--- title: Apple MACINTOSH Plus categories: - Computers types: - Home Computer origins: - U.S.A. years: - '1986' cpus: - Motorola MC 68000 params: name: MACINTOSH Plus image: /media/museum/photos/apple_mac%2B_system_1.jpg company: /companies/apple company_name: Apple specs: - label: NAME value: MACINTOSH Plus - label: MANUFACTURER value: Apple - label: TYPE value: Home Computer - label: ORIGIN value: U.S.A. - label: YEAR value: January 1986 - label: END OF PRODUCTION value: October 1990 - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: None - label: KEYBOARD value: Full-stroke 78 keys with numeric keypad - label: CPU value: Motorola MC 68000 - label: SPEED value: 7.8336 MHz - label: RAM value: 1 MB (up to 4 MB) IBM RAM SIMM's as well as any other 1MB SIMM could be added - label: ROM value: 128 KB - label: GRAPHIC MODES value: 512 x 342 dots - label: COLORS value: Monochrome - label: SOUND value: Tone Generator & Digital-Analog converter (22KHz sampling rate) - label: SIZE / WEIGHT value: 34.5(H) x 24.5 (W) x 27.5 (D) cm / 7.48 kg - label: I/O PORTS value: RS 232/422 x 2 for printer and modem, SCSI, external F.D. unit, ext. loudspeaker - label: BUILT IN MEDIA value: One 3.5'' 800 KB disk-drive - label: OS value: Macintosh System (from 3.2 to 7.5) - label: POWER SUPPLY value: Built-in power supply - label: PRICE value: $2,600 tabs: - photos - adverts - emulators - links photos: - title: BACK COVER subtitle: '' text: The Macintosh Plus was the last Apple computer in which the signitures of all the engineers and designers involved in the project have been engraved inside the back cover. image: /media/museum/photos/apple_mac%2B_casebuttom.jpg - title: INSIDE subtitle: '' text: |- A very neat design.\ The Macintosh Plus featured an analogic video and power board **(1)**, a logic motherboard **(2)**, a cathode ray tube and a 3.5" floppy disc drive **(3)**. image: /media/museum/photos/apple_mac%2B_inside_1.jpg - title: MOTHERBOARD EXPLAINED subtitle: '' text: |- Motherboard seen from the rear side. **(1)** Keyboard RJ-11 connector\ **(2)** 256 KB SIMM modules. Could be easily replaced with 1 MB modules\ **(3)** Motorola 68000 microprocessor\ **(4)** Chips in charge of Input/Output\ **(5)** External loudspeaker/headphone jack plug\ **(6)** Mouse DB9 connector\ **(7)** External floppy-disk drive unit DB19 connector\ **(8)** SCSI I/O DB25 connector\ **(9)** RS-422 serial printer Mini-DIN connector\ **(10)** RS-422 serial modem Mini-DIN connector\ **(11)** Analog/video board connector\ **(12)** 128 KB Mac OS ROM chips\ **(13)** Gate array custom chip image: /media/museum/photos/apple_mac%2B_motherboard_1.jpg - title: KEYBOARD AND MOUSE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/apple_mac%2B_keyboard_1.jpg - title: REAR CONNECTORS subtitle: '' text: |- **(1)** CMOS RAM battery backup housing\ **(2)** External loudspeaker jack plug\ **(3)** Mouse connector\ **(4)** External F.D.D. unit connector\ **(5)** SCSI connector\ **(6)** Seriel printer Mini-DIN plug\ **(7)** Modem Mini-DIN plug\ **(8)** Hardware and software reset switches image: /media/museum/photos/apple_mac%2B_back_1.jpg - title: MAC CHARLY subtitle: '' text: How to convert a Mac into an IBM PC. MacCharlie allowed to run all of the PC software on a standard Macintosh, exchange data files between the two systems, connect Apple or IBM printers and even connect a Mac to IBM mainframes. image: /media/museum/photos/apple_macintosh_maccharly_s1.jpg adverts: - title: US ADVERT, JULY 1985 subtitle: '' text: |- Really nice advert, we love it. Byte Magazine image: /media/museum/pubs/apple_mac%2B_pub_s1.jpg emulators: - title: Executor url: http://www.ardi.com/ platform: Windows text: Demonstration version of a commercial software (MS DOS & Win95) - title: Gemulator url: http://www.emulators.com/ platform: Windows text: A commercial Software which emulates the Atari ST/TT and the Mac 128/Plus/2 (Win95 / Win NT) - title: LisaEm url: http://lisa.sunder.net/ platform: Windows text: Same as Apple lisa emulator for unix but ported to windows - title: PearPC url: http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ platform: Windows text: PearPC is an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. - title: SoftMac url: http://www.emulators.com/ platform: Windows text: good 68K Emulator For Windows - title: vMAC (Virtual MAC) url: http://www.leb.net/vmac platform: Windows text: A Mac 128 Emulator for MS DOS / Win97 (available for OS/2 too) - title: vMAC (Virtual MAC) url: http://www.leb.net/vmac platform: Apple text: A Mac 128 Emulator for Macintosh !!! - title: Executor url: http://www.ardi.com/ platform: Unix / Linux text: Demo version of a commercial software (Linux / NextStep) - title: Macintosh Application Environment (MAE) url: http://www.mae.apple.com/ platform: Unix / Linux text: for HP-UX and Solaris - title: The Official ShapeShifter Home Page url: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/SSMain.html