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Abandoned Computer Store Is a Time Capsule of Early 2000s Tech

by xx__yy on 4/14/20, 10:48 PM with 9 comments

• by 4cao on 4/15/20, 12:27 AM

  It was an outlet, so most of the stuff is likely even older. For example there are Pro AudioSpectrum 16 boxes, [1] that's mid-1990s I think (I was on the lookout for Gravis Ultrasound).

  The reason the inventory was not liquidated earlier was apparently that the owner was involved in complicated litigation.

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Vision_Pro_AudioSpectrum

• by ornornor on 4/15/20, 1:05 PM

  Amazing. It’s like one day in 2002 they just got up, left the store, and never came back.

  I wonder how the store isn’t more derelict from water leaks no one spotted or how none of the windows (The physical ones, Microsoft’s has been broken for a looooong time) are broken.

• by didgeoridoo on 4/15/20, 12:49 AM

  Those Holstein-patterned Gateway boxes really bring me back...

• by mead5432 on 4/15/20, 12:13 AM

  I wonder if they’ve got a new, IBM Model M keyboard in there...

• by winrid on 4/15/20, 6:35 AM

  Imagine the smell!