San Francisco & Bay Area, CA Collection

Our San Francisco & Bay Area collection spans more than three decades of personal computing, bringing together rare and iconic machines from Apple, Commodore, IBM, NeXT, and many others. It represents a remarkable breadth of makers and milestones, from the dawn of mass-market PCs in the 1970s through the design revolutions of the early 2000s.

Apple systems are especially well represented, including the Apple II (1977), the extremely rare Apple III, the original Macintosh 128K, the powerhouse Macintosh IIfx (once the fastest desktop in the world), and the sculptural Power Mac G4 Cube. The collection also features an Apple Lisa 2/10, a groundbreaking machine as the first commercial computer with a graphical user interface.

Beyond Apple, standouts include a fully equipped NeXT Cube pre-production system, a Commodore PET and multiple Amiga workstations that shaped music and graphics culture, and the legendary BeBox, of which fewer than 100 working units are believed to exist today. 

Other highlights include a DEC Rainbow and Silicon Graphics Indigo workstations like those featured in Jurassic Park's dinosaur laboratory.

The collection doesn’t stop at desktop systems—it also spans early portables such as the Macintosh Portable, Osborne, and TRS-80 Model 100 (Bill Gates’s last personally coded firmware), as well as rare handhelds like the Newton MessagePad, DataRover 840, and pioneering OQO Ultra Mobile PCs.

Complementing the computers is a broad set of video game consoles, from the Atari 2600 and Nintendo Entertainment System to rarities like the Vectrex and Neo Geo AES, providing cultural context to the computing eras represented.

Together, these machines tell the story of personal computing’s evolution—its innovations, bold experiments, and sometimes spectacular failures—preserved for both history and storytelling on screen.