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Too bad the museum has closed and that the contents are being sold — and so, likely scattered (and hidden away in private collections in many cases) —
"Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items"
geekwire.com/2024/seattles-liv… v GeekWire
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Photo from GeekWire article, "Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items"; Kurt Schlosser; June 25, 2024. Caption reads: "Former Living Computers Executive Director Lāth Carlson, right, and curator Aaron Alcorn show off a case holding Steve Jobs’s Apple I computer on display at the museum in 2017. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser)"
Photo from GeekWire article, "Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items"; Kurt Schlosser; June 25, 2024. Caption reads: "Paul Allen and Bill Gates surrounded by personal computers in a 1981 photograph, left, that they recreated at the Living Computers Museum in 2013."
Photo from GeekWire article, "Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items"; Kurt Schlosser; June 25, 2024. Caption reads: "A DEC PDP-10: KI-1, 1971, being offered in “Firsts: The History of Computing”, from the Paul G. Allen collection at Christie’s. (Christie’s Images LTD 2024)"
Photo from GeekWire article, "Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items"; Kurt Schlosser; June 25, 2024. Caption reads: "(Click to enlarge) A 1939 letter from Albert Einstein informing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that the Germans have discovered a fissionable form of uranium that could be used to fuel a devastating weapon. The letter is credited as the impetus behind the establishment of the Manhattan Project and ultimately the detonation of the first nuclear weapon six years later. (Christie’s Images LTD 2024)"
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