It's more than likely just forgotten about. They wouldn't leave power on to kill scrappers. It was hardlined electrical and it was simply forgotten about
You know that computer has been running 24/7 for so long when you can hear the bearings in the fans screaming meters away. But gotta love good old Windows 98. Asks for a password, you click cancel and it logs you in anyway. You have no idea how happy I felt when you shut it down. That poor computer needed a break :) I love watching these kinds of videos but I am always left sad, I hate seeing things broken or neglected.
@The SNES Man either ghosts or the 82 year old lady I met the other day who still has her AOL disc from the 90's, and puts that ancient crap on her new computers. 😮😮😮😵😵😵😂😂😂
if its really run the whole time then now it is dead, most times as long at is running it will run but turn of the power and let everything cool down most times that the end for the hardware and it won´t turn on again
This was most likely turned on by the proper people. There has to of been at least a few power outages since the hospitals closure and computers dont turn on after power failures. If there was miraculously no power outages and it did manage to run all these years most of the computer hardware would of been long dead.
@@il-dottore I live near a HUGE hospital. They run a ton of different operating systems. Windows 7 and 10, and their own Linux based system were the ones I saw. I guess they are kept around for specific softwares that can run on them.
Bro if you lived next to that building you could find a plug and plug a long extension cable into it and then power your entire house and just get free electricity
Image briefly if computers had feelings... Imagine what it would be thinking as it was rebooted. Now I kinda wish someone would find it a better home or at least service the fans and clean it.
@Dmitry difference is that processors work by saying yes/no according to requirements, while the human brain is kind of in a superposition, which means it can decide
@Dmitry no because human brains are uncertain, thats what superpositipn means. it passes trough a "filter", and it becomes a 1 or a 0, while computers dont work with superpositions they only have yes/no, and no maybe's. this is why robots arent conscious
Lol omg they weren't all like the "Geraldo special" asylums. Some were also college campuses just like today, although there were labotomies performed at most which my grandparents never knew anyone who was labotomized EVER but they knew a couple ppl who received "shock treatment" I actually knew a man who would be 72 if he were alive, who got shock treatment when he was a boy
You guys were very respectful of this place. If it were me, I would’ve delved through that whole computer looking for secrets. I certainly wouldn’t have given up on that sterilizing machine... and I absolutely would’ve let my buddy perform a lobotomy on me in that operation room.
if i found an old abandoned computer with a guest log txt file that only had one log entry and it was just 'The Proper People' i would get so spooked omg lmaooo
A/C working, fridge working, power, computers.... this would be a perfect for a homeless person,, clean up the a/c room, push the fridge in, play mine sweeper on the computer.. life is set lol
Be careful turning on the power in places like that. I once flipped on a light switch and the whole switch housing literally blew up. The housing went flying off in different directions. Come to find out, some wires were now touching things they shouldn't be and I just flipped the switch that made them short. Be careful out there!
Yeah the wisest move in urbexing is bring your own lighting. Second wisest move is never turn anything on more than one light switch at a time, don't use your bare hands.
@@tylergarza8695 , that was exactly what I was saying, however sarcastically it was stated, lol. I was just joking about "scrapers" (anything that scrapes), as opposed to what they REALLY meant, (but misspelled) which is "scrapper" (one that scraps metal), LOL. They had first misspelled it, but JUST corrected it after I called attention to it, LOL.
Many old exit signs are made with tritium, a gas that is is contained in sealed glass tubes lined with a light-emitting compound. The tritium gives off low-energy beta radiation that causes the lining to glow. This type of radiation cannot penetrate a sheet of paper or clothing. That is why the exit signs are always the last to go.
That’s what they put in night sights for pistols and stuff, but they still eventually run out. The half life of tritium is 12 years, so those lights are probably about 1/2 to 1/4 as powerful as they were originally. In a couple decades they won’t work anymore.
I'm not sure in wich exit signs they use tritium, but in one modern led model biclive took apart, there was just a tiny battery and a transformer. I think the real reason for them to go at last is that the light bulb, wich in a building this old is certainly an incandescent one, is because it is massively underrun. The bulb could probably take 180V easy, but it is only run by 120V if my guess is correct.
The fact that there were still stuff in that freezer is spine-chilling so much equipment and documentation was left behind imagine what you could find out if you spent the time to read everything and look through everything
I went to an abandoned amusement park once. I couldn't help but flick the ON switch on a large decayed merrygoround - the one with horses that kids sit on - and the damn thing started to turn - sounded like 1000 crushing metal cars grinding together. It was both exhilarating and terrifying beyond belief. in australia
I worked for a power company as the guy that turned on and off the power. Power on cuz of one of two reasons, 1 government funding and an oversight in payment / someone in government thinks that it is a hospital and may be needed in an emergency someday, so they keep paying the bill. 2 power company forgot to pull the power on such a large building that had power uninterrupted for almost 100 years, and now uses less power than a backyard shed, and probably still has a note on the account that it is to always have power and never turned off cuz hospital. Also I Know of 3 more old hospitals that are still powered just like this. And one radio tower with nothing in it anymore that still has power cuz it was once part of the emergency broadcast network. Anything that is emergency has special notes on the account to never turn it off and to give it top priority to fix it's power if it ever loses power. The radio tower hadn't had anything in it since the 1990s and I was told to fix the power to it in a year 2017 after the unused meter broke from old age the day before.
So the #1 makes sense (over paying). However is #2 basically so they are kept on as "warm spares" facilities basically so they could get them working in extreme situations with what's in it and resources they have at their disposal? Even though the buildings are way pass their primes?
@@rickytorres9089 liability. The electricity retail company doesn't tell the distributor that the site is not in use, and the distributor has it flagged as essential service so the distributor won't shut of the power unless the site is demolished and decommissioned.
@@rickytorres9089 yes in fact I have personally had to "fix" the power to a location where the building was gone and had been for some time. Also several " investigations " to the same address after as to find out why no power was being used after the "fix"
All this old tech is extremely exciting. You did a really good job of not invading everything. I wouldn't have been able to help myself from touching and trying everything. I think you did an excellent job of leaving it the way it was.
i mean honnestly no offense to the proper people but if your going to do this for a living, here are some tips. 1. Get a crew, depending on where your going. 2. do some research before going in 3. Alert local authorities nad request permission 4, Gather intel and provide to local authorities you have no idea how much that helps. I understand the that the pitcure and film footage is amazing but your commentary honestly shows a lack of knowledge, there is one example in particular, you are trying to operate a sanitizer machine and are wondering how when the instrucion are right in front of you. I enjoyed the footage i hope you take this under consideration.
