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Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items

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Living Computers Museum + Labs on First Avenue South in Seattle. The nonprofit closed in 2020 just before the pandemic and never reopened. (GeekWire Photo

Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items

If you're looking for an example of why we should not trust billionaires with our cultural heritage, here it is. Now all the cool pieces will be auctioned off to people with too much money and the rest will just be trashed.

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  • sadness-abysmal Fuck

    You were even able to log into their ancient computers over the network.... every Unix nerd should have the opportunity to log into an ancient Unix system running on a real PDP-11. It's so different... and so slow lol