The first task is to locate equipment from the previous incarnation of our IS Museum; housed on the back staircase in the Core Services office and moved into storage a few years ago.

Thanks to the assistance of some super-enthusiastic geeks, we found a number of historical delights:

• An Apple iMac G3 (not yet converted into a Macquarium [source: Wikipedia])
• An Apple iMac G4
• A BBC Micro
• A keypunch for making punched card programs [source: Wikipedia]
• A Macintosh Plus 1MB
• Some old network equipment

We were already quite chuffed, but that wasn’t the end of our success. The very next week a colleague alerted us to a room that was being cleared out and contained some ‘old Mac stuff’. All of this would have been disposed of had we not got word of our project to the right people. We found an incredible trio of historic Apples:

From left to right we have a Macintosh Classic, an Apple II Plus (stylised Apple ][+) and a Macintosh Portable, the first Apple ‘laptop’ (more accurately, a ‘luggable’). There were some other significant finds, but we don’t want to give it all away too soon. Keep your eyes open for our first exhibit, where all will be revealed!