ITT: Abandoned PCs

>>60576506
Holy shit. Moar.

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>>60576536
This computer shop was abandoned in the late 90's and it still has all its shit inside.

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>>60576556

this thread has potential desu

>>60576573
you sick fuck this isn't a gore thread you edgy shit

In like 2010 I was supposed bring some stuff from the office down to an old server room in the basement of the company I worked at.

The moment I turned on the light switch was quite a magical one because the whole place was filled with old computers from the late 80's, all connected, spider webs everywhere but shit's functional and preserved, like a time capsule. Even the computer chairs were there. EVERYTHING.
The place even smelled like old computers.
It probably sounds autistic but I still have goosebumps. It certainly was something special.
Sadly the place got teared down years after I left and even before that they fagged around about giving me one or two 486 or 386 machines.

Anyways, I love time capsules so fucking much, especially computer related ones.

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>>60576506
>ABANDONED HOSPITAL
>WITH PEOPLE INSIDE
Then it's not abandoned ffs!

>>60576556
>>60576563
Decades of sun and UV light for those old monitors.

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>>60576617
Many of these were also there.
I booted one of them but it seemed to have forgotten its HDD settings or something. Can't remember the code but even if I wouldn't have known the cylinder, sector and other spec stuff

>>60576556
How has it not been vandalized in all this time? You'd think some punk wouldve thrown a brick through the window by now. Where is this?

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>>60576704

Believe it or not, there are still some neighborhoods left with reasonable people.

>>60576738
So east asian neighbourhoods?
If there were a few whites living close by than it'd be smashed in weeks.

44 N Lehigh Ave. Frackville, Pennsylvania

>>60576556

I don't understand the logistics of something like this. So, the building is owned by someone, why not clean it up and sell it?

>>60576656
>>60576556
I miss beige tech

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Saw this on Ebay a couple weeks ago.

Some 286 clone that was sitting in some abandoned warehouse for over two decades.
Original packaging.

The seller (of course) didn't have a fucking clue and shat all over the ad the usual "SUPER RARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SUPER OLD RETRO COMPUTER!!!!!! ONE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE!!!! SUPER COOL!!!!!! RARE!!!!! and wanted like $500 for it.

Finding old shit and flipping it is one thing, knowing literally nothing about it and be a faggot is something else.

>>60576772
As soon as you get in there, you are going to find hundreds of broken laws and building regulations that need to be updated. And, as soon as you know about them, you are legally abided to fix them or lose the property.

It's better just to let it fall down on its own.

>>60576573
Man that laptop got lucky. Now it can be a desktop.

>>60576781
There have been warehouse finds all the time, like IBM PC/XT/ATs or Amigas, NIB, hundreds of them.

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>>60576656
If it was a server room I'd guess they where RS/6000's instead of PS/2 systems like in your picture.

>>60576656
the CHS settings should be listed on the hdd's label

>>60576626
>>60576506
Only the basement levels are abandoned. At the end of the video, one of the guys takes the elevator up to the first floor and he sees it is an active hospital. Maybe the lower levels were abandoned because there was water damage.

Also a lot of hospitals have to close down or downsize because poor people w/ no health insurance just use the ER and then never pay their hospital bills

>>60576751
Oh hey it's the abandoned computer store

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Fukushima

>>60576872
I can't remember exactly which model it was...

Also, don't know what that original purpose of that room exactly was. It looked more like a schooling room with a dozen similar workstations and a couple random other computers.
They just called it "server room" because they had their recent server near the door in a rack.

>>60576750
>If there were a few whites living close by than it'd be smashed in weeks.
Whites stupid enough to burgle aren't stupid enough to believe that they could make a good profit off of this stuff. Blacks, maybe.

>>60576750
>The racial makeup of the borough was 98.14% White, 1.05% Asian, 0.37% African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.25% from other races, and 0.11% from two or more races.

Try again.

>>60576750
If it was black, it'd be smashed in a day

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How the FUCK can youtubers sneak around places like this and not get into trouble?

What the hell.

>>60577411
the abandoned places have very few guards if any

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>>60577411

>>60576556
You could probably sell its remaining stock on the internet, there is quite a few people interested in buying old technology.

>>60577411
Radiation is the best guard

>>60576556
Probably some gravis ultrasound cards in there. Last I checked on eBay they were going for $450

>>60578136
>gravis ultrasound
>$450

I guess people only pay that much and see it as a collectible.

Who else would fucking care about sound quality if an ISA slot card?

>>60578281
it's for that authentic dos box setup, m8
gravis ultrasound was one of the top tier cards in its day, it was pretty expensive even when it was new

>>60577048
radiation really fucks up monitors

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>>60578576

>>60576573
WHO DID THIS TO YOU

>>60576750
I see you've never been to a Chinatown

>>60576643
That looks like the UK, what sun?

>>60578656
>address clearly in top left of images
>LOOKS LIKE UK GUYS!

