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Are these things ↑ actually as rare as they're supposed to be cause I've seen a lot of them here now! :p
 
Are these things ↑ actually as rare as they're supposed to be cause I've seen a lot of them here now! :p

There were 8 made that function. I've talked to numerous people on the original design team and I know were all the rest of them, besides being at Apple, are. I think once someone posted it everyone else felt the need since it's the holy grail.
 
What's in the picture frame?

Well Tyler, it's just an OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive!

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My collection

Computing
Imac g3 indigo
Imac g3 tray loading lime
Imac g3 tangerine + tray loading
eMac
Imac g4 x2
Mac mini PowerPC and intel x2
Powermac g4 cube
Ibook clamshell graphite
PowerBook g3 Wall Street
PowerBook g3 pismo
PowerBook g4 17
Quadra 950
Macintosh se

And all hockey-puck mouses

iPods
Every shuffle
1st iPod nano un opened
iPod mini boxed
1st gen iPod
iPod video
All Nando's apart from latest!
iPad 1 and 2
 
Performa 630CD ,in the box.
iMac lime (my primary gaming mac)
PowerBook 150,
Macintosh SE (single floppy)
apple IIe with color monitor
QuickTake 100
Macintosh portable printer
and the newest, an ipad 2 from 2011. :apple:
I have a problem with some floppy disks that come with my apple IIe. Sometimes it says that prodos is corrupt. Is prodos on the disc or harddrive? It included on game that runs perfectly.
 
Mac plus (upgraded to 4mb!)
Mac classic
iMac g3/600 Graphite
PowerMac G4 / 450 Cube
PowerMac G4 / Dual 867 Mirror Drive Doors
PowerBook G4 / 1.something (last G4 model)

Various Newtons (including an eMate)

NeXT mouse I found at a garage sale (!)

Various newer C2D models

Had a G3 Wallstreet running Tiger with barely working WiFi even, but it broke and I got rid of it :( Cool because I think it was the last Mac with a rainbow apple, and the white apple on the lid was upside down when open.

Hoping to pick up an Apple ][c and an iMac g4 someday.
 
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Mac Portables

Here are some photos of my Mac Portables. Both have all the original components and are 100% complete. The units have upgraded RAM, modems (one prototype), all disks, manuals, cases, extended keyboard, and even this Mac Portable Battery Recharging unit that I have never seen. Does anyone else have one of these rechargers, or seen one?
 

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My Collection

A lot of what I've acquired has been sold, mainly because of my wife lol. She is apparently not in favor of hoarding.

iBook g3 (sold)
MacBook Pro 15" core 2 duo (sold)
Power Mac g3 (sold)
iMac 1st gen
iMac g4 17" (sold)
PowerBook g4 12" (sold)
MacBook white 2.0
MacBook Pro 13" 2.4 core2duo
iMac 21.5 i5

iPad 2 white

iPod touch 1st gen (sold)
iPod nano 1st gen
iPod 5th gen (sold)

iPhone 3G (sold)
iPhone 3GS (sold)
iPhone 4 (sold)
iPhone 4S

iPod Dock
Universal Power Adapter Kit

Apple TV 2nd Gen

Here are some pics of the more notable pieces from my current & previously owned Apple collection:

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Love the older Apple stuff, here's some of my collection so far, not as impressive as most of the ones here though!

1998 15" LCD Studio Display (have two of these, they were the first desktop LCD monitor from Apple and retailed at $2,000 each originally), PowerBook 520, PowerBook Duo, Power Macintosh 6100 (first-generation Power Mac):

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Operating systems - still missing a few and trying to complete the set!

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Modern - 27" LED Cinema Display - use this and the Aluminium Keyboard with my PC, perhaps I'm a wannabe Mac user or something :p

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Power Mac G3 "beige", Power Mac G4 "Digital Audio", Macintosh Plus, Newton MessagePad 110, Newton MessagePad 120:

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Macintosh Performa 6320CD (something like that)
PowerBook G3 Wallstreet
iBook G3 14" 900 MHz
iBook G4 14" 933 MHz
iBook G4 12" 800 MHz
MacBook 13" 2.0 GHz Core Duo
MacBook 13" 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo
MacBook Pro 13" 2.9 GHz Core i7
iPod Shuffle 1st Gen 1 GB
iPod Nano 3rd Gen 4 GB
iPod Classic 5th Gen 160 GB
iPod Touch 2nd Gen 8 GB
iPod Touch 4th Gen 8 GB
iPod Touch 5th Gen 32 GB Red
iPad 2 White WiFi + 3G 64 GB
 


My Quadra 950 and Performa 6115CD with the original 15" Display


My Macbook(a1181), Harmon Kardon Subwoofer "iSub" (missing the soundsticks), Speakers for the g4, and the software that goes with my macbook.


