Why can’t mega billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates or some other one help finance this project? It’s nothing but peanuts for them.
They don’t care about us peasants.
Let’s see Paul Allen’s computers
Aw, I’m gunna miss this place. Glad I got to see it before it closed.
Well that’s a damn shame. I’m glad to hear there’s living exhibits elsewhere too now, though.
Let’s see Paul Allen’s card
I see a lot of articles talking about the white elephants that might be lost from public view, which is probably the biggest tragedy, using their KI-10 as an example.
The one I’m most worried about from that collection is that they have the last known operational CDC6000 series machine (Theirs is a slightly smaller CDC6500, the flagship CDC6600 is the machine that made Seymour Cray famous, it fucked so hard it was 3x as fast as the previous title holder when came out in 1964 and was still the fastest machine in the world until 1969… when it was replaced by the derived, upgraded CDC7600 from 1969-1975).
It’s a 12,000lb, 80" tall, 165" on a side monster that draws 30kW (at 208V/400Hz), I haven’t heard a plan for it, and there are very, very few possible long-term-secure homes for such a thing.
I guess it’s just not in the current auction so it isn’t drawing as much attention yet?