>>60578743
wait, kehler is a place?
i always assumed it was the family name of the owner, since that's a common thing to do

>>60578743
Man I'm on mobile and don't want to burn data by enlarging

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>>60578807
anon...

>>60576506
the title of that video literally describes a building that's not ABANDONED

>>60578807
He replied to 2 posts, anon...

>>60577411
Well it's pretty easy anon I do it for fun.
Check out my ig: thereluctantpig

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>school/university has rooms full of old computers
>often even really beautiful vintage 80s/90s or even really rare shit
>when asked if some of them could be obtained for private use they usually say no or keep you in limbo for months without a real answer
>often without even any reason while the machines catch dust in those rooms or even rot away in attics or cellars
>a little later, all computers get bulk scrapped

I've read or even witnessed this so many times, it's infuriating.

>>60576573
>the keyboard still works

>>60576616
kek

>>60576656
I wish I could find a room filled with old tech

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>>60580502
>tfw no qt and bunker to survive with old tech in

>>60580291
Why this happens, as told by some dude who's a sysadmin at a university:
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/UniversityDisposalProblem

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>>60580532
What a crock of shit.
How the FUCK is it not possible IF those fucking forms are necessary to just let the receiving end fill out the forms if the university is ~too busy~ to spend time on this?
This is fucking bullshit right there.

>>60580291
Giving away random machines could also mean leaking sensitive data on them. Having someone check if there is data or wipe them would cost worktime.

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>>60580635

>fucking get ONE guy supervising that the person who takes the computer with them fills out the form and takes out the hard drive
>take form and put it into a folder, take hard drive and hammer it
>take money for the computer

>do this dozens of times
>get lots of additional money for something that otherwise would rot away
>have more money for your fucking university
>also have money to pay the damn admin faggot who keeps an eye on the process

GEE, ROCKET SCIENCE.
Certainly something universities can't pull off with all those under-qualified low brows there.

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>>60580695
The problem with this is that hard drives of that era (80's, early 90's) are getting rarer and rarer. A disk that has only seen 10,000 hours of use and then stored for 20 years is rare as rockinghorse shit. The thought of disks of that era getting ragefucked with a clawhammer makes me cringe.

>>60580695
Gee, I wonder why companies do the same.
Recycling old hardware is usually barely profitable (if at all) so no one bothers because that's just a waste of energy.

>>60576506
i wonder why this particular computer cannot afford any downtime

>>60580751
Well and now they just rust in moist cellars until they get hammered with the pc casing around them a couple years later. Better rescue most of it and sacrifice the HDD than letting the whole thing get mauled.

>>60580761
I'd rather say it is fucking incompetence and ignoring opportunities since no one expects money behind it because of said incompetence and fucked priorities.
There are tons of recycling companies that make good money with this shit. Even one-guy companies. They're just fucking lazy when it comes to this (and a lot of other money sinks).

>>60580751
When the alternative is the entire machine gets trashed, a destroyed hard drive is the lesser evil.

>>60576750
>98+% white pop
good1
also see >>60578635

>>60576506
>visit video
>all of those egocentric fucks keep pushing their faces into the camera

>>60580821
>incompetence and ignorance
Two virtues reserved exclusively to universities, eh?
You seem to suffer from this one condition almost all of the young STEM students suffer from - you think you can optimize everything. Which is impossible in large structures and often shouldn't be done even when available because splitting hairs can be dangerous for business.
>There are tons of recycling companies that make good money with this shit
Sure, and if they made an offer to your dean I'm sure he'd accept it.
What's profitable to them doesn't have to be for him.

>>60576563
I like that entire building.

>>60576506

>Track down abandoned yet functional PCs like the one in OP
>Use them to create a massive botnet
>???
>Profit

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>>60580973
>>all of those egocentric fucks keep pushing their faces into the camera

Welcome to ((UrbEx)).
Just another way for obnoxious youtube faggots to ruin something that was actually an interesting topic just to rake in ad money because they gave up their cashier job and went "professional youtuber" after they gained 2000 subscribers

>>60581016
>implying that's not already exactly the reason why those computers are still working in that rotting building

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>>60576573

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>>60577411
I live right next to this, Litterally can see it from my Window, Ask me anything reddi,t

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>>60576556
that's what you get for using amsterdan advertising policies

>>60581164
did you already come across flip flop wearing urbexers already?
seems like that place went up in popularity on youtube recently

>>60581205
Nah, Its write across from a creek/boat ramp and down the street from a beach

If im not wrong the guy who lives next door to it owns it now, once in awhile you'll see people (workers I think) go in and out

>>60581292
they should use it for a movie stage.
looks really impressive inside and the ambient noises were awesome.

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>>60581338
You can hear that sound from outside
Plus the shift alarm is still active, around 10pm - 11:30 you'll hear it go off

theres a cool drone video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFrSNWnWpSg

heres a video of a bunch of bb gun war heros inside it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kot8PdHpk6w

>>60581058
And yet since it's ad-friendly content, they make more than you ever will ;^)

>>60581417
Not only outside, All around town

I work at a radio station. The automation system that plays out to the transmitter is a shitty IBM PC with a turbo button running XP. Connected to a UPS and Generator and hadn't been turned off for a decade.