All the original software that I think came with the Q950


Performa Specs

Quadra Specs

The Macintosh PDS 66mhz PPC upgrade card
 
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I only have the box for the PC version, but this is a good opening point:
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As for "Macintosh" collection, here's the earliest you can get:
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It's a 1983-manufactured full-production Macintosh. The serial number says it was manufactured during week 49 of 1983. I bought it used a few years ago from its original purchaser, who had bought it on day one. Came with original keyboard (with separate numeric keypad,) mouse, and even an original Apple serial cable. Sadly for collectibility, it had been upgraded with a 512K motherboard at some point - but that lets me use it with an HD20 hard drive at least.

I've been known to use it as a serial terminal to my Linux box via MacTerminal:
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I also use an Apple IIc as a serial terminal (plus for games):
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The collection is wide-ranging, including a variety of early Macs (this covers Plus, SE, SE/30, Classic, LC, and IIsi):
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On to later Macs (the "all G3" line that was the current lineup of Macs for about two days, iBook, PowerBook G3, iMac, Power Mac G3:)
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With a bunch of mobile devices (this is not all of them:)
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I also have a few non-Macs, but "related", like a NeXTstation Turbo:
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...and a ThinkPad Power Series (yes, an IBM ThinkPad with a PowerPC processor:)
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Among my more modern systems, the first 17" iMac and the last 17" iMac (800 MHz G4 running OS 9 and 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo running Lion.)
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And we'll end with the source of my avatar, a deck of Apple playing cards:
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I only have the box for the PC version, but this is a good opening point:
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As for "Macintosh" collection, here's the earliest you can get:
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It's a 1983-manufactured full-production Macintosh. The serial number says it was manufactured during week 49 of 1983. I bought it used a few years ago from its original purchaser, who had bought it on day one. Came with original keyboard (with separate numeric keypad,) mouse, and even an original Apple serial cable. Sadly for collectibility, it had been upgraded with a 512K motherboard at some point - but that lets me use it with an HD20 hard drive at least.

I've been known to use it as a serial terminal to my Linux box via MacTerminal:
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I also use an Apple IIc as a serial terminal (plus for games):
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The collection is wide-ranging, including a variety of early Macs (this covers Plus, SE, SE/30, Classic, LC, and IIsi):
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On to later Macs (the "all G3" line that was the current lineup of Macs for about two days, iBook, PowerBook G3, iMac, Power Mac G3:)
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With a bunch of mobile devices (this is not all of them:)
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I also have a few non-Macs, but "related", like a NeXTstation Turbo:
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...and a ThinkPad Power Series (yes, an IBM ThinkPad with a PowerPC processor:)
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Among my more modern systems, the first 17" iMac and the last 17" iMac (800 MHz G4 running OS 9 and 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo running Lion.)
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And we'll end with the source of my avatar, a deck of Apple playing cards:
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None of your pictures work, at least for me
 
Developers Newton 110 in box (including clear Newton stylus) with all accessories in boxes. All serial numbers matching and recharging kit is still in shrink wrap.
 

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Another OS disk

I have no idea how common this is, but I came across this early OS X disk in the early 2000s. It's always been interesting since it encourages the sharing of the disk, which allowed OS X to be installed on both OS 9 Macs as well as Windows 2000 PCs. Seemed like a neat thing to hang onto prior to Mac OS officially supporting Intel.
 

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I have no idea how common this is, but I came across this early OS X disk in the early 2000s. It's always been interesting since it encourages the sharing of the disk, which allowed OS X to be installed on both OS 9 Macs as well as Windows 2000 PCs. Seemed like a neat thing to hang onto prior to Mac OS officially supporting Intel.

That's because it's not a "demo" in that it is a limited-function copy of the software - it is a presentation about OS X.
 
Interesting!

That's because it's not a "demo" in that it is a limited-function copy of the software - it is a presentation about OS X.


I've had it for ten years and never once bother to try it out.... I guess I can never complain about no more internal CD/DVD drives :)

Will have to borrow one and see whats on it.
 
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