The greatest Apple Museum Fifth Anniversary.
di Redazione
12-05-2007

The largest collection/museum of working Apple products celebrates its fifth anniversary with a special host.

Apple I is one of the few missing pieces in (what is acknoledged also by Apple) the largest "living" Apple collection all over the world: Apple II, Lisa, Macs of any era and Newtons, eMates and even special prototypes and versions of products that never saw the light: In a special event held last Sunday the people at AllAboutApple celebrated their fantastic effort with a special gift from an italian Apple fan: a complete, working Apple I with an hand crafted wooden case: it will not be as precious as the one built directly from Woz but it could function like a bite for some users of good will who would like to donate their original Apple I to live among all it's successors, with the care it deserves.

AllAboutApple Amug (Apple user group) are the authors of a well organized museum located in Quiliano (Savona) in the North of Italy: we take you on a photo roundtrip among the many special pieces that you can find there.

We said that AllAbout Apple is the greatest Apple Museum all over the world since all its computers are fully working and you can hear their "voice", test their OS and run all the original programs. In an interesting walk trough time and technology you can compare the text based interfaces, the large boards supplying the functions you can find in the microchips of nowadays.

The museum has also a huge library of books, manuals and magazines (also in english language) brougth by donors with the many computers, PDA, accessories you can find here.

(note: we are translating all the comments - come back in few hours)

^ Amug tells it story	^ Five years full of surprises	^ An audience of Apple fans
^ New and old Mac users	^... and a special surprise from Paolo Di Leo from Termoli	^ an Apple I "clone"
^ It's one of the few original pieces missing from the museum	^The case is hand drafted but it was also for the original model 30 years ago...	^ The monitor is a little bit more recent...
^ The keyboard is adapted from a standard one and has a "terrifing" symbol on it	^ The people of the Amug posing with Apple I manual	^ Here is a front view of the clone: a simple card games written in basic is running..
^ Here are the main board, a perfect replica with the original rom and the manual waiting a preface from Steve Wozniack	^ This G5 chassis remembers the visitor of the museum that any donation is welcomed, just in case they decide to buy an original Apple I...	^ This the logo that opens the path trough Apple's history.
^ Alberto Crosio introduces the first group of vistors to the wonders of the first years of Apple: Lisa, Apple II and 3 with many original pieces and accessories.	^ You can experiment directly every aspect of the computers and their interfaces... it's like an instant travel in the past and with recent additions you can confront Apple product with their counterparts at the time.	^A black MacBook box stands in front of its multidecade ancestors
^ A sign from far far away	^Apple design between two centuries	^ iBooks and iMac of any color
^ The museum is organized following a timeline with few exceptions spotting special and rare computers	^ Emate 300 aka Newton for education	^ The XX Anniversary Mac
^ The tour goes on	^ a very rare transparent Appe Portable	^ Next: when Jobs was away from Apple
^ Apple Documentation on laser discs.	^ A Powerbook parade	^ Rare Software
^	^ La stampante parallela con i Mac che supportavano di solito la seriale	^ a special LCD monitor for Apple IIc
^ square mouse for Next	^ A color classic with the color trinitron tube	^ Newton: PDA from the past
^ PowerBook Duo: laptop and desktop joining	^ An original case with Apple brand...	^ useful for turning a compact Mac into a "trasportable"
^ Some software in the history of CAD on the Mac	^ A very rare sample of Apple interactive TV prototype based on LC 475	^ fitting the requests of European market it has also scart plugs. An ancestor of Apple TV?
^ All the computer exposed here are working	^ including this Bandai Pippin At Mark, the first and only console tryout of Apple	Here you can find the white or black versione made for US or Japanì
^ "Alien" presences also with this Silicon Graphics O2	^ The tour goes on.	^ Special gadgets with Apple logo
^ Apple and its peripherals : CD players, digital cameras...	^ iMac and one of it unfortunate competitors with the Intel brand	^ The museum hosts also a rare Newton with transparent chassis.
^ More visitors coming...	^ The Installation/sculpture "biocomputer" by Alessandra Urso stands in front of the entrance	^ it's soul is a fully working Mac
^ the nature is reconquering electronics including them in the growth of a tree	^ The new library section with books, manuals, magazines	^ Bruno Grampa of Varese Retrocomputing shows AREA 51...
^ a new section of the museum dedicated to Apple's rivals who, unlike Apple itself, didn't survive the era of PC compatibles	^ only the strong and the Apple survive and these machines and brands are part of history.	^ Stefano Rold is the magician/technician who brings the old computers back to life.
^ The gadget section helps sustaining the Amug	^ these are the techno-keyholders with spare parts of old Macs	^ this is rare one with Apple logo.

Check also our other reports from the museum with many interesting pictures
- Report one, Report Two (with the Lab, the backstage, other rare Mac samples)

To visit the "real" museum check take an appointment with the Amug: visit their site starting from this page.
Help them with a donation!