Windows Vista Home Premium Thats most likely because your mothers laptop is not running ideal specs. This machine was built in 2004, so it had new hardware running on a old os. Your moms pc is probably running old hardware on a new os.
@@agodboy5742 ha, with the way of the world's going you may not have to wait that long..... Come meet up with me when everything goes to s*** in New Hampshire. LOL.
are we not gonna talk about the fact that the last paragraph in the letter near the end said not to write about incident reports in the charts or something because if you don’t then it isn’t a ‘discoverable document’ wtf was happening there
Anything and everything. When you stepped in to one of those asylums as a “patient” all humanity got stripped and you were treated like an animal and got tested on like a lab rat. It’s a sad and hard reality that only just scrapes the surface of how to explain these “hospitals”
I work in this field. That’s something plenty of healthcare providers abide by. The documentation, in this case the “progress note” can be a matter of public record. The incident report is an internal document. If you mention the IR in the progress note in a client’s EMR, it can then be discoverable and therefore subpoenaed in a lawsuit. It has nothing to do with torture or inhumane treatment. People were certainly mistreated in mental health hospitals, but this is really a matter of standard practice. 2002 was 18 years ago, not 180 years ago. Patients will try to sue hospitals for any slight reason.
@@LukeGB003 You can just about make it out by pausing it and finding a clean frame with "," and "." to go frame by frame through the video. I was either bored or hungover that day I think...
@@LukeGB003 Gotcha. It's still not too clear on a bigger screen, but you can just about make it out. At first I thought it was German (as I studied that in school MANY years ago), but when I translated an approximation of what I thought it said, it lead me towards the Hungarian, and it matched up! As I said, I must have been SUPER hungover that day to do something so fucking boring...
Had reporter Bill Baldini in Philly not gone into Pennhurst in 1968 and reporter Gerado Riveria in NY not gone into Willowbrook in 1972 the world would still have these horrific asylums. These two men changed how the world treats those with mental, intellectual and/or physical disabilities. Thank you to both!
Yeah, now we just let them walk free to be delusional, drug addicted homeless people babbling nonsense and assaulting people with feces in the streets. Brilliant.
“Ah, this was a very good exploration *plugs in phone* I’ll just sit back in this old (somehow working) massage chair and charge my phone for a little.”
I really love how respectful you are of the places, and of the people who worked, lived, and otherwise were present there. Blurring names, important information, etc. It is a small detail, but it means a lot.
@@mybldyvlntn What I mean with no? No it was not a login password for windows but for the internet access... Do I think that they really think what was happening? I don't understand what you are trying to ask me... I just wanted to tell him that it is not the windows login but the internet access login
As someone with autism, these places always make me very uncomfortable. Just thinking that if I had been born a few years before I was I could have been sent to a place like this. We have come a long way in understanding mental issues and hopefully, we will continue to improve. Quick note: places like this still exist around the world. And, people do still suffer. I am just happy it is not as common in my country anymore. But, we still have strides to make.
They still so this to gay people even in 1st world countries. Watching these videos makes me appreciate that I am in good mental health and am not in an abialist society!
@@xfirty2x The dark web consist of only dead websites, childp*rn, drugs & weapons and a few whistleblower sites. Everything else is conspiracy theories. 99.9% of all horrible shit on the internet is found on the clearnet.
When you used the computer, I would have checked the dates of other files before opening them to see when was it last accessed. See if someone recently was in the building or was this PC running since 2002 the whole time :O
See the memory stick on the table. Somebody was fiddling around with the machine, probably doing whatever needed to get it working and pull data off it. And the workshop had some good tech gear, good tech resources, abandoned server components. Obviously the EE/IT/BMET guy(s) really knew their stuff.
Interacting fact. If a older hard drive doesn't see a read or right request with in 20sec it turns the platter moter off. Normally it's getting alot of read req when the os is running like normal but when the is crashes an is left for years un attended the hard drive turns off. All you see on the monitor is what's loaded into ram untill you restart the computer
@STU-Christian Van Iten once a pc is started up and idling the capacitors almost wont take any abuse. However starting up a pc everyday will kill it, much more wear due to voltage spikes of starting up the cd player and hdd. Also the hdd motor is happier to stay on or off instead of starting up all the time
agreed, although It was impressive to see that technology still working after so long and in a decaying environment, they dont make em like that anymore
James Nicholson But listen to the fans. The bearings was on their absolute last leg. I doubt the fans will power up again if left for even a small amount of time. Just some change in temperature or humidity would probably do it lol. The computer itself being on probably saved it though. Just imagine how long that has been on..
why do people act like abuse in mental hospitals has ended. there is still a lot of verbal, emotional and sometimes even physical abuse that happens in these hospitals. there are a lot of blind spots and patient rooms dont have cameras. they dont help us there, only treat us like sick animals. speaking from experience
Umm ok yes there is still issues with mental help but that is mostly cause push comes to shove we still have little understanding. But the suffering now is still pretty different, they dont perform lobotomies now just to calm a patient down, ECT therapy is done in more controlled manners with lower current ratings and requiring far more knowledge and training to perform. no one acts like abuse has ended but its very different now cause medical malpractice has gotten in, there was I believe a hidalgo special where he visited an asylum where patients were stacking the halls, unclean soiled clothes, cared for just left to rot while the staff struggled to even find what way is up. Speaking as a high function autistic, when i would goto the behavioral science center in my town, it wasnt anything like the asylums of old.
@@compzac thanks for sharing some of your experience. I'm glad your experience was ok. I like to think that we are just in a constant state of "doing better than before" because of history. It sometimes feels like nothing changes, when really, things do change on a grand scale. Systemic progressive change for the good of humanity (IMHO) will never mean the end of abuse, sadly.
YOU NEED TO GIVE THE NAME OF THE PLACE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AND NAMES OF ABUSERS, TO CALL THEM OUT, SO IT CAN BE INVESTIGATED. DON'T USE YOUR OWN REAL NAME, TO SERVE AS YOUR PROTECTION.
There’s a good chance that room was taped up because of asbestus or lead paint flakes Side note: if the AC is on, so should your masks be. You don’t know what’s fallen into those vents and is now blowing through the air
@@flopunkt3665 yea. I work in Telecommunications so I have a pretty high awareness of ACM. It was the wonder mineral, pretty much resistant to everything. Roofing, tiling, floors, insulation. It was used for everything and is everywhere and all it takes is one fibre in your lungs to cause problems. Ideally all of these urban explorers should be wearing masks, but 'youngsters' tend to have a "she'll be right" and "it'll never happen to me" attitude.
