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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It is a classic!!!!
Restore it. No brainer. ;)
Have you tried:
http://mes.emuunlim.com/software/macos/macos.htm ?
The older systems are towards the bottom.
Hell Yeah!!!!!!!
What an awesome surprise.
I reckon clean it up and build a glass case for it and a wooden base for it to sit on. Might be worth a hell of a lot in a few more years.
Otherwise give it to me :D
You’ve got restore it, it’s a no brainer, that would be worth a bit. Or you could open some sort of Mac Museum.
Hmm, not sure this is M0001… ALL the early Macs had the signatures of the whole team carved on the inner shell. Check out this story by Andy Hertzfled, from the original Mac team: folklore.org – Credit_Where_Due
moose, the signatures are engraved, and it does say model m0001.
Restore it, definitely.
wow, you mean REALLY engraved… that’s impressive then… might be worth a couple $$$ actually.
Hang on, I’ll go and break my old Mac open, just in case ;-)
You lucky son of a geek!
Restore it, it is a priceless artifact. :)