platform: Amiga OS text: '' - title: vMac - The Virtual Macintosh Emulator Project url: http://www.leb.net/vmac/ platform: Other platform text: '' - title: Basilisk II url: http://basilisk.cebix.net/ platform: Multiplatform text: Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. Good emulator, runs on several platforms, even Amiga - title: Mini vMac url: http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/ platform: Multiplatform text: Mini vMac, a spin off of the program vMac, emulates a Macintosh Plus and Macintosh SE. So far it works on Macintosh OS, Microsoft Windows, and the X Window System. links: - title: Apple History url: http://www.apple-history.com/ text: History of Apple computers with detail information about all of the computers to come out of Apple. - title: Applefritter url: http://www.applefritter.com text: Excellent site about all Apple models,clones,prototypes,etc... A must see ! - title: CMQ - Groupes d'usagers Apple url: http://www.cmq.qc.ca/cmq.html text: (french) - title: Everything for the Mac url: http://www.everythingmac.com/ text: '' - title: Homepage of Gamba url: http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/index.html text: A lot of interesting Mac links, for example "How To Transfer Files From PC to MAC " - title: Jag's House url: http://www.jagshouse.com/ text: Lot of info on all non PowerMac models - title: Low End Mac url: http://www.lowendmac.com text: Great site with a full catalog of ALL old macintoshes. - title: Mac Forums at MacForumz.com url: http://www.MacForumz.com text: Mac forums, a resource on the latest and greatest, as well as vintage, Macintosh hardware, software, and internet. Free registration. - title: MacDebate url: http://www.macdebate.com text: Macintosh discussion forum - title: The Vintage Mac Museum url: http://www.d4.dion.ne.jp/~motohiko/ text: Nice dedicated website with tons of screenshots ! - title: Titlemax - Apple products url: https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/every-product-apple-has-made-so-far/ text: Nice graphic of every product Apple Has Made So Far (thanks Lily) - title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com text: Discussion of Macintosh software system comments: - author: Tim Healey (USA) date: Friday 13rd May 2011 text: |- I have a virtual museum of old Mac computers, each which run perfectly. I have a Quadra 700, that I still ue for graphic work, a PowerMac7300 with extra ran 128mb that I still use for Photoshop and designing agds and addition I have a Mac Clone, a G3 I believe. AQll 3 run perfect and still do the work they inteneded. Is there anyone inerested in buying these wonderful machines? I may keep the PowerMac7300. Actually it''s a PowerMac7200 with the guts of of a 7300. Let me now. Thanks! By the way, all come with working monitors and have preloaded software like outlook express, Quarkexpress, photoshop, Adobe acrobat etc. Tim healey. - author: Torin Darkflight (Iowa, USA) date: Friday 6th August 2004 text: It is the Mac Plus which made an appearance in the comical Scotty/"Hello Computer!" scene of Star Trek IV. I've always loved that movie, and that Mac. - author: kamil alrustom (United Arab Emirates) date: Thursday 26th August 2021 text: I have MacIntosh plus 512/ 800a s new still running with a floppy with games. including the original bag and the original manuels. how much I can sell all of them. thank you for - author: Dan Banov (Canada) date: Wednesday 14th April 2021 text: I am looking for someone that can convert a power point version 1 to something readable? - author: Dan Banov (Canada) date: Wednesday 14th April 2021 text: I am looking for someone that can convert a power point version 1 to something readable? - author: Dan Banov (Canada) date: Wednesday 14th April 2021 text: I am looking for someone that can convert a power point version 1 to something readable? - author: Lorenzo date: Thursday 17th October 2013 text: |- Ho da vendere dei prodotti Apple come macintosh plus con scatola originale e accessori. Stampante e scanner Apple.\ Per info.\ lorenzo.manna23@libero.it - author: JayDee (The Netherlandss) date: Saturday 30th March 2013 text: |- @ MARCY BRONFMAN (Croton on Hudson, NY/USA)\ If the Mac Plus computers are in good shape and still work I''m interested in buying them. - author: MARCY BRONFMAN (Croton on Hudson, NY/USA) date: Sunday 24th March 2013 text: I HAVE 2 USED MACPLUS COMPUTERS AND A DIREC50 HARD DRIVE TO SELL. ANYONE WHO''LL COVER THE SHIPPING COST CAN HAVE THEM. - author: Jim (Canada) date: Friday 19th October 2012 text: |- I had two of these$ one a 2MB RAM with a 40mb external SCSI HD, another 4MB RAM and 80 mb SCSI HD.\ These were the first really capable Macs having SCSI, memory slots and a full keyboard.