For Sale by Original Owner — Vintage Apple Macintosh Plus(1MB RAM) — Fully Working, Professionally Serviced — Includes HD20 (20MB),External Floppy, Keyboard, Mouse, and Original Apple Mouse Pad
This is a beautifully preserved and fully functional AppleMacintosh Plus (1MB RAM) — one of the most iconic machines from Apple’sformative years. I am the original owner. The system has just undergonea complete professional servicing, including both the internal and external800K floppy drives, and comes with an original Apple mouse pad in near‑newcondition, a rare and highly collectible accessory that adds authenticityand display value.
Serviced by Rob Kilian (VintageElectronicRepair.com),a specialist in 8‑ and 16‑bit era Apple repair and restoration down to thecomponent level.
Note: The Macintosh Plus has 1MB of system RAM.The included HD20 is a 20MB external hard drive, Apple’s first hard diskfor the Macintosh line.
A machine with real history
The Macintosh Plus occupies a fascinating place in Apple’sevolution. Released in 1986, it was the first Mac to introduce SCSI, the firstto ship with 1MB of RAM, and the model that quietly powered the early desktoppublishing revolution. Many of the interface ideas and creative workflows wetake for granted today — document‑centric computing, drag‑and‑drop, the visualmetaphors that shaped modern apps — were refined on machines exactly like this.
Even the earliest builds of Photoshop were developedon a Mac Plus.
The experience — unmistakably Apple
Anyone who worked with these machines will instantlyrecognize the signature startup bong, the soft analog hum, and the rhythmicstepping of the floppy drive. These sounds were the soundtrack of creative workin the late ’80s — familiar, reassuring, and unmistakably Apple.
This unit brings all of that back. It boots cleanly,displays a crisp image, and both floppy drives have been fully serviced.
The system is running Finder 6.1.8 and System6.0.8, with the classic “About the Finder” panel crediting Larry, John,Steve, and Bruce — the original Macintosh Finder engineering team. It’s awonderful piece of early Apple history preserved exactly as it appeared in theearly 1990s.
Recent professional servicing
Performed by a vintage Mac specialist:
- Full inspection of analog and digital boards
- Cleaning and reflow of intermittent solder joints
- Removal and cleaning of original clock battery contacts
- Complete disassembly, cleaning, lubrication, and verification of both floppy drives
- Replacement of the internal drive’s failed eject gear
- Replacement of a shorted transistor on the eject board
- Cleaning of read/write heads
- Verification of disk initialization and read/write functionality
- External HD20 tested
- Mouse rollers cleaned
The internal drive initializes and reads/writes to true 800KDD media exactly as designed. The external drive reads/writes reliably as well.
Included
- Macintosh Plus (1MB RAM)
- Internal 800K floppy drive (fully serviced)
- External 800K floppy drive (serviced and tested)
- External HD20 hard drive — 20MB capacity
- Contains System 6.0.8, Microsoft Word 4, and Microsoft Excel
- Original Apple mouse
- Original Apple mouse pad — near‑new condition (collectible)
- Power cables
Local or Shipping
Local pickup in Los Angeles is available.
Shipping (U.S. or international) is also available at the buyer’s expense.