The "soundproof booth" at 23:20 is a Farraday room. Shielded from EMC, the walls/floors/ceiling are all grounded. Very useful for electrical studies of brainwaves. The 9 1/2 floor at Belleview has a few of them that were created from walk-in freezers. The isolation or the studies would sometimes freak out patients and I can remember a few of them running down the hall with a electrodes trailing behind.
30:10 That's an old autoclave, and I really, really, really wouldn't recommend turning any of those on in the future. They are essentially pressure cookers that get to much higher temperatures and pressures and can be quite dangerous, especially when they are wired directly into the building with no easy way of pulling the plug in an emergency. If you were to turn on one of those old units and something fails it could explode or start a fire. There PROBABLY aren't old rubber seals in the pressure chamber itself, because the clamping mechanism that holds the door shut looks like it's a metal-on-metal seal, but if there ARE 50 year-old rubber seals in there somewhere then those would likely have dry-rotted and could fail and violently decompress (boom). The thing I would really be worried about failing, though, would be something like a pressure gauge or old electronic control circuitry. You could get a situation where the machine starts the sterilization process, but then the pressure gauge is stuck and not registering the building pressure and so it just keeps building up until it explodes. Also, If someone else goes there, grab one of those other keyboards that were laying around all over the place, that was extremely painful to watch. You could also bring in a Windows 98 compatible on-screen keyboard on a floppy and install it, if you were so inclined (I can't remember if Windows 98 accessibility settings had on-screen keyboard, yet.)
@@conkcreet Used to work in medical, then recently have been working on starting a small commercial mushroom farm (and growing mushrooms is a lot like taking those cultures you grow on petri dishes in biology class and babying them under the most sterile conditions you can manage for 3 months or so until they spit out pounds of edible food). I don't own an autoclave, yet, but I know a fair bit about them. I've been using pressure cookers to sterilize equipment and agar, and I know that old rubber and crap pressure-release valves are a common cause of violent failure. For proof of the damage that even a cheap-ass pressure cooker can do, see the Boston marathon bombing. Then consider that an autoclave is essentially just a medical grade version of the same thing.
Omg you need to do a video of going back here in 2020 to see if your log book has been signed, in fact am going to subscribe just in hopes we see that video... *cough* *cough* it's been signed *cough* *cough* sorry just clearing my throat.
This is a good place for a horror/mystery game or film. The computer being randomly on with mass information to old experiments and patients is a definite yes.
Dgc7108 Thanks, I’m aware. What do you think happens to it, when it falls off the pipes, or other building materials, and gets stirred up when people go walking through it?
morristim1 I do hazmat and asbestos abatement for a living. You’re preaching to the choir here bud. I know quite a bit more about this mineral being born and raised in the home of asbestos mining and production in the US. Ever heard of Libby Montana? If you haven’t I’d suggest giving it a search. I’ve lived my daily life for years surrounded by asbestos from insulation to the mastic for tiles and about every other use they had for that nasty shit. When I say it was every where I mean it was fuckin everywhere.
Angry Beehive gas masks won’t do anything for asbestos they’ll need a full face respirator to be anywhere near effective and you really can’t just go by those respirators with a high quality nor would you want too for the price tag. The ones we use run almost 900.00. You can get a cheap shit one with a poor quality fit for like 100.00 off of amazon but I wouldn’t trust that. That’s just me though, many safety classes and seeing what asbestos can do to your lungs first hand is scary. High quality equipment is nothing short of a must when dealing with the shit.
I’ve watched a lot of your videos and I must say this was the one that intrigued me the most. Probably my favorite so far. I love the whole fact that you got the computer to work. That was awesome !
I have an earry feeling this building is still being used and more specifically that hallway or somewhere around there because the motion security alarm detector in 2:39 looks almost identical to the ones I installed on my property roughly 5-7 years ago.
Yeah. Especially the fridge/cooler gave me the exact same thought. Still plugged in, turned on and with stuff in it... Something unusual is going on in there, still
the computer was probably turned on by someone else not long ago and the surgical room was too clean/in good condition compared to the other rooms. Notice the cart beside the surgical bed is clean and has things placed on it neatly. There is also a broom on the side and the surgical area is swept clean.
After a few run-ins of my own with abandoned places with power I did some research and found out that Interestingly enough it's somewhat more cost effective to leave the electricity on? It deters people from breaking in and squating since there is the illusion that it isn't TRULY abandoned but it's also somewhat difficult to disconnect government owned properties from the grid apparently. Not only that but if they have any hopes of selling the building or buildings the fact that there is still electricity is a HUGE selling point and also helps keep the building in better condition. I went into a school that had shut down 10 years ago and they still have the heat running so that pipes don't burst and the walls/floors don't warp in the winter. Unfortunately though it's usually tax money funding this since they are government owned and not privately owned. Private homes and hotels are cut off since it's expensive but the government is usually like "hey we aren't the ones paying for it but it might benefit us so let's go for it"
Leaving the power on also ensures that fire alarms and emergency lighting systems are still working. This building was probably decommissioned rather than abandoned.
No. Government and corporate buildings are all run on free energy, (etheric energy that comes from the air) that's why no one bothered to disconnect the power because it doesn't cost them anything so why bother? But we have to pay for power.
@@doddgarger6806 Not only that with power on it can stay on without an inspection. An inspection would just be the start it would fail and need work done before the power would be reconnected.
Imagine entering the sound-proof room closing the door and the door locking and the only way to unlock it was a button in some desk which either was stolen or doesn't work and you get trapped forever in a sound-proof room rendering impossible to be helped
could you just IMAGINE how much a private company would want to charge any film production to shoot in there? working power, no graffiti, every room with that typical 'distressed' look, genuine medical props...
@bg4tification generator systems are spun up on periodic schedules to ensure everything works and is kept lubricated. usually this is a contracted item to a service company and is not cheap.
Got old computer from 1999 , It has been running for years, Kids play games on it. Plug in 1999 left on until 2015 . Plug in 2017 still running. Old computers where made to run full time. It runs win 95 can load up and run much faster than most win 10 computers and much faster than win 7. And beside going on internet it can also run most programs faster.
I explored an abandoned farm silo with my friend last year and there was a ladder in the rafters just chilling until it fell after we just looked at it. It was about 20 feet up so it was pretty loud when it fell. I'll never forget that moment.
@@cmans79tr7 that's fucking crazy to think about, it's been on for 17 years. Just sitting there, waiting for it's owner to return to it. Although, they never will.
I dont think that was the fan, rather it sounded like a failing spinning hard drive. Considering it might have been on for 17 years, those years would put a LOT of wear onto that drive.
