The article says it cost more than ten million dollars a year to run. That's a hard pull for another institution or a new public subscription to cover. It wasn

The article says it cost more than ten million dollars a year to run. That's a hard pull for another institution or a new public subscription to cover. 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.