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...

	14th April 2013 - Power To The People In a half-hearted attempt to make the museum ever so slightly useful, I've gone through every machine and added, where possible, the power details. Might not sound overly useful but if you want to know what you need to power up something like a Famicom, then now you can save yourself having to look elsewhere.
	1st April 2013 - Best. Console. Ever. Despite the date, the museum is totally serious when it can announce that it's finally landed a Neo-Geo console. The AES would have been nice but the CD version means that we can, hopefully, get our hands on the legendary Metal Slug without having to sell a kidney or two
	30th March 2013 - Toast For Breakfast? Sometimes you just have to be in the right place at the right time. For once I was in the right place at the right time and landed a Spectrum 128 (the original 'toastrack', not the +2 or +3) for a measly £25.
	24th March 2013 - CD? Mega! We've been wanting one for an age but, at last, a Sega Mega-CD has come along at a sensible price (£15). What's better is that it's the version 2 model...complete with a v2 Mega-drive (we only had the v1 before). Of course some games and PSUs would be handy right about now =:S
	22nd March 2013 - Video History 101 OK it's not IT related in the slightest but the museum is always on the lookout for old tech from 'back in the day' and today brought in a Hitachi CED Videodisc player. God knows what it'll be like (or if it'll even work after 30 years) but maybe this proves the old adage about a fool and his money.
	8th March 2013 - gOS? Google OS? Great OS? Graphical OS? It's not often that a modern machine sparks the museum's interest and a 7" XP laptop doesn't really either. In this case though it's a Sylvania GT13001 which originally ran something called gOS. Hmm, at £25 it does suddenly become 'interesting'...
	16th February 2013 - Another Bite of The...Apricot Lacking a keyboard and monitor, the Apricot Xi machine was something of a dead duck but, while hunting for parts we came across a 'job lot' on online tat market eBay. Not only the keyboard and monitor for the Xi but also a complete F1 (including keyboards, mouse, manuals, printer etc.) all for the stupid price of...£0.99. Now that is a bargain.
	14th February 2013 - Amiga Amore Due to incredible boredom, the museum has gone mad and splashed out on an Amiga A500. OK we might already have the 'superior' A600 but what can you do (except duck when your other half throws things at you for 'wasting money on crap')? Ah Valentine's Day =;)
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