I think they’ve briefly spoken about this before. Even with things as little as boots, it makes it too obvious of their intentions if they travel towards abandoned buildings all geared out, and get spotted. That being said, in a perfect world I too would like to see them be safe and wear the necessary gear
They do wear it sometimes, but it usually makes them stand out. Think about what you would think if you saw someone wearing a hiking backpack, and wearing a respirator.
Think about the risks of inhaling mold spores, asbestos, and other dangerous fumes or particles. They have those big backpacks, so they can't carry boots, respirators, gloves, etc to explore safely and responsibly? It's their health so they can do what they want, but I would hate to see them get hurt.
Asbestos related diseases is the first thing that occurred to me. Buildings of this age will undoubtedly be riddled with exposed material. Very worrying!
The orange Glucose liquid is used for glucose tests (urine test usually). Most commonly used in pregnant women who have a high or low sugar count during blood test.
Coming across a wall notice about a patient coming in lately to the hospital with strange symptoms sounds like a great intro into a zombie game in an abandoned hospital.
the strange symptoms might have been why it was abandoned, fear of another plague or something, why else leave a computer on? or half of the stuff in disarray? obviously it could of just been a scare, but when it comes to lawsuits and personal health, it's not too far fetched to consider them leaving everything on the spot to evacuate for an unknown virus
@@danielmilner8946 Definitely not dead - life finds a way. Not really rubber gloves but even workmans gloves would be safer than barehand - would possibly save from a tetanus shot. Either way, great work. Stay safe.
The device found @30:10 is an autoclave. TLDR: These are pressure cookers. These are used to sterilize liquids and solids/tools. Often these reach up to 121 Degrees Celsius and 1 extra atmosphere of pressure (14.7 psi), however the PSI may vary based on the temperature's short comings. The reason the device probably didn't work is the lack of steam from a boiler. The audible clicking noise is probably the disengagement/engagement of electronic solenoids used to prevent steam entrance or exit to the jacket chamber or main chamber. Its probably for the best that this didn't work, since it doesn't look like you fully shut it. Additionally, the older machinery lacks safety mechanisms and could very well blow open when not fully shut. Even when not satisfactorily shut, these machines may vent steam out the front due to the high pressure. Unfortunately there is no guarantee this machine can take the extra 1-1.5 atmospheres of pressure and could explode after a long instrument lifetime (unlikely). Alternatively, if the boiler was working it could fill with boiling water and pour out. Lastly, these machines are typically quite loud, since steam is being forced into the inner chamber at high pressure, or during the initial purge and later exhaust phase, when steam is moving out of the chamber.
The autoclave I use is retarded and would definitely startup without water and probably explode. Im glad this autoclave had a safety or else they could have been in some danger.
Mloc its so sick to think that the people working there voluntarily tortured these mentally ill people. Sad to know that those people had to go through the testing and experiments on them without any alternative therapy to help their mental ill nesses
This place reminds me of an old NHS psychiatry hospital and neighbouring school in England that my boyfriend and I spent a summer exploring (it was in the middle of a neighborhood watch zone, so we had to space out our visits for each building over time) Abandoned for roughly 5 years, so not only was it clean, it had all of the resources still but we had to wear masks and stay low because there were windows everywhere, but it was well worth the discovery into what it was like before the demolition project right after. Glad we found your channel and that there's more of us out there that we can talk to about our explorations together ☺️❤️
The place in this video is indeed an NHS psychiatry hospital. In a SINGLE frame in the video I could find that information where they forgot to blur A SINGLE FRAME
I worked for The Grass Instrument Co. In Quincy, MA. Those upright 12-16 channel polygraph consoles were made as is through the 90's. They were used for EMG. Those machined and anodized silver and gold rectangular knobs cost $20 each. We used to steal them and replace the ones on our stereos with them. They are all selected Telefunken vacuum tubes inside worth up to $200 each if perfect.
I wonder if solid state can replace those. Sometimes vacuum tubes offer advantages. I mean, sure, yeah, but it may cost a fortune for very expensive digital electronics.
@@Alobster1 keep in mind as computers age, components deteriorate, such as capacitors, hard drives, fans, and the like. With a computer of this age, in the environment of an abandoned building that likely has more moisture and debris in the air than usual, (and judging by the sound of those fan bearings, it's been turned on for a pretty long time in this environment!) It's a more impressive feat than you might think that it's still mostly functional.
@@TheRealMMC The majority of capacitors from the 90's are still good. I usually have to recap things that are either much older or suffering from the mid 2000's capacitor plague. I plug in crusty old computers all the time and I usually expect them to work.
There's no bearings in computer fans, it's a steel axle in a plastic housing so there's not a lot to fail. Surprised the motors hadn't burned up for how long they'd been running
@Moon shiner Computer fans (especially ones from the 90s or early 2000's like this pc was) in fact, do not have roller bearings. I don't understand why you think they do. Maybe some newer, way over engineered ones do, but spinning a piece of plastic at fairly low rpms doesn't create a lot of horizontal or perpendicular thrust/movement. So they don't use mechanical bearings and just rely on the plastic housing to do the support work. What they were hearing they described as a "falling" sound, and from the audio it sounds like i'd expect any old gateway or hp to sound like, just the sound of older style fans in a not very well designed case for airflow. Thank you for coming to my ted talk, hope you learned you're wrong.
@@tylergarza8695 Please don't answer questions if you don't know what you're talking about. Most computer fans use either ball bearings or sleeve bearings (there are other types of bearings being used too). Maybe check out this wikipedia article so you can learn a thing or two about computer fans. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_fan#Bearing_types
@@plupkination Probably some earlier explorer who turned it on, since there was a loose stick of RAM next to it I'm guessing an earlier explorer turned the PC on, it didn't work, and removed one of the RAM chips to see if it would start, which it did. RAM chips can get corrupted with age and prevent a computer from starting up
Youz guyz don't seem to have much electrical or mechanical experience but when it comes to complimentary colors of random luggage nobody can touch you. Great vidya fellers.
@TheRageMaker I'm not talking about data recovery, I am talking about analyzing what data I find. What is it? Some idea as to when the system was last used.
@@jefftank3300 Did u see those 1960s magnetic tape reels too?? @ 24:42 There must have been like an old minicomputer in there somewhere, would be so interesting to see what they were used for and what programs were on the tapes..
Biomed here, no, it's just an audiometer booth (you can google it and see similar devices). They do hearing screening tests with them, even to this day they haven't changed much. Nothing sinister about that particular device.
@@GenoSalvati Doesn't need to be a hospital for the deaf. These booths were commonly used for hearing tests for the last couple decades in every hospital. I work in a hospital that still has one, it's actually just in the employee health department because they get all the oldest medical equipment. It's not uncommon for them to also be upgraded with EEG functionality since it's already isolated. It definitely wasn't just used to electrocute people and soundproof it though, as the original comment said so long ago.
