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 Vacant NJ
    
Location: New Jersey
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< on 7/14/2008 5:21 PM >
|  | | | The soaking wet and moldy ceiling tiles, that had fallen to the ground, where like quicksand. They seemed to suck my shoes down deeper and deeper with each step. The smell of hydraulic motor oil was thick in the air, and seemed to roll over like a fog, growing more intense as I walked deeper into the building. The hallway was dark and dank, my flashlight beam reflected off torn ducting, dangling down from within the drop down ceiling. The windows green with mold, allowed only a select amount of light in. I followed the hallway down which led to an opened and better lighted section of the factory. A large machine sat in the center of the room, surprisingly it looked to be in decent condition. Offices on either side were still stocked with desks, chairs, and even some old 1990s computers.
Many of the windows still had wire around them, that if broke would at one point have sounded an alarm. Now the wire did little more but provide an interesting design. The main area of the factory was basically a large ware house. Caged in areas were on either side, at one point used to inspect foreign materials before they could be used in production. A bunch of tools and small chemical bottles were all stacked neatly in one corner of the warehouse. They all were numbered and tagged, which led me to believe they were to be auctioned off at one point. Further down, another hallway opened up to an interesting room containing ancient computing equipment. It astonished me that such items would be left behind, but their they sat just as they were left years ago. A dated CAD Plotted leaned against a wall and an old server was stashed away in a corner. The old controls panels were interesting to read, and contained many interesting sci-fi type buttons such as panic and abort. The boss’s room was complete with a reclining chair and blackboard. Still, nature was prevalent, as could be seen by a vine making its way in through a crack in the window.
At this point I had been in the building for well over an hour, and was starting to get a slight headache. I figured to play it safe and get some fresh air, being I had been around who knows what type of chemicals. Outside was very overcast and humid as hell, however, the buildings exterior proved to be boring and ugly. My headache was fading, but I decided to call it quits, as I had seen enough of the building to full fill my curiosity. And being that curiosity killed the cat, I decided to make my exit.
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Wilk
    
Location: NYC
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Hydraulic Motor Factory
<Reply # 1 on 7/14/2008 7:29 PM >
| | | | Nice pics man, love those vintage compy's.
Ready for liftoff
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HeresToLife88
Location: Union County
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<Reply # 2 on 7/14/2008 7:39 PM >
| | | | Nice work man, guess this is the place you were talking about ha. keep it up, i can't wait to see the pictures from your other trip.
Now They've Put Bars Across The Park Benches, So I Guess It's Illegal To Sleep... |
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btoast
| | | Re: Hydraulic Motor Factory
<Reply # 3 on 7/14/2008 8:17 PM >
| | | | Nice pics
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today. |
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Doomed
Location: Fredrock, Murdaland
Gender: Male
Unethical Self Serving Elitist.
| | | | Re: Hydraulic Motor Factory
<Reply # 4 on 7/14/2008 8:22 PM >
| | | | im in love with those computers, and V. nice work, and excellent write up.
I'm coming down fast, but I'm miles above you. |
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Speed
Location: Philly area
Gender: Male
Retired Explorer
| | Re: Hydraulic Motor Factory
<Reply # 6 on 7/15/2008 6:35 PM >
| | | | good job on the pics.
Excellent write up also.
Looks like a nice little spot.
R.I.P. NickSan | R.I.P. Don Corleyone |
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argonian
Location: Toronto, ON
Gender: Female
"Now with added cats!"
| | Re: Hydraulic Motor Factory
<Reply # 8 on 7/20/2008 3:31 PM >
| | | | Neato. Those computers are awesome.
Que pasa, baby? |
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DeadBunny
Location: New Orleans, LA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Hydraulic Motor Factory
<Reply # 9 on 7/20/2008 10:03 PM >
| | | | Wow, they just left everything in there. suprising
Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill. Tell them firmly "I am not paid to listen to this drivel. You are a terminal fool". |
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thparkth
Location: Bedford, NS
Gender: Male
nulla regula sine exceptione
| | | Re: Hydraulic Motor Factory
<Reply # 10 on 7/21/2008 4:13 PM >
| | | | Really nice pictures. Trying to identify and date old computers from photographs is something that (geek that I am) I really enjoy, so if you don't mind I'll indulge.
Those computers are definitely from the early 80s rather than the 90s. Looking at the pictures on the vacantnewjersey.com website, at least some of those terminals (not the ones near the plotters, the other ones) are IBM 5251s. Those were available from 1977 to about 1984. They are probably connected to an IBM System/36 or an AS/400 somewhere else in the building, although they could have connected to one offsite.
There's also an IBM PC XT in there, which was launched in 1983. Looks like it has the standard 10 MB hard disk.
I have no freaking clue what the big cabinet thing is on the factory floor, but I'd bet it's a dedicated control system for the machinery there rather than a server in the modern sense.
All in all, it looks like everything pictured would be typical for a mid-eighties business. Certainly by 1990 it would have been very obsolete.
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NAN
Location: rochester NY
bathroom expert
| | | Re: Hydraulic Motor Factory
<Reply # 11 on 7/21/2008 4:28 PM >
| | | | Nice pictures and write up!
Through the darkness of future's past
The magician longs to see
Once chants out between two worlds Fire, walk with me |
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handskills
Location: Jer zay
Gender: Male
visual distress
| | | Re: Hydraulic Motor Factory
<Reply # 12 on 7/22/2008 1:56 PM >
| | | | C. makes me drool.
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elbowgeek
The needle and the damage done...
| | Re: Hydraulic Motor Factory
<Reply # 13 on 7/22/2008 2:36 PM >
| | | | Posted by thparkth
Really nice pictures. Trying to identify and date old computers from photographs is something that (geek that I am) I really enjoy, so if you don't mind I'll indulge.
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Me being a geek myself, and having worked on those systems, I was intrigued as well. There were still a number of the XTs and those terminals bopping around Bermuda in the early 90s and I repaired a fair number of them. As of 1994, a replacement 10MB fixed disk (as IBM called it) was on the parts list at a cost of $2,000. No poop.
That XT in such pristine condition definitely needs to be preserved - it looks like one could boot it up now with no problems. Always loved those keyboards as well.
Cheers
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