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MacMania Museum
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Welcome...
Welcome to The MacMania Museum, an online guide to the earlier offerings from the wonderful world of Apple (although it does wander off into PowerPC and iMac territory a little).
Intended as more than just a history resource, here you'll find (amongst other things) practical tips on repairing and using older Apple equipment, tales of projects and repair jobs, and links to other sites and resources. If you can remember the differences between Mac OS 6 and Mac OS 7, what hard drive interleave to use with what machine, and why Quadras were better than Centris' then this is the site for you.
This site is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Apple Computers and is run on a part-time non-profit making basis. If you want to contribute, correct, or offer your support, don't hesitate to contact me.
Current News...
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8th December 2009 - Still Alive
A dearth of Apple hardware and news has meant that the museum has started to explore new areas, hence the proliferation of games consoles and non-Apple machines that have started to clutter the place up. For this reason a shiny new section is busily being put together for all those non-Apple-but-still-curious-bits-of-junk-that-are-cluttering-the-place-up. As the saying goes, watch this space...
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4th August 2009 - Beat That
As stunning and beautiful as Macs are, one thing that they aren't always is tough. Enter stage left the Panasonic ToughBook. OK it's only a 300MHz PII but it can play DVDs (using VLC) and the damn thing is built like a tank. The old adage of being able to 'throw it in the bottom of your bag' has suddenly become a very big (and heavy) reality.
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27th June 2009 - 'G' Power
Although they may have passed me by as a small boy, the early games consoles are starting to have a certain appeal. Hence the acquisition of a Philips G7000 games machine. Complete with two controllers, PSU and a couple of games, this little(?) beauty is the epitome of '1970's futuristic'. Shame I'm a bit too scared to actually fire it up...
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9th April 2009 - Retro-Fun
A chance find on eBay managed to restore a childhood memory back. Long, long ago in the sands of time thought lost forever a games console enthralled a young TheNeil. None of your Nintendo or Sega nonsense though, we're talking a Binatone TV-Master VI. Yep a complete solid state (none of your ICs here thank you very much) Pong clone complete with little twiddly controllers and big chunky orange buttons. So, for the princely sum of £10, a lost part of my past is now sat on the table daring me to pump some power into it.
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2nd April 2009 - How Big?
The Digital mainframe disk cartridge turned up...and promptly went again. Due to an email from a fellow eBayer a trade was agreed whereby he got the Digital disk and I got...an Inmac mainframe disk cartridge. In its original box (date stamped 1982) this thing has never been used, is so big that it comes with its own carry handle and is probably something stupid like 10Mb. More importantly though, it looks pretty =;)
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20th March 2009 - Getting Closer
After liberating the Univac parts a couple of months ago, a brand new Digital mainframe disk cartridge has come along. Apparently never removed from its box since it was manufactured way back at the year zero, this gets me one step closer to that 'mainframe in my office' dream (or not).
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17th December 2008 - Shrink-Wrapped?!?!?!?!
My work as a good Samaritan has finally paid off and the Gods of Karma have rewarded me for being a throughly brilliant (and modest) person. This 'payment' has come in the form of a shrinkwrapped boxed copy of Macintosh PC Exchange. OK the software might not exactly be a rarity, but shrink-wrapped?!?!?!?!
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19th August 2008 - One Good Turn Deserves Another
Could it be that someone actually visits this site? A request for some help with a broken PowerBook 150 turned up a trashed hard drive but, rather than being consigned to the bin, the poor little chap has been granted sanctuary in the museum (along with his buddy - a PowerBook 160). Two machines in need of some TLC but maybe we can rebuild him, make him better than he was before. We have the technology... (but, sadly, not $6,000,000)
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Looking for more? Try the archive section
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