Private Collector Builds Apple Pop-Up Museum 73
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."
Pay to look at Apple stuff? (Score:2, Insightful)
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Re:Pay to look at Apple stuff? (Score:5, Interesting)
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It's 2013. Standing in line for days for some consumer product that you can have shipped to your door the moment it's available is just retarded. It's like some kind of throwback to the 70s.
It's pretty much the opposite of the trendiness that Apple is trying to sell.
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Standing in line for days for some consumer product that you can have shipped to your door the moment it's available is just retarded.
Maybe I misunderstand something, but I thought it wouldn't be shipped the moment it's released. That due to the volume of pre-orders, it could several weeks before the person gets their shiney if they were to order online vs waiting out in the cold rain.
Now whether the shortage is an actual shortage, or a manufactured shortage, I don't know.
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Actually, standing in line, even camping out overnight, was retarded in the '70's. Maybe if you're starving, and you're waiting to get into a soup kitchen, then it might be justified.
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You get to hang out with the other hipsters. It's mutual masturbation.
hackers vs (wannabe) happy shiny people (Score:2)
More SOMA please!
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Nothing technical? You do realize that OSX is Unix right? With a fully functional shell and the ability to do just about everything that entails including compiling your own binaries, etc.
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Re: Pay to look at Apple stuff? (Score:1)
This is a museum about Apple, not Microsoft. I think you've got the wrong memo.
Literally! (Score:1)
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'.
popup? (Score:5, Insightful)
What the hell is a popup museum. It could have been explained in the summary.
Re:popup? (Score:5, Funny)
Every visitor is their 1 millionth visitor. They just have to click here to claim their prize.
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I really did think it was a museum of UI pop-up notifications and dialogs when I saw the headline.
Which was way more interesting than what it turned out to be.
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I did, too.
Which sounded kinda dumb at first but a roving computer collection also sounds lame.
I think the story of Apple being told as a very long open-face pop-up-book would be better. Lots of cardboard stand-up recreations of important Apple events and scale model buildings.
Re:popup? (Score:4, 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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So it's a bit like a mom-and-pop store, except that... ohnevermind.
That's still somewhat better than a gallery of dialog boxes and error messages, which was my first thought...
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In museum terms, that sort of thing would be a traveling exhibit. It's something that would reside in different real museums like the Da Vinci tech museum in Milan.
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More genreally speaking, a pop-up store is an extremely temporary store. Not like say, your calendar kiosk that's only there 3 months of the year temporary, but REALLY temporary - the longest they're around is a week, more commonly, 2-4 day
Re:popup? (Score:4, Interesting)
Website (Score:5, Funny)
The Apple Popup Museum website does not load correctly on an Apple iPad. Mildly ironic.
Re:Website (Score:5, Funny)
You will have to disable the popup museum blocker.
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You're holding it wrong!
Does it include? (Score:2)
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Slashdot, where nerds strut around being smug and hip by blaming the users of Apple products of being smug and hip.
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Thanks. I was wondering who would be interested in seeing a bunch of message boxes with little Mac smiley faces or pictures of bombs.
Wow! (Score:2)
I've got some toast with the image of Steve Jobs on it.
Yes because there was no Altair (Score:4, 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 [bambi.net].
[0] - http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/inside-the-altair-8800-vintage-computer/1453?seq=15 [techrepublic.com]
[1] - http://www.silicon-valley-story.de/sv/pc_homebrew.html [silicon-valley-story.de]
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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 [bambi.net].
[0] - http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/inside-the-altair-8800-vintage-computer/1453?seq=15 [techrepublic.com]
[1] - http://www.silicon-valley-story.de/sv/pc_homebrew.html [silicon-valley-story.de]
The Altair was a kit, not a complete PC; they mostly selected components that hobbyists could already buy and assemble...and sold them to hobbyists to assemble.
The Apple II (the Apple I was also a kit) was a finished product that regular people could buy. Of course, it beat the Commodore and other early PCs to market by a matter of months, essentially no time at all.
A better counterexample would be the IBM 5100 (complicated by the fact that it cost more than the average house at the time, so it wasn't reall
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This happens all the time. The first computer was British, the first guy to fly faster than sound in level flight was a German in the 1940s. If you do something first you need a good PR agent or someone else will duplicate it, and not necessarily with any malice, claim credit.
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It depends how you define personal computing. You're correct if you're referring to a computer people can own. If you want to talk about computers that are, well, computers with keyboards and screens
Can it bring jobs back to ex-CompUSA employees? (Score:1)
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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,
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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.
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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 - entere
any manager like that should be gutted (Score:2)
they were told "you get to keep your jobs".
There isn't a surer sign that a job isn't worth keeping.
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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 m
Re: Can it bring jobs back to ex-CompUSA employees (Score:1)
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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, i
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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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It doesnt matter how talented your workforce is if management is bound and determined to ignore their skills.
What's with the veneration (Score:3, 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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Historically the history of the world is written by the victors of wars between nations.
It's just a matter of minutes... (Score:1)
It's More than an Apple Museum (Score:2)
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 [youtube.com]
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 compute