New ‘Apple Museum’ in Moscow shows off three decades of rare and unusual machines – including a 1978 Apple II which still works

A museum of Apple computers has opened in Moscow – showing off rare models including a monochrome Apple II from 1978, which incredibly still works.

The museum also shows off cult machines such as the Apple Graphics Tablet and its early handheld eMate 300, a little-known spin-off of Apple’s Newton handheld.

The Apple Museum is the brainchild of Andrei Antonov, a Moscow resident who has been collecting Macs for more than three decades.

Antonov launched the private museum in response to the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs.

Pride of place goes to a fully functional 1978 model of Apple II – the first Apple PC aimed outside the hobbyist market, which made founder Steve Jobs and co-creator Steve Wozniak rich men.

The computer, which plugged directly into a television was such a hit that versions of it were still selling in the early Nineties.

Antonov’s collection also includes rare Apple II add-ons such as the Apple Graphics Tablet – a predecessor of the ‘drawing tablets’ still used by designers today, and an Apple II joystick, from the days when gamers still used Apple machines.

Antonov also has a huge collection of early Apple laptops, including a Powerbook 100, one of a trio of machines that propelled Apple’s portables to $1 billion earnings in their first year.

source: dailymail.co.uk

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