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Stephen Jones, Interim Computer Museum

Stephen Jones, Interim Computer Museum

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Stephen Jones, Interim Computer Museum Stephen Jones describes himself as the "caretaker" of Interim Computer Museum, a computer museum in Tukwila, Washington, a few miles south of Seattle. Stephen has decades of involvement with sdf.org, the public-access UNIX system that's been around since 1987; he was senior engineering manager at the Living Computer Museum, Paul Allen's Seattle computer museum that shuttered in 2020. In this interview, Stephen provides a brief history of SDF.org, the rise and fall of the Living Computer Museum, and the birth of the Interim Computer Museum. He explains what happened to the holdings of Living Computer Museum, and some of the interesting items at Interim Computer Museum. This interview took place on May 3, 2026 at Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest in Washington State.

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