Vintage computer

[1] But in that time, numerous technological revolutions have left generations of obsolete computing equipment on the junk heap.

Nevertheless, in that time, these otherwise useless computers have spawned a sub-culture of vintage computer collectors, who often spend large sums to acquire the rarest of these items, not only to display but restore to their fully functioning glory,[2][3] including active software development and adaptation to modern uses.

This often includes homebrew developers and hackers who add on, update and create hybrid composites from new and old computers for uses for which they were otherwise never intended.

This was one of the first machines to have a case that included a keyboard; a design feature copied by many of later "home computers".

Perhaps because of its friendly design and first commercially successful graphical user interface as well as its enduring Finder application that persists on the most current Macs, the Macintosh is one of the most collected and used vintage computers.