It's one thing to sacrifice your freedom to
snatch 39 iPods from a retail shelf in an act of
desperation fanboyism, but to devote a substantial chunk of square footage in one's ultra-modern home to Apple is an entirely different type of determination. Sure, we've seen
various forms of
collections before, but this edition features no fewer than 74 Mac computers, posters galore, and a dedicated bar to boot. In total, Jeremy Mehrle of St. Louis, Missouri has 30 classic
Macs situated at the bar, 18 different CRT-based
iMacs, various PowerMacs, a plethora of
iPod paraphernalia, Mac OS boxes spanning years of development, Apple printers,
Newtons, a PowerBook 165c, a Next Cube, four Apple IIs, and to top it off, a 20th Anniversary Mac as well -- and that's still leaving quite a few out. Although we can't fathom how much time, loot, and resources it took to essentially construct an
Apple museum with a modernized style similar to Apple retail locations today, we can't help but give credit where its due, so here's your props Mr. Mehrle, now make sure your security system is in working order, okay? Click on through for a few more snapshots, and be sure to tag the read link for all the Mac mania you can handle.
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posted January 26th 2007 2:10PM
He has a NeXTcube?
Lucky Bastard -_-
Quality over Quantity though
When I have the time and Money I wish to track down only 5 Classic Computers:
1) NeXTcube
2) Apple II
3) iMac G4
4) G4 Cube
5) Macintosh
The best of the best, the ones that actually mean something.
Sebastian
Interesting way to display trash. I'd like to see his house.
This does not bring money to Steve Jobs or Apple - these machines are all outdated. This rather stunning composition exhibits merely a lack of separating "feeling" from "function": Apple computers have this aura of imposing a feel of design, a flair of "living", onto the user which is never really backed up by technology. It is Apple's legacy to have created machines that emphasize some sort of user proximity - in various ways. Even though in the end, what they sell are computers with typical problems that computers happen to have, the Apple experience is a design (and not so much a functional) experience. And this exhibit reflects just that. To anyone who is using computers for their function, function equates to beauty (rather than beauty equating to beauty) so to those people, technical crappiness of the machines conflict with their colorful, well shaped and interesting appearance. If you use computers for what they do, this is the last thing you'd ever want. Obviously, this set up is not in the slightest way reflecting functional or computational aspects of old Apple computer models - but it is a feast of their appearance. And as that - and only as that - it's really stunning.
has Al Gore seen this yet? i don't think he'd be too impressed.
Most of the comments here are really pathetic.
This is a beautiful collection and a well done installation. At least this guy was creative and DID something. Instead of just bigmouthing in the virtual world.
Those shelves and mounting hardware look like the same ones that IKEA sells. I even have a few at my home. They look great!
However, I think it is funny to make a Mac museum (unless he could somehow turn a profit (or break even). Maybe he has them running a beowulf cluser?? Just kidding......
I'd hate to see his power bill.
Doesn't his mom mind what he is loading her basement with... :)
but hey, over the top preserves this kind of thing for posterity. bill streeter has a GREAT video on jeremy's vintage mac basement. pretty trippy:
http://www.podtech.net/home/technology/2127/vintage-mac-collector
and yeah agreed. it is a beautiful collection. the photos are great, but the video really brings it home.