heartbreaking. this was probably my favorite part of visiting Seattle. Now instead of being accessible to people it'll all be parted out to rich people's collections. www.xda-developers.com/living-compu... - ThreadSky

bubbaprog.lol • 348 days ago

heartbreaking. this was probably my favorite part of visiting Seattle. Now instead of being accessible to people it'll all be parted out to rich people's collections. https://www.xda-developers.com/living-computers-museum-auction/

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impliedoralconsent.com•348 days ago

I get your point but this museum would never have existed without it being a rich person’s collection first.

Hopefully a new benefactor will step forward.

0xdaeda1a.bsky.social•348 days ago

It hasn’t been accessible for more than four years; it closed in early 2020.

rsilvie.bsky.social•348 days ago

When I first moved here, everyone told me you have to visit when it reopens and I'm over here like WTAF 😡

andres.rive.ro•348 days ago

Seriously I got a job in Seattle in 2019 and heard a whisper about this in 2020.

reprapryn.bsky.social•348 days ago

It's a bummer. I moved to Seattle, heard about it thinking it would have reopened but nope.

russbengtson.bsky.social•348 days ago

big news for someone looking to put a very early computer next to their tyrannosaurus

fresnel.bsky.social•348 days ago

I'd never heard of this (or been to Seattle, to be fair) but this sounds so ridiculously on brand for me I'm disappointed.

lainshep.bsky.social•348 days ago

System Source is one I would love to visit someday. I am very far away sadly

https://youtu.be/iqiFOkJ_Kbg?si=_9pzhzvLwVtpztsI

bagofbleeps.bsky.social•348 days ago

Paul Allen's contributions are drying up after his death. At least someone bought the big plane.

yirdaki.bsky.social•348 days ago

shatter.bsky.social•348 days ago

any number of these dot com billionares could easily drop a few mil on these guys to keep them floating.

botsnack.bsky.social•348 days ago

Or the thousands of millionaires
Same idea
The city is filled with rich assholes

kzannarbor.bsky.social•348 days ago

That was a great museum (even though my spouse & kid were way more into it than I was). My kid beat the computer at chess, which was cool.

funkaspuck.bsky.social•348 days ago

At first I thought this was about the “museum” inside Re-PC

imrustyokay.bsky.social•347 days ago

I'm glad there's another museum in Knoxville, but seeing this just breaks my heart so badly...

frischma.bsky.social•348 days ago

There was a place like this in Oakland too that closed during the pandemic. Sucks

hdcshah.bsky.social•348 days ago

The entire thing needs to be shipped to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. If the scurrilous rich folk have any redeeming qualities left, they'd pay for this to happen and bask in wings named after them (and the write-offs). But, alas.

rwruedii.bsky.social•348 days ago

They should have sent all the computers to other computer museums.

andres.rive.ro•348 days ago

Fuuuuck that sucks, I can’t believe there isn’t some rich person in the greater Seattle area who doesn’t want to support this org and have them host their personal tech collection?!

judithanne.bsky.social•348 days ago

We have a computer museum in San Jose. Maybe you'll visit that one.

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