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15 Year old with 200 Apple Computers

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Interesting article in the New York Times today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/technology/apple-computer-museum-maine-teenager-alex-jason.html

A planned technology museum in Maine grew out of the curiosity of a 10-year-old.

In 2010, Alex Jason traded a minibike and an electric snowblower for an iMac G5 computer, in what turned out to be the start of a giant collection of vintage computer equipment, including 200 Apple machines. It is one of only a few dozen collections of its size and kind in the country.

Alex, now 15, along with his father, Bill Jason, are planning to display the collection, known as Alex’s Apple Orchard, in a converted library in Fairfield, Me., soon to be the Maine Technology Museum.

A planned technology museum in Maine grew out of the curiosity of a 10-year-old.

In 2010, Alex Jason traded a minibike and an electric snowblower for an iMac G5 computer, in what turned out to be the start of a giant collection of vintage computer equipment, including 200 Apple machines. It is one of only a few dozen collections of its size and kind in the country.

Alex, now 15, along with his father, Bill Jason, are planning to display the collection, known as Alex’s Apple Orchard, in a converted library in Fairfield, Me., soon to be the Maine Technology Museum.

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is Alex one of us on this forum?

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How is an Imac G5 purchased in 2010 vintage?

I wonder if his museum is the kind that has every color G3 Imac?
 
Unknown_K said:
How is an Imac G5 purchased in 2010 vintage?

I wonder if his museum is the kind that has every color G3 Imac?
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Any pre-Intel Mac is arguably "vintage" due to the speed at which Apple abandoned PowerPC architecture. A 10-year-old Mac G4 or G5 is much less usable today than a 10-year-old Windows PC. Production of PowerPC Macs ended in 2006, and as soon as 2008, new software was being released that couldn't run on them. By 2011, Apple dropped all remaining support for PowerPC machines. Compare that to how a Pentium 4 from 2005 can run Windows 10 and most modern PC software (except for games) just fine.
 
I received a call from the dad once. He offered to buy a /// plus I had on my website. The kid's father is actively involved in the project too, at least that was my impression. From a teenager's perspective anything from before 2000 is an earlier vintage-era.
 
I see he found an Apple Network Server finally. The dad (I agree with Bill, he's apparently arranging much of the acquisition) had asked me about selling one of mine, but I'm awfully fond of my Shiners.
 
facattack said:
A shiner is a black eye. Do you mean shinnies?
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it is also a small fish, and a bright light used to stun deer.
from the logo on an internal ERS for the machine I had in the 90's, I think it is an oblique reference to the latter.
Dennis Yarak would know for sure. He was the lead hw designer
 
Al Kossow said:
it is also a small fish, and a bright light used to stun deer.
from the logo on an internal ERS for the machine I had in the 90's, I think it is an oblique reference to the latter.
Dennis Yarak would know for sure. He was the lead hw designer
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I'm told it was a reference to a local brand of beer. My ANS prototype says "Shiner ESB" on the back and that appears to have been the codename in use at the time.

Al, would you have contact info for Dennis? I want to try to confirm who was on the design team. There are signatures on the back of the front panel.
 
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