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Private Collector Builds Apple Pop-Up Museum
David Greelish, Founder of the Atlanta Historical Computing Society, has taken it upon himself to "tell the story of Apple.” Greelish partnered with Lonnie Mimms, a local computer collector, with a museum-quality exhibit dubbed the "Apple Pop-Up Museum." From the article: "...Mimms wanted to focus specifically on Apple—partly because of Steve Jobs' recent passing, but also because of Apple's 'overwhelming success and stardom.' And so the two teamed together to create the Apple Pop-Up Museum, which will be part of the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0 when it opens in Atlanta on April 20 and 21, 2013. In a twist of historical fate, the show will be held in an old CompUSA store, with 6,000 feet of the CompUSA regional corporate offices being used for the Apple Pop-Up museum. '[Mimms] and his staff are literally building a museum within the separate rooms,' Greelish told Ars."
Historical or not, who is going to pay $15 to look at a bunch on old Apple computers?
It's a good thing the author made it clear that they were building a museum in the literal sense of the phrase. Otherwise, I might have needed to look at the context of the article about museum building to determine that 'museum building' in this case was not the oft-used figurative sense of 'museum building'.
What the hell is a popup museum. It could have been explained in the summary.
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The Apple Popup Museum website does not load correctly on an Apple iPad. Mildly ironic.
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A hipster popping wood anytime a new iDevice is rumored to be in the works?
Silence is a state of mime.
Thanks. I was wondering who would be interested in seeing a bunch of message boxes with little Mac smiley faces or pictures of bombs.
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I've got some toast with the image of Steve Jobs on it.
People seem to think personal microcomputing started wtih Jobs, Wozniak and Apple and want to adorn history with misinformation. Yeah, the old Apples were pretty revolutaionary however The Home Brew Computer Club[1] was where it all started. With the Altair 88[0] and many other people besides Jobs and Wozniak.
[0] - http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/inside-the-altair-8800-vintage-computer/1453?seq=15
[1] - http://www.silicon-valley-story.de/sv/pc_homebrew.html
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Hey, you win some, you lose some. Deal with it. CompUSA (in its original form) died at least four years ago. The "retail slaves" have had those four years to find a new job, a task which shouldn't be hard, given your dismissive labeling of them. It is NOT the responsibility of anybody using any property once touched by CompUSA to pay tribute to ex-employees until the end of time. What, are you assuming the offices are haunted by the ghosts of "retail slaves", except they're alive and just lazy? Funny, I thought we lived in the MODERN world...
At lot of people worked in those buildings and got the shaft when the company collapsed under the weight of its own corporate stupidity. We shouldn't be celebrating someone making use of the buildings if they aren't doing anything to help the retail slaves find work.
A corporation is the sum of its employees... and their failure wasn't just executive stupidity.
Jobs had a massive personality disorder and treated most people like shit. He made it to the top because we have a society that rewards narcissists. For this he deserves to have the history books rewritten to paint him as a saint?
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At lot of people worked in those buildings and got the shaft when the company collapsed under the weight of its own corporate stupidity. We shouldn't be celebrating someone making use of the buildings if they aren't doing anything to help the retail slaves find work.
A corporation is the sum of its employees... and their failure wasn't just executive stupidity.
I worked at CompUSA for quite some time back when they were doing well as a company (before they were bought out by Carlos Slim). I can tell you that the hands of myself and other retail slaves in that company were shackled by stupidity from middle and upper management (to be fair, our store managers were actually quite good but they were also restrained by cluelessness from district and corporate). The employees worked hard and still faced the consequences of those up above who seldom - if ever - entered actual stores. To make matters worse, one year after posting the 3rd or 4th consecutive year with record numbers for our region, our managers asked their superiors where their annual bonuses were for that year - they were told "you get to keep your jobs".
So in the case of CompUSA, the failure of the chain belongs to the executives. They restrained the people who were doing actual work and took the whole damned thing down in doing so.
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More SOMA please!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
they were told "you get to keep your jobs".
There isn't a surer sign that a job isn't worth keeping.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
So what's your point? You're seriously still bitter four years later? You haven't found a different job in all that time? You want fucking shrines built on the sites of every old CompUSA store and office to preserve the memory of Yet Another Store Screwed By Management? What, are all the former Crazy Eddies now historical monuments? That was another electronics retailer that collapsed due to management and ownership doing stupid shit.
If that's not what you're after, then what IS your point? Has your mind just been locked in that time and you've never gotten over it? Do you seriously dedicate that much of your life to re-living that fateful day when you no longer had a single particular retail slave job? Get over it. A company died four years ago. Its effect on the world was minimal, as it had strong competition and didn't do much unique and new. The world has no obligation to care about this old, defunct company. Someone's going to take over that property sometime.
They have built shrines at most of the old CompUSA stores here in Atlanta. They call them "Total Wine." I feel they make a much better use of the space.
Wow. Im thinking you dont have much real world experience. Either that or your just not paying attention.
It doesnt matter how talented your workforce is if management is bound and determined to ignore their skills.
If that's not what you're after, then what IS your point?
My point is that there were jobs there, and now there are none. There were hardworking and smart employees there, and they lost their jobs because of their inept corporate overlords. The retail slaves busted their asses and were given pinkslips in return. The corporate bigwigs ruined a company and took big bonuses in return.
Do you seriously dedicate that much of your life to re-living that fateful day when you no longer had a single particular retail slave job?
No. I left the company before it was bought out by Carlos Slim. Even at that time it was clear that corporate management was utterly clueless and didn't give a shit.
Its effect on the world was minimal, as it had strong competition and didn't do much unique and new.
At the time, it had strong competition. Now a lot of areas have only Best Buy.
The world has no obligation to care about this old, defunct company.
I never said the world had any obligation to it. Similarly if you are struck by a bus tonight the world owes you nothing for that as well. That doesn't mean it doesn't effect anyone, however.
Someone's going to take over that property sometime.
Or they will tear it down and make a parking lot. The chances of there being as many jobs in that spot as there were when it was CompUSA is not great.
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He's got a LOT of old computers, not just Apples, including TWO (Qty 2) Cray 1 computers! I think I'd rather see one of those operating than all the rest of his stuff, including his two Apple 1's. Check out this interview from a few months back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Fu5wcgWdJQI
Also, this popup museum is only PART (though it's looking like the biggest part) of the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0 (hope I got that name right). There will be plenty of classic computers with no connection to Apple, some of it predating the Apple 1.
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I remember my first and last experience at CommyUSA as I named it -- some bastard at the door asking to check my bag against my receipt. I asked him if he had a reasonably articulable suspicion that I was shoplifting. He said no. So I said "no you can't check my bag."
Never went back. Glad they died. This same policy is why I WorstBuy has lost thousands of dollars in sales it could have made to me, and I learned a little patience to boot in waiting for my NewEgg packages.
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