abandoned Sun facility

Reminds me of what I see happening in my home town of Schaumburg, IL. There is an old IBM/AT&T building which was vacated and they have started remodeling or demolishing this week. I wouldn't be surprised if people on the list hadn't touched something from that building in one way or another. There was a lot of "firsts" and history in the building. Interesting stories, can't share too much unfortunately, but what I can is the public knowledge. The building had IBM, AT&T and Advantis. These were mainly network services divisions which Advantis was a co-op between Sears and IBM. At some point the group has changed hands several times back and forth, most recently in the news for transferring back to AT&T. There are some telecomm and e-commerce books which detail all that, but some rumors include stories of the starts of the "Prodigy" and development testing of Roadrunner cable modems in the building. Along with a lot of this recent history happening during the mid-90s to 2005ish... we'll just say IBM "e-business," AKA webhosting, outsourced services has quite a bit of history there and it's customers. Alas now the building has been stripped out, and the data center floors/ACs seem to be removed and exposed to the outside where they cut away at a face of the building. All I know is the recent history, who knows what other secrets and stories from decades past there are out there. I always wanted to know more about the water/liquid cooling pipes under the raised floor and closets and what they must have been connected to at one time. But to get back to my point, wonder what other stories there are of behind the various abandoned tech buildings throughout. Roy J. Tellason wrote: