I cant edit my original post for some reason, so I have created a new one. Hopefully the pics will be included this time.
Hi, I just aquired this 1986 Apple Macintosh Like Plus Portable / Luggable Industrial Vintage Computer.
I don’t know much about this machine other than it’s based on a 1Mb Macintosh Plus machine, it’s completely custom made in around 1986 and it does not work.
The machine itself is really unusual as it’s built to a really high finish with injection moulded plastic and really finely cut steel and aluminium, but it doesn’t have a single label on it - nothing to be able to tell who made it and why.
Inside there is a Macintosh Plus motherboard and analog board, with a custom adapted SCSI hard drive, floppy drive and some controls such as reset and either volume or brightness. There is also a serial output on the back, which suggests this had some kind of industrial use.
Has anyone ever come across one of these?
Thx. Jsth42
I remembered seeing this one on MacRumors
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/what-do-i-have-here-portable-macintosh-plus.1956055/
Thanks so much for your replay Wayne. There is so much helpful information there.
Looking at the pictures from the macrumors thread, this is the actual computer that I now have.
It'd be great to see more hi-res photos.
It would be interesting to determine what type of device the maker started from. There were many luggable PCs in those days, but the screen panel doesn’t match any of them.
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Here is something in a similar case: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=17972
Thanks for the link CVT. A bit more information there; its likely a Portable Terminal from Siema, a french company.
My $0.02 is this was a DIY thing, but also well done.
I can say with almost 100% confidence was this is not an internal apple thing because there are so many things that would never be done this way.
This is 240V? Do you plan to revive it?
Looks like an interesting project, but also guessing its weight must be pretty heavy.