On Oct 31, 2022, at 11:45 PM, Tom Hunter via cctalk
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> Thank you Rich for shedding light on this. Most of it makes sense to me,
> but the secrecy part where you weren't allowed to talk to those still at
> the museum is weird. I can't see any possible commercial reason for
> preventing fo
On Oct 31, 2022, at 4:31 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk
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> Tour guides and front desk personnel were immediately let go, because it was
> clear that it would be several months, up to a year, before we could open
> again.
Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook etc. were willing to pay all of
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:50:42 -0700
> From: Sellam Abraham via cctalk
> I'm hoping Rich Alderson will pipe in and give us the actual story as to
> what's going on with the LCM and its collection, but there's a possibility
> that he may be legally constricted from giving comment at this time.
Thank you for sheding some light on what transpired.
Regards,
Pontus
On 2022-11-01 00:31, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
First, let me thank Sellam and Tom for inviting me to comment on this
topic.
LCM+L closed its doors to the public in March 2020, at the height of
the
initial pandemic (in
Thank you Rich for shedding light on this. Most of it makes sense to me,
but the secrecy part where you weren't allowed to talk to those still at
the museum is weird. I can't see any possible commercial reason for
preventing former engineering staff to talk with their former colleagues or
replaceme
On 10/31/2022 6:31 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
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LCM+L closed its doors to the public in March 2020...
This project was the response to the original order simply to turn everything
off. We pointed out vociferously how much damage that would do to the
dinosaurs, reminding the nontechn
Alderson via cctalk
Cc: Chuck Guzis
Subject: [cctalk] Re: LC:M+L (Living Computer Museum)
On 10/31/22 16:31, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
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> That's as much as I know.
I'm a bit curious if the Connection Museum managed to stay open during
the Plague. Does anyone know?
--
--Chuck
On 10/31/22 16:31, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
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> That's as much as I know.
I'm a bit curious if the Connection Museum managed to stay open during
the Plague. Does anyone know?
--
--Chuck
First, let me thank Sellam and Tom for inviting me to comment on this topic.
LCM+L closed its doors to the public in March 2020, at the height of the
initial pandemic (in the sense that it had become clear that the Covid-19 virus
was not a passing thing), because our entire mission was to make pos
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 12:48 AM Bushie via cctalk
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> I've been recently been told, in person, by someone who works there that
> they are actually remodeling and just getting ready to open. Of course,
> I brought up the recently closures by Vulcan but this person assured me
> that this wasn
The LCM has some of stuff (a Zenith Z150 PC computer, including monitor and an
early paged memory expansion that I installed, a couple of Apple IIc computers
and monitors, a printer, but probably more important, a bunch of original
MS-DOS software diskettes and manuals from the mid-1980s to the
Chris Zach wrote:
> All that said, if I have to drive out to Seattle with a U-Haul I'll do
> it. Again. But I would prefer them to be displayed, taken care of,
> loved.
AI is available right now from here:
ssh i...@tty.livingcomputers.org
It's running under the name LC ITS now, but it's the ori
Unless you gave something to them with conditions, that's unlikely to work.
Normally, when you give a thing to another person, that person is free to do
with it what he wants. For example, if someone doesn't like a birthday
present, he can throw it away, or give it to someone else, and you ha
> On Oct 31, 2022, at 06:57, Paul Koning via cctalk
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>> On Oct 31, 2022, at 12:13 AM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk
>> wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 12:34:29PM -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>>> Even if it doesn't reopen, I'd hope that its collect
> On Oct 31, 2022, at 12:13 AM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk
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> On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 12:34:29PM -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>> Even if it doesn't reopen, I'd hope that its collection would not
>> simply be scrapped. I imagine a lot of people here would be
>> i
I've been recently been told, in person, by someone who works there that
they are actually remodeling and just getting ready to open. Of course,
I brought up the recently closures by Vulcan but this person assured me
that this wasn't the case for the LCM.
On 10/30/2022 10:16 AM, Royce Taft via
The Internet is wonderful for misinformation and a good laugh.
Here even Paul Allen's sister Jody can morph into Paul's wife.:-)
Rich Alderson please provide the LCM facts if you can to stop the silly
rumours.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 11:36 AM Michael Kerpan via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org
Yea they are squatting on something SMECC museum would dearly love Ed
Sharpe - Archivist for SMECC
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 9:13 PM, Tomasz Rola via
cctalk wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 12:34:29PM
-0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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Tomasz,
This is a very interesting and relevant question.
To the extent that there is an implied and enforceable contract between
donor and donee that a donation not be neglected or removed from public
use, if a donated item were to actually be removed from public use, that
would definitely be ac
On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 12:34:29PM -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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[...]
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> Even if it doesn't reopen, I'd hope that its collection would not
> simply be scrapped. I imagine a lot of people here would be
> interested in parts of it. I'm one of them...
If I was a donator, I would now be
The museum had been one of Paul Allen's private passion projects. Sadly, he
died rather unexpectedly and he hadn't really had time to set up a proper
legal entity to protect it after his death, so it and all his other passion
projects ended up controlled by his wife's real estate company which
star
That’s really disappointing to hear. I only discovered that museum for myself
via their website a couple of years ago and had no idea that it closed. I had
planned on visiting next time my wife and I travel to Seattle.
I hope that they are able to reopen.
Royce
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> On Oct
> On Oct 30, 2022, at 12:22 PM, Michael Brutman via cctalk
> wrote:
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> My apologies if this topic is a sore point for some of you. Their abrupt
> closing wasn't that long ago.
>
> Does anybody have any insight on what is going on there? The web site has
> not been updated in about 2.5 yea
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