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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Hi Melvin thanks a lot for the lightbox info, I didn’t see it before…
S
The riot is that for the longest time, the floppy drive was the incense burner in our apartment. Gotta love it, Melvita.
After I read this I went upstarirs to my closet to check if our 128k was M0001. It is!
For those of you that want to but a old mac M0001.
One guys have one for sale on Ebay for $99.99 with the free shipping.
Hi oldMac friends,
at
http://myoldmac.net/FAQ/Mac-Serialnumber-decoder-e.php
you find a Classic Mac Seral Number decoder to decode your Macs Serial number.
Find out where it was produced, on wich day, in wich year and more !
Greetings,
Oliver
Hello Oliver, thank you very much for the link!
It was long time I was searching for that, infact I had only this one:
http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html
that didn’t traced My Old Mac, so thanks again
S
Have a Macintosh Plus M0001A #1575 manufactured in Fremont California in 1986. Unit is untested minus any periperals. Accepting offers…
I have 5 of these.. All of them say M0001 and all of them have the signatures in them..
Is this guy for real? Dude, you have no idea what you are talking about. There is nothing special about your Mac. It’s just like the 5 I have sitting here.
Restore it
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Don’t dare to touch that thing!
Go kill a panda, or nuke a whale, instead :P