Articles about Living Computers: Museum + Labs

Living Computers vet rescues 1986 Mac from thrift store and gets it to run ChatGPT and much more

Hunter Irving is like a tech time traveler. Or he’s just a guy who can’t shake the impact that working… Read More

GeekWire tried to win a piece of Microsoft and Paul Allen history at auction — here’s why we lost

There’s probably a magazine article out there somewhere about how to successfully bid on something at auction and come away… Read More

Paul Allen estate sells remaining Living Computers artifacts and systems to museum near Atlanta

Living Computers: Museum + Labs will live on, in spirit, far from Seattle. The Paul Allen estate announced Thursday that… Read More

Auction of Paul Allen items, including vintage computers, Einstein letter and more, brings in $10M

Rare computing artifacts, space-related objects, documents, letters and more from the collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen reeled… Read More

Go back inside Seattle’s Living Computers, virtually, via 3D tour updated with links to auction items

Following the June announcement that Living Computers: Museum + Labs would stay closed for good, fans of the Seattle institution… Read More

Former Living Computers Museum director returning to Seattle to lead National Nordic Museum

Lāth Carlson, the former executive director of Seattle’s Living Computers Museum + Labs, is returning to the city to head… Read More

They gave machines to Living Computers for preservation, but museum’s closure is a bitter end

Computer enthusiasts who sold or donated vintage items to Paul Allen and Seattle’s Living Computers Museum + Labs are concerned… Read More

Fans upset by closure of Living Computers question why Seattle museum couldn’t be saved

Fans of the Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle reacted with disappointment to the news Tuesday that Paul Allen’s… Read More

Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items

Living Computers Museum + Labs, the Seattle institution created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as a hands-on showcase… Read More

Future of Seattle’s Cinerama and Living Computers museum in doubt as Paul Allen’s Vulcan shutters arts and production divisions

Seattle-area cultural institutions founded by the late Paul Allen, including the Cinerama movie theater and Living Computers Museum + Labs, face the… Read More

GeekWire Calendar: Full list of event postponements and cancellations in Seattle area

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, many events listed on our community calendar have been postponed or canceled. Others have been… Read More

Tech Moves: PayScale exec joins Amperity as COO; NPR hires former Microsoft and Amazon AI leader

— Former PayScale CFO Mark Klebanoff signed on with Amperity as chief operating officer. Klebanoff, who joined PayScale in 2013, previously… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Microsoft president talks new book; Love Notes to Newton; and more

— Microsoft President Brad Smith thinks the tech industry needs to be careful about new advances and think mindfully about… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Windows 95 Weekend, exploring supernovas, and more

— Do you remember where you were and what you were doing in 1995? Television was dominated by ER, Seinfeld,… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Visual Studio Live; Tech Diversity Summit; history of the PC; and more

— You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in tech who doesn’t know about Visual Studio — and most of them… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Tech at The Seattle Art Fair; blockchain convention; and DIY hardware development

— For the fifth year in a row, artists from the Pacific Northwest will showcase their work at The Seattle… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: The science of Star Trek aliens; Global Game Jam; and celebrating startups

— Lots of science fiction movies and television series feature alien life that looks, for the most part, like us.… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Lunar Block Party, Nintendo Switch Road Trip, and more

— The 50th anniversary celebration of the moon landing continues at the Museum of Flight with the Lunar Block Party,… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Moon Landing the Musical; Space Weekend; Intro to Raspberry Pi; and more

— The Apollo Program and moon landing is a historic event captured in a variety of media. Movies, television, and… Read More

Check out Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11 flight manual before its multimillion-dollar sale

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book that sat between Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for the moon landing 50… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: ACE Comic Con, computer trivia, and the music of Star Wars

— Films based on characters from Marvel comics have dominated the box office for the first half of the year.… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: The history of computers; tech’s role in clean energy policy; and more

— Computers, at least the ones somewhat resembling what we know today, have been around since the mid-20th Century. Seattle… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: The future of mobility; World Ocean Weekend; Pacific Commodore Expo; and more

— It’s hard to find a new car these days that doesn’t have some type of technology inside, and those… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: The women of Atari, Minecraft extravaganza, and an ethical tech summit

— Atari Women, a University of Washington research project, is looking to give more limelight to the women who were… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Open source project led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee; mastering startup pitches; and more

— When he invented the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee had a specific vision for how it would evolve,… Read More

Seattle police arrest trespasser found sleeping on floor of Living Computers: Museum + Labs

A large police presence Thursday at Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the Seattle institution founded by the late Paul Allen,… Read More

From Cinerama and MoPOP to KEXP and Upstream, Paul Allen’s cultural legacy permeates Seattle

Many will remember him as the co-founder of Microsoft, or the owner of the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers.… Read More

Well wishes for Paul Allen, video game high scores and more as party opens GeekWire Summit 2018

GeekWire Summit attendees will spend the next two days in Seattle hearing from some of today’s leading innovators in the… Read More

Rare Apple 1 headed to auction and Seattle’s Living Computers experts weigh in on piece of tech history

A rare piece of computer history is headed to auction next month in Boston, shedding light yet again on the… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek podcast: A time machine back to the ’80s, and a juicy dispute over a new apple

On this episode of the Week In Geek podcast, we take a trip back to the heyday of Walkmen and the… Read More