Paul Allen's Computer Museum

There's something about a man who has the money and the time to indulge his every fantasy. A giant building/blob to house a collection of rock memorabilia? Done. Throw in a museum filled with ray guns, space suits and big foam aliens? Done. Take a few abandon warehouses, add water and mold a new neighborhood in your likeness, complete with little trains and condo-opolises? Easy. Seattle is Paul Allens plaything and you can hate it and tear your hair out and scream profainities at any sign of his guiding hand, or you can swallow as many fistfulls of blue pills as you can choke down and just enjoy his fruits. Seattlest, personally, operates on a case by case basis, alternately loving (SF Museum) and hating (EMP).

We came across PDPplanet.com today which is apparently the website of Allen's computer museum. You're going to have to be a pretty big geek to appreciate this.

PDP Planet is a portal into the Paul Allen collection of Digital Equipment Corporation mainframes and minicomputers, where pride of place is given to two PDP-10 systems (a 2065 running the Tops-10 operating system, and a 1090 scheduled to be brought up later this year). In addition to these, the collection houses a number of PDP-11 and PDP-8 minicomputers and a PDP-10 clone, the XKL Toad-1 System running the TOPS-20 operating system.

Cool stuff, but we're holding our breath until it's clear that no new monstrosity will impale our landscape to house it.