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Jeremy Mehrle has turned the basement of his suburban St. Louis home into one of the coolest private computer museums you will ever see. He has 74 vintage Apple Macintosh computers impeccably displayed. All of them are fully-functional so you can see what the old operating systems were like. Some of the highlights of his collection are an Apple Lisa, a 20th Anniversary Macintosh, and a NeXT computer.

This is not the first time his collection has been seen on the Web. After he first posted photos of it on his Flickr account, the collection was seen on several prominent blogs and social networking sites, including the front page of Digg (twice!), Macworld, Mac Life, and Engadget. But Podtech and LO-FI SAINT LOUIS are proud to bring the first video look at this amazing collection — amazing not for its size but the loving care Jeremy took in displaying these machines. Thanks to Walkie Talkie USA for providing the great Bowiesque soundtrack for this video.

Also there’s a bit of tech satire at the end of this video that you might enjoy — it’s from the sketch comedy group Flapping Crane. Special thanks to them for permission to use their clip.

UPDATE!
Since I posted this in February 2007, Jeremy has gotten a lot more press, including from CNN.com and the AP. I’m proud that my little project here got to scoop these bigger news organizations.

15 Comments

• At 2007.02.20 11:54, coyote said:
  

  now that looks like
  a real classy joint.
  excellent interior design.

  bananatech rules!

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• At 2007.02.20 13:06, Laughing Squid » Lo-Fi Saint Louis on Sci-Fi and Mac Collectors said:
  

  [...] The excellent video blog Lo-Fi Saint Louis, which last month joined PodTech, recently posted a couple of great videos on obsessive collectors in St. Louis. First there is “The Sci-Fi Lounge” featuring Coyote’s studio and storefront, which includes a ton of Star Wars toys. Then there’s Jeremy Mehrle’s insane collection of “Mac Geek Porn” tags: Mac (T) , Star Wars (T) , video (T) , Apple (T) , PodTech (T) , sci-fi (T) , Lo-Fi Saint Louis (T) , St. Louis (T) , Jeremy Mehrle (T) [...]

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• At 2007.02.20 18:10, primate blog said:
  

  Un verdadero museo macintosh privado…

  Ya veis, hay gente para todo. Como este fanático que montó su museo privado de ordenadores Mac de todos los tiempos. En su sótano! Es la colección de Jeremy Mherle, un fanático incondicional de la marca de la manzana.
  Este tema apareció en fotos…

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• At 2007.02.20 21:13, Andy Melton said:
  

  I want me one of those Banana Tech computers! I want the A55 Hole edition!

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• At 2007.02.20 22:22, Bill said:
  

  Try ebay!

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• At 2007.02.21 19:04, Heath said:
  

  loved the mac guy but that “forgotten” commerical had me ROLLING…..at first I thought it was real for about a few seconds and then I was like wth….very funny….

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• At 2007.02.22 11:05, missb said:
  

  That was soooooooo cool!

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• At 2007.02.22 12:25, Into the Mind of a Povert » Blog Archive » Platoon said:
  

  [...] Also, check out Episode 140 of Lo-Fi St. Louis. Bananatech is at the end. [...]

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• At 2007.02.25 08:55, pAuL KNiGHt said:
  

  Great Video.
  The guy must love apples.

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• At 2007.02.25 21:10, Bill Streeter » Blog Archive » Mac video gets shitloads of traffic from spain said:
  

  [...] Mac blogs in Spain picked up the video I made about Jeremy Mehrle’s mac collection. And as a result several other Spanish language blogs from around the world also reported on it. [...]

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• At 2007.03.12 08:21, hebchop said:
  

  nice basement! that walk cycle ASCII chick was awesome!! I don’t care what Jeremy says that IS art. How did he make that?

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• At 2007.03.21 20:48, Margie said:
  

  Bill, I love what you’re doing here! Fantastic work. Bravo!

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• At 2007.04.19 12:30, Skewgee said:
  

  i read an AP story about the guy, and all I could think about was this old video. lol

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• At 2007.08.20 09:27, J.R. Jones said:
  

  Do you need a 20th Anniversary Macintosh? Free.. still works J.R.

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• At 2007.10.30 00:48, The man who collects Apples : Addicted To Apple Computers. « Apple News said:
  

  [...] What other users say about this: mmeiser: Ha! Much better video about the guy: http://lofistl.com/2007/02/17/episode-140-mac-geek-porn/ [...]

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