Pity I don't have a pic on me

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>>60581417
Hey cool, I can see your house from up there

>>60581461
That people make obscene amounts of money with obnoxious behavior is nothing new to me, buddy.
The question is, do you want to become something you hate and get money or stay poor and be yourself. Everyone has to decide that for themselves

>>60577000
>Also a lot of hospitals have to close down or downsize because poor people w/ no health insurance just use the ER and then never pay their hospital bills

You're a fucking moron

>>60581417
That is one of the most memetic meme bikes that have ever memed on this earth.

Tons of hipster ride these and when I went to a bike auction last year, it came CLOSE to a mass brawl of about two dozen university faggots who wanted to get the only peugeot bike available there. of course only one guy could have it and when he got it, he got flocked by a mob with offers and two chicks were crying over it.
what a giant clusterfuck.

>>60581670
that sounds hilariously cringey, shame you didn't film it

>>60581670
Damn, I guess I'm a proud owner of a meme bike. I picked one up when I was in middle school for $20 at a garage sale. I only really started using it when I went to college, and it road great.

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>>60581513
You're correct :)~

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>>60581670
I know its great!

In all honesty; I found it for 50$ pretty damn clean at a yard sale, and cleaned it up, just werks

I'd still take it any day over a leddit carbon bike

>>60581634
He's not wrong

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>>60580291
>>60580532
I always find cool shit in my uni's ewaste pile

I guess they just don't give a fuck

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>>60581799
kneejerk reaction filming isn't that big of a thing yet around here (luckily since I find it annoying) but it certainly was something to behold

>>60582066
>>60581865
indeed. take good care of it and always chain the bike up or park it somewhere hidden. at least around here it is EXTREMELY wanted and people are crazy about them.
they're good bikes but that level of fad faggotry is off the charts. good to know that you guys appreciate it for its advantages though.

not sure why we posting doggos now though

>>60580789
Probably skynet alpha

>>60581118
I want an onahole of this

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>>60582106
Do you know anything about it?

I dont know much other then it being a "peugeot bike"

and heres another doggo!

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>>60582152
sadly, no, I just noticed that people go crazy about it. it just became a hipster thing for some reason like many other old stuff.

and to get back on topic, something from my doggo folder. a doggo getting offered an abandoned graphics card. not sure what happened to that guy's hand though

>>60580751
Then just take hard drive out and put back in the administrative limbo.

>>60576781
I hate when people do that. I see it all the time on CL but not with the wording like on eBay. Just people that think they can get $100-$300 on a stock P3 or a P4 Dell.

>>60578576
>radiation
Looks more like water and other shit damage.

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>>60576506
How it is possible? Does it have an UPS?

>>60582674
more likely

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>>60582105
>tfw my uni is so shit that some of the computers in the labs run on parts I literally fished out of a dumpster

also we have working 1970s teletypes

>>60580973

lookup "the proper people" on yt. they keep it pretty lowkey which I like

>>60576506
If the hospital is abandoned, how is there still electricity to power the computers?

>>60582635
1. he was making a joke and 2. it's actually birb poop

>>60582746
a couple people to keep the shit afloat at bare minimum. also, some server stuff obviously

>>60582725
>also we have working 1970s teletypes
maximum jelly

>>60576656
I-it's beautiful

>>60582152
The girl's not bad either.

>>60582769
it's all fun and games until you're asked to carry them around or replace the gears

>>60576556
Somebody broke in there in 2010 & stole stuff, but got busted.

>>60582879
meh, fucking scum turds.

>>60581164
Strelok?

>>60581164

That looks like a really depressing place to live in anon. Where is that ?

>>60576573
*** MODS ***

>>60576656
thats fuckin gorgeous!!

>>60580291
just nab that shit anon!

>>60581164
would love to trawl round there at night

>>60576656
Open the thing and see if it's written somewhere.

>>60580291

This is why you steal that shit.

My old school's robotics club met in a server room, with shelves packed to the brim with Dell shitboxes but also more importantly, tons and tons of boxes full of PCI, ISA and AGP cards. Literally over the span of a month I would just sneak into the back of the room while the rest of the team was working on something, and stuff as many cards as I could fit into my backpack.

Literally 30+ cards total and nobody ever fucking noticed. So much good shit. Dual Voodoo 2s with SLI cable, Voodoo 3 3000, AWE64, Sound Blaster Pro 2.0, Geforce 256, Geforce 2 Ultra, Aureal Vortex2, much much more. Literally, at least $450 worth of cards. I was able to upgrade my Dell Dimension 4100 into a fucking beast.

>>60576656
PS/2s need reference disks to write BIOS settings anyway

>>60576772
Building's in the middle of nowhere.

Three hours to New York, two and a half to Philadelphia.

>>60577048
Could we use fukushima as a server space?

