Vintage Macintosh 512k from 1984

Still have the old Macintosh 512k I used back in college. Has all its peripherals (keyboard, mouse, external drive, and Imagewriter printer) and works great. The disk drives are a little stiff in trying to eject disks, but the machine itself is in great shape. And I have lots of software, including all of the original disks that shipped with it (System, MacWrite, MacPaint, and their back-ups), their manuals, and the Guided Tour cassette and booklet. I also still have all of the original boxes and packing materials. The dark rolling bars are due to the refresh rate of the screen being out of sync with the frame rate of the camera.

The game shown is Dungeon of Doom, one of my favorites of the era. This is what personal computer video games looked like back in 1985, folks! The machine has no hard disk, so you have to insert the operating system on a disk, aptly named "System Disk." Then you'd have to insert another disk for whatever application you wanted to run (MacWrite, MacPaint, etc.). The machine would then need to read alternately from the System Disk and the application disk, so most Mac owners became adept at disk switching. The availability of the external drive saved us from a certain amount of that.

Music is Liz Story's "Things With Wings," which is what Apple used for background music on the Guided Tour cassette.

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Entertainment

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• Apple
• Macintosh
• 512k
• computer

[mrHckyfan]

Hell yeah, my mom still has our old Mac Notebook with dungeon of doom, man that computer was cool. This is the era when macs were badass

[RandyBazan]

We had that exact computer setup. That thing was awesome in its day. Loved me some Dungeon of Doom!

[maccollectorZ]

That's awesome!

[KartSeven1]

@sawyer1290 Drag the disk icon to the Trash.

[jaxmyers]

Dungeon of doom rocked

[sawyer1290]

how do you eject the disc

[AppleMacintosh128k]

great video!

[pirrung123]

This is so cool...great video...:o)

[HanSolosRevenge]

awesome video