Restoring Apple's fastest Mac (in 1990)

By the 1990s, desktop computers were being pushed to do far more than simple desktop publishing...so Apple pulled out all the stops.

Mac II/IIx/IIfx BlueSCSI bracket model: https://www.printables.com/model/1115...
"CR2032 Toaster" battery adapters: https://github.com/alxlab-zone66x/cr2...
IIfx recreation motherboards: https://github.com/TheRealBolle/IIfx

Sources:
TinkerDifferent forum thread with hybrid-capped IIfx: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/m...
"Apple's Special fx," Byte, April 1990.
Mac IIfx used on Terminator 2: https://history.siggraph.org/animatio...
Apple Developer Note 15: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/DV_15_-_...
Black IIfx terminator photo: https://www.finn.no/recommerce/forsal...
"Study ranks Mac first in class," Computerworld, April 8, 1991.
"Apple offers low-cost printers, cuts PC prices," Computerworld, March 18, 1991.
"Dual Dynamos," MacUser, December 1991.
"Apple bids farewell to Frank Casanova after pivotal 36-year tenure," https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/...
IIfx logic board recreation GitHub: https://github.com/TheRealBolle/IIfx

00:00 - Introduction
01:26 - What's in the box???
03:25 - Double trouble
06:07 - Everyone loves a montage
08:09 - Why did you skip the montage?!
09:38 - Gotta go fast
12:06 - Ready for liftoff
13:41 - TWO montages in one video, wow
14:57 - dddddddddddddddddd
16:35 - If you have to ask how much it costs...
18:59 - The final chapter

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Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Bo....