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dtagames
I had no idea this closed and I've lived here for six years! I can't believe I didn't go visit.

Surely there is enough money in this city of Houston between airlines that operate here and the oil companies that they spend most of your ticket money on to keep this open?

underlipton
We're in a silent recession, dude. Public good's about to get sold off to monied interests for their private use, like it always is.
SoftTalker
The rack in this image appears to house a Texas Instruments minicomputer of some model, not sure exactly which. 980 maybe? Might be fun to play with, but not for $20K.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e52f79c0260e6...

Note the 8" floppy disk drives also.

arjie
Getting it working would probably be a massive challenge since it’s missing parts.
nsxwolf
The 980 was used as the CPU in the Evans and Sutherland Novoview graphics system, part of a flight simulator.
yaur
Even if it was free, it sounds like it’s going to cost more than that to move and house these things
prismlfx
do you think it still runs?
system2
20k is not bad for an airplane geek. I wish I had space for these.
ChoGGi
Plus transportation

Me too :(

skyblock500
I believe that if we all collectively lowball them, they will drop the price to be lower than $20k.

It is unfortunate to see any museum close. I hope their assessment from the Texas Historical Commission succeeds!

convolvatron
that's seriously not the issue. if you look at the those pictures of the 737 frame - this is very large system which hasn't operated for many years and is largely just a pile of components at this point. it would probably be easier to rebuild the control system from scratch than try to bring it back to life. this would probably take a team of pretty serious people many years to get functional.
rationalist
I have been to this museum, it is nice. If anyone can support it, please look into it and do so. Thank you.
sublinear
Museum photos caption: "asdfsd"
adolph
This is really sad. I was hopeful the Lone Star Flight Museum would take it over. I spent a few afternoons there with my then much smaller kids. It was a not overdone museum where you could explore around inside the vehicles like a Sikorsky S-34 and the not-working simulators.
dark-star
I would love to see someone on CuriousMarc's, TubeTime's or Usagi's level of dedication get all that and rebuild/reconstruct it. Maybe if all the technology geeks of YouTube got together they could reconstruct one of those to a working level. The 737 one looks like it still has most of the components....