15 Sep
2024
15 Sep
'24
5:10 p.m.
Computer Museum of America Acquires Collection from Living Computers Museum
and Estate of Paul G. Allen - Computer Museum of America %
<https://www.computermuseumofamerica.org/news/computer-museum-of-america-acquires-collection-from-living-computers-museum-and-estate-of-paul-g-allen/>
On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 8:26 AM Adam Thornton via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/paul-allen-estate-sells-remaining-living-comp…
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Lee Courtney
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> was reading 16million was raised and going to charity or something??
and
that the
rest got bought by another museum
Oh, it's the CMoA? That's actually really really good news.
The last time I was in Atlanta, before my parents moved out here
(so...2019?), I had a couple hours to kill on my way to visit a high school
friend. So I went there, wandered around, and left their Atari on the
Easter Egg screen in Adventure.
One of the staff noticed that, talked to me for a bit, and asked me to wait
while he phoned up Lonnie Mimms (the founder) and asked him to come in and
meet me. We talked for a good hour, and it was great. I would describe
what he's done there as what I would have liked to have done if I had come
from a family business of real-estate-developer money, rather than (not
that I'm complaining) IT consultant/sysadmin/software-developer money.
The CMoA was not as hands-on as LCM, but it did have some working machines
you could play with.
Whatever Lonnie got his hands on from the LCM is unlikely to be sold for
the metal value. Five years ago, anyway, he seemed serious and his
restoration work looked pretty legit.
Adam