The precarious state of classic software and hardware preservation

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 03:30, Ian McLaughlin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> New owners of LCM? I thought Vulcan was the owner all along?

His younger sister Jody used to be the deputy at Vulcan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_Allen

She left in 2014:
https://www.geekwire.com/2014/jody-allen-leaving-vulcan/

It was meant to be a sabbatical:
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2014/10/vulcan-ceo-jody-allen-steps-down-amid-controversy.html

But when poor old Paul Allen died in 2018, Jody took control of Vulcan
and his >$20Bn fortune.

She started firing people in 2019:
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/paul-allens-vulcan-holding-company-cutting-jobs-sources-say/

And they sold off his yacht:
https://www.sportscasting.com/you-can-buy-seattle-sports-mogul-paul-allens-superyacht-plus-his-submarine-for-325-million/

The sports team was left to run itself:
https://thespun.com/nfl/nfc-west/seattle-seahawks/report-pete-carroll-seattle-seahawks-owner-coach

But of course COVID-19 changed everything:
https://www.seahawks.com/news/vulcan-inc-and-the-paul-g-allen-family-foundation-announce-efforts-to-support-se

Vulcan Productions shut down:
https://www.vulcanproductions.com/who-we-are

Then this year, (largely) post-COVID, the Allen Institute for
Artificial Intelligence (AI2) took over:
https://www.geekwire.com/2021/allen-institute-ai-takes-vulcans-portfolio-environmental-big-data-projects/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/allen-institute-ai-takes-over-190008690.html

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