Timothy Burke: 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...

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...

The Living Computers Museum in Seattle is closing down, and it'll auction off 150 pieces of history for charitywww.xda-developers.com The Living Computers Museum's auctions will contain some amazing items, such as a signed letter from Einstein and Bill Gates's first PC.

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.

They should really set a fundraising goal to do just that. A lot of people who could never travel there would probably throw 5 or 10 dollars or more towards having the hardware sent to another museum instead of sold off to speculators.

They should really do this, whatever remaining debts they have should be included in the fundraising so they can do it in good conscience

While it’s terrible that the Seattle museum is closing down, they really did not have a very rare collection at all. It was great to see and nostalgic but not historic. This is nothing like the Mountain View collection.

yes but it was ACCESSIBLE.

“while this thing you’re lamenting is terrible, it really wasn’t hot shit” maybe, I don’t know, respond like that?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

System Source is one I would love to visit someday. I am very far away sadly youtu.be/iqiFOkJ_Kbg?...

Insane Computer Collection at System Source Museumyoutu.be I ain’t done traveling the country, looking at old computers just yet. There was one more stop I absolutely had to hit, so I bought a plane ticket, flew back...

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.

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.

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

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

This is devastating.

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

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

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

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

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?!

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