It's no longer livable but there has to be some portions that you could set up a bunch of computers and be within a short drive.

>>60584383
The fuck was your school doing with gaymer shit by the box full?

>>60584468
What advantage would you gain from a datacenter in a nuclear exclusion zone?

>>60584479
A lot of that gamer shit became budget shit for no-name white box builders later on.

I remember my school had loads of Geforce 256 machines when the current generation was the Geforce 4. They still outperformed the new Dells in the library since those used shit-tier S3 ViRGE cards.

>>60584505
less people fuck with your shit

>>60584928
It only takes one, though, which is a lot more likely when you can't hire a minimum-wage security guard to be there 24/7.

>>60584928
It's not that hard to keep people out of a datacenter in a non nuclear zone.

Also enjoy paying 50x for infrastructure maintenance because people are kind of wary of driving into an irradiated area to repair a power pylon.

>>60583010
(Shoreham) Wading River, Long Island New York.

It kinda sucks here, The beach is cool I suppose
Drugs are cheap, but we have a total bad heroin issue, and you find tons of shit (rigs, crack pipes, wax bags) all over.

spic gang issue (ms13) too. On top of that the roads fucking full of potholes and theres nothing to do here

What are you, Mexican?

>>60584468
In fact, generally couldn't drones make industrial or goldfarmy use of polluted spaces and free up unpolluted real estate for humans?

>>60576556
This would never happen with niggers

>>60585237
We don't have fully automated industries yet, much less ones that can be deployed by drones.

Furthermore, you have to somehow guarantee that any physical products coming from the contaminated area are safe, which isn't easy to do if it's something more complex than a bolt.

>>60576506
I'm surprised they didn't shut off the electricity

>>60576750
Go home chink

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>>60578576
bird shit anon

>>60577000
how could they think it was abandoned if the upper levels were still being used? They must have looked it up online before they went to it right? Wouldn't there have been some kind of indication that it was at least partially still in use on the web?

Maybe it's some kind of secret facility

>>60576656
Give it back, Jamal

>>60577411
urban exploration is comfy

>>60580291
They probably have a eWaste contract with some company.

>>60578378
I always used to select "Sound Blaster" whatever that was and it seemed to work. Gravis was always one of the options though.

>>60585704
They probably knew and asked permission before going in, but that doesn't make it into the hype Youtube title.

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>>60585901

What kind of fucking ALIEN Jamal you know uses this kind of tea-cloth or tea-cloth in general?!

>>60580291
As a person working for a company that receives e-waste for recycling, I want to assure you anon, that anything particularly special is not destroyed.
We've gotten near mint SGI machines, old school TI computers, IBM PCAT's, and that stuff isn't just "well rip the metals and toss the rest". My boss is a fucking nerd and has a personal collection of the really special stuff. Not only does he have a pink Indigo 2 Extreme, he has a matching monitor, keyboard, mouse and a second set new in the fucking box.

Because for how much shit we get, its 99% shitty compaqs and emachines with nothing really special inside. Some older stuff maybe comes in but not much anymore. I see maybe 1 or 2 386/486 machines a month.
I don't feel bad ripping apart a crappy Pentium II machine, but if I see true retro hardware it gets moved to the side for assessment. Its worth more in resale than it is as scrap and the company knows it.
Of course of its not valuable and not special, even if it is really old cool stuff, it may be tossed or sold to a local nerd who shows up at the gate looking for old pcs
I had to tear down a pallet of Amiga 600's and felt so fucking bad when I found one that was in such good shape it looked near new, but it wasn't anything worth keeping around.

This is how I got my dads birthday present a few years ago. An old Apple II kit, still worked for the most part. Bought a new HDD and battery, cleaned up the plastic and had a fake box made up at UPS. He was elated as an old mac fanboy

>>60576563
I live an hour from there.

>>60576656

i used to have that keyboard

it was a good keyboard

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>>60586473
>As a person working for a company that receives e-waste for recycling, I want to assure you anon, that anything particularly special is not destroyed.

Then you're some cool guys since there were two occasions where I've seen literal dumpsters standing in front of the uni and people throwing computers up in the air and into the dumpster where especially the monitors often made a loud, shattering noise.
You guys may do it differently but at least in these two times where I witnessed it NO ONE can tell me they baby'd the stuff afterwards. Shit was absolutely RECKT in that container.

>>60580291
>made friends with HS IT
>they'd toss me free NICs, FireWire cards, etc.
>sold me some old 68k Macs for cheap

>>60586560
this is indeed a good keyboard
you were supposed to keep that keyboard

it was a mistake to throw away that keyboard

>>60576506
Wow, this is the wet dream of those that both browse here and >>>/out/urbex/.

>>60576506
UNC has a couple wings like this. Walking into a comm closet and seeing a token ring adapter in the middle of the room was like some kind of ancient monolith. I kinda miss working there, now that I think of all of the random tech stuff I stole from there over the years. Patch cord, webcams, old switches and firewalls... Good times.

