[jgerrish]

  how does your personal wealth in this industry

The Living Computer Museum in Seattle is closing down. Paul Allen's estate, who gave so much money and built several Seattle organizations, seems to be focusing money elsewhere.

Like Bill Gates philanthropy, I assume they believe focusing resources towards vaccines and other general population philanthropic investments is more important.

The Living Computer Museum was unique. I remember especially they had a room set up like an old 80s living room with an Atari VCS 2600, and a window looking outside. It wasn't important in the sense of "progress", but it provided a shared historical perspective.

I hope whatever takes its place is cool.

I'm tired of moving.

[watersb]

What?!

The Living Computer Museum is unique in that they maintain running instances of the computers in their collection.

For instance, the only running CDC 6600 series (a 6500, I think).

What's more, they offer free remote logins on at least some of their computers.

If they were to shut down, we'd be in danger of losing a significant chunk of tech history.

[digisign]

Why is it closing down? I see it has been closed due to covid, but most places are now open with a few minor restrictions.

[mlom]

bill gates promoted one of the most brutal and polluting industries in the world, a complete environmental disaster rooted in slavery, with the phrase "a PC on every desk". he created a horrible and bloated ecosystem that has plagued our lives and he has just attempted to do the same with an insane biosecurity apparatus. i never want to hear any of these people's opinions on vaccines or anything like this again. they are dangerous worthless frauds. philanthropy is just what gates turned to after he got chased out of his own business for sexual harassment.