Packing list for the original M0001 Macintosh

[JDW]

Here are some pics of the Apple videotapes as promised (btw, my apologizes Peter for hijacking your thread).

Photos are always appreciated. But in this case, I believe a high quality YouTube video of what's ON the tapes would be far more intriguing!

 

[Concorde1993]

But in this case, I believe a high quality YouTube video of what's ON the tapes would be far more intriguing!

No problem, JDW. I'll see about squeezing that in sometime in February. But I think the labels are more than self-explanatory.

 

[Mac128]

Those did not ship with any Mac. They are sales and training tools. "Macintosh or Windows" is obviously meant to be screened BEFORE a person buys a Mac. So bottom line, all guided tours shipped with a Mac are software based meant to be run on the Mac itself. The only exception being the audio tape that shipped with the 128K - Plus. Anybody know when the audio tape was officially discontinued? I don't think the SE or II shipped with one in 1987, so I'd be curious when Apple stopped including it with the Plus. Once HyperCard was introduced and Macs shipped with hard drives, the software tour could become a lot more sophisticated, eliminating the need for the audio cassette. Though I'm sure if Jobs were still there he would have insisted on getting music into it somehow, probably insisting on the audio tape until CD-ROMs became standard - which knowing Jobs would have been much earlier than Apple actually implemented them - the Next cube shipped with a magneto-optical drive in 1990, which took Apple two more years to even introduce a CD-ROM, much less a recordable CD, as a standard feature.

 

[Concorde1993]

Anybody know when the audio tape was officially discontinued? I don't think the SE or II shipped with one in 1987, so I'd be curious when Apple stopped including it with the Plus.

My guess is the audiotape version of the guided tour was discontinued with the launch of the SE series, and this is from experience. When my parents purchased their SE SuperDrive used in 1993/94, they did not receive an audiocassette. However, when my grandfather purchased his Plus used about a year earlier, he did receive a guided tour audiocassette. I will have to hunt down the transaction documentation to officially confirm this on the thread, but I do know for certain that the audio tour was still available with the Plus series until its discontinuation in late 1990 (the Plus is long gone, but I think he kept the audiotape in his study).

Besides, I have never seen a guided audio tour for the SE advertised on eBay, or shown on Google for that matter.

 

[Mac128]

While not part of the original box, here's an original MacTerminal set from 1984 which was sold alongside the 128Ks. As usual nice detailed photos from danapplemacman. Now you too can get your 128K onto an obsolete telenet or BBS for only $100! :beige:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140507864043