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>>60586723
from a Japanese holiday island luxury hotel that was abandoned in 2006 and the photos are from 2016

>dat animu mousepad

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>>60586723
>>60586741
>ralph mirebs
that's the russkie that managed to sneak into the cosmodrome in kazakhstan and take pics of the 2 Buran

>>60586794

wat.

interesting. never heard of him before

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>>60586794

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>>60584383
my teacher let me take an awe64 gold once
it's currently in my ppro build

>>60586794
>>60586818
But Wikipedia says it was destroyed......

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>>60586858
The one that flew to space and came back unmanned, those 2 got taken to another hangar after the first original one got crushed after the hangar's roof collapsed.

>>60582736
shiey is pretty good as well.

>>60580291
Channel your inner Jamal.

>>60576573
>We rate this laptop in grade "B" condition

>>60577000
Lol amerifats

>>60576872
This photo makes me want to make a key ignition/power-on for my computer purely for fun. No practical use(unless youre case is stupidly secure), would just be funny to sit down and start it like a car.

>>60586741
Interesting, a 2006 Time capsule

>>60587123
I did it on my old case, it's super easy.
Just go to autozone, get the $10 ATV ignition, dremel out the hole, and JB weld the sucker into place.

I'll see if I have a picture.

>>60587151
Kek that sounds great. I'd love to see it

>>60581634
This is exactly what happens. The hospital I work at as a nursefag has about 25 percent of its beds shut down because it had been operating in such a deficit specifically because of the constant loss from the ER.

>>60586092
I seriously doubt it. The hospital is breaking HIPPA laws by leaving all those patient records just sitting there abandoned in the basement, so that random people like the youtubers can easily flip through them. Why would they give anyone permission to expose that they are breaking the law? If they needed money, they could get 10x more than any of those youtubers could ever pay them to go down there just by selling some of that unused equipment

>>60587253
You're assuming this hospital had some sort of online or intranet patient charting. And even if they did, it's unlikely the servers remain.

End-point PCs since Windows XP were part of a domain controller system that doesn't allow patient records to be saved to any one PC - the entire user account et al would be on a server that SHOULD not remain in the facility.

>>60576556
I would take everything.

>>60576563
>Frackville

lmao

>>60576506
I bet anything this is one of the hospitals in New York that was damaged / evacuated during Hurricane Sandy

The logo on the computer monitor looks like it says KE*******IN. Might be the name of the place

>>60587212
Why doesn't your government provide compensation to cover unfunded emergency procedures?

>>60587024

Yurofags just die of AIDS.

>>60576563
Frackville looks like it was a nice little town until someone built a mall right outside of it.

>>60581634
You have to go back Jose.

>>60587989
Oh believe me public hospitals get all kinds of government gibs me dats but it's not nearly enough to make a hospital turn a profit. The biggest issue is that people use the ER as a primary care provider because we can't demand any kind of up front payment. People wonder why healthcare is so expensive and blame it on the wages being payed to physicians and nurses. Well it's not that. At all. It's because we have to make some kind of money and there are some people out there that actually pay their bills. So the price is astronomical and because that percentage pays it, it keeps the doors open.

>>60576617
Oh man, that kind of reminds me of this surplus place that used to be in my area. We had a lot of aerospace back in the day, and this place was just row upon row of incredible electronic and mechanical components from WWII up to about the '70s, including a lot of early computing stuff. It was a candy store for a hardware nerd like me.

Sadly it closed down a decade or so ago and I have no idea what happened to all the stuff, I hope it didn't all end up in a scrapyard.

>>60578075
If that pic is the plant I'm thinking of, there's no radiation to worry about. They built the whole plant and then politics happened and it was never put into service, so there was never any fuel there or anything. The only dangerous thing there, aside from typical abandoned building stuff, is some active electrical equipment that they repurposed to handle power from an adjacent conventional power plant.

>>60581634
The government doesn't pick up the tab, so the hospital generally eats the cost through inflating the billing to insurance companies.
That's why it costs so much to go to the hospital out of pocket, since they usually have deals cut with the insurance companies.

It's a backwards and fucked up way of providing care for everyone. Instead of just providing a level of care for everyone all the time, we force people to avoid the medical system as long as possible for fear of financial ruin, and by the time they *have* to go to the ER, they're much more damaged than if the problems had been caught early.

Insulin costs something like $1.5k/yr. A diabetic foot amputation costs upwards of $60k for the initial procedure, and at least that much in follow-up costs.
The only real problem is with the elderly. Should we spend hundreds of thousands, or even millions, on an 87 year old?

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>>60582725
I used to have one, but my father made me throw it out for no reason
He also made me throw away a computer like the ones on >>60576556 because "it was useless"

>>60576506

Walk up to that thing right now and connect it to Windows Update.

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what do i do with all these?

