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More bullshit. You have provided no evidence that people who are wealthy don't care about the things they buy, nor that they have no skills to restore them (do you have *any* idea how many silicon valley millionaires there are?), or will not run them. The sentiment expressed here is simple wealth envy and nothing more. Paul Allen is pretty damned wealthy and he has *all* of the qualities you assert that he does not, simply because he is wealthy. Furthermore, people who are wealthy have the amazingly odd idea that they could *hire* people to do restorations for them and keep their machines in working order. Without this sort of person, we wouldn't have a Living Computer Museum in Seattle and I'm willing to also bet we wouldn't have a Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. So says you. I don't see you making a kickstarter project or doing a fund-raising drive to purchase these machines to put them to the purpose *you* claim is best for them. If you don't like what someone else is doing with a machine, buy it from them and do what you think should be done. Until then, please, just shut up because it's not your right to tell other people what to do with their property. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>