was even more impressive is that it’s a peripheral for a service that many people were able to do without at the time. (Basic landline phone service). we didn’t have landline service until 99 or 98.
Clint recording himself having an existential crisis about his life choices through a 1980s MacPhone is the most LGR thing ever. Love your work, Clint!
Clint doing Cupid's work as well as entertaining the masses like the gladiator, with loot in its fish net and defunct peripherals spiked on his trident, and of course his mad laugh reverberating throughout the coliseum, angering the gods and Steve Jobs! 😂
1:30 I love how those 3d printed Duke busts keep cropping up everywhere in LGR stuff recently, like they replicate on their own and are infesting Clint's house.
I think there's an alternate universe somewhere out there where Apple went all-in on this concept, got burned, and then never tried anything phone-related again.
I've been looking for video footage of this thing in use FOREVER! Thank you so much, LGR! I've actually used documentation and academic articles about this in my own work, but I've never seen the GUI actually working.
Excellent, I’m glad to provide! I was surprised to not find any footage of this in action myself when starting work on this videos, so it was extra exciting to show something fresh to the internet.
@LGR I am an old school phone engineer, and I love your vids, if u can ever grab a used PBX A must for working dialtone, for BBS emulation, PC to PC, and demos like this but not dependent on Bluetooth codec issues. The following is my best products for lab, playing MSRP that dont hurt the bank. Grandstream UCM 6104 (SIP/VOIP) - 100.00 - 150.00 or SOHO-PBX SP-208 (Pure Analog office PBX) 75.00 I have even played with US army field phones using the GS-HT802 (45.00) to make calls across the room and across the internet)
About ten years ago there was a system at work where the PABX must have been networked because you could dial people directly from the companies address book. My then boss used it all the time. Any knowledge about that ? Now everyone just uses Teams. I don't recall the last time I got an internal call on my deskphone. p.s. I just noticed the username. In 1981 where I worked they had a full blown TRS80 system with all the accessories like Floppy drives for keeping quality records. They employed a guy as "the computer operator" to program and use it.
There's something rather charming about the mismatched hardware colors. The ash white Mac, the brightly colored cable, slightly yellowed phone and X-Link adapter being black. It's somehow both charming and causes my OCD klaxons to blare at the same time.
I'm having a rough day and I felt this bizarre sense of relief on seeing a new LGR in my feed. Thanks, Clint, for being a chill voice in my ear, talking about interesting oddities when I'm feeling down.
it's nice to see how much LGR has grown, like damn, almost 2mil. This is actually the first channel I subscribed to. back then with that little intro and the coke. YEARS ago
Aye aye ! Old timer checking in. I suscribed back when the channel had fewer than 10k subscribers, IIRC. Watching the channel grow over the years has been amazing!
The way the Mac SE looks like a cyclops talking on the phone with that attached is the cutest. I didn't expect the plastic shades match up so well, that actually looks pretty good.
We take this for granted because how everything is so convenient now. A lot of manual dialing and searching through phonebooks and papers was the norm, I can see this being a huge life saver back then.
Hey Clint, I met another LGR viewer at the ice cream parlor today. He recognized the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest T-shirt I had on and we got to talking about Apple IIs and Commodore 128s and LGR in front of the other confused Jiffy Treat customers.
you saying the case felt like styrofoam is pretty spot on, judging by how it looks and how it sounded from you handling it i'm almost certain that the shell is made of vacuum formed styrene
@@bghoody5665 It's just a cheap Midland phone. They didn't get much cheaper or more awful than that. No, the action is all going on in that MacPhone box, there just ain't much action.
Looking back from the "future" where we carry around little computers in our pockets that are also capable of making phone calls, it's amazing how this thing is quite the opposite of what we have. Also, that Macintosh PLUS music with that old monochrome flying toaster screensaver is the most right I've ever had anything feel.
I noticed that. The only Midland products we got here in the U.K. were their CB rigs, which were about the same price as this when they launched in 1981.
So I'm guessing they bought up a bunch of Midland phone handsets which really didn't need a base as they were fully self contained, molded an incredibly cheap base for them, and did a little basic electronics work to get headphone jack audio superimposed over a phone call. They literally could manufacture this in the back of that little building that was their company HQ. But that software package really didn't justify the high cost for any of this.