>>60589297
you had an entire thread about these months ago you attention whoring cuckold

the outrigger G3 would make a great bridge box and the power computing mac clone is pretty nice too along with pretty much all the other beige boxes

>>60589338
wow thanks for remembering, you must come to /g/ often. i think it was like 2 years ago but ill take your advice

>>60589338
>mac classic
>sledgehammer
>youtube
>luls

>>60589375
Meant for >>60589297

>>60589375
>>>/b/

>>60576704
In a conservative small town area where rural and suburban wh*te retards live.

>>60589297
Program your own browsers for them and enjoy aids-free living

>>60589375
>haha if I destroy something people like and want I'll finally get attention once every other month!
why do that in 2017 when you can just make shitty political video blogs and get 1 million views in a few hours

>>60576781
Why is the styrofoam made out of forged steel?

>>60584468
It's perfectly livable

Radiation is below the background radiation levels in most places on earth. It's a hyped up bullshit exclusion zone.

Most of the radioactive material released at fukushima was fucking hydrogen gas. What's left after that are a lot of heavy metals and decay products that got mixed with seawater and seeped into the ocean.

There's no real contamination there and I can't understand how or why people haven't looted the whole place or moved back in.

>>60578136
>$450
Listed or sold? People list all sorts of junk at asine prices. /vr/ rages constantly over dipstick Boomers thinking their pack-in copy of Super Mario Brothers 3 is worth five bills.

>>60577411
my local airforce base has a huge abandoned antenna array called a Wullenweber that is only accessible through an abandoned tunnel. All of the machinery and computers inside are completely intact.

>>60586473
How did your gay father produce a child?

>>60589678
How did your effeminate face not get curb stomped into oblivion in high school?

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>>60589678
>Apple II
>being this young

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While urbexing I came across a few old computers, printers, parts, etc . But the area was so remote, it wasn't feasible to take them.

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>>60590088

>>60590100
Too bad, that PC looks worth rescuing, that system in the middle too looks especially odd.

>>60576750
Pretty decent bait anon

Serious question for urban exploration types, or even folks who frequent rarely-touched basements and such:

How do you guard against catching some kind of nasty crap through inhaling rodent shit particles, mold spores, etc? Unless a building is hermetically sealed or something it seems like long-abandoned buildings make ideal housing mice, fungus, bats, and tons of other disease-carrying critters.

>>60577000
no they get ripped off by greedy prajeets and embezzlers in finance

>>60590753
well you have this thing called an immune system and i hear it gets stronger if you go outside.

>>60580291
my brother would cart off carloads of shit with me from UCF in the early '00's.

fuck asking permission, we just took the shit they were going to junk.

>>60590088
>>60590100
You done goofed

>>60589297
>>60589374
Nope, a few months, you are just a hipster wannabe retrofag attention whore faggot

>>60590824
No shit.

For real though, there's a number of things common in these places that if you contract, you're going to get sick no matter how strong your immune system is. Some are life-threatening. And then of course older buildings (pre-70s) are going to be laced with lead and asbestos…

>>60590917
The risk is too low, you're not there for days you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLERL4_SveI
Badly reported, but interesting nonetheless.

>>60590981
leave it alone... :(

>>60581164
I would kill to go in there and clear out all the vacuum tubes

>>60590981
cozy af
seems kind of weird that they chose an Amiga for the job, guess it must have made sense when they were already ordering fleets of other Commodore systems along with it instead of contracting out to some other vendor

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>>60590981

HOLY FUCK, SO BASED.

>>60586723

Such a great pic.

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I worked at a recycling center and someone dropped off a Toshiba t1910. Almost flawless and kept in a bag most of its life. Still boots up into Windows 3.1

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>>60593377
Since it was being recycled it was technically abandoned Iol but its mine now

>>60585297
I really wish a dieses would come along and wipe out 1/2 of the world's shitskins.

>>60578136
That's the same Hungarian idiot that sells it for those prices. Some scratched up GUS for 450. Unfortunately they sell and prices go up everywhere.

>>60576704
probably and old, small town. lots of old store fronts have that layout with the doorway set back from the street with two display windows on opposite sides. a lot of these small town main streets have fallen into disrepair and semi-abandonment after either railways ended service or freeways bypassed the town or just no reason to stop. a lot of these old buildings are used by people still living in the town as storage units, 'cause they can get them cheap and never have to worry about repairing any of it 'cause the town is dead.

>>60577411
Why didn't they cause a meltdown?

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>>60593377
>>60593384
That is beautiful.

I got this IBM ThinkPad 365XD the same way. Someone took it to Batteries Plus and my roommate save it for me.

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>>60594422

>>60594429
>Cherenkov 64

>>60576573
> i7

>>60587989
>your government provide compensation to cover unfunded emergency procedures

it doesn't work when the money from that comes from taxing its citizens, and you have 20 million non-citizens who don't pay tax going in for their 4th-5th hospital visit to have their 6-7th child in the USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRYcK6AaDmE

Check out the DEC teletype @ 6:50

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>>60586741
>that anime mousepad

>>60594577
We're trying to lower that number, but California relies heavily on their Mexican slave labor so they're fighting the country every step of the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6yA7r6WfJo

this is a pretty cool video if you're into this kinda thing. Not necessarily /g/ related but it documents the last days of a kmart

I also found some C64-VIC or 80s computers in my college. Then there was like a fuckton of Hp compaq laptops. Should I go commando and grab a few of those machines, since they will end up in the dumpster regardless.

