26 Jul
2005
26 Jul
'05
8:09 a.m.
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 01:32 -0700, Brent Hilpert
wrote:
My semi-cool story is chasing down an IBM 360 in an abandoned North
Carolina factory (laying dormant as a Superfund* site) only to find a
boring 5360 (that a collector from Pennsylvania later retrieved).
* In a nutshell Superfund sites in the US are sites condemned by the US
government as polluted beyond all recognition and for all practical
purposes requiring millions of dollars to clean up before they can be put
back into use.
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So a friend and I headed out for a run today and
on the way to the trails
decided to take the shortcut across the lands of our friendly neighbourhood
giant big-oil corp. oil refinery. This refinery was nearly 100 years old until
it was mostly decommissioned and dismantled in the 1990s
that's a nice story - I do quite a bit of that sort of exploration,
never found anywhere with computers left inside though! Generally the
land's at such a premium over here that places don't stay abandoned for
long, and the scrappers seem to move in minutes after a place closes
down and remove all the interesting interior stuff.