@@plateshutoverlock But productivity software was expensive back then because it was aimed mainly at businesses e.g. $895 for MS-Office back in 1989 (and that is before adding inflation).
ive always been interested in tech (thanks to my sister, she's also the one who showed me your channel) but dont really have the Actual Knowledge on software or hardware to entirely understand what's going on BUT i just adore watching videos like this on old or niche tech !!
I didn't expect to ever see a photo of a classic Mac headbanging, but the Mac Tilt's marketing department were determined to make sure I did anyway. Also _of course_ Clint has a Commodore brand telephone.
But does he have the Commodore filing cabinets to match ? Fun fact; the reason the PET has a metal case is that they realised they could make the cases in their filing cabinet factory.
I miss the look of the Apple Macintosh. That little built in monitor takes me right back to the 80's and early 90's, like smelling sausage and onions or cotton candy takes you back to a fair, and really makes me nostalgic for a time before the internet and smart phones took over our lives.
in the 90s when the internet exploded, IBM was fond of sticking "e" in front of everything, to indicate that it was hip and could be used for eCommerce etc, but given some of the odd stuff they've made, an ePhone video conference type deal would not have been out of place for IBM. Smartphones however, eh, not likely, they've never shown any interest in that stuff
If you're not watching these with the subtitles, you're missing out! Hahaha! Great vid, of course. You always come up with the coolest, weirdest stuff to show us.,
Yes, a pile of power supply type issues in your Mac line-up, probably time for a re-cap session. I had fun pausing and reading the ad's for the other add-ons, I couldn't believe the $1,195 dollars for a severely limited PC add-on.
Here is a digital watch emulator for the Mac. It's got 3 screens of functions: minutes and hours, date, and seconds in big, easy to read numbers That will be $100. I almost forgot: It's called an EXECUTIVE digital watch emulator. That will be another 100 bucks.
18:00 As brief as the moment was, Macintosh Plus vaporwave playing through the phone like hold music as flying toasters soar in on an actual vintage Mac is _such a vibe._
This video was pleasing in the audible sense. The mac sounds (very nostalgic for this non apple guy), and the phone sounds too! I love the way classic mac looks too. I wish i could find a linux gui that looked just like it!
I’m like 95% sure that you could make something Ubuntu look close with some effort. My laptop (Mint) has a full on XP theme and I have seen a win95 one that was really neat. They work pretty well too, it doesn’t look janky 😂. I don’t think anyone has made one of this or like win3.1 yet, but don’t let your dreams be dreams!
Thanks for buying this and showing it off, I now no longer have any desire to try to get one 😁 .. though I may still stick a Garfield phone onto the side of my Mac
This is awesome. I got into computers and phones about 10 years later. Had the Ovolabs Phlink for my Mac Mini and later upgraded to another brand. Still have somewhere around here. Also had the Microsoft Phone. Used both sets of software for both my volunteer work (community hotline for info using the DTMF to provide menu options) but also as a cheap PBX/Answering system. Those were the days.
That is great that you are a Red Letter Media fan. My Saturday night routine is watching both of your videos before going to bed early. Great minds think alike.
Yeah, no amplification at all, just an impedance matching audio transformer connected to the line via a relay. The normally closed contact sends the audio to the speaker, and when you pick up the handset, the relay clicks and sends the audio through the transformer to the line. That's why it's so quiet, they couldn't be bothered spend the couple of dollars to include an amplifier circuit. It's also why it works on both terminals and with an external phone, because the handset is the whole phone. Guessing the plastic cover is vacuformed, which is super cheap for low volume products like this, but is probably the second most expensive part. The most expensive part would be the handset, which is probably an off-the-shelf phone they bought direct from the manufacturer, sans wall mount. Or possibly just bought from a wholesaler, opened the package and threw out the wall mount. I'm guessing they didn't sell them in huge numbers, they were probably hoping they'd "make it big" by getting it picked up by a national retailer so they could ramp up manufacturing or something. Perhaps it might've been if it'd been slightly better quality, i.e. they put an amplifier circuit in there that helped you tweak the audio volume. Or if they actually put the phone in the base unit, they could also have had an audio output to the Mac, allowing it to actively participate in the calls, like actively picking up the line and dialling the calls, playing recorded audio (like a simple autodialler), or answering calls and recording voice messages (probably not feasible on early non-HDD macs).
