Hi Gary, thanks for your interest. Both models are exactly the same with the exception of the extra box and inserts for the Special Edition. Both can use the optional battery power module but neither come with it as standard. You can order it at the same time from the web store.
I have seven original Macs that I really have enough disks to run. I had one running about 15 years ago using FTP to display weather off a server some fellow ran for a while as a novelty and at least that one Mac – an SE still booted.
A cool product would be a color LED screen and modern processor motherboard to say run Ubuntu or some such on to retrofit the ones I have that no longer boot.
Or at the very least some sort of adapter to use maybe a USB boot drive to run the original software for ones that will still boot up.
I had rescued them from going into a landfill about 25 years ago when a small newspaper was throwing them out and the editor asked me to take them there in my pickup truck. I have a box of all the floppies that went with them and have hung onto them ever since out of nostalgia.
There’s no telling how many people may still have ones they can’t bear to toss out due to similar sentimentality for the old machines.
Gary — My “Collectors Edition” arrived today and everything about it is impressive, from the care in packing the unit within the overshipper box to the actual graphics on the box. This is one of the best “Apple-banned” collectables in my possession!
which model runs on internal battery?
Can it run Hypercard?
Hi Gary, thanks for your interest. Both models are exactly the same with the exception of the extra box and inserts for the Special Edition. Both can use the optional battery power module but neither come with it as standard. You can order it at the same time from the web store.
A very cool product!
I have seven original Macs that I really have enough disks to run. I had one running about 15 years ago using FTP to display weather off a server some fellow ran for a while as a novelty and at least that one Mac – an SE still booted.
A cool product would be a color LED screen and modern processor motherboard to say run Ubuntu or some such on to retrofit the ones I have that no longer boot.
Or at the very least some sort of adapter to use maybe a USB boot drive to run the original software for ones that will still boot up.
I had rescued them from going into a landfill about 25 years ago when a small newspaper was throwing them out and the editor asked me to take them there in my pickup truck. I have a box of all the floppies that went with them and have hung onto them ever since out of nostalgia.
There’s no telling how many people may still have ones they can’t bear to toss out due to similar sentimentality for the old machines.
Thanks Mike. Glad you like it. It’s been great fun producing it.
Are they available for purchase or (I’m from the Computer History Museum) donation?
Best,
Dag Spicer
Senior Curator
Computer History Museum
Hi, thanks for your interest. Send me a message via the 1bitrainbow.com contact page and I’ll get back to you.
Gary — My “Collectors Edition” arrived today and everything about it is impressive, from the care in packing the unit within the overshipper box to the actual graphics on the box. This is one of the best “Apple-banned” collectables in my possession!
Thank YOU and I wish you much success!
Hi Gary, So glad you like it and thank for your kind words.