TL;DR - This computer was running since 2006 at most, but was most likely turned and left on by some scrapper or explorer at later time, and restarted itself due to an error or a power cut at some point. I highly doubt that the computer was running since 2002, since it seems that it has been moved (dust on the desk), and it had a printer connected at some point, which has not been seen anywhere near (HP Deskjet 5700 Series icon on desktop, according to driver files on the internet the printer is from 2003/2004 time period). At 18:00 a pop up comes on asking to scan for printer software update, so this thing has been connected to the internet at one point, but isn't now (you can see that the modem/networking card at the bottom of the case has nothing plugged in). When they first touched it the Norton Antivirus window came up with the last test dated 3/25/2019, however I'd suggest the scan was automatically set up to start at a specific time everyday or week. The antivirus window covered the logon window for Windows Networking, which basically means that it was not logged on and the antivirus started anyway. This could mean that it restarted itself at some point or the power went out as it was running (some computers are set up to restart at power loss automatically), but as some suggested Windows 98 automatically freezes after running continuously for 49 days, so it either froze because of that, or because of some error it encountered during the time it was running there but for a shorter period. The noise heard from the computer means it's either a fan bearing or a hard drive. It is possible that the hard drive survived after being turned on for a long time period, Windows is automatically set to spin down hard drives after a period of inactivity unless the setting has been overriden by the administrator; the file system at 17:43 shows C:\NOVARTIS\My Documents, instead of the usual username, so computers set up for specific facilities like this (Novartis is a pharmaceutical company according to Wikipedia) could have different system settings. Anyway, constant spinning for a hard drive does less harm that turning it on and off repeatedly (unless the bearing on the motor wears out, but I've heard of people running consumer class hard drives for several years 24/7 with no harm, and this could be a business class hdd designed to run for longer periods of time). Here are some time stamps suggesting the time it was last used: - SPSS 9.0 for Windows, a program used for data analysis, was released about 1999 - Adobe Reader 6.0 was released in July 2003 according to Wikipedia - At 17:30, on the left there is a PDF (?) file with 2005 in the name - At 17:11, a windows comes up that the time and date has been updated to Daylight Saving Time, so even if the CMOS battery was dead (which it should be after 10+ years), this computer still knows the time and date while not being plugged into the internet, so either it really was plugged in the whole time and restarted due to power cut, or someone went in there and set it ubefore. - The whole "FBI has your file scam" mail is dated on 28 May 2002, so obviously it was then connected to the internet So, to add all this up, this is a possible story of how this thing ended there: The facility was completely shut down at around 2005/2006, so one of the employees moved the computer from its original place to that room (a lot of computer parts were seen in the hall so maybe they were taking the data off them or just testing if they work before throwing them out, judging by the fact that the monitor lacks the stand and how the cables and the tower is positioned), and left it there turned off. At one point someone came around and turned it on just to see if it works, but found out that the RAM stick was bad and took it out (or maybe the RAM was taken out by the employee?), and then left it there without turning it off. Later on the power was cut off for a short while so the pc restarted, and was left there displaying the logon screen, and the antivirus started periodically running automated scans.
One of my dad's cousins (no this isn't the begging to an urban legend) worked at an Asylum. According to my dad, a popular joke was: 'Whoever puts the coat on first is the doctor."
Old computer running for 15/16 years and is still fine
My 3 year old laptop is on life support
shiftman52 😂😂😂
Because you a actualy use it
I don't think it was running for so long. Rather some other visitor turned it on...
They don't make'm like they used to.
Old Windows = Reliable
Power bill hasn't been paid in decades: power still on.
I miss one bill: disconnected
the government pays the electric bill to keep away intruders and scrappers
@@NathanCE makes sense. Also read if they shut it off and go to turn it back on, it would have to be brought back up to code
Riiiiight!! Haha
It's more than likely just forgotten about. They wouldn't leave power on to kill scrappers. It was hardlined electrical and it was simply forgotten about
But yeah that is the truth. We sure can't miss a single payment lol
There is probably a Nokia phone in there somewhere with 99% battery
lmfaoooooo
lmaoooo
I laughed way to hard at this comment 😂😂 ...and I wouldn’t doubt it either, those things were beasts!
No, nowadays those old NiMH batteries last maybe a day or a few hours
lmfao
You know that computer has been running 24/7 for so long when you can hear the bearings in the fans screaming meters away.
But gotta love good old Windows 98. Asks for a password, you click cancel and it logs you in anyway.
You have no idea how happy I felt when you shut it down. That poor computer needed a break :)
I love watching these kinds of videos but I am always left sad, I hate seeing things broken or neglected.
Hi Hugh, I came to this video after your Instagram story 😃
Came here after your insta story aha
You sent me here 🤣
If I was them I would take that computer and its gear and lookafter it
That's how Win98 worked. The password only got you to network resources. Clicking Cancel gave you the entire local system.
Just imagine walking around there in the dark and then all of a sudden hearing "You've got mail".
@The SNES Man either ghosts or the 82 year old lady I met the other day who still has her AOL disc from the 90's, and puts that ancient crap on her new computers. 😮😮😮😵😵😵😂😂😂
SPAM!
@@sheddingfeathers3622 I would F'ing watch that movie 😂😂😂😂
@STU-Christian Van Iten for a twist have the picture be you dressed as a patient from when it was open 😮😂😂😂😂😂😂
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That poor computer has been running for years faithfully
Its probably been updating by itself on self updates. Imagine going to use it and its faster than any computer you have used lol
if its really run the whole time then now it is dead, most times as long at is running it will run but turn of the power and let everything cool down most times that the end for the hardware and it won´t turn on again
The LOrd
This was most likely turned on by the proper people. There has to of been at least a few power outages since the hospitals closure and computers dont turn on after power failures. If there was miraculously no power outages and it did manage to run all these years most of the computer hardware would of been long dead.
It has to be self aware by now
At 17:41 there is a file called "tudom mit tettél" which in hungarian means "I know what you did"
Where on the screen is it?
@@tom_123 bottom row, 5th from right
Oh shit
0_0
I was more worried about the SUBJECTS file....
Finding a computer still running almost feels like the holy grail of an exploration like this
i know right
It is so tempting to take it home lol
Power is on, wires are out, and there is water everywhere. This is some high risk shit gentlemen...
don't forget the tons of chemicals... yeah
Water, Electricity, Chemicals, Fungal Growth, Chem users... you name it, that place sure got it all
I wouldn´t touch anything what is metalic (that dentist chair). Breaker or not, it would hurt (and who knows if the breaker would work).
