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Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items

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Re: Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items

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Post by anthk »

kragen wrote: post #91

this is pretty unfortunate. iirc they had the only digital pdp-10 in the world that's currently in working order — the line of computers on which emacs, microsoft basic, simtel-20, and compuserve all originated. most of the arpanet was pdp-10s at one time. nasa's gsfc spacelink ftp site, where you could download space photos, was the only one i ever encountered running hopefully that machine will find a good home in…

At least you can run ITS under simh, there a github repo to set everything up almost automagically.

Re: Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items

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Post by [deleted] »

ghaff wrote: post #113
singleshot_ wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Philanthropic trust” is probably the concept you missed here. Don’t worry, it looks like Allen missed it too.

And with fairly unusual exceptions, museums don't tend to like a lot of restrictions on what they can do with donations.

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Re: Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items

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Post by dn3500 »

vintermann wrote: post #84
zimm wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Bodyguards-Vulcan-CE... It doesn't seem like she was the nicest person.

That's geoblocked.

Strange, I'm in Mexico and if anyone gets blocked it's usually me. But I can read this one.

Anyway here you go:

https://archive.ph/ru5Jm

Re: Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items

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Post by kens »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #115

When is the auction? Anyone have the details available?

The items are being auctioned by Christie's, closing Sept 12. The webpage gives very little information at this time: https://www.christies.com/stories/gen-one-paul-allen-history...

Re: Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items

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Post by kragen »

anthk wrote: post #121
kragen wrote: post #91

this is pretty unfortunate. iirc they had the only digital pdp-10 in the world that's currently in working order — the line of computers on which emacs, microsoft basic, simtel-20, and compuserve all originated. most of the arpanet was pdp-10s at one time. nasa's gsfc spacelink ftp site, where you could download space photos, was the only one i ever encountered running hopefully that machine will find a good home in…

At least you can run ITS under simh, there a github repo to set everything up almost automagically.

yes, and maybe xkl still makes pdp-10s, and kv10 may be ready soon. not sure what happened to conroy's pdp-10/x hdl. but there is value in artifacts too

Re: Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items

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Post by notlisted »

I haven't had the pleasure to visit this specific museum, but I did manage to visit https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl/en/ in my native country of The Netherlands on my last trip to Europe, and it's a real gem, also allowing hands-on interaction. I also "adopted" my first PC.

(for those familiar with The Netherlands, it's located in Helmond)

Re: Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items

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Post by dboreham »

walterbell wrote: post #111
rvba wrote: post #110

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Any junior banker can produce a spreadsheet for you that will claim anything you want - it is called Management Consulting. Anyway, since you know better how those big companies can invest, you can use your own money to reap the benefits. Money is literally lying on the street for you.

There is a difference between investment banking and management consulting.

Three zeros.

Re: Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items

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Post by dboreham »

tivert wrote: post #38
dboreham wrote: post #35

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Presumably billg is reading this thread already.

> Presumably billg is reading this thread already. I would assume he's not wasting his time with HN. He's rich enough and well-known enough that I'd think he'd be able to get superior versions of everything HN can provide.

There's a better place to hear software industry insiders' take on the dec-10?
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