My visit to the Boston Mac Museum last week

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Hi everyone,

So last Sunday with the passing of Adam they have been gradually selling off the impressive collection of gear they had.  As a nice gesture rather than having the misc parts go to a landfill, they opened up the house for folks in the area to see if there is anything they could use.  I was able to get some interesting items including a keyspan serial card, so the law of attraction or something was at work. 

I took some pictures to share for everyone.  I know many of you knew Adam.  I did not, but I will say the folks that were there were really kind and it was touching to see them honor his work and be there to allow us local mac folks to find some items of value.





I found some cool items fortunately.  there were no complete systems there.  Those are out there now and you can find all the auctions here: https://ebay.com/usr/vintagemacmuseum-sales

I found a few cool things like (woo hoo) a keyspan 4 port card (untested) for starters and some other gizmos like SCSI zip drives and external drives.  My samplers will be happy.  I'm testing them out this weekend.  I snagged a 12" Powerbook G4 that works (tested) but didn't have a PSU (on order) and no battery (trying to find one that is compatible AND reasonable (like $30 or less).. 

I also grabbed a spindle of CD/DVDs.  I'm not sure if any of it is of interest to the group, but i know one of them caught my eye.  it was an OS 8.5 CD rom.. i imagine this stuff is already well archived and such, but yea there's a bunch of disks that i'll try to audit this weekend and try to summarize. 



Had a decent turn out.  I got there a little early and the doors were already open so a couple of people had a head start, but the bulk of people showed up later and that's when the feeding frenzy occured, but you could tell that at least most of the people there were legitimately fans of apple hardware, some of the hollowed out systems were destined to become aquariums and such too.. heh.  Good times. 

[GorfTheChosen]

Thanks for the report ... and congrats on the acquisitions.

Good to know all that vintage gear is finding homes where it will be appreciated.

[FBz]

Thanks Caleb!

Very nice of you to share.

Adam was one of the "good guys" and although I never met him,
he graciously provided many Mac-related answers to me.

He was that kind of guy. Will be missed by many.

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my hope is that there is some software here i can share that others might need.  i'll try to get some kind of list of why disks we have.  I hope to have a list today. 

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Ok here's the list of discs i have.. mostly sales / training stuff, but maybe a couple of things that might be useful to someone?

CD/DVDs

Mac OS8
Mac OS8.5
Arple Oct 96 Disk 3
Apple Reference and Presentations v5.0
Apple Services Aug 96
Arple May 96
Arple Aug / Sept 96 Disk 1
Arple Aug / Sept 96 Disk 2
Arple Oct 96 disk 1
Apple Oct 96 disk 2
Mac Powerbook 1400 Series
Mac OS8
Arple Jan 97 disk 1
Arple Jan 97 disc 2
Arple Feb 97
Arple Mar 97
Arple Apr 97 disc 1
Arple Apr 97 disc 2
Arple Oct 97 disc 1
Arple Oct 97 disc 2
Arple Nov 97 disc 1
Why Mac? Why Apple Computer July 97 (sales training)
Apple Marketing Toolkit - marcom library Nov 97
Apple Marketing Toolkit - product library Nov 97
Arple Provider Edition Jan 98 CD 1
Arple Provider Edition Jan 98 CD 2
Arple Provider Edition Jan 98 CD 3
Arple Provider Edition Feb 98 CD 1
Arple Provider Edition Apr 98 CD 1
Arple Provider Edition Jan 98 CD 1
Arple Provider Edition May 98 CD 1
Arple Provider Edition Jun 98 CD 1
Arple Provider Edition Jan 98 CD 1
Arple Provider Edition Jan 98 CD 2
Arple Provider Edition Jan 98 CD 3
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Aug 98 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Aug 98 CD 2
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Oct 98 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Oct 98 CD 2
PowerSales 1 Nov 98
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Nov 98 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Jan 99 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Jan 99 CD 2
PowerSales Jan 99 CD 3
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Apr 99 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Apr 99 CD 2
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library May 99 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library May 99 CD 2
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Jun 99 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Jun 99 CD 2
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Jun 99 CD 3
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Jul 99 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Aug 99 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Sep 99 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Sep 99 CD 2
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Nov 99 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Nov 99 CD 2
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Jan 00 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Feb/Mar 00 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Feb/Mar 00 CD 2
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Feb/Mar 00 CD 3
Resource Library Software Sampler Feb/Mar 00 CD 4
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Apr/May 00 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Apr/May 00 CD 2
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Jun 00 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Jun 00 CD 2
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Jul/Aug 00 CD 1
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Jul/Aug 00 CD 2
The Apple Sales and Marketing Resource Library Oct 00 CD 1
Apple Sales Web Jan 01 Disc 1
Apple Sales Web Jan 01 Disc 2
Apple Sales Web Feb/Mar 01 Disc 1
Apple Sales Web Apr/May 01 Disc 1
Apple Sales Web Apr/May 01 Disc 2
Apple Sales Web Jul/Aug 01 Disc 1
Apple Sales Web Jul/Aug 01 Disc 2
Apple Sales Web Jul/Aug 01 Disc 3
Apple Sales Web Sept 01 Disc 1
Apple Sales Web Sept 01 Disc 2
Apple Sales Web Nov/Dec 01 Disc 1

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Ok folks, so I was get all of the units to boot up and check the SCSI hard drives.. three of them had OS backups and here are pics of them.  any interest in getting this data or is it all useless? 

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removed post (bad links)

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I heard these pics were not showing up so i'm posting them again this time from an FTP..  curious to know if anyone can see the pics in the prior post.  they are hosted on dropbox but were visible to me on my browser, but i have db installed so that might explain why it works.

[mrhappy]

The pics from your last post are the only ones that show up for me.

[part12studios]

Cool good to know for the future.  i've used this dropbox approach in the past so that's a shame as people probably never saw them.. ugh.  the museum pics don't show up either earlier in this thread i imagine. 

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A few museum pics and shots of some of the stuff I found there: