compact-mac
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Greetings all,
I'm attending a regular group event in an old office building - it dates to the Victorian era. The hosts said that the attic was extensive and full of abandoned office equipment. One day after the group session, we went for some urban exploration.
In my trails, I uncovered several dust encrusted late 90s and early 2000s computers. There was an old Compaq box, curiosity piqued, but in the next section of the attic gold was struck: a beige Power Mac 9600, and not far from it was a G4- era Quicksilver Apple Cinema Display! I didn't get time to dig further, but I would bet that its accompanying G4 box is lying somewhere nearby.
We also found some abandoned memorabilia (namely a box of baseball caps) from a 'communications and IT specialist' firm, with quaintly dated logo. Looked it up on Companies House - the firm was founded in 1997 and declared insolvent in 2002. The founder now works as an ice cream van driver. Must've been a rough crash after the dotcom boom!
Presumably these Macs were used by this firm, being era-appropriate. Also being dumped in the attic, they are effectively no one's property and up for the taking - in a moral sense.
Now I'd love to bring them home, but wondering if anyone else has stories of a similar discovery and rescue. My plan is to ask the event organisers to put me in touch with the building management, and ask if I could take them. Save them the price of professional disposal. (I would actually just walk out with them, the attic is easily accessed through a stairwell, but there are security cameras on the route to the exit door, so I have to be a good boy).
Regards,
compac-mac.
I'm attending a regular group event in an old office building - it dates to the Victorian era. The hosts said that the attic was extensive and full of abandoned office equipment. One day after the group session, we went for some urban exploration.
In my trails, I uncovered several dust encrusted late 90s and early 2000s computers. There was an old Compaq box, curiosity piqued, but in the next section of the attic gold was struck: a beige Power Mac 9600, and not far from it was a G4- era Quicksilver Apple Cinema Display! I didn't get time to dig further, but I would bet that its accompanying G4 box is lying somewhere nearby.
We also found some abandoned memorabilia (namely a box of baseball caps) from a 'communications and IT specialist' firm, with quaintly dated logo. Looked it up on Companies House - the firm was founded in 1997 and declared insolvent in 2002. The founder now works as an ice cream van driver. Must've been a rough crash after the dotcom boom!
Presumably these Macs were used by this firm, being era-appropriate. Also being dumped in the attic, they are effectively no one's property and up for the taking - in a moral sense.
Now I'd love to bring them home, but wondering if anyone else has stories of a similar discovery and rescue. My plan is to ask the event organisers to put me in touch with the building management, and ask if I could take them. Save them the price of professional disposal. (I would actually just walk out with them, the attic is easily accessed through a stairwell, but there are security cameras on the route to the exit door, so I have to be a good boy).
Regards,
compac-mac.