Just downloaded a huge batch of Ensoniq floppy disk images. Actually copying them to disk is gonna be fun. But bi-directional MIDI communication with a classic sampler seems worth the trouble. Weekend project secured :)
❤️ 🖥️ I’ve never seen those accessories. Often wondered about first generation….especially as no SCSI, ADB, and so on. My first use was Mac SE 2mb Ram, system 6.03 And Mac IIx 4/40 with video card and a Sharp JX-300 color scanner - which had some sort of bespoke interface cord & NuBus card.
Well, what a swizz that product was, it's just a regular Midland telephone handset and the almost empty attachment box, plus the software. Midland still exists, they mainly make CB radios. Great fun seeing this!
Back then it was common for IT equipment to cost as much as an employee. "Should we get another receptionist ?" "well the business could afford the salary but I'm not sure if we could afford another computer and phone line". That is only half in jest. The reason the Xerox Star failed was that the computers cost several times a secretaries annual salary.
That's a chunky phone 🤣😂 kool thoe...btw I brought a full second hand windows pc Gateway set up after watching your vids just to get into the retro side...it's pretty good actually...I liked this video LGR yes!!!!👍😅
Man, back in the mid 90s my dad had a Mac Classic that we used regularly. This is 100% the type of thing we would have used at our house if we were aware of it's existence.
They wired in the cheap phone that used to be in every somewhat decent motel bathroom with some audio transformers and literally had people glue it to the side of their computer... wow.
I never realized until right this moment how long it had been since I saw that style of phone cable. My mom used to have one that was like 10-12 feet long so she could drag it around while chatting with her friends
Was it connected to one of those wall mounted phones? Those worked best with the long handset cords since you wouldn’t pull the phone onto the floor when you started stretching the cord!
The bulk of the electronics was likely in the handset; the relay on the board in the base unit was probably controlled through the handset. The transformer is most likely for isolating the Mac's sound output from the -48V DC (yes, negative 48 volts) on-hook voltage that the landline phone system uses.
At the office where I worked sometime late 90s-early 2000s, we had a PBX-to-PC adapter that would do these types of things. I remember as a joke pasting some Shania Twain lyrics into the app to be read robotically over the phone... It was over-engineered, with a large box under your desk that attached to the AT&T office phone and I think talked to the PBX to control everything... Even had a developer API and my job was to try and integrate it with the company phone book application (yes that was a thing too), but we abandoned the project because it would have been cost prohibitive. ... And the last office I worked in removed their office desk phones because no one used them!
This actually is crazy to me. I use a phone dialer and computer-connected phone for my company and I had no idea how they worked - obviously the one my company uses is far more modern, but this is basically it's ancestor. And I imagine they are far more similar in concept than I'd believe
When californian startups back in the day were Macintosh/PC accessories and Macintosh specialized video cards, nowdays the startups is a race to first build the Torment Nexus from "don't create the torment nexus".
I'm a 90s kid and sometimes i wonder what it was like working in an office in the 80s. With so much technology in the office today, it's so fast paced and deadlines get shorter and shorter. I just imagine back then, if you couldn't reach someone on the phone, you just had to call back later. Things just took longer with fax and phone calls. There was practically no email or cell phones.
We had e-mail back then, but it was a closed, internal-only network (IBM Profs/Officevision or Lotus Notes) with just your company and maybe other organizations that were 'invited'.
The quality of the molding is horrendous. Didn't even create a plate for the jacks-- they're just sitting there, flushmount with nothing holding them in but their soldered leads. Totally ready to break.
I have an Avaya Partner PBX phone system from the late 90s, complete with hold music and an auto attendant. There is also software for it which I have run in my old computer, but I need to to insert a PC Card into the system to allow it to connect to the computer’s software. It is a fun system though, and the handset is well made.
