 All right, all month long is March and Tosh. It's also Women's History Month. There's also something going on every single day. We wanted to do like the museum of technology maker stuff like here's every Arduino board. Electronics and computers that influenced us and obviously Max especially old Max I think helped get us a lot of us here. Hypercard we talked about last week and just like really weird stuff. In fact the stuff that we're trying to do for March and Tosh is the month-long celebration of Retro Max. It's kind of the weird stuff so the first thing that I wanted to show is the Quick Take camera. The Quick Take 150 and this was digital cameras years ago and if you look on Flickr they have every Apple camera which is all phones now but then there's three at the bottom and there's I think three pictures that were posted in the last year and it's from our camera. So we still have it. It's like 26 years old. 27, 26 years old. That format in a while. Yeah so let's watch the video. We have a we photograph an artist and then there's a there's a little commercial. One of the things that I'm doing as we publish these stories and these old retro photos and people are sharing their experiences and trying to dig up the old ads of what they what what they were saying like this is the future and see how it matches up to you know today's expectations and more so here's the first one. Introducing the Apple Quick Take digital camera. It makes everything you do look better than before. And that was the manual that you can check out as well and so this uh do you know what this is? This looks like it like is it like a trash can? No it's a uh Roomba. No what this is the Paul's Roomba. This is the first Apple wireless trash can. No um this is a speaker that goes along with the 20th anniversary Mac and uh yeah and uh it's really uh a beautiful machine they did this. We have a video with uh Johnny Ive and it's from a long time ago and you can see all that went into it. Look at that fan. By the way look at that fan there. That's like they would not let you do that now. Yeah um all the tam and there's these giant umbilical cord style. The connector is yeah. The connector is like what it's like what aerospace monstrosity is it? Yeah and they like SPDIF did not exist. They really loaded up it CD-ROM and had PB tuner, Ethernet um it was neat and so it on it though uh there was a when you started it up there was this rendering like state-of-the-art at the time this like you know three you guys see this. This 320 by 240 rendering so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna play the entire thing it's just I'm gonna play some of it. It's it is subtle 90s. Everything about it is 90s I love it um and so we're gonna play that but check out uh we're doing most of this on tumblr so check out etherfruit.tumblr.com and uh I can just smell the RC Cola yeah and uh yeah we'll we'll we'll come back after this this video and show you some other stuff but it's really neat to take a look really big after we've come so here we go. There are some things in life that capture one's soul like design that goes beyond the ordinary compelling beauty and grace a sweeping curve the perfect line in the pursuit of design humankind continues to make better and more elegant solutions from furniture to architecture to the tools we use every day the unity of form and function can't help but make an impact on our lives balance contrast texture color and some deeper meaning art is design design is art life is kept exciting by the discoveries that emerge that keep us looking forward reaching for new ideas and innovations apple's 20th anniversary macintosh a design for the future hey steve what do you want to put on the center there I don't know let's put another little one in the middle okay that's fine all right so that's uh that's the 20th anniversary uh mac and uh more ahead we have more days in the month so the next thing and this I thought would be a special treat for y'all out there and for our lady this is the apple 2 reference manual set this by a kind person I didn't ask them if we could say who sent it to us but we have um the red book and this was uh I'll just show some of the pages yeah it's actually handy when we do the floppy disk 1978 no it has been it was like this was like sent out with the it's a manual yeah you know you want here's your computer you get some schematics so i'm gonna go to the it's apple part number four yeah 1978 and uh let's need stuff here's uh here's some I don't know what happened no I didn't do I don't know well let me turn it back off well let's see what's gone on here oh I want a good overhead yeah who knows let's see well luckily we just posted up photos and everything unknown while I why it doesn't have any signal or that's what it's our new overhead little overhead maybe i'll try now well we also have a sticker so I love that half of this is assembly code it's literally this assembler like in the back hand drawn signal I don't like this there should be signal there's no signal main screen turned on yeah well the other thing it could be and did I kick something maybe what no I don't think so but I'm kind of determined now okay oh hey nice that's right did you just unplug it and plug it back in again I defrag the hard drive you know form follows function and function follows form and sometimes you just have to read the design I do have this giant cable that kind of runs everything yeah uh anyways thanks for bearing with us um our kid is teething too I think she was gnawing the wires um yeah so why don't you find a schematic page I think the well this is just cool so kind of show like there's like they're like hey by the way here's like a mini assembler and they just have like here just type this in just type this in like what what was what's the what's the thought process here I don't know um yes this is their mini assembler by uh s wasniak yeah and a bomb so that's kind of cool so have a couple different they have a pseudo machine interpreter here's the floating point routine so that's kind of cool neat just by wasniak 1977 you're probably wondering boy it'd be great if I can get a copy this don't worry you can't we link to