\ This was the first Apple of any kind that I bought and it was an easy transition from the GEM based Atari ST GUI that I was used to previously. - author: Nate (Ohio, US) date: Saturday 4th August 2012 text: |- My dad recently retired from teaching. He brought home a very curious looking screw driver with a long narrow shaft and a star bit. I asked him what it was. "Nate," he said "Do you remember the Mac Plus you used to play Stuntcopter, The Manhole, and Cosmic Osmo on? This drill bit was used to upgrade the RAM on the machine so it could run Cosmic Osmo when we got our first CD-ROM drive." We ran that machine with all the RAM capability we could muster :-) It was a solid computer that taught me math, and how to read and type. I still remember playing Spectrum Holobyte''s Mac port of Tetris on it. Wonderfully solid machine. I still have my 800KB Educorp Floppy diskettes in the house. - author: Janet Todd (USA) date: Monday 14th May 2012 text: |- I have a Mac Plus IBM\ Ram Model $ a9m030\ Serial $346170.. Was wondering if it is worth anything or should I just toss it. - author: david darlow (wa,spokane) date: Friday 20th April 2012 text: i have a mac 1mb that was the original assembley line model that everyone that helped produce signed on the inside of the case,,,,any comments - author: Jen (bradenton, Fl) date: Monday 26th September 2011 text: I have one of the few clear plastic first laptop apple made and they only made about 100 of the clear plastic ones back in 1989 and I have the regular laptop (first one made, but not the clear plastic). How much are these worth. Thanks, Jen - author: a hau (midwest us) date: Friday 26th August 2011 text: I have a mac 512 with an internal thunder drive? It weighs quite a bit. I turn it on annually and admire my MacPaint, MacDraw, MacWrite and Excel programs in thei rgrand simplicity! - author: bob (usa washington state) date: Friday 19th August 2011 text: I have a Mac Plus from way back, what is it worth, where can I get a fair market value for it. thank you - author: John (RI) date: Tuesday 19th July 2011 text: I found one of these in a garage, still operating after 15+ years in storage. I still use it :) - author: kelly kime (usa) date: Monday 16th August 2010 text: |- Hey your teach would love to revisit lode runner!\ I ust'' to live in surfers...helensvale....worked @ shooters the night club....sold wine during the day. Miss u guys. - author: Will M date: Monday 14th June 2010 text: The Mac Plus could actually run any os from 1.1 to 7.5. Not just 3, as the description states. - author: Nigel (Southport, ENGLAND) date: Tuesday 11th May 2010 text: My first Mac, won in a competition by someone who decided they did not want it, and gave it to me. Thus started my love affair with Macs. I filled up the memory, and bought a hard disc for it and used to run Illustrator, in the days when you had to render what you had drawn and Photoshop. It was sad to upgrade to a newer Mac, but great to get a colour monitor. - author: Erik N (Australia) date: Friday 7th May 2010 text: My IT teacher still has the same Mac Plus from all those years ago - 24 years old and still running fine! There is only one problem - my IT teacher only has one disk for it, and that is the tutorial disk. - author: Brian Ingram (Atlanta, GA) date: Thursday 23rd January 2003 text: Along with the TI 99 4/A, the Mac Plus was the computer that I grew up with. From the first time I used it as a child, I was amzaed at how easy and intuitive it was to operate. Ever since then, I have been a lifelong admirer of Apple and its Mac OS. To this day, I still own the same Mac Plus and boot it up on occasion to play around with, even if for nothing more than using it as a nostalgic time machine. I will always hold a deep connection to the Mac Plus for all that it allowed me to appreciate about how great and simply elegant a computer could be. related: - /museum/apple-lisa-lisa-2-mac-xl - /museum/apple-macintosh - /museum/apple-macintosh-color-classic - /museum/apple-macintosh-ii - /museum/apple-macintosh-portable - /museum/apple-macintosh-se - /museum/apple-macintosh-se-30 oc_id: 282 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230610105931/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=282 date: '2023-06-10' --- The Macintosh Plus was the first real improvement on the [Macintosh 128](/museum/apple-macintosh/) (The Macintosh 512 was only a Mac 128 with 512 KB RAM). It had a lot of new features: the extended ROM held the new version of Mac OS, enhanced graphics libraries, drivers for hard-disk and external floppy-disk units, a SCSI bus, AppleTalk networking and the new file manager: HFS (Hierarchical File System). The new floppy-disk unit could use double-sided 800 KB disks (only one-sided 400 KB for the 128). It had an enhanced keyboard with a numeric keypad and last, but not least, it had a SCSI 1 (1.5 MB/s) interface. This computer would be succeeded in 1988 by the new Macintosh series: the Macintosh SE and the Macintosh II. However, it stayed in Apple's product line longer than any other Macintosh machine, almost five years, and was on sale until 1990.