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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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) …
Mac Museum – Work In Progress
I'm still working on setting up and organizing my collection (and still looking for some System 7.5 and Microsoft Office floppies that I swear I have), but here are a couple of shots of what it looks like at the moment. Admission is $20/person. kidding.
The Mac Museum Has Moved
... To my basement! After allowing five Macs to pile up in the office and trip people, I finally decided to move them to what would eventually be their final home. I lugged them down last night, cleaned up my darkroom, and set them up. I was able to get all but one of them …
This is How I Feel About the iPhone 4s
I was going to write a big article about the hoopla around the iPhone 4s, but John Gruber beat me to it. I agree with him completely and I am one of those 3GS users to whom the 4s is a huge upgrade. I'm also a photographer and I appreciate all the work that Apple …
Steve Jobs Changed Our Lives
I read a lot of very respectful comments on Facebook yesterday about Steve Jobs passing. Some said thank you, some said in rest in peace, and some said farewell. A few of them started with something like "I've never owned an Apple product, but ...". I found those comments very interesting because it almost seemed …
Thanks Steve
I first got into Macs when I was in middle school. I fell in love with Macs- the way they were designed, the way they worked, the minute details that were considered in their creation. If not for you, I would not have had long to enjoy them. Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy, …
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