If you were hoping for any other chance to see Paul Allen’s collection of vintage computers and tech items, here’s some bad news. The Living Computers Museum, which opened in 2012, will finally close its doors for good. The museum in the first place closed in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, but Paul Allen’s estate has now proven to GeekWire that it won’t reopen.
But not everything disappears. The museum’s website, with its emulators that allow you to feast on old-fashioned operating systems and old computers like the Commodore 64 and the ultra-rare Apple I, will live on. The SDF Public Access Unix System team, already very concerned with archiving existing technologies, will take over the website.
As for the physical artifacts, many are sold through a special Christie’s auction called “Gen One: Innovations from the Paul G Collection. Allen. “This sale celebrates “first-generation technologies and their pioneering spirits,” with more than 150 masses of rare objects.
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