Fidneus Diller Outlet is dc. And water has a lot of resistance. Don’t be such an idiot
I used to have sword fights with florescent bulbs full of mercury in a warehouse no worries
I wonder who is paying for the electricity.
Watermelon Wishes tax payers.
@@eliteanuspunch9735 Nice. 👍
Watermelon Wishes back then in asylums they used dead bodies to power electricity
@@boi3746 Haw haw 🙄
@@watermelonwishes4193 He's dead serious
That pc still works while my 1 year old laptop is already fighting for its life
Prolly all the porn you watch
@@a.j.sgarage9637 lol i don't download porn... I stream them😏😏😏
@@darrentylor5473 i think they're still great until windows 7. 8-10 are the crappiest windows....
@@LanxPenzenpepper I agree, Windows 7 was the last decent one in my opinion. I can't stand Windows 10.
@@UltimateShadow10 yeah... Winows 10 is just full of crappy useless updates... 8 is even worse... Bad design and everything...
Just imagine urbexers in 30 years when they find a bunch of "vintage" 144Hz 4K Ultra HD monitors and they're just like "hmmm yeah, that's cute".
If the hospitals in my state ever close, I'm gonna check if they're STILL running Windows 7
😂😂😂
Nadikarosuto Draws they better be
And none of them will work
@@il-dottore I live near a HUGE hospital. They run a ton of different operating systems. Windows 7 and 10, and their own Linux based system were the ones I saw. I guess they are kept around for specific softwares that can run on them.
Anyone else take a moment to think about how long that computer could have been sitting there running?
No.
Yoo I can't believe I found bosh commenting in the wild and no one recognized him
made to last back then lol
Hey replies this guy is famous
I think some previous explorer did set it up and turned it on not too long ago
Bro if you lived next to that building you could find a plug and plug a long extension cable into it and then power your entire house and just get free electricity
Jefferton Ahyeeoobee undercover indoor grow
Somebody would mess with you and unplug it then hear maniac screaming no thanks
@@jamey90 _brilliant_
@@poketev6321 _weed grow_
Great idea! I know where I'm moving now,thanks!
That computer can finally rest. Goodnight little guy. You were working hard abandoned and forgotten in the dust and rubble.
Image briefly if computers had feelings... Imagine what it would be thinking as it was rebooted.
Now I kinda wish someone would find it a better home or at least service the fans and clean it.
@Adam Kuhn If you do, upload it's journey, that's some views right there.
Go there and rescue that machine
@Dmitry difference is that processors work by saying yes/no according to requirements, while the human brain is kind of in a superposition, which means it can decide
@Dmitry no because human brains are uncertain, thats what superpositipn means. it passes trough a "filter", and it becomes a 1 or a 0, while computers dont work with superpositions they only have yes/no, and no maybe's. this is why robots arent conscious
Imagine if those walls could talk. The pain and suffering that took place there must of been ungodly
There would be fleks of hope though as well. Sometimes these state hospitals were actually able to help people.
Lol omg they weren't all like the "Geraldo special" asylums. Some were also college campuses just like today, although there were labotomies performed at most which my grandparents never knew anyone who was labotomized EVER but they knew a couple ppl who received "shock treatment"
I actually knew a man who would be 72 if he were alive, who got shock treatment when he was a boy
Shock treatment was a legitimate therapy back in the day
You guys were very respectful of this place. If it were me, I would’ve delved through that whole computer looking for secrets. I certainly wouldn’t have given up on that sterilizing machine... and I absolutely would’ve let my buddy perform a lobotomy on me in that operation room.
Yesss
10:42 I would have given myself an enema.
John Johnson Your the best lol. What an awesome 5 seconds reading this was lol
I wonder if those oscilloscopes were still working
Fucking me too
if i found an old abandoned computer with a guest log txt file that only had one log entry and it was just 'The Proper People' i would get so spooked omg lmaooo
A/C working, fridge working, power, computers.... this would be a perfect for a homeless person,, clean up the
a/c room, push the fridge in, play mine sweeper on the computer.. life is set lol
just a little lonely for one person
LLA B I’m sure random people come and visit all the time
Good point...
Absolutely. I would move there. Need the freaking location!
still on an active campus
Be careful turning on the power in places like that. I once flipped on a light switch and the whole switch housing literally blew up. The housing went flying off in different directions. Come to find out, some wires were now touching things they shouldn't be and I just flipped the switch that made them short. Be careful out there!
That's scary dude
yo my man blew up a hause
You blew up my house. You’re laughing! My house is blown and you’re laughing.
Yeah the wisest move in urbexing is bring your own lighting.
Second wisest move is never turn anything on more than one light switch at a time, don't use your bare hands.
Arc flash is really dangerous, for real bro! Nice observation!
Michael: ok don’t go turning on the power Bryan: hehe button make chair go *brrrr*
「Kaien」Taken from “Money printer go brrrrrr”
j powell turn that printer off
Paper make my brain go brrr
hehe overplayed dead meme go *cringeee*
Hehe the cold make me go brrr
This is why you leave the power on, it's like a bug zapper for destructive scrappers.
BreeUSA until a few guys short the grid. Then it's going to look like the other side of the building.
@@peytonweb It's scrapper. a scraper is what you use on your windshield in the snow.
@@tylergarza8695 , that was exactly what I was saying, however sarcastically it was stated, lol. I was just joking about "scrapers" (anything that scrapes), as opposed to what they REALLY meant, (but misspelled) which is "scrapper" (one that scraps metal), LOL. They had first misspelled it, but JUST corrected it after I called attention to it, LOL.
@@tylergarza8695 , I just saw they changed it to 2 p's
@@tylergarza8695 And yes, I'm one of those people who constantly sees misspelled words and corrects them...hehehe
Many old exit signs are made with tritium, a gas that is is contained in sealed glass tubes lined with a light-emitting compound. The tritium gives off low-energy beta radiation that causes the lining to glow. This type of radiation cannot penetrate a sheet of paper or clothing. That is why the exit signs are always the last to go.
This stuff is so neat !! It’s so that in the even of catastrophic power failure you can find the way out. It’s really neat.
Dr octopus needs it Harry Osborn is gonna give him all he needs if he captures Spider-Man
That’s what they put in night sights for pistols and stuff, but they still eventually run out. The half life of tritium is 12 years, so those lights are probably about 1/2 to 1/4 as powerful as they were originally. In a couple decades they won’t work anymore.
I'm not sure in wich exit signs they use tritium, but in one modern led model biclive took apart, there was just a tiny battery and a transformer. I think the real reason for them to go at last is that the light bulb, wich in a building this old is certainly an incandescent one, is because it is massively underrun. The bulb could probably take 180V easy, but it is only run by 120V if my guess is correct.
i have been binge watching a few of these videos, and wondered how they exit signs are always on.
