hard drives and toback them up and to peruse them givesyou a sense of what it was like livingback in the day when these computerswere the main computers of the time Iguess that was an old meme from back inthe day I guess people used to sendmemes via fax okay so we were able toget the next Cube working with the bluescuzzy let's try to get the next colorslab working with the blue scuzzy nowso we're able to get the next color slabbooted onto the blue scuzzy using the SDcardI'm not going to go through all thedetails and dig through the files ofthis image just because it's the sameone that you can download from thewebsite that I showed you earlier but itdoes work and it is booting from theblue scuzzy so I think this is a successwe were able to get both computersrunning off of blue scuzzies and replacethose old spinning hard drives with SDcards thanks for tuning in to today'sepisode Macintosh librarian Labs I'mglad that we're able to convert both ofthese machines over to a solid statememory using the blue scuzzy thanks toModern projects like SD and blue scuzzywe're able to keep these old Beanfeatures running longer and we'll betalking in a later episode of howexactly to back up your next hard driveusing the DD command and a blue scuzzyso I'll see you again really soon wellthank you all for tuning in I reallyappreciate you watching and don't forgetthis is brought to you by viewers likeyou so thanks to all my patreons andthanks to Jennifer for giving me thesewonderful computers all right see younext time bye[Music]thank you[Music]foreign[Music]