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Rare Private Tour of Seattle's long-closed Living Computer Museum [Dave's Garage] (www.youtube.com)

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[–] finley@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What is a “living computer” and why is(was) there a museum about them?

[–] junderwood@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The 'living' part was all about the computers actually being in working order. I sat down in front of a Xerox Alto there and just played around with it. It was a really cool place. I will never ever ever forgive Paul Allen's estate for closing it down post-pandemic. That and the Cinerama both. At least SIFF took that over, though.

[–] finley@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah. This makes sense.

Cool.

Too bad it closed.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's just a name. It was Paul Allen's museum of vintage computers that got shut down.