The book on industrial design just ties it all together, there are shapes and devices from the day that were later used as inspiration. This package has now been integrated into OSX and it is incredible how similar the contacts mgmt etc. is. What has planned obsolescence done for us?
We don't paste hardware to the side of monitors enough. We used to be a proper country.
We dont have sides wider then 3 inches anymore either 😂
@@95Comics good enougth for a pen
No longer.
@@95Comics now the user have wider sides , not the screens
And the sides of monitors have never been easier to fit into a clip! Why is monitor mounting a lost technology?
ah, the 80s. When a peripheral was just taping something to the side of your computer.
I remember when i was a peripheral. I was released in 84 as well 🤣
Yep. The keyboard was another popular place to tape things.
@@songarrhea nowadays YOU are glued to the screen :P
same thing with the gameboy
was even more impressive is that it’s a peripheral for a service that many people were able to do without at the time. (Basic landline phone service). we didn’t have landline service until 99 or 98.
Clint recording himself having an existential crisis about his life choices through a 1980s MacPhone is the most LGR thing ever.
Love your work, Clint!
Mmm. Hearing Macintosh Plus through a Mac Phone is fantastic. That low fidelity speaker is perfect for it.
Clint doing Cupid's work as well as entertaining the masses like the gladiator, with loot in its fish net and defunct peripherals spiked on his trident, and of course his mad laugh reverberating throughout the coliseum, angering the gods and Steve Jobs! 😂
1:30 I love how those 3d printed Duke busts keep cropping up everywhere in LGR stuff recently, like they replicate on their own and are infesting Clint's house.
Must be the work of the Christmas Clone(s)
@@subtledemisefox CHRISTMAS!
Those inspired me to print my own, I need more colors of filament now, love that orange.
I think there's an alternate universe somewhere out there where Apple went all-in on this concept, got burned, and then never tried anything phone-related again.
We can only dream
If only.
Meanwhile the Isheep "How DARE you!"
Would we still have smart phones, or would alternative me be writing this using a PDA?
I jolly-well hope so !
That "I dream of Jeannie" startup sound is hilarious man
I've listened to a lot more Will Smith than I've watched I dream of Jeannie so those cheesy verses always pop into my head quicker when I hear it
I thought it was "Bewitched" until Clint set me straight! Clearly I haven't watched enough 60's reruns.
@@lo1bo2Clint Eastwood?
@@DisasterMaster3Kthe guy who makes the videos
@@iBlancoUC Clint Eastwood made this video!
I've been looking for video footage of this thing in use FOREVER! Thank you so much, LGR! I've actually used documentation and academic articles about this in my own work, but I've never seen the GUI actually working.
Excellent, I’m glad to provide! I was surprised to not find any footage of this in action myself when starting work on this videos, so it was extra exciting to show something fresh to the internet.
@LGR I am an old school phone engineer, and I love your vids, if u can ever grab a used PBX
A must for working dialtone, for BBS emulation, PC to PC, and demos like this but not dependent on Bluetooth codec issues.
The following is my best products for lab, playing MSRP that dont hurt the bank.
Grandstream UCM 6104 (SIP/VOIP) - 100.00 - 150.00
or SOHO-PBX SP-208 (Pure Analog office PBX) 75.00
I have even played with US army field phones using the GS-HT802 (45.00) to make calls across the room and across the internet)
About ten years ago there was a system at work where the PABX must have been networked because you could dial people directly from the companies address book. My then boss used it all the time. Any knowledge about that ?
Now everyone just uses Teams. I don't recall the last time I got an internal call on my deskphone.
p.s. I just noticed the username. In 1981 where I worked they had a full blown TRS80 system with all the accessories like Floppy drives for keeping quality records. They employed a guy as "the computer operator" to program and use it.
17:22 Rich Evans cameo
That’s clearly TikTok prank influencer, _The Dunkster_
@@LGRThe dunkster in daaaa house!!
Is there a shared universe for some TH-camrs? I’d like to see more crossovers!
I clapped! I clapped when I saw it!
There's something rather charming about the mismatched hardware colors. The ash white Mac, the brightly colored cable, slightly yellowed phone and X-Link adapter being black. It's somehow both charming and causes my OCD klaxons to blare at the same time.