um archive.org where there's a copy of it this is all the assembly instructions and the flags and you know jump and whatever okay here's the hardware system timing and schematic so they're like here if we put it together okay no problem here's just put it just put it together oh you start with a preliminary manual okay so this is a c line and they're like here's some rf modulators you can use oh do you want to maybe hide us because we're in the way of the that cool text um yeah so you can get like the pixieverter that's a cool name the pixieverter or the rf modulator from burling games um so they're like here's how you it's interesting it's like there's no drawings because it's really there's something there there's some but there's not a lot uh so they're like here's how you can wire stuff together here's how to connect um rs 232 and they're like yeah no problem we're just gonna get like a little piece of strip board wire up a resistor to be no level shifter bias bias transistor and here's a uh teletype routine you could uh code in if you wanted to connect to uh teletype let's see and then here's the layout of the main board oh beautiful it is a beautifully laid out board i mean like look at that yeah all the chips in a row um and this the the slots for peripherals and like they're you know they're just like hey by the way like you know here's the addresses and here's you know it's connected to a 74 ls series um cassette jack and they're like here's the impedance for it and um you know it's like very very low level details of like okay you want to click to peripheral it's like you know if you're it's something that's hardware before open source already using a microcontroller right it's like you have your you know i o port 8 bit port and then they're like strobe it and you have some interrupts and the irq and like the ready and reset lines you know it's it's basically the same thing this is a beautiful drawing i like these these connectors the famous you know power connector which has plus minus 12 plus minus five um power supplies i remember there was a couple articles raspberry pi gpio or something um it's like that but it's you know not quite i think it's a five volts i think the logic i actually don't know if the logic was five volts or 12 volts i'm assuming it's five and then um the memory map and it's like oops made a little mistake here so they did we drew it it's kind of nice that's they didn't pick you know they didn't clean it up they're just like good bring good bring um all the timing oh this is a beautiful but look at this beautiful drawing oh that's so cool zoom in yeah this one's nice look at that the peripheral bus and how it connects back and forth between the uh the different peripherals the video generator and peripheral io on board io and then hold on down here you can see the speaker neat yeah and so this is the mpu 6502 and then uh this is the oscillator and they have the little crystal driver here so this like generates all of your clocks and you're just using some you know some some simple uh 195 i don't know what that is looking at so i'm not changing and then uh the ram counters and these are the ram chips so they're just like hey you just get a bunch of ram chips yeah these are these are just various little counters and dividers here's your your ram just it's just one big array and uh let's see the ioport i like that they have all the you know the part numbers and everything yeah and it's like here's the here's a 553 quad timer so um this is how a lot of um people are like oh you know you have a joystick right which is a potentiometer but then how do you take the potentiometer to digital circuitry um you use the uh input of the potentiometer into um a 555 or 553 in which case is a quad timer and then the pulses that come out you measure the width of them and that tells you um what the resistance is because the capacity is set here to fix capacitance and flexible resistance um then there's the speaker driver just a simple you know class a with a darlington driver and a little yeah i mean it's like all very it's you know it's funny this actually would be a great um you know if you're learning digital circuits these days i know like it's all done you know emulator style now but it'd be really cool for somebody to study and analyze like what's happening on each page like how how are all the circuits used like look at this like 555 cursor flasher right they're like okay we're gonna flash the cursor on the screen well it's just there's just a 555 that does it and it sends a signal to the video generator and yeah this is just the composite out i mean like amazing that he got composite out um using just like this logic level circuitry and uh if you look at this is a sticker from 1978 not not instructions bad quality um you can well they use lead back then yeah and you can see you know this is this is where the um this cut is and you could we could peel this off but we're not going to do that we're going to store this in a safe place um these are very vivid color we also wanted to kind of tell the story so if you ask like who designed that up a little bit a lot of people to know it was uh Ron uh sorry Rob Jenoff in 1977 and he was an art director at uh Regis McKenna tested design a logo for Steve Jobs they wanted something to show it was an apple with a bite out of it you can look at the previous one it's like this new like uh ink drawing it was a beautiful drawing yeah yeah and they didn't want it to be mistaken for a cherry or any other type of fruit they also wanted to show that it was color because that was a big deal color screens so uh yeah but you see the color not you know it had like eight colors yeah so uh continue to check out our retro um journey uh there's a lot of neat stuff in computing history and uh it's fun to kind of watch some of the folks on the social media to say oh is this a rendering because it doesn't seem real it's like what do you mean apple made a you know a digital camera now there's yeah you know every phone's a camera so neat stuff and uh look at the hashtag Marchintosh and you can see what's going on uh there's a lot of people plus some cool stuff and that is this week's retro