>>60594889
>Should I go commando
I'd put some clothes on, you never know if there are any security cameras.

>>60589297
I had that purple compaq with Windows ME

>>60595040
Pretty sure most security cameras don't work through pants.

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>>60594429

>>60589456
Are you baiting or are you genuinely retarded.

>>60594323
That question tells you all you need to know about the 'abandoned but fully functional AND operating nuclear power plant!!!!!!!!!!!'

Dude fucking AQ/ISIS would have raided it for fuel rods ages ago if there was such a thing, and that's before the whole it would have melted down on it's own without human supervision very quickly thing.

>>60595249
>>60594429
I remember there's some car fix shop in Germany (I think) that still uses the C64 for work to this day.

Anime posting should be against the rules of /g/ as it continuously taints threads and frequently holds no value to the discussion.

>>60595249
what software (browser)?

do you use an acoustic coupler?

>>60595532
>it continuously taints threads and frequently holds no value to the discussion
Only because of faggot replies like yours.

>>60595555

Contiki and an ethernet cart.

>>60576563
Comfy

>>60580621
How would the receiving end know where the money buying these came from?

>>60589481
the only reason they lived there to begin with was because they always had. rural japan has been emptying out since the end of showa, there's simply no reason to move back into sueno or namie since they were fishing villages and the one thing heavy metals in the seawater DOES do is fucks fishing.

they haven't been extensively looted because everything there was flooded and ruined + japan doesn't really have tweakers to go in for the copper.

>>60587989
Americans are brainwashed, hospitals are literally for profit, that's why even the most basic procedures cost a fortune. But they would rather pay tons of money to private insurance companies instead of tax so that's what they get.

>>60594628
Why do so many of these urban explorers use such shitty shoes for their exploring? If those guys don't see it and step on a rusty nail or something it's going straight through those shoes.

>>60597074
Republicans just try and brainwash everyone into thinking socialized medicine is bad because whatever the democrats believe in, they have to believe the opposite. So we have the "socialism = bad" meme.

It's infuriating how many poor morons buy into their bullshit. "Obamacare" / the ACA should have made it into a single-payer system, but the Republican minority at the time wouldn't compromise on anything so they made it into a bastard-child of a healthcare system that no one was satisfied with. Now we've got Trump's replacement coming in and it's much, much worse even

>>60576563
Jim KEHLER>Jim Keller

>>60597908
Eventually you run out of other people's money.

>>60599169
Eventually -you- run out of other people's labor.

>>60597908
they don't need to brainwash, single-payer advocates like this guy do it for themselves by politicizing the issue and being insufferably arrogant twats about it even though they know no more about the subject than the morons they rally against

as long as you are the face of healthcare reform in the US we will all be fucked, please kill yourself

>>60594889
Save the Commodores, the SID chip in them are worth more than you can imagine.

>>60600169
aww, does babby need a safe space to avoid the reminder that he'd rather bleed out in a third-world shithole than stop being ~edgy~

>>60580751
This is why CF/IDE bridges and SDcard/IDE bridges exist, so you can use modern storage on old machines.

>>60600277
'80s stretches back to old Xebecs and hardcards.

>>60600346
You can use XTIDE+CFIDE for anything with an ISA bus.

>>60600360
Nice, honestly didn't know there was something that lived on 8-bit ISA rather than just IDE.

>>60600260
>proving my point
why spend time and effort securing yourself from a group of idiots that does everything in their power to marginalize themselves and their shitty ideas on their own and feels proud of it

do us a favor and bleed out yourself, future generations will thank you

>>60576556
Hundreds, probably thousands of dollars just sitting inside there. If it's really abandoned I bet there is at least a box of old mechanical keyboards that are pretty much guaranteed ebay sales. If you live nearby you should try to buy it out.

>>60600994
>pay tens of thousands of dollars for a dilapidated store that may or may not have a few hundred dollars worth of shitty off-brand ancient keyboards only hipsters want
Take it from someone who actually works in the antiques business:
No.

Anyone know much media with loads of this shit? All I can think of is Lain.

>>60593377
>>60593384
I have a T1960CS, looks exactly the same except it has a color screen. Surprised it still works since it spent a decade in a shed. Wish I could find it a good home.

>>60576573
Thinkpads are robust motherfuckers.

>>60601029
Who said anything about buying the actual store? You offer to clean it out. There's not-unlikely chance the person in charge of it will just give the shit to you if you approach them in the right way.

>>60601578
"If you live nearby you should try to buy it out" strongly implied that to me. There's definitely no harm in doing what you're suggesting however.