I'm having a rough day and I felt this bizarre sense of relief on seeing a new LGR in my feed. Thanks, Clint, for being a chill voice in my ear, talking about interesting oddities when I'm feeling down.
it's nice to see how much LGR has grown, like damn, almost 2mil. This is actually the first channel I subscribed to. back then with that little intro and the coke. YEARS ago
I can still hear that old theme song
Aye aye ! Old timer checking in. I suscribed back when the channel had fewer than 10k subscribers, IIRC.
Watching the channel grow over the years has been amazing!
It does not feel like I’ve been here for like a decade. 😮
Before “i” was in front of a product name, it was “Mac” lmao
If Apple made BigMacs, would it be Mac BigMacs or something else?
@@twistedyogert MacBig
Macandcheese
Imagine not having an iCar, iToaster, ITV, iVibe, ICufflinks, or iBalls.
Before the internet, there were Macs
The way the Mac SE looks like a cyclops talking on the phone with that attached is the cutest. I didn't expect the plastic shades match up so well, that actually looks pretty good.
We take this for granted because how everything is so convenient now. A lot of manual dialing and searching through phonebooks and papers was the norm, I can see this being a huge life saver back then.
This would have been completely useless back in the day.
Hey Clint, I met another LGR viewer at the ice cream parlor today. He recognized the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest T-shirt I had on and we got to talking about Apple IIs and Commodore 128s and LGR in front of the other confused Jiffy Treat customers.
you saying the case felt like styrofoam is pretty spot on, judging by how it looks and how it sounded from you handling it i'm almost certain that the shell is made of vacuum formed styrene
Me and my girlfriend love watching your videos together.
Retro tech and the subjects you talk about have been really bonding for us!
18:04 "Let's open this up, I have to know what's inside there!" *whooooosh* tumbleweeds rolling away 😂
Makes me wonder why it wasn't just a hand set.
I didn't expect much in the first place but man was I underwhelmed. 😂
Fk you guys that shouldn't have been so funny.
I'm guessing most of the action is going on in the handset.
@@bghoody5665 It's just a cheap Midland phone. They didn't get much cheaper or more awful than that. No, the action is all going on in that MacPhone box, there just ain't much action.
This is one of my favourite channels ever. I already said this maybe years ago and this still holds true. Thanks Dude. Read in duke's voice
Glad to hear that, thanks :)
I remember ads for these but never saw one. It was great to see a 40 year old curiosity reviewed as only LGR could!
I was feeling very sad about some RL stuff, but this made my day. That pulse phone and vaporwave and legit 80's sound, fabulous.
Looking back from the "future" where we carry around little computers in our pockets that are also capable of making phone calls, it's amazing how this thing is quite the opposite of what we have. Also, that Macintosh PLUS music with that old monochrome flying toaster screensaver is the most right I've ever had anything feel.
I love how they didn’t even bother to replace the midland logo on the handset!
I noticed that. The only Midland products we got here in the U.K. were their CB rigs, which were about the same price as this when they launched in 1981.
So I'm guessing they bought up a bunch of Midland phone handsets which really didn't need a base as they were fully self contained, molded an incredibly cheap base for them, and did a little basic electronics work to get headphone jack audio superimposed over a phone call. They literally could manufacture this in the back of that little building that was their company HQ. But that software package really didn't justify the high cost for any of this.
@@plateshutoverlock But productivity software was expensive back then because it was aimed mainly at businesses e.g. $895 for MS-Office back in 1989 (and that is before adding inflation).
ive always been interested in tech (thanks to my sister, she's also the one who showed me your channel) but dont really have the Actual Knowledge on software or hardware to entirely understand what's going on BUT i just adore watching videos like this on old or niche tech !!
it makes me happy that LGR is a fan of RedLetterMedia.
_That’s right, Jay._
Great Dunkster cameo
Would love to see LGR cameo on a HitB episode!
Vinny from Vinesauce knows Mike and hangs out with him at RLM too. Would be cool to see Clint and Vinny do a PC game cameo or some such.
I didn't expect to ever see a photo of a classic Mac headbanging, but the Mac Tilt's marketing department were determined to make sure I did anyway.
Also _of course_ Clint has a Commodore brand telephone.
