Surely there's enough money in our community to have a museum like this.
There's museums for silk, condoms, dog collars, salt, chocolate...
We can do this. Come on.
Move it to CHM, charge more for the hands-on, run classes, get other foundations involved... Let's not sit this one out.
It wasn't like those other museums because it did a huge amount of work to be a living computer museum. Getting and keeping ancient systems up is expensive. I think the best thing we could hope for would have been the machines to end up as static, dead exhibits like a conventional museum. Better than nothing but missing the spark that made LCM great. That would also at least have kept the door open to re-starting the effort in the future.
It's a shame that Vulcan just auctioned off the assets. Did the really need the cash? It could have been donated to another museum etc.
And the $10 million deficit isn't some requirement for a roomful of old computers. It could be run on Amazon property for instance, probably for 1/20th that.
We shouldn't be forced into the stupid solution of liquidating a museum due to a willful failure of intelligence.
I thought we were better than that