[mustacheemperor]

> The only running CDC 6000 series machine has been restored by Living Computers: Museum + Labs.

Wonder what's become of it, now that the Paul Allen foundation deemed the LCM a needless expense and who knows what happened to all the donations.

Seriously, who knows what happened to all the donations? A lot of folks in tech reached in their proverbial closets for pieces of history, worked on these restorations, etc, presumably with the expectation that work would be preserved for more than a few years via this institution endowed by a vast fortune.

I always wanted to visit the LCM and it's like feeling the knife twist again every time I see a line about "this extremely cool thing from the history of computers was restored and you can see it yourself at - oh, that's the one in Seattle isn't it."

There's a running CDC6000 somewhere in the USA, or at least there was. Is it still in Seattle? Is it still in the museum building? Does it still run? Is anyone responsible for it? Has anyone turned it on and felt the hum since 2020?

[khm]

The computers seem to still be in the building, and many of them are online. 'ssh [e-mail]' seems to have trouble connecting to this particular machine right now.

By connecting via ssh to '[e-mail]' you can try the other machines -- I was able to log into the TOPS-20 system running on the TOAD2, for instance.

[mustacheemperor]

Wow, that is really cool. Thank you - I frankly feel a lot of relief knowing the collection is still being maintained, even if I can't visit it. Maybe they need volunteers.