Ancestors

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Written by J. Peterson on 2024-08-24 at 01:02

Retro computer fans: Paul Allen's collection of historic computer artifacts is up for auction at Christies. Many were on display at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle before it closed.

The Christies site is full of excellent hi-res color photos of Allen's collection. I've written a script to download the photos, as I suspect once the sales commission checks are cashed, the photos will go away.

https://github.com/isonno/GrabAllen

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Descendants

Written by J. Peterson on 2024-08-24 at 01:06

Link to the Christies auction of Paul Allen's collection:

https://www.christies.com/en/stories/gen-one-innovations-from-the-paul-g-allen-collection-1f0df60a726e4dcbabef3a91a57ef7ee

Back story on what happened to the Living Computer Museum by @textfiles

https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5672

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Written by J. Peterson on 2024-08-26 at 20:53

Dave Plummer posted a nice video tour of the Living Computer Museum items for auction located at the LCM. He also has some video clips taken just before the LCM closed in 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OohnXELGQ74

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Written by J. Peterson on 2024-08-24 at 22:57

@textfiles The photos from the Paul Allen auctions are now up on the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/PaulAllenCollectionPhotos

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