But does he have the Commodore filing cabinets to match ?
Fun fact; the reason the PET has a metal case is that they realised they could make the cases in their filing cabinet factory.
17:55 ok why did that actually look so cool with the music !?
Thank you for the indirect recommendation for the XLinkBT phone adapter. I now have one of my rotary phones up and running again
Nice!
I need to see if we still have my great grans rotary phone and get one of these. I want the memories back!
That song, on those speakers, with those toasters? That was a mood my friend.
I miss the look of the Apple Macintosh. That little built in monitor takes me right back to the 80's and early 90's, like smelling sausage and onions or cotton candy takes you back to a fair, and really makes me nostalgic for a time before the internet and smart phones took over our lives.
Imagine in an alternative universe instead of iPhone we got “MacPhone” from Apple and “ThinkPhone” from IBM
I guess we've got the ThinkPhone now, but it's Lenovo and Motorola I think
I'd like an AmigaFone.
in the 90s when the internet exploded, IBM was fond of sticking "e" in front of everything, to indicate that it was hip and could be used for eCommerce etc, but given some of the odd stuff they've made, an ePhone video conference type deal would not have been out of place for IBM. Smartphones however, eh, not likely, they've never shown any interest in that stuff
@@brunoprimas1483Personally wish we'd got Atari phone
ok what about the phone 64
If you're not watching these with the subtitles, you're missing out! Hahaha! Great vid, of course. You always come up with the coolest, weirdest stuff to show us.,
Yes, a pile of power supply type issues in your Mac line-up, probably time for a re-cap session.
I had fun pausing and reading the ad's for the other add-ons, I couldn't believe the $1,195 dollars for a severely limited PC add-on.
Here is a digital watch emulator for the Mac. It's got 3 screens of functions: minutes and hours, date, and seconds in big, easy to read numbers That will be $100. I almost forgot: It's called an EXECUTIVE digital watch emulator. That will be another 100 bucks.
18:00 As brief as the moment was, Macintosh Plus vaporwave playing through the phone like hold music as flying toasters soar in on an actual vintage Mac is _such a vibe._
The hell you go through to entertain us all! Thank you!
The vaporwave through the macphone was a brilliant idea! Also loved seeing what was inside it!!
I gotta say, that ring tone is weirdly satisfying. Sounds clean and sharp.
The OG iPhone. Cool. Really love your videos of every random knick-knack.
17:23 Didn't know Clint was a 'the Dunkster' afficienado.
This video was pleasing in the audible sense. The mac sounds (very nostalgic for this non apple guy), and the phone sounds too! I love the way classic mac looks too. I wish i could find a linux gui that looked just like it!
I’m like 95% sure that you could make something Ubuntu look close with some effort.
My laptop (Mint) has a full on XP theme and I have seen a win95 one that was really neat. They work pretty well too, it doesn’t look janky 😂.
I don’t think anyone has made one of this or like win3.1 yet, but don’t let your dreams be dreams!
Thanks for buying this and showing it off, I now no longer have any desire to try to get one 😁
.. though I may still stick a Garfield phone onto the side of my Mac
This is awesome. I got into computers and phones about 10 years later.
Had the Ovolabs Phlink for my Mac Mini and later upgraded to another brand. Still have somewhere around here.
Also had the Microsoft Phone.
Used both sets of software for both my volunteer work (community hotline for info using the DTMF to provide menu options) but also as a cheap PBX/Answering system.
Those were the days.
"Smooth jazz plays" at 8:00am why thank you TH-cam gods
Just imagine. The Pacific Timers had an even earlier smooth jazz. I enjoyed it on the original Eastern Time.
The captions can be funny
That is great that you are a Red Letter Media fan. My Saturday night routine is watching both of your videos before going to bed early. Great minds think alike.
Yeah, no amplification at all, just an impedance matching audio transformer connected to the line via a relay. The normally closed contact sends the audio to the speaker, and when you pick up the handset, the relay clicks and sends the audio through the transformer to the line. That's why it's so quiet, they couldn't be bothered spend the couple of dollars to include an amplifier circuit. It's also why it works on both terminals and with an external phone, because the handset is the whole phone.
