M0001 with original packaging!!!

[macman142]

Surely finding a 128k that is still a 128k is like finding a G3 iMac with 32MB RAM - is that even possible?

Personally, if it's a "period correct upgrade" which keeps the original looks but just improves performance I think it's a nice capture of the life/use of the machine.

Seriously, an amazing find.

 

[Appleanche]

Just like Steve Jobs did with his display back in 1984 :lol: (at least according to LEM)

Yeah it personally doesn't bother me that much. RAM really doesn't define any computer, but it's just a bit odd considering the model is referred to usually as the Macintosh 128k. Maybe someday in the future I'll open it up and see how it was upgraded and how reversible it is. I'll probably get more comfortable opening up compacts (still haven't yet) when I find a broken one.

Thanks again.. I'm personally still a bit in shock. I'm currently trying to think about ways to rearrange my room so I can display the box next to the computer. I'm at the point where I really don't have enough room.. yet there are so many more models I want to have.

 

[H3NRY]

"Just like Steve Jobs did with his display back in 1984 (at least according to LEM)"

Yeah, there isn't enough room in 128K for MacSpeak to say something as long as Mac's first speech. Steve would have had to cut a lot. I well believe he had a Fat Mac. Andy Hertzfeld confirmed the story. Have you ever tried to scroll a picture in MacPaint in 128K and had to swap floppies a couple of times? There's not enough RAM to hold the whole ImageWriter-size page, so it has to be swapped to disk, and virtual memory on floppies is SLOW! A 512K Fat Mac can run MacPaint as Bill Atkinson intended. Still, I remember being impressed that VM was baked into the operating system, even if it was really crude. It was way beyond the 8-bit Apple II and CP/M systems of 1984.