The fact that there were still stuff in that freezer is spine-chilling so much equipment and documentation was left behind imagine what you could find out if you spent the time to read everything and look through everything
I went to an abandoned amusement park once. I couldn't help but flick the ON switch on a large decayed merrygoround - the one with horses that kids sit on - and the damn thing started to turn - sounded like 1000 crushing metal cars grinding together. It was both exhilarating and terrifying beyond belief. in australia
J Wow, must’ve felt like your heart rate was 200 BPM.
@@holyfknsmokesigotmymoneyup definitely! I was NOT expecting it to have power
I believe that I would flip out!
That's called a carousel.
@@vatardgaming1138 Thankyou Professor ;)
I worked for a power company as the guy that turned on and off the power. Power on cuz of one of two reasons,
1 government funding and an oversight in payment / someone in government thinks that it is a hospital and may be needed in an emergency someday, so they keep paying the bill.
2 power company forgot to pull the power on such a large building that had power uninterrupted for almost 100 years, and now uses less power than a backyard shed, and probably still has a note on the account that it is to always have power and never turned off cuz hospital.
Also I Know of 3 more old hospitals that are still powered just like this. And one radio tower with nothing in it anymore that still has power cuz it was once part of the emergency broadcast network. Anything that is emergency has special notes on the account to never turn it off and to give it top priority to fix it's power if it ever loses power. The radio tower hadn't had anything in it since the 1990s and I was told to fix the power to it in a year 2017 after the unused meter broke from old age the day before.
This^. Thanks mate. Was curious as to whether this was plausible.
So the #1 makes sense (over paying). However is #2 basically so they are kept on as "warm spares" facilities basically so they could get them working in extreme situations with what's in it and resources they have at their disposal? Even though the buildings are way pass their primes?
@@rickytorres9089 liability. The electricity retail company doesn't tell the distributor that the site is not in use, and the distributor has it flagged as essential service so the distributor won't shut of the power unless the site is demolished and decommissioned.
@@rickytorres9089 yes in fact I have personally had to "fix" the power to a location where the building was gone and had been for some time. Also several " investigations " to the same address after as to find out why no power was being used after the "fix"
Thanks I was wondering how it was possible. Makes sense.
All this old tech is extremely exciting. You did a really good job of not invading everything. I wouldn't have been able to help myself from touching and trying everything. I think you did an excellent job of leaving it the way it was.
Amen!
Dude, i like what you watch on youtube. Cheers from Estonia
MR DAAAAAAAN!!!!!! VROM VROOOM
i mean honnestly no offense to the proper people but if your going to do this for a living, here are some tips.
1. Get a crew, depending on where your going.
2. do some research before going in
3. Alert local authorities nad request permission
4, Gather intel and provide to local authorities you have no idea how much that helps.
I understand the that the pitcure and film footage is amazing but your commentary honestly shows a lack of knowledge, there is one example in particular, you are trying to operate a sanitizer machine and are wondering how when the instrucion are right in front of you.
I enjoyed the footage i hope you take this under consideration.
THey went mental (no pun intended) when the cameras were off :)
The Windows 98 computer is running that state's Emergency unemployment service.
vector6977 That Windows 98 Computer runs faster than my mother’s laptop which runs Windows 10.
@@Dr-Random You shouldn't use Windows on an Apple machine. Go and get something reasonable.
DON 666 lol nice joke
Windows Vista Home Premium Thats most likely because your mothers laptop is not running ideal specs. This machine was built in 2004, so it had new hardware running on a old os. Your moms pc is probably running old hardware on a new os.
DON 666 No, just no.
Between the computer, the equipment, the power, the cabinets and that "lore" memo at the end, this is as real life Fallout as it gets.
Exactly what I was thinking,lol.
@@chrisdigital was thinking this while i was watching too xD I cant wait for post apoc LOL
@@agodboy5742 ha, with the way of the world's going you may not have to wait that long..... Come meet up with me when everything goes to s*** in New Hampshire. LOL.
At least until the bombs drop
are we not gonna talk about the fact that the last paragraph in the letter near the end said not to write about incident reports in the charts or something because if you don’t then it isn’t a ‘discoverable document’ wtf was happening there
Fucked up shit
And they definitely wanted to keep it a secret from the public.
I'ma be real, that shit still happens today. A lot.
Anything and everything. When you stepped in to one of those asylums as a “patient” all humanity got stripped and you were treated like an animal and got tested on like a lab rat. It’s a sad and hard reality that only just scrapes the surface of how to explain these “hospitals”
I work in this field. That’s something plenty of healthcare providers abide by. The documentation, in this case the “progress note” can be a matter of public record. The incident report is an internal document. If you mention the IR in the progress note in a client’s EMR, it can then be discoverable and therefore subpoenaed in a lawsuit. It has nothing to do with torture or inhumane treatment. People were certainly mistreated in mental health hospitals, but this is really a matter of standard practice. 2002 was 18 years ago, not 180 years ago. Patients will try to sue hospitals for any slight reason.
Moloko ultra
17:45 there is an image file named "tudom mit tettel" which in Hungarian translates to "I know what you did".
Woah!
How can you see that fam?
@@LukeGB003 You can just about make it out by pausing it and finding a clean frame with "," and "." to go frame by frame through the video. I was either bored or hungover that day I think...
@@jcdenton4911 ah right well I'm on Phone so it's not too clear.
@@LukeGB003 Gotcha. It's still not too clear on a bigger screen, but you can just about make it out. At first I thought it was German (as I studied that in school MANY years ago), but when I translated an approximation of what I thought it said, it lead me towards the Hungarian, and it matched up! As I said, I must have been SUPER hungover that day to do something so fucking boring...
Had reporter Bill Baldini in Philly not gone into Pennhurst in 1968 and reporter Gerado Riveria in NY not gone into Willowbrook in 1972 the world would still have these horrific asylums.
These two men changed how the world treats those with mental, intellectual and/or physical disabilities.
Thank you to both!
Thank you for sharing. I've got some reading to do.
Well these places still exist and are used in some other countries I believe
Yeah, now we just let them walk free to be delusional, drug addicted homeless people babbling nonsense and assaulting people with feces in the streets. Brilliant.
@@justforever96 they used a lot of horrid treatments in these places though like removing parts of the brain and other horrifying things
@@AI_generated_photos Will is right. I don't want those people running around in the streets. It's simple, don't do lobotomies, medicate them instead.
Wet floors + power on = free electro therapy
Alexandra Baxe you kinda scare me a lil
Bet that’ll feel nice 👌🏼
Hahahaha
The
Waht
I laughed way too much over this comment..
