The Museum's thin profit margin disappeared during the pandemic, and the Allen estate decided they could extract money selling off all of Paul's vintage compute

The Museum's thin profit margin disappeared during the pandemic, and the Allen estate decided they could extract money selling off all of Paul's vintage computers, rather than take a few years of losses to keep these treasures available to the public. Unless you were willing to donate your cash to the Allen family so that they could throw it on top of their Scrooge McDuck wealth pile, the museum was doomed. They weren't interested the actual cultural value of the collection. With that said, keep a close eye on MoPop's collection should they ever run into any financial difficulty.