The Vintage Mac Museum is operated and maintained by Oakbog, providing Macintosh Consulting & Technical Support services to the Greater Boston (MA) area. In addition to the hardware, the Museum also maintains an extensive archive of old Mac software. Oakbog's proprietor Adam Rosen is an Apple Certified Consultant and a continuous Mac user for over 25 years.

Vintage Mac File Transfers & Conversions
Macs have been around for over two decades, lots of data still exists on floppy disks, Zip cartridges and old hard drives. Oakbog can read many of these disks, copy and transfer your files and convert old files from long moribund software into current formats useable on modern Macs and PCs - MS Word, Excel, QuickBooks, etc.

The process involves transferring files from the original sources, then performing conversions on the copied data. Copies may require the use of several different Macs and drives depending on the condition of individual media. Once transferred files can be converted to current file formats. Batch conversion is performed when possible. If not, manual conversions can be performed (Open, Save As...).

Common older file formats include Microsoft Word, Excel, MacWrite, WordPerfect, QuickBooks, MacDraw, ClarisWorks, etc.. Supported media formats include floppy disks (400k Single Sided, 800k Double Sided, 1.44MB High Density), SyQuest, Magneto-Optical (MO), Bernoulli, Zip & Jaz cartridges, Exabyte tapes, Mac CD-ROMs, and SCSI or IDE hard drives.

These are not exhaustive lists, please contact me for details on your project.

Academic and Legal Research
Oakbog can also provide customized research into old Mac hardware, software or operating system behavior for academic projects or legal discovery such as patent law. If you are in need of screenshots, reproductions or consultations on vintage Macintosh operations, please contact me.