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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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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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13th August 2008 - Back To (Old) School
A chance reading of a Freecycle message (they usually get deleted) has brought very early memories flooding back. For the princely sum of £0 the museum has landed a working BBC Model B with 5.25" disk drive, manuals, magazines and a pile of floppy disks. Now where did we leave that copy of Elite?
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23rd July 2008 - The Outlook Is...Well, It's OK
After messing about for far too long with bizarre hook-up cables, video sync rates and everything else, I've taken the cowards way out and bought an Acorn monitor for the damned A3000 and A420. Of course both work perfectly with it but now that I've solved that little problem, the novelty seems to have very quickly worn off. Have to find something else to obsess about now I suppose.
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10th July 2008 - A Slice of Real History
Unlike most things that come into the museum, today's delivery brought something totally useless, totally beyond repair and totally alien: A spare part for a Univac mainframe. God knows what it does, what it's for or if it works but it's a real blast from the past - no chips, no...anything, just pure electronics (as in surface mounted resistors and diodes). Now, just got to find the other 143,000,000 pieces needed to build a complete machine...
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Looking for more? Try the archive section
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