[AUTOMATIC CAPTIONS BY YOUTUBE] on the menu today we'll turn a brand-new iMac into this old beige beauty and see
if it's possible to clean the keyboard with slime now let's get cooking welcome
hello chip dippers welcome to retro recipes now you might remember that the
Apple Macintosh Plus keyboard is dear to my heart and although their extended
keyboard is arguably one of the best ever made for nostalgic reasons this
was the one for me and so in the video we tried to hook it up using the
fantastic track where Mac to USB keyboard adapter and eventually got it
working with a little help from Ashley practic how it takes the strain I
thought it was inverted no that might be where I'm going wrong you're welcome
by the way if you want to make your own back to USB or any other kind of PCB
I recommend PCB way they make the whole purse has streamlined and simple because
speaking of Ashley as we all know PCB way stands for please come back where
are you doesn't it well anyway what you probably
didn't see was a patreon only video or I took a photo of the underside of the
keyboard and we used that to color match attract pet decal from eye styles and we
even found someone called lady fracked ik to install it for us
now understandably ice tiles weren't able to print the Apple logo on it for
copyright reasons but I easily found a small retro logo sticker on flea Bay and
placed it where fingers never wander here at its bottom but one thing always
bothered me I never found a good solution for the iMac itself I really
didn't want a spray painter and when I recently upgraded the machine to help
with more complex video edits with sincere thanks to those very same
patrons well I just had to get rid of that aluminium endometrium in him but
nobody seemed to sell skins for the iMac and tried everywhere then I finally
discovered the skin dudes and although they didn't list the iMac they do offer
custom decals and I can't believe it when after I emailed them they said they
could provide the beige skin using my same trackpad color match both the chin
of the iMac and the stand underneath the whole thing came in at a very reasonable
thirty bucks or so well here it is now so let's get sticky
and don't worry about any little air bubbles left behind you can either push
them out of the edges or they should disappear in one to two days and I'm
also not gonna worry about the Apple logo so we've got other plans for that
stay tuned
alright that's good enough for me then I'm gonna put the bite back in the Apple
by reinstating this sticker here just to make a bit more of a flat surface
because I also had these these were left over from when I had a MacBook Pro and
used them on the back of this shell and they'll be perfect for the center of our
retro iMac
then it's time for some plastic surgery on the chin they wouldn't want that
and max used to get that lovely startup chime unfortunately Apple removed it in
later models they also removed a hack whereby you could get it back until
recently because a new hack has been discovered what we do is type this into
terminal and then next time we reboot we're sure to hear the chime all right
now before we put the rest of the ensemble together the keyboard has got a
little dirty from well day to day use and I found this goo on goo go actually
was on Amazon and will get sticky with it in just a moment
they say that you just pushed this slime into the keyboard gaps and it comes back
out holding all the dirt well this really is gonna put the childhood fun
back into cleaning old keyboards just don't eat it let's give it a go
hmm vistas lemon-scented
it hasn't done too bad a job definitely hasn't removed the more stuck-on dirt
there's definitely picked up all the other little dog hairs and fluff bunnies
as yam betta would say
well with the decals stuck on and the sticky stuff unstuck let's put the whole
ensemble together and I found these gel wrist rests that kind of match the key
colors just get a little less RSI when editing but to really show off this
build I think we should download mini V Mac the Macintosh emulator for the
Macintosh
thanks so much for coming back to the future with me subscribe below and
cheerio know something different did but over there on the desk they can
be printed but look at the computer very well here look at the actual look at the
color and the keyboard and the trackpad
stand aside
but it's a Commodore