PowerBook 540c & Accessories The PowerBook 5oo series was released in 1994 to replace the 100 series introduced in 1991. It was the first redesign of the PowerBook since the introduction of the Duo line in 1992. The series consisted of two models – the 520 and 540. Each included a Motorola 68040 processor (think …
eBay Deal of the Week: Macintosh HDI-20 External Floppy Drive
I just scored a great deal on eBay. The item is a Macintosh HDI-20 external floppy disk drive from 1991. It was originally released for the PowerBook 100 which did not include an internal floppy drive but was revived a couple of years later for the PowerBook Duo series of notebooks that also did not …
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A Second Chance on eBay
eBay has a concept called a Second Chance Offer. It's something that I'd never heard of before until this weekend. Here's how it works. Two people bid on an item. Person A wins the auction over person B. Person A either doesn't pay the seller or decides that they no longer want to purchase the …
Mac Museum Recent Additions
I've been busy on eBay lately picking up new additions for the Mac museum. In the past two weeks, I've purchased the following: Quadra 660AV - One of the first Macs that included video input / output to and from a TV. It also included speech recognition, high quality sound recording, and a CD-ROM drive all …
Smart eBaying
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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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 …
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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Relatively Ambitious 