Found Footage: a Mac Classic booting

Liked the clip (would love to see a gallery of old boot-ups), but you could have clipped your writeup to two lines without losing any meaning. Skip the stream-of-consciousness parentheticals, man.

#30: I *know* the screen flicker is caused by differences in video camera frame rates and monitor refresh rates; it's pretty common knowledge - at least in tech publications. I simply felt the video quality and quirks deserved a mention in part because Flash video compression still blows, and also to see if any other readers had better videos.

Also, thanks for assuming that everyone can afford everything you and your 'I have 12 of these' friends can. It's a good reminder of how poor my grade school was. Great memories.

Lastly, I'm 26, and didn't really get my hands on a computer until high school in 1995 - it was an IBM Aptiva running Windows 95. Of course, my parents had to go into massive debt to afford one and continued working until they were about 70 to help pay off a few things like that IBM, but how could you have possibly known that?

Who the heck is posting on TUAW these days? First of all - if you haven't seen a Mac Classic and you're editing on this site - that is a sad state of affairs. Public schools were crawling with these things in the early nineties and they really are all over. I have a friend who has like 12 of them. Secondly - the "flickering" isn't something you see in person - that's caused because of a mismatch in the camera's shutter speed and the refresh rate of the CRT. It happens when you video a CRT. yeesh!

Ahhhh blessed memories! We had them at school and the loading screen reminds me fondly of my Performa 630 loading up all its extensions and stuff... I miss my Mac

UGH, I don't miss those icons loading on the bottom. I remember holding down the space bar to bring the Manager? Plugins manager? Control panel? God, I can't even remember what it's called it's been so long!

Fishes,
narco.

My classic does this still today? Can I have a cookie too?

Hey all... I've got a highly modified Apple IIGS running System 6 (I think). Would anybody be interested in seeing pix/vids of it? Drop me a line at corey.oltman@gmail.com and let me know!

edit: performa 6115

Speaking of running Basilisk or any of the other methods, has anyone got a spare ROM image they'd be willing to email/post? I've got an old performa 611d sitting in the den, but I'm missing the keyboard and mouse, so getting the ROM file off of that is a little difficult at the moment. I'd surely appreciate it.

Also, I'm assuming you got it working. Were there any other tricks besides whats listed on the websites for basilisk II and the like? I'm really curious. I'd love to get System 7 running on my 12" pbook.

Only a Mac user would actually watch the whole video. But I am glad to say I am one of those people.