Guessing the plastic cover is vacuformed, which is super cheap for low volume products like this, but is probably the second most expensive part. The most expensive part would be the handset, which is probably an off-the-shelf phone they bought direct from the manufacturer, sans wall mount. Or possibly just bought from a wholesaler, opened the package and threw out the wall mount.
I'm guessing they didn't sell them in huge numbers, they were probably hoping they'd "make it big" by getting it picked up by a national retailer so they could ramp up manufacturing or something. Perhaps it might've been if it'd been slightly better quality, i.e. they put an amplifier circuit in there that helped you tweak the audio volume. Or if they actually put the phone in the base unit, they could also have had an audio output to the Mac, allowing it to actively participate in the calls, like actively picking up the line and dialling the calls, playing recorded audio (like a simple autodialler), or answering calls and recording voice messages (probably not feasible on early non-HDD macs).
And the kid's thought they have the best Iphone of the age lol! Thanks for more of your amazing content Clint!
4:54 - Hey Clint, whatever you do - please keep in mind _don't copy that floppy!_
Just downloaded a huge batch of Ensoniq floppy disk images. Actually copying them to disk is gonna be fun.
But bi-directional MIDI communication with a classic sampler seems worth the trouble. Weekend project secured :)
Having place to write numbers is funny given what software appears to do. Another great vid. Thanks!
Oh yeah; this is prime 1980's #Oddware. Thanks for the laughs, definitely needed them.
❤️ 🖥️
I’ve never seen those accessories.
Often wondered about first generation….especially as no SCSI, ADB, and so on.
My first use was Mac SE 2mb Ram, system 6.03
And Mac IIx 4/40 with video card and a Sharp JX-300 color scanner - which had some sort of bespoke interface cord & NuBus card.
There's something magical about playing Floral Shoppe on a Macintosh from the late 80s through a phone.
there's just no way something like this could be interesting, yet you make it interesting. I have no idea how you pull it off. I'm glad though.
Glad to hear 😄
17:22 This officially qualifies as an LGR/RLM crossover episode. I clapped, because I saw Rich Evans!
The Dunkster*
Well, what a swizz that product was, it's just a regular Midland telephone handset and the almost empty attachment box, plus the software. Midland still exists, they mainly make CB radios. Great fun seeing this!
Back then it was common for IT equipment to cost as much as an employee. "Should we get another receptionist ?" "well the business could afford the salary but I'm not sure if we could afford another computer and phone line". That is only half in jest. The reason the Xerox Star failed was that the computers cost several times a secretaries annual salary.
Boot Loops....new cereal for computer geeks
I need this so fucking badly.
That's a chunky phone 🤣😂 kool thoe...btw I brought a full second hand windows pc Gateway set up after watching your vids just to get into the retro side...it's pretty good actually...I liked this video LGR yes!!!!👍😅
Mac Bottom implies the existence of a Mac Daddy.
That is indeed a thing haha macdaddy.io/
That UI looks slick!
16:48 Flashbacks to Storybook Weaver and American Girls Premiere vids. “Sometimes I have the sudden urge to fart on this chair.” 😆
Ahh, that little bit of personal connection when you mentioned Dr. Sbaitso. My friends and I used to mess around with that program all the time.
Many times I am scrolling my TH-cam recommendations, and nothing looks good. Thanks for fixing that.
My pleasure!
A video of the complete Macintosh + song playing on a Macintosh is needed greatly!! Please make this happen
Cool cameo of Rich Evans😅
The DUNKSTER!
Man, back in the mid 90s my dad had a Mac Classic that we used regularly. This is 100% the type of thing we would have used at our house if we were aware of it's existence.
They wired in the cheap phone that used to be in every somewhat decent motel bathroom with some audio transformers and literally had people glue it to the side of their computer... wow.
Effectively yes 😄
Love your videos. Keep it up man!
It can only adhere to the side of an Apple computer. The adhesive will burst into flames if you dare try and stick it to a PC.
Superb video. Am I the only one that likes the look of the Macintosh with that phone on the side?
I could mess with that TTS thing all day and not be bored..
"I love that" I said aloud to myself as Clint simultaneously did to that macphone ringer sound. So good.
