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| 1 2 3 4 | UER Forum > UE Main > Finding running electronics, etc. in abandonments. (Viewed 17401 times) |
AdventureDan
Location: Texas Gender: Male Total Likes: 369 likes
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| | | | Finding running electronics, etc. in abandonments. < on 2/5/2015 5:28 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Over the last several days I have had the opportunity to explore a very large abandoned bank with my little brother and friend. Most of the electricity in the place is cut off, but here and there a light flickers, an access card reader beeps incessantly, an exit sign glows, and in this case, a computer turned on! While exploring the basement's vast network of maintenance areas, we found an office labelled "ENGINEERING DEPT." Upon entering we found a dark and cluttered, unlit office. Sitting on the desk, was an ancient looking computer set up, complete with floppy drives and a CRT monitor. My brother curiously hit the power button and to our surprise, like a scene out of LOST, the dinosaur stirred to life. So I decided I'd try my hand at a little digital urbex. 1. Yes that is Windows 95 lol After waiting about 20 minutes, (can't believe i used to have the patience for that when i was younger) it finally posted an error about imminent hard drive failure, and suggested starting in safe mode via BIOS, so i restarted the computer and changed it to safe mode and it finally started up. (Which is nice because W95 doesn't require a password in Safe Mode) 2. I dug around for a little in the drives, but all i found was technical prints for the AC systems and for the electrical breakers. 3. I noticed the recycle bin was full so i checked in there and found a file that had been deleted Feb. 1st, 2007. Exactly 8 years and 1 day ago. (pic was taken on the 2nd) 2. I turned off the computer properly after having satisfied my curiosity, and we continued on. (pics to come from this awesome location soon!) But anyways, I was just curious if anyone else had any experience with finding working ancient technology in abandonments that have electricity running? Thanks!
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| LuminousAphid
Location: Lynnwood, WA Gender: Male Total Likes: 54 likes
Armchair Explorer
| | | | | Re: Finding running electronics, etc. in abandonments. < Reply # 14 on 2/6/2015 1:31 AM > | Reply with Quote
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| "See you guys, you never listen to me. I said there was gonna be trouble but you didn't listen to me. You guys are crazy. You know, you guys are self destructive. There's a funny farm and it has your names written all over it. But I'm gettin' out of here. I'm... I smell ice cream!" |
| Mike Dijital UEDB Moderator
Location: Boston MA. Gender: Male Total Likes: 481 likes
UE ver. 1.0
| | | | Re: Finding running electronics, etc. in abandonments. < Reply # 16 on 2/6/2015 3:19 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Years ago we found a working outlet at Danvers state hospital. just one in the basement. my friend Dave's father worked for the phone company so we took a 1000 foot roll of phone wire and ran it from the fallout shelter where the plug was in the basement all the way 2 floors up to the gym, up the ladder and hatch into the gym roofs crawl space. there was TV's in the basement so we smashed out a few of the speakers and brought them up to the gym roof crawl space, we removed 2 drop light fixtures and plopped the speakers on the holes. Dave got one of those power timer gadgets and plugged it into the wall socket, and then a busted up old boombox to the timer, we cut an old pair of headphones plug off and wired it to the speakers 2 and a half floors up, and did our best to make the 1000 feet of phone wire just look like more shit from the rotting hospital. Everynight at 12am till 4 am the timer would turn on the boom box which we had set to a talk radio station, so if you were anywhere near the gym, you would hear people talking this was back in the day of myspace groups, and we would always read posts on the danvers state urbex group about how people hear " voices " near the gym and ran out of the building thing it was security, or ghosts or whatever. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simi lar story, there was an old 1950's hot plate in I ward that still turned on for whatever reason, in the winter we would use it to warm our hands, one time a fellow from the caveclan named simon " Syme" flew all the way up from Australia for me to take him to danvers state, we wanted to give him a warm welcome during a harshly bitterly cold new england night, so we brought up a tea kettle, a gallon of water, and some hot chocolate packets, and made hot cocoa, it really blew his mind lol
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