Wishlist
The Apple Museum’s Wishlist, a curated selection of rare and significant Apple artifacts we’re eager to add to our collection. Help us celebrate innovation by contributing to our mission of preserving Apple’s groundbreaking legacy for future generations.
AppleColor Composite Monitor IIe
The AppleColor Composite Monitor IIe is a rare and important piece of Apple’s early color computing history. It was designed to bring vivid high-resolution graphics and 80-column text to the Apple II family, connecting directly via composite (NTSC) video without the need for extra cards or adapters. Notably, this monitor was never officially shipped to the European market, making it an especially elusive find for collectors outside the US. With its 13-inch screen, support for both monochrome and color display modes, and clean compatibility across the Apple IIe, II Plus, II, and IIc, the AppleColor Composite Monitor IIe was a popular, cost-effective solution for users seeking a visual upgrade. We’re currently on the lookout for a unit to complete our display.
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Apple IIGS Upgrade Kit
We’re looking for the official Apple IIGS Upgrade Kit, or a IIe that was upgraded using it. This rare kit was Apple’s way of helping users transition from the Apple IIe to the more powerful 16-bit Apple IIGS without buying a whole new machine. It’s a unique piece of Apple history that represents Apple’s approach to user upgrades and backward compatibility. Because it wasn’t widely adopted, finding a complete kit, or even an upgraded IIe, is tough, especially in Europe. If you have one, we’d love to include it in the museum to help tell this part of the Apple II story.
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Shugart SA-400
We’re looking for an original Shugart SA-400, the floppy drive that helped inspire one of Steve Wozniak’s most brilliant engineering moves. Woz took the mechanical core of the SA-400 and reimagined the controller from the ground up for the Apple Disk II. His version used far fewer chips, was cheaper to produce, and became a game-changer in personal computing. Having the original Shugart SA-400 alongside Wozniak’s streamlined Disk II will let us visually show the genius of Woz’s design, how he simplified, optimized, and outsmarted what came before. If you have one, we’d love to include it in the collection to help tell this remarkable story.
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Apple II Leather Carrying Bag
We’re searching for one of the rarest Apple accessories ever made, the original Apple II leather carrying bag, embossed with the full Apple logo, like the one shown here. This elegant brown leather bag wasn’t widely sold and is incredibly hard to find today. It represents a time when Apple was beginning to blend design, lifestyle, and technology, long before it became a household name for doing exactly that. We want to display this bag in the museum so visitors can see how Apple users once carried their personal computers, with style. If you have one of these rare pieces with the full Apple logo embossing, we’d love to include it in the collection and showcase it as part of Apple’s early brand identity.
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Macintosh Colour Classic ii
We’re looking for the Macintosh Color Classic II, the second-generation model in the Color Classic line. The picture above is a picture of the one, even finding a good picture of the Color Classic II turned out challenging. This machine is extremely rare, only officially released in Japan and Canada, and never sold in most other markets. It featured a faster processor and better performance than the original Color Classic, making it a favorite among collectors and modders. It’s important to note: we’re specifically looking for the Color Classic II, not the first-generation model. If you have one of these iconic compact Macs, or know where to find one, we’d love to bring it into the museum to showcase Apple’s early attempts at color computing in a small, stylish form.
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MacCharlie
We’re looking for a MacCharlie, one of the most unusual and fascinating add-ons ever made for the Macintosh. Released in 1985 by Dayna Communications, the MacCharlie was an external device that let the original Macintosh run MS-DOS software by literally attaching a second computer to its side. It included its own CPU, RAM, and floppy drive, using the Mac only as a display and input device. It’s a brilliant (and slightly absurd) piece of Apple-adjacent history that reflects the early tension between the Macintosh and the IBM PC world. Few were sold, and even fewer survive today. We’d love to have a MacCharlie in our collection to show how people once tried to bridge the Mac/PC divide, not with emulation, but by physically bolting on a second computer. If you have one, or any part of the system, we’d be thrilled to include it in the museum.
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