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Private Collector Builds Apple Pop-Up Museum

Posted by samzenpus on from the exhibit-in-the-hallway dept.

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."

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  1. Pay to look at Apple stuff? by tumutbound · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Historical or not, who is going to pay $15 to look at a bunch on old Apple computers?

    1. Re:Pay to look at Apple stuff? by sixminuteabs · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I can start with all of the jackasses who have the stickers on their rear windshield. After that, the dumbasses who wait in line for more than 24 hours to get the iphone 4s. Add anyone ever stupid enough to pay $100 for MobileMe service. This guy is going to make a fortune.

    2. Re:Pay to look at Apple stuff? by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Did someone owning an Apple product hurt you? You are displaying a bizarre obsession.

  2. popup? by anagama · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What the hell is a popup museum. It could have been explained in the summary.

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    1. Re:popup? by i+kan+reed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Every visitor is their 1 millionth visitor. They just have to click here to claim their prize.

    2. Re:popup? by pdabbadabba · · Score: 3, Informative

      Well, I know that a "pop-up store" is, roughly, a very small, temporary, and in some sense "unofficial" (or, unofficial seeming) store where a limited selection of merchandise is sold out of a space not normally used for the purpose. I assume a pop-up museum is analogous.

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    3. Re:popup? by nathan.fulton · · Score: 3, Interesting

      pop-ups as in http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/802841/pop-up-populism-how-the-temporary-architecture-craze-is-changing-our-relationship-to-the-built-environment

  3. Website by Dan+East · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Apple Popup Museum website does not load correctly on an Apple iPad. Mildly ironic.

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    1. Re:Website by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You will have to disable the popup museum blocker.

  4. Yes because there was no Altair by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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  5. What's with the veneration by wiredlogic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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