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Repairing an Unreleased Prototype Mac…TABLET?!
Repairing an Unreleased Prototype Mac…TABLET?!
#Repairing #Unreleased #Prototype #Mac…TABLET
“This Does Not Compute”
Over the years, Apple has whipped up a number of prototype products that never made it to production. Usually these get destroyed and remain unknown…but this one managed to survive, and needed some help to get working…
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Gurrl you do cliffhangers now?!
Four holes. A pair on either side. A pair of shoes on either foot.
Thanks for the ride down memory lane when I worked for Apple in Australia. I do remember this prototype being talked about too.
This was your best video yet!
I hope you at least put some oil on the shield after removing the rust. It will rapidly rust again if you didn't. A proper solution would be to tin the shield so rust can't reform at all.
Journalist voice.
This looks like the Apple Penlite/Scribe/PenMac
This was a banger. Looking forward to the next one.
2:47 Target Mode in fact.
OH YOU TEASE
Great content with a lot of meat on this one. Repairing flex cables 😅
I wonder if this was ever shown at any conventions such as WWDC or CES. Maybe only shown to people who had signed non-disclosure agreements, if so might explain why nothing written about it or any old video? It would be cool if there was a video like from Computer Chronicles from the time.
that interior looks worse than most hobbyist projects i've seen
When repairing a flex you should put a wire across, as a solder-only joint is extremely weak and will snap easily
Amazing skills and video! Glued me to the screen all the way! Regards!
You continue to make absolutely the most compelling and best edited repair videos I've seen on youtube.
“If you like the video, I’d appreciate a thumbs up.”
Oh, you got the thumbs up BEFORE I watched the video. Your content is awesome.
cool clickbait bo
Lovely video!
Oooh! I worked on software for that. We were trying to build an iPad out of 1992 technology. Good times!
PenMac. They built so few of these. Amazing that you got your hands on one. This project shutting down is what eventually led to Graphing Calculator, which has it's own amazing story.
I hope this video gets you to 1M. I love this.
Around the same time Atari was working on the 'ST Pad'. Same external developer maybe?
Before iPad and Apple Newton, there was this monstrosity.
I have a Powerbook Duo 2300c of which I was recently able to get the original hard drive backed up for personal archival. It once belonged to a long time Motorola employee.
I recall seeing this tablet which is called PenLite on a website that had a bunch of Apple prototypes.
That was great! I’d forgotten about those awesome old Powebooks! I had owned several of them including a Duo. I was so proud of that thing. Those were great days!!
6:10 "Trash PG&E" Yes. PLEASE.
Bows down to your classic PowerBook logic board and spinner hard drive knowledge Absolutely loved this! I was on the edge of my seat watching the flex cable repair, but figured if you had attempted it, you knew what you were doing. 🙂
Very good, This Does Not Compute. I am excited for any following coverage you share. 🙂
Your videos are always wonderful for me. 🙂
Colin really demonstrated his knowledge with this one. Great video.
Oh man! Eagerly awaiting part 2!
This is the clearest, most concise old computer repair channel on YouTube. It would have been easy to drag this out, but it’s just not his style. Respect.
It is practically psychotic how ahead of time Apple was. It's really shocking
This was such a good video
Thank you for your work. One can learn a lot of about maintenance and repair from this video alone.
It's nice to see a flat flex cable repair be successful for once, seems that more often than not they go awry. Awesome episode, can't wait for next week's! And congrats on 400K 🥳
those bendy pcb cables crop up a lot in portable video gear from around that time, & I had to mend loads in sony vx-1000 dv camcorders. nice work. >looks at ipad< we've come a long way.
Thanks for sharing! What a fun video, great job fixing a rare prototype. 😀
Ooh, cliffhanger ending! Looking forward to learning more in a future video.
I remember seeing this, glad you got so far with it!
My family has a samsung laptop that all the kids in the house had and the poor thing ran from 2007 to 2022 , it died because the drive couldn't handle being pumped full of viruses
looks interesting tho
Machine qui amène à l’inspiration 😄 (après un « sofa wine » ^^)… Un travail de qualité, une voix off nette sans superflu tout comme le travail effectué sur cette « drôle de bête »! Merci pour le partage et du temps consacré pour monter vos vidéos… 👍
As always Colin, great video, the nostalgia runs deep on this one too. Looking forward to the next one.
I'd contact Androda re the flat flex cables, he's made a few for other systems, powerbooks mostly – they look simple enough to replicate.
This is “intrepid” restoration..! 👍
amazing work!
Loved this episode, can’t wait for the next episode