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05-07-2016, 02:13 PM
How one teen amassed an 'orchard' of historic Apple products
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When he was 10 years old, Alex Jason got his hands on his first Macintosh (http://mashable.com/category/mac/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) computer by trading a minibike and a s**wblower for it. He couldn't help but tinker with his new iMac G5, upgrading it as much as he could.
SEE ALSO: Here's what the 'i' in iPhone means (http://mashable.com/2016/02/19/what-does-the-i-stand-for-iphone/)
After reaching the G5's limit, he had an itch to do more.
"I decided I really loved working on these computers and fixing them," Alex told Mashable. "I went on Craigslist and bought one or two from the early 2000s, and I realized how cool they were because they were, to me, retro."
Cut to five years later: Alex **w has a collection of more than 250 "significant" Apple (http://mashable.com/category/apple/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) products, dubbed the Apple Orchard (http://alexsappleorchard.blogspot.com/), and the majority of it is located in his family's*basement. If you add up the mice, keyboards, wires and everything, Alex said the number reaches about 500. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/07/apple-museum/)
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When he was 10 years old, Alex Jason got his hands on his first Macintosh (http://mashable.com/category/mac/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) computer by trading a minibike and a s**wblower for it. He couldn't help but tinker with his new iMac G5, upgrading it as much as he could.
SEE ALSO: Here's what the 'i' in iPhone means (http://mashable.com/2016/02/19/what-does-the-i-stand-for-iphone/)
After reaching the G5's limit, he had an itch to do more.
"I decided I really loved working on these computers and fixing them," Alex told Mashable. "I went on Craigslist and bought one or two from the early 2000s, and I realized how cool they were because they were, to me, retro."
Cut to five years later: Alex **w has a collection of more than 250 "significant" Apple (http://mashable.com/category/apple/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) products, dubbed the Apple Orchard (http://alexsappleorchard.blogspot.com/), and the majority of it is located in his family's*basement. If you add up the mice, keyboards, wires and everything, Alex said the number reaches about 500. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/07/apple-museum/)
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