The Amiga 'Say' vibes are strong with the SmoothTalker program.
I never realized until right this moment how long it had been since I saw that style of phone cable. My mom used to have one that was like 10-12 feet long so she could drag it around while chatting with her friends
Was it connected to one of those wall mounted phones? Those worked best with the long handset cords since you wouldn’t pull the phone onto the floor when you started stretching the cord!
this is the iPhone in 1984
@1:55 Telos - used to work for them as an apprentice in 1986. After-school high school job. Nice people.
Just need to add a camera and battery pack then carry it around in your pocket... 80's convenience to the MAX!
That's an interesting concept at an early stage. When you mentioned Dr. Sbaitso I had flashbacks swearing at it.😆
17:22 Unexpected Rich Evans jumpscare!
The bulk of the electronics was likely in the handset; the relay on the board in the base unit was probably controlled through the handset. The transformer is most likely for isolating the Mac's sound output from the -48V DC (yes, negative 48 volts) on-hook voltage that the landline phone system uses.
“The Pre-iPhone for the rest of us.”
Adding a feature to an Apple device that would become a core part of their business30+ years later.
Crazy
Love it how Jobs would say "for the rest of us" and then would price it "for the few of them".
@@karlimo4034 You hit the nail on the head there! 🍻
At the office where I worked sometime late 90s-early 2000s, we had a PBX-to-PC adapter that would do these types of things. I remember as a joke pasting some Shania Twain lyrics into the app to be read robotically over the phone... It was over-engineered, with a large box under your desk that attached to the AT&T office phone and I think talked to the PBX to control everything... Even had a developer API and my job was to try and integrate it with the company phone book application (yes that was a thing too), but we abandoned the project because it would have been cost prohibitive. ... And the last office I worked in removed their office desk phones because no one used them!
1:20 before this product, after this product, keeping you single.
lmao
This is wonderful lol... that Mac+ music moment. Perfect.
"Mom I want an iPhone"
"We have a iPhone at home"
The iPhone:
9:41 Oh man, this is hitting the nostalgia button so hard
It's for rare collectible weirdos? Hey! That's me!
Weird collectible for rare weirdos
This actually is crazy to me. I use a phone dialer and computer-connected phone for my company and I had no idea how they worked - obviously the one my company uses is far more modern, but this is basically it's ancestor. And I imagine they are far more similar in concept than I'd believe
NEW OLD CONTENT!!!!!!
Hi clint
Awesome Clint!! Great video!
When californian startups back in the day were Macintosh/PC accessories and Macintosh specialized video cards, nowdays the startups is a race to first build the Torment Nexus from "don't create the torment nexus".
This is the kinda stuff I enjoy about old computers.
So many cool ideas.
*Gordon Gecko* is jealous 🤑
I'm a 90s kid and sometimes i wonder what it was like working in an office in the 80s. With so much technology in the office today, it's so fast paced and deadlines get shorter and shorter. I just imagine back then, if you couldn't reach someone on the phone, you just had to call back later. Things just took longer with fax and phone calls. There was practically no email or cell phones.
We had e-mail back then, but it was a closed, internal-only network (IBM Profs/Officevision or Lotus Notes) with just your company and maybe other organizations that were 'invited'.
"Intranet" is what this other commentor is referring to.
The quality of the molding is horrendous. Didn't even create a plate for the jacks-- they're just sitting there, flushmount with nothing holding them in but their soldered leads. Totally ready to break.
I really adore that picture of the lady in a black room, holding the phone like "if I do THIS you'll let me go?"
Babe wake up LGR just posted a new vid
I have an Avaya Partner PBX phone system from the late 90s, complete with hold music and an auto attendant. There is also software for it which I have run in my old computer, but I need to to insert a PC Card into the system to allow it to connect to the computer’s software. It is a fun system though, and the handset is well made.
"Not Enter the Matrix" with Clubbed to Death playing in the back. That game was....meh.
Whoa bro, chill out and drink some Powerade
The book on industrial design just ties it all together, there are shapes and devices from the day that were later used as inspiration.
This package has now been integrated into OSX and it is incredible how similar the contacts mgmt etc. is.
What has planned obsolescence done for us?