Early Apple hardware on Lonnie Mimms' workbench.
Lonnie Mimms
Apple may not open its own museum anytime soon, but that's not stopping enthusiasts from putting their own Apple memorabilia on display. David Greelish is one of them. Founder of the Atlanta Historical Computing Society, Greelish partnered up with local "big-time" computer collector Lonnie Mimms to put together a museum-quality exhibit based on Mimms' extensive collection—particularly when it comes to vintage Apple products—as part of the first Vintage Computer Festival Southeast.
"I've wanted to have a classic computing convention for some years, having attended the original in California, and also the VCF East in New Jersey," Greelish told Ars. After discussing the idea with the AHCS, they came upon Mimms and his collection. "He has every significant American personal computer, plus some foreign ones too. Also some classic Intel development machines, a couple of other pre-Altair computers (Altair being the first commercially successful "microcomputer), and much, much more."
But 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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