You'd be surprised, though, that place looks like a typical hoarder shop. The dude would probably tell you to fuck off long before he parted with all of that.

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>>60590981

>system still works perfectly fine for its appliance

> ewwwwwww why did you guys not replace this icky old... stuff.... ewww

It is absurd how people with their priorities absolutely right have to keep up with BULLSHIT like this

>>60582229
I like this image, can I save it?

>>60602083
>>60591000
by the sound of it they've had to replace it a couple times already off ebay

>>60576506
>Abandoned hospital with people inside
What definition of abandoned are we going with?

>>60602814
replace parts
you can't say "been working for 30 years" if it's a 2 year old replacement
but if it was just say, a replaced hdd, then it's still more or less the same computer

>>60602083
>It is absurd how people with their priorities absolutely right have to keep up with BULLSHIT like this
this

>asbestos removal? bah, the machine that flips on and off AC units doesn't even have a dual core cpu! crazy!

>>60576833
This guy, kek. I have two desktop laptops because both their screens broke, now I just remotely control them for shit.

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>>60602859

>>60603029
You overestimate local news. If it's not all new, it hasn't been replaced in 30 years. He hinted to the truth.

>>60603106
they did mention parts, though they weren't specific about what had been replaced

people really need to learn the difference between "old" and "broken"

>>60580821
Recycling companies make money off YOU and not the hardware.

>>60603244
Elaborate please

>>60576563

dang, I knew this was the coal region based on the look. didn't notice the address was listed until I saw people making fun of the name. I grew up in Carbon county.

feels bad, man

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>>60595075
old memories

>>60603426
It's honestly similar to what I mentioned in >>60596735 . Why hasn't Namie been repopulated or looted? Why hasn't Centralia?

It's sad, my family was from there but escaped with my grandparents. It's beautiful country, just... Beauty can't fight making a living.

>>60581670
I have the relatively rare female frame version of that bike sitting in my shed collecting dust
Are you saying its worth money?

>>60603452
first pc - wow thanks for the feels

>>60597908
>Republicans wouldn't compromise on Obamacare
>No Republicans voted for it
When will the Obamacare is shit because Republicans meme die

>>60603721
>literally zero of us voted for it in a chamber characterized by crossover in the center
>why are you saying we wouldn't compromise!?!?!?!?

>>60603577
In Europe and New York that bike is definitely worth something.

>>60587123
They never used a key to turn the system on, not even PS/2 or PC/XT/AT machines did that.

Normal - Workstation use
Locked - Server use
Service - Installation/Diagnostic use

>>60595501
Poland*

>>60582725
>>tfw my uni is so shit that some of the computers in the labs run on parts I literally fished out of a dumpster

what dumpster did you fish it out of?

>>60590100
>Leading Edge

das it mane

>>60603088
Don't dead open inside

>>60578851
Duck that's cool

>>60578851
Today that thing would be a piece of chinkshit starting the fire.

>>60576857
I'd pay decent money for an Amiga 2000 or above though

>>60588619
>Should we spend hundreds of thousands, or even millions, on an 87 year old?
No. We shouldn't on anyone. Our life spans are so short that their all equivalent.

>>60604587
that only works as long as the thousands aren't justified by skimping on them when they're 27, tho

>>60576563
i want to loot it.

>>60603452
My school had these. I stole a CPU out of one of them.

>>60588304
This. For the ones that don't pay the bill goes to collections and the amount lowers and lowers and lowers.

Having said that, I had undiagnosed celiac when I was a kid and doctors said I 'was fine' cause they couldn't find anything wrong. So my folks also said I was fine. I knew I wasn't fine and it sucked. Late puberty, no muscle development, allergic to fucking everything. I found out on my own what it was recently and I haven't seen one since. So, aside from broken bones etc, I think most mainstream doctors are arrogant shitheads.

>>60576750
t. Xu

Kill yourself, chink.

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>>60576573
Damn, what happened to that thing? That's Thinkpads for ya.

>>60603029
Ship of Theseus

>>60603293
Contracts. Company x agrees to take all the machines company Y is disposing of, for service charge Z per year. It doesn't matter if company Y disposes of 1 machine a year or 12000 a year, the recycling company will still receive the hardware, their service charge, and the ability to resell the hardware they WERE PAID to take.

>>60605386
Well you're a right nigger then.

>>60604124
one near my house

apparently some chick threw out her entire computer when the PSU started acting up due to bad caps, it was an old duo2cuo but still better than most of the stuff at the uni
[spoiler]yes the HDD was also intact, but no lewds on it[/spoiler]

>>60606242
A lot of people seem to do this, seem to think if one part isn't working, the whole thing is fucked.

>>60584928

Enjoy your random radiation flipped bits fucking your operation

>>60576506
Get the database and publish it online.

>>60576617
Get all the data and publish it online, host it on a free cloud service and post links here.

>>60603800
>zero Republicans voted for it but it passes
>Obamacare is shit because we had to compromise with Republicans

>>60576704
I actually know this street, it's south Baltimore