Is the Vintage Mac Museum a real museum?
Yes, but it's not (yet) on public display. The Vintage Mac Museum is a working private collection located in my home. It started as a hobby and has since become part of my consulting business. The items in the collection are all functioning machines, loaded with period hardware and software.

How did the Museum get started?
The Vintage Mac Museum got started in 2001 while I was playing around with the newly-released Mac OS X. I realized I'd been a Macintosh user since the Mac Plus but had never used the original System Software. I wondered just how much of the Mac's later features were contained in that primal core? After a bit of searching online I downloaded some early Mac system disk images - possible at that time -and was off and running

Old 68k Macs were easy to come by, so I decided to assemble a representative (non-comprehensive) collection of best of breed or otherwise notable models running period applications and versions of the Mac System Software, the best of the Macintosh at any given time. Soon the models began multiplying, friends donated old machines and I assembled a nice little history of the 68k era. As time progressed, that history expanded into the PowerPC era - and into more rooms of my house. The Intel transition in 2005 made logical boundary point, and thus the VMM has become a pre-Intel Macintosh collection.

Can I Visit the Museum?
Visits to the Mac Museum are available by appointment. There are no public display hours as the collection is located in a private residence. However I am contacted from time to time by other Macheads or computer collectors and am happy to show off the goods if circumstances permit. If you're going to be in the Boston, MA area, please contact me for a tour.

What kind of Services do you provide?
The Vintage Mac Museum, though my company Oakbog, provides vintage Mac file transfer and conversion services for old Mac data retrieval. I can read your old floppy, Zip and Syquest disks, open MacWrite, MS Word or other old files, and convert them to modern formats. The Museum also provides customized research into old Mac hardware, software or operating behavior for academic or legal research purposes. If you are in need of screenshots, reproductions or consultations on vintage Macintosh behavior please contact me.

Can I Donate or Sell my Mac to the Vintage Mac Museum?
Old Macs are special, personal. There was always something notable about being a Mac user, and it seems cruel to just dispose of the carcass. By definition collectors have an interest in giving good homes to old Macs, and I've acquired more than half of my systems for my collection in this fashion.

If you are interested in sending your Mac to the Vintage Mac Museum, please contact me and specify if you are looking to donate or sell the item, and what price you're asking if applicable. I don't tend to pay much (if anything) for unsolicited items, but am usually willing to cover shipping costs if I can use the gear. The Mac Museum does not typically pay market rate for old Macs.

For other suggestions on what to do with you old system, see Finding a New Home for Your Old Mac.

Where can I find More Info on Vintage Macs?

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