Farewell to the Apple IIe and Mac Plus
Here’s what will probably be the last of my “Thanks for the memories” videos. Sorry for the camera shaking at the beginning; hopefully it’s not bad enough to make anyone seasick.
I talk about the Apple IIe and the Mac Plus. (I also have an Apple IIgs Woz Limited Edition but I couldn’t think of anything to say about it!)
All you need to know about networking with System 6
Now that we’ve all recovered from my attempt at video-making in 1998, it’s time for some 2009 video-making, which is actually less fancy – but, oddly, has editing! I guess it all evens out. Here, I talk about the PowerBook 145B and Farallon PhoneNet connectors, and mention the moon landing.
System 7 + AOL 2.x + Global Village modem = internet access circa 1996
I think this is my best video so far. Probably because it’s starting to get truly personal! I really do feel a connection to this stuff and I don’t know if I’ll be able to get rid of the System 7.5 software package.
But I’ll write more on that later. For now, here’s the video!
Video experiement continues: “Thanks for the memories” part 2
Yes, it’s another video.
Last night Rusty and I bought the newest version of iMovie, which includes the ability to do text overlays – so now I can do all the editing stuff myself! That is, unless I want to do anything fancy, which so far I have no desire to do.
I think the coloring in this one looks different because we changed the overhead light from incandescent bulbs to curly-cue compact fluorescents. If you care.
One note:
1) I screwed up my clever little quip at the end. Microsoft’s unofficial slogan is, “Bring you yesterday, tomorrow.” I didn’t care enough to go back and reshoot the whole thing, though.
There was something else I had noticed while watching it last night that needed clarifying, but on the computer I’m on at the moment I don’t have sound, so I can’t remember what it was. Maybe I’ll update this post later.
Anyway, in this video I talk about MacProject. Wanna buy it? Make me your best offer!
Video experiment… part 1 of ?
A while back, I mentioned that I have too much old computer crap taking up space in the house, and I wondered aloud what I should do about it. A commenter floated the idea of making videos of myself talking about a particular item, so that I can get rid of the object but keep the memories. Brilliant! (I still don’t know who this commenter is or where he came from.)
I’ve never been all that enthusiastic about internet video. In fact, if anything, I’ve been the opposite of enthusiastic. But last weekend when I saw Miss Calico’s Flip camera, I was so impressed with its sleek design and apparent ease of use that I started to think maybe these nostalgia videos could be a real possibility. Then when I saw the quality of the videos it took, I was even more impressed. Rusty did a little research and said I should get a Kodak Zi6, which takes better quality video and costs less – so that’s what I did. And that camera really is as simple as it purports to be! Like I said on Twitter the other day, it’s like a Brownie camera for the YouTube age.
I hate seeing myself on video but maybe this project will be a way for me to overcome that. I will say that I think iMovie HD is obnoxious and not at all intuitive. This is a big part of why I’ve never been enthusiastic about the idea of making videos; the editing part seems tedious and annoying! I wish I enjoyed it the way Rusty does (and the results of him actually enjoying it definitely show in his videos); but, it is good to have an easy way to just throw some videos up on the web. I might not even bother with a title or overlay (which Rusty had to do for me in Final Cut Express) going forward; we’ll see!
In this first video, I talk a bit about eWorld. (I won’t be so long-winded in future videos.)
