Brilliant or Blunder? The 20th Anniversary Mac - A Love Letter & Restoration - iiiDIY

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You can be an early iiiDIY Supporter here! http://patreon.com/iiiDIY The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (TAM) was a fascinating design concept brought into full production in 1997. Apple's Industrial Design Group had conceived of a new all-in-one computer for the masses... but their marketing department had other ideas. Released as a $9,000 USD ($17,513.94 adjusted) luxury item, along with rumoured white-glove limousine delivery service, the TAM was a commercial failure. Less than 12,000 were sold. But thanks to its striking design and some upgradability, the TAM developed a cult following. Love or hate its aesthetic, the TAM's limited sales has made it into a collector's item for Macintosh enthusiasts. Unfortunately, like almost all 1990s electronics, the capacitors now threaten to destroy this slice of history. So today, we get to crack one open and save it from a corrosive end! Of course, this being iiiDIY, mistakes are made along the way, but we'll learn from them together :) If you enjoyed this video, please subscribe to my channel so get more retro computing repair and restoration videos in your feed! Thank you to PCBWay for sponsoring this video. You can check them out at https://www.pcbway.com/ CREDITS: Thank you to Grant from Mac27.net for the excellent TAM disassembly guide (and for being an early supporter of this channel!): https://www.mac27.net/tam-disassembly A million thanks to @THEtechknight and Nickposting. Without their help and patience, this TAM would be dead. You can find Technight's wealth of repair knowledge here: https://www.youtube.com/@THEtechknight Thank you to @ComputerHistory for letting me use an excerpt of Rober Brunner's talk. I HIGHLY recommend watching the whole presentation if you're interested in Apple design history! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--7Br07QKMk Thanks to John from @BigBadBench for entrusting me with his PowerMac 6500 for some b-roll. His Saturday streams are delightful! https://www.youtube.com/@BigBadBench Last, and arguably least, thanks to @65scribe for "loaning" me his sad music cue :) If you're watching my videos, you should already be subscribed to his genius-level Macintosh-related channel: https://www.youtube.com/@65scribe Finally, you can watch the most uncomfortable keynote ever here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BL_huwwIGU Music: Cello Suite No.1 in G Major, BWV 1007 - I. Prelude, by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Yoed Nir Capricho Arabe, by Francisco Tárrega, Yuval Vilner La Source, Op. 44, by Alphonse Hasselmans, Ada Ragimov Memory Lane by Vox Portent Chapters: 00:00 Apple in 1996 01:34 Concept & Launch 03:40 CD-ROM Tour 05:15 In The Wild 05:45 Discontinuation 06:30 Life After Death 07:19 My TAM & Issues 07:55 Disassembly & Cleaning 10:16 Power Distro Board Recap 11:23 Logic Board Recap 12:39 CD-ROM Recap 13:35 Signs of Trouble 14:26 Flex Cable Repair 16:24 2 Flex Cable 2 Furious 18:06 Cleaning & Reassembly 18:32 Sponsor 19:02 Reassembly & Test Boot 19:32 More Trouble 21:19 Another Test Boot 22:00 Final Assembly 23:11 Wrap-Up #apple #TwentiethAnniversaryMacintosh #Macintosh #retrocomputing #nostalgia #20thAnniversaryMac #TAM #PPC #PowerPC #vintagecomputer #90s #PCBWay