Abandoned Computer Store Is a Time Capsule of Early 2000s Tech (opens in new tab)

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

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.

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

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

Imagine the smell!