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Please see below, a portion of the response from somebody who works
(or worked) at LCM+L:<br>
<blockquote>The wild speculations of the uninformed have a potential
to do great damage. The Seattle Times is in that category, in my
opinion.<br>
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Sadly, the museum is closing for an extended period, as are all
the other public facing entities in Paul Allen’s portfolio. This
is due entirely to the fact that they <b>*are*</b> public facing,
in a time when the public is unable or unwilling to gather in
large groups. (When is the next time you plan on going to a
movie, for example?) It is not out of a desire to dismantle
Paul’s legacy, or in contravention of his intent, or anything of
the sort.<br>
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Most especially for the collections at Living Computers and at the
Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum, there is no plan to sell
anything. At LCML, we are working on a very orderly shutdown of
everything which can safely be powered down for extended periods,
and on a plan for how to keep power to those things which will
otherwise die if unpowered for extended periods. We have a lot of
experience with bringing things up which have been left fallow for
years; we do not want our successors in the future to have to
learn all over again all the things we have had to learn in the
past 17 years.<br>
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We are still working on what that means for those with accounts on
the on-line systems. We ask that they be patient; we’ll have an
answer for them in the coming days.<br>
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<p>On 5/31/20 3:23 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:</p>
<p>I'm going to reach out to somebody I know who works there and
see what he might know beyond the news. Given the "if" in the
notice on the web site, viz: "we will spend the months ahead
reassessing if, how, and when to reopen", things didn't
immediately strike me as being overwhelmingly hopeful.<br>
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<p>That would be a bummer if the KL and XKL machines were to go
away. In some alpha versions of my FTP server, I ran what I
thought would be regression tests on an XKL (at the time, the
2065 was running Tops-10, so this wasn't possible). It turns
out that I actually found a a situation that the KLH10
micro-engine gets right but that some versions of the XLK
microcode get wrong.</p>
<p>Briefly, on an XKL-1, you don't want to use any EXTEND based
string or numeric conversion instructions in a non-zero section
as the effective address calculations come out wrong and certain
random parts of the address space get trashed. Took me awhile
to figure that one out... I don't recall whether this was
fixed, but I would assume it would have been.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The loss of MRC's 2020's and--more
importantly--the data held on them and related tapes would be an
extremely bitter blow.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 5/27/20 11:15 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
That part may be closing, but the museum,may survive intact. We just
don't know. Sometimes even local news does not have all of the facts.
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Gregg C Levine <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gregg.drwho8@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">gregg.drwho8@gmail.com</a>
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:53 PM David Cooper <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:davecoo@marmotking.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><davecoo@marmotking.com></a> wrote:
It’s not coming back. From the local news, "This means we are winding down both Vulcan Arts + Entertainment and Vulcan Productions by the end of the year." The museum was part of Vulcan Arts + Entertainment. Just like the ancient Greek temples that were destroyed by farmers looking for stone to build houses and walls, the computers will be recycled for their gold. Human nature has not changed and likely never will. You’ve heard the phrase, “The Earth belongs to the living”. Apparently true then and true now.
<blockquote type="cite"><hr width="100%" size="2"><pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE" moz-do-not-send="true">owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE" moz-do-not-send="true"><owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE></a> On Behalf Of Keith Halewood
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 2:40 PM
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hecnet@Update.UU.SE" moz-do-not-send="true">hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a>
Subject: [HECnet] LCM+L suspending operations
As some of you may have just heard, LCM+L are suspending operations “for now” due to the effects of the current crisis. We’ll discover what’ll be happening to online access to their systems shortly. It’s a sad day but hopefully not permanently so.
Keith
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