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

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

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.

The most amazing is how owner of the property let it sit for 20 years.

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

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

You’d have to buy your own PS/2 to USB adapter to get it to work. :)

Oh yeah... they probably don't have one of those.

So called "Wedge Savers" are quite common. I own a few for adapting older keyboard wedge devices like barcode and magnetic strip scanners into USB devices.

Imagine the smell!