Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items

Post by BobAliceInATree » Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 2:33 PM UTC

bruce511 wrote: post #152

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A few of my pieces are quite desirable and valuable, most of them not. I looked at the numbers, and all together 40-50% of what I paid is the ballpark of today's value, not including any consignment fees.

I've said this before, and for you I'm assuming there's no rush, but the best person to sell the "valuable" part of the collection is you. Now granted, most collections are not art - so I'm assuming you gave fewer distinct pieces than say stamps. My dad had a serious stamp collection. Had he died with it complete, we would have sold it for a few $ to a dealer. The cost of (him or us) going through it to find "the goo…

Post by 93po » Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 2:52 PM UTC

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The best I can tell from talking with insiders at a couple of his properties, is that he did a beyond bad job at “succession planning”. The light exception being MoPOP of course but that’s a different beast. So without setting up foundations/entities to fund/run your projects and getting people aligned before you pass, odds are your estate won’t. So want to blame the family. But really Paul Allen’s fault here. It’s a…

It's crazy that Bill wouldn't step in and solve this problem. This place is a rounding error on his checking account.

Post by Suzuran » Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 3:24 PM UTC

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Long story short, my Medicare records got screwed up. Some database entry isn't in the correct state that allows their processes to proceed. None of the humans I can get in contact with has the authority (or knows anyone with the authority) to manually correct the record, because that would be outside of their processes. Since the record isn't in a valid state, my access to medications I need to stay alive is being c…

Have you sued DHHS / CMS?

Post by imperfect_light » Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 3:39 PM UTC

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> but likelihood that any of your potential heirs is also interested in it That's not the issue, he set up the parts of his empire he cared about so they'd live on (Allen Institute for example) and instructed his sister to sell the rest. She could have gone against his instructions, but the point is he clearly he didn't care whether the Cinerama or the Living Computer Museum continued on. That's on him, not his heirs…

Or the fact that they don't see maintaining a home for a bunch of old computers for people to look at is a priority given other museums and world needs.

Post by qingcharles » Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 3:55 PM UTC

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It's crazy that Bill wouldn't step in and solve this problem. This place is a rounding error on his checking account.

I would guess that there's also family politics at play and I can't imagine anyone wanting to get involved with that.