12 years ago I acquired this old Macintosh from Otis, the Art School I was attending to at the time. I used to work part time at the computer lab there and this little machine was sitting in a closet collecting dust until I asked to take it home. Since then I have never been able to use it for lack of an Operating System. It turns out, the OS, the applications and it’s documents all get saved to 400k floppies, something virtually impossible to find nowadays. And I was never really sure what model exactly this computer was since it just says Macintosh on it. I eventually gave up on the quest of finding floppies and the Mac was stored away in a closet. Going from apartment to apartment and finally to our current home’s garage. Last week I decided, after many years of retirement, it was time to open it up and see if I can pull a Serang by replacing the innards with that of an iMac SE and a flat display from an IBM ThinkPad.
To my surprise I found all these signatures inside the box and realized this was no ordinary vintage Mac, this was model M0001, the very first Macintosh model ever built. So now I have a dilemma, do I continue the original plan of hacking it? or do i restore it back to it’s 128k glory?
NOTE ADDED: When I say the very first Mac model I am saying the first generation of the Mac not the very first individual unit.
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I have the guts of a Mac Plus (not the HD) lying around if anyone wants them. I Would only want the cost of packing/posting them to you.
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Yep I have one also, in perfect condition, still in the travel bag, with original software. Hmm what’s it worth?
just bought an M0001 today for $10 from qa pawn shop.. did a serial number decode on it…
Manufactured in Fremont CA, USA
year of production: 1984
week of production: 17
Production number: (044) ==> 140
modell ID: M0001 => original Macintosh 1984 (128k)
your original Macintosh 1984 (128k) was the 140th Mac manufactured during the 17th week of 1984 in Fremont, CA, USA
interesting, now, do i hack it up and make a fish tank out of it, or try and re-do the memory and get it running?? email me with your responses.. SUBJ: MAC ADVICE
If anyone is going to do the SERANG thing and refurbish to upgrade to Mac OS X wow…go for it. What an awesome remake. I love the glowing colour striped apple start button…smart stuff.
I have a working Mac Plus M0001A with original keyboard/number pad, mouse and system disk. I’d be interested in finding a good home for it, with wealthy parents as I can’t take care for all its wants and needs….do you know what size 11 Nikes run now a days? ;-) …C
Hi everyone. I got a Mac M0001 in my collection of old computers but lacking an operating system. Is there anyone who have a OS 1, 2 or 3 on a 400kb floppy that I could acquire a copy of. Cheers
I have a m0001 found too. broken. looking to restore.
Guys You can use the regular 3.5″ floppy disk.
But you need to tape over the hole on one of the corners . Not the write protect , but the opposite side.
I used to convert the 400k floppy dicks to 1.4k with hole puncher in that corner.
BTW I wish i could get one of this old Macs