A SEATTLE MUSEUM’S TECH BONANZA, FROM CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES TO VIRTUAL REALITY
The museum began in 2012 as a modest repository for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s collection of old computers: a PDP-10 from his Harvard days, a working MITS Altair 8800, a (Tandy/Radio Shack) TRS-80. It started adding and restoring donated machines, and now has the largest publicly accessible collection of vintage operating computers in the world.
Operating is the key word here. The institution’s motto is: “Most museums put glass in front of their stuff — we put a chair.”
Indeed, one of the few things encased in glass is a tattered Atari version of the 1980s arcade classic Defender, excavated from a landfill in 2013 by a Canadian entertainment company as part of the documentary “Atari: Game Over.”
See the full story here: https://www.vi-mm.eu/2018/07/31/a-seattle-museums-tech-bonanza-from-classic-video-games-to-virtual-reality/