The goal for any collection of mine is to collect interesting items for the lowest cost. For the Mac Museum, I generally do this through eBay and Craigslist. Craigslist tends to be cheaper as people either a) don't understand the value of what they are selling or b) don’t care and just want to get …
The Wallstreet PowerBook G3: The Best PowerBook for the Mac Museum
The Mac Museum isn't just about collecting Apple hardware. It's about collecting Apple software and Macintosh applications as well. The idea is to preserve Macs in time as they were when they were new. Some of the Macs that I collect already contain copies of software from their era that I want to save – …
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Tears
I used to cry a lot when I was a kid. I was what you'd call "sensitive", a euphemism for a crybaby. I'd cry at the drop of a hat - if something didn't get my way, if I got a small cut or bruise, if I got frustrated, if I was told I did …
Taming Twins: Some Nights Just Aren't What You Expect
The boys are getting sick. Sally and I have both had nose and throat colds so of course the boys are going to get them. Adam is particularly bad. He's wheezy, boogery, and tired. One minute he's happy, one minute he's not. If it's not him, it's Zach. When the boys are sick nobody has …
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Macintosh External Floppy Take-Apart
When I added an original Macintosh to my collection recently I was fortunate to also get an external floppy drive with it. This is the original external floppy, model M0130, that Apple sold as a $500 accessory. Since the original Macs did not have hard drives users often had to swap disks in and out …
Why Hasn't Windows 7 Taken Off?
That is the question that was posted over on OS News today. They refer to a post written by the former Windows Phone 7 General Manger, Charlie Kindel. Kindel believes that it is because Microsoft exerts too much power over the platform. Google allows anyone anywhere to install Android on anything, for free. The only …
The Mac Museum has an Original Macintosh!
So I went out to Dunbarton today to pick up the two classic Macs that I found on Craislist earlier this week. The ad didn't specify which models the were, but based on the pictures I thought I was getting a working Mac Plus and a non-working Mac 512k, circa 1986 and 1985. The Macs …
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Mac Museum First Impressions – Tangerine iBook G3
I'll be honest here, it's going to take me a while to do a full write up on all of the Macs that I have. So as I add new Macs to my collection, I'm going to post quick summaries of my first impressions. My latest addition is a 300 MHz iBook G3 in Tangerine. …
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Mac Museum New Addition – The Power Mac G4
This has been a long article in the making. It covers the first four Power Mac G4 models from 1999 through 2001. I rewrote it three times or so because the flow just wasn't right and when I finally had something I liked, my server died. So I had to rewrite it a fourth time. …
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Coming Soon to the Mac Museum
A Tangerine iBook that I scored off of eBay. I love these things. It's like an iMac squished into a laptop. My top pick would have been a Lime one, but they usually go for $200+. I got this one for $63 including shipping and that was a great deal. A Mac Plus (I think) …
Relatively Ambitious 