 Okay, Retro Tech, this is when we look around and maybe look back to build a better future. Yeah, it's like it's time to have a but only backwards. So this is still Marchintosh, just for a couple more days and this is all Retro Mac stuff. And so this week, and you can check out these, this is the Apple II Plus. And do you have one of these? Do you have one of these? Oh man, I didn't have one at home, but we had them at school. Yeah. Yeah. Boy, did I type many Apple basic, sorry, Apple logo and PrintShop Pro. Well, it's a PrintShop Pro. It's a PrintShop Pro and I played a lot of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. It was like Carotica, that was one. Was it Carotica? Yeah, it was like a Karate. That's cool. Yeah. A lot of good games for the Apple II. Yeah. And so that was part of our retrospective. Yeah, you can tell this from a school because that's like that security, you know, son. Yeah. And then this is... My favorite. This is your favorite? My favorite. My favorite. It's the best. I could still, like I could actually probably still do a majority of my work on a Mac SE30. This was a bitchin' machine. This was a good machine. Yeah. Yeah. It was a 1630, right? I think that was the end of the 30. It stood for it. Expansion slot. Look at this. Yeah. Which you could connect an external large monitor. It had SCSI. Go back. Go back to the ports. Okay. Yeah, the expansion slot. You had the discontroller, SCSI, modem, ADB, keyboard mouse. You could connect to the internet with this. Yeah, so this was 1989. It came out January of 1989 and then all the way to October. Built in? Yeah. And this was the fastest model with the original black and white compact style. That's right. It was really good. Yeah. Yeah, and you could get internal hard drive, I think. And up to 128 megabytes of RAM. Which is like even, like, it's a lot for what this is. Yeah. And a 1.4. What was the speed? I don't remember the megahertz was. That was like 40 megahertz. Yeah, this thing was cool. And, you know, the other thing that it was kind of known for was it was used to publish. I think there was a magazine, a specific or newspaper, specifically like they did it all on one of these machines. Yeah. No, you have this. You could connect a radius portrait. Yeah. Remember those? This monitor weighed like 80,000 pounds. But you could rotate it from portrait to landscape. It was amazing. Yeah. Yeah. I remember my dad had one for his, when he did his writing. And then it passed down to me. And then I remember like in my high school we did, we ran Quark Express on it. And that's how we did the high school newsletter. We did Page, maybe it was PageMaker. We did PageLayout again on this portrait display. 60 megahertz. And then next up. So we have a poster from Susan Kare. And I wanted to make an observation. Yeah. Because it's Marchentash and everything. And you always hear about Mac and design and Jonathan Ivy. And from back in the old Mac days, you hear about Guy Kawasaki. Yeah. But you don't really hear about Susan Kare. And she's responsible for the entire, she's a creative director during this Mac time and then also at Next. Yeah. And great icons. Yeah. Fantastic icons. And artists doing these things. But these are like the iconic things of computer science, computer history. And so I dug up and it was like, it's like a mini ad with her in it. And then a little five minute interview with her on Computer Chronicles. Because, you know, it's Women's History Month. And also you, when you think about like Apple, you know, there's only like two or three names. And it's usually not hers. So I thought, well, maybe we can, you know, remind folks or maybe they don't even know like where did these cool icons come? Like who made that floppy icon? Like a lot of things that we kind of take for granted. There was someone who designed these. So I was going to play those. And then we'll do Python on hardware after this. Move. If you're an artist and you're skilled with media, this is a new medium that offers great control turning off. There's a thousand little dots in half an inch. And you have the capacity either real or magnified to turn off and on each one of those dots. So in a screen that's fairly big or a piece of paper, eight and a half by 11, you've just got so many scads of dots. There's nothing really that you can't present on that screen. All you do to print, unlike most computers where you, you know, hit a control key and a print key sequence, you just hit one button. It says print and it prints. And you can actually billmate it so you can watch on the screen the whole document gradually being printed and follow your progress. It's pretty nifty. Certainly I think one of the best experiences is seeing a person who's never used a Lisa before or a Mac before, even never used a computer before. It is possible, easily possible to teach most people to use one of these computers in about 20 minutes. And a lot of that is because you can explain what an icon means and a person can remember it easily. So we certainly use Lisa as a jumping off point and making some refinements and additions for some new features. What you see now is the image, the icon that you get when you just plug Mac in and turn it on. It prompts you with a picture of the diskette. So you're saying, I need something. So that all you do is, it only fits in one way so there's no way you can break it or make a mistake. You just pop it in. You get an image of a content Mac so you know that everything is okay. And you're welcomed. It's just so that the person using Mac gets information all the time visually so nothing has to be translated. A little wristwatch to tell you, just wait one second. Things are happening. You've replaced the salt timer. We're moving into the 80s. So what do we have now? So what we have now is an image on the screen of the diskette that we put in the slot. And it can be with the mouse, it can be moved. And it's already showing you the name of that disk. Right. And it's also highlighted in the sense that it's inverted so that Mac knows that you want to do something to this diskette and your choices of what you might want to do are listed in hidden menus that operate a little bit like window shades when you move your cursor, right, that are choices. We could find out something about this diskette or we can just open it or we could eject it. But if we open it, just say open immediately you get what we call a window that displays graphically and in words what is contained on the diskette and the machine. So you can see there's a picture of a hand painting which symbolizes a paint program and a handwriting for the word processor and a couple of memos that were already written. Some folders, if say you want to store a document or two in a folder it's analogous to life. You just put the piece of paper in the folder. Now you've got something to go to control panel here. Show me what that is. Always available to you are a number of desk accessories. So you move the cursor to control panel, let go of the mouse button. So this which looks a little bit like a dashboard lets you fine tune the system in a number of ways to your comfort level or just your personal preferences. The computer will work no matter what setting. So here's a little volume control. You can see the speaker. Every now and then you hear a beep with Mac when you turn it on or sometimes during applications. If you're at home by yourself and you're listening to the stereo you might want to know that you'll always hear those beeps. If you're a student working in the library you can move it so that just the bar will flash so there's no noise at all. Some of the other features let you adjust keyboard repeat rate or a menu flash or the amount of time between double clicks which might vary with the age of the person. Pop the control panel away by just clicking on it. Notepad lets you while you're working in any application as well as just this what we call the finder which is like a directory where you can be able to grab the keyboard and write a note to yourself. Remember to read page 12 and you could say put this away or you could move it over. You can go to page two where it says another note one left for oneself. Flip to page three. Up to eight pages of notes that could help you in your work or just remind you of social events. One of the items was Scrapbook. Scrapbook lets you keep literally up to 256. You're only limited by how much memory you have free pictures or messages or documents always available for the terms we use are cutting and pasting. So say to open a word processor application you could click on Mac right and say open. Write to a document which automatically launches the application. Same procedure which is why it's easy to use. Loading the word processor and to the specific document that we can use an old little bit of sample text. This is how the word processor appears to you. A ruler lets you set formats which is certainly familiar object. You want to go from single to double space. Just click on the wider image if you want. And you can justify or center. We're not going to have time actually but you could have pulled up pictures from MacPaint from the Scrapbook and then insert them into the document. Paste them in just by saying paste from the minute. If you want to change a word to be bold, just say bold. Change font to something like old English.