20 year old PC from abandoned building: works
My PC from 2010: dying
2010 dying?! My 2018 PC is exploded
Edit thx for 50 likes!!!
Random Gaming CH feels bad man
Should have built your own and it would still be working!
@@100bets2 thats absolutely not true. Most oem systems massively outlast custom builds.
@@TurboVisBits lol that sentence doesn't make any sense.
Imagine taking a break from exploring to charge your phone in an abandoned building.
“Ah, this was a very good exploration *plugs in phone* I’ll just sit back in this old (somehow working) massage chair and charge my phone for a little.”
I watched a video of someone bring in an xbox and playing fortnite in an abandoned building, using the power from the building
I really love how respectful you are of the places, and of the people who worked, lived, and otherwise were present there.
Blurring names, important information, etc. It is a small detail, but it means a lot.
When you don't know the password to one of the old computers there.
"You need a science skill of at least 25 to activate this terminal."
isaac selander z lol literally thought this same thing and that their skill level wasn’t high enough to know how an old organ works.
No, it was just asking for internet login data...
He just conitnued without internet
@@p0xygen What do you mean 'No'? Do you think that they really thought that was what was happening? lolz
@@mybldyvlntn What I mean with no? No it was not a login password for windows but for the internet access...
Do I think that they really think what was happening? I don't understand what you are trying to ask me... I just wanted to tell him that it is not the windows login but the internet access login
Going off the thumbnail, still watching while reading comments. Windows 98. Just hit escape. Pre NT based OS illusion of security
Maybe there’s electricity because there’s a secret Russian lair deep down underneath trying to open up a door to another dimension
LOL Strangers Things can happen
I literally thought this
HAHAHAH DEAD
Henderson!
Nah it's just Alexei chilling with his slurpies.
Can't get over the thought of walking into one of those rooms and having the door slam shut and locking you in.
Bill V oh fuck
"We're going to play a game."
I kept thinking that exact same thing! I couldn't do what these guys do.
IKR I always think of that while watching these videos
They just think it's abandoned. They're actually just patients.
As someone with autism, these places always make me very uncomfortable. Just thinking that if I had been born a few years before I was I could have been sent to a place like this. We have come a long way in understanding mental issues and hopefully, we will continue to improve.
Quick note: places like this still exist around the world. And, people do still suffer. I am just happy it is not as common in my country anymore. But, we still have strides to make.
They still so this to gay people even in 1st world countries. Watching these videos makes me appreciate that I am in good mental health and am not in an abialist society!
This place just looks scary in general and imagining what happened to the people there is just so ... sad and morbid.
Same.
Take a trip to the dark web... people do these types of things for fun... and people can watch these things happen.... live.
@@xfirty2x The dark web consist of only dead websites, childp*rn, drugs & weapons and a few whistleblower sites. Everything else is conspiracy theories. 99.9% of all horrible shit on the internet is found on the clearnet.
I am more curious about what was in the recycle bin of the computer :)
aka17Ruud saaaame I was like hmmm wonder what’s in that trash can
Haha
yes right
oh my gosh I didn’t even think of that 💀💀😂
Ur mom
That place is a giant fire hazard with the electric still on.
@Dan Bingo
I don't see much flammable stuff.
When you used the computer, I would have checked the dates of other files before opening them to see when was it last accessed. See if someone recently was in the building or was this PC running since 2002 the whole time :O
there is a file properties shot at around 18:08 where you can see last modified was a week after its creation in feb 2002
@@randalpapadum1312 What happens after 49 days? BSOD?
That's a testament to Dell computers that the fan has been running straight since 02 and the comp still works
That computer's hdd bearing deserves a friggin medal
the noise for the pc was probably the fan's bearings gone xD amazed it was still alive!
See the memory stick on the table. Somebody was fiddling around with the machine, probably doing whatever needed to get it working and pull data off it.
And the workshop had some good tech gear, good tech resources, abandoned server components. Obviously the EE/IT/BMET guy(s) really knew their stuff.
Interacting fact. If a older hard drive doesn't see a read or right request with in 20sec it turns the platter moter off. Normally it's getting alot of read req when the os is running like normal but when the is crashes an is left for years un attended the hard drive turns off. All you see on the monitor is what's loaded into ram untill you restart the computer
@STU-Christian Van Iten once a pc is started up and idling the capacitors almost wont take any abuse. However starting up a pc everyday will kill it, much more wear due to voltage spikes of starting up the cd player and hdd.
Also the hdd motor is happier to stay on or off instead of starting up all the time
@@ceilingfanmusic6597 that is very interesting, thank you for your knowledge.
It gives me ease inside to know that computer will finally get to sleep for a long time, just listening to it made me feel as if it was in pain.
Right lol?
Glad it wasn't just me, that poor thing. Enjoy your rest, brave one.
agreed, although It was impressive to see that technology still working after so long and in a decaying environment, they dont make em like that anymore
James Nicholson
But listen to the fans. The bearings was on their absolute last leg. I doubt the fans will power up again if left for even a small amount of time. Just some change in temperature or humidity would probably do it lol.
The computer itself being on probably saved it though.
Just imagine how long that has been on..
@@jgripen969 yea, its still amazing that that computer is still working, fan aside its an amazing relic, i had a wave of nostalgia lol
Really should have clicked the file that said "patient interview hours"
Good catch
why do people act like abuse in mental hospitals has ended. there is still a lot of verbal, emotional and sometimes even physical abuse that happens in these hospitals. there are a lot of blind spots and patient rooms dont have cameras. they dont help us there, only treat us like sick animals. speaking from experience
@@Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu finally someone gets it! they haven't changed at all
@@horselover7744 wym?
Umm ok yes there is still issues with mental help but that is mostly cause push comes to shove we still have little understanding. But the suffering now is still pretty different, they dont perform lobotomies now just to calm a patient down, ECT therapy is done in more controlled manners with lower current ratings and requiring far more knowledge and training to perform. no one acts like abuse has ended but its very different now cause medical malpractice has gotten in, there was I believe a hidalgo special where he visited an asylum where patients were stacking the halls, unclean soiled clothes, cared for just left to rot while the staff struggled to even find what way is up. Speaking as a high function autistic, when i would goto the behavioral science center in my town, it wasnt anything like the asylums of old.
@@compzac thanks for sharing some of your experience. I'm glad your experience was ok. I like to think that we are just in a constant state of "doing better than before" because of history. It sometimes feels like nothing changes, when really, things do change on a grand scale. Systemic progressive change for the good of humanity (IMHO) will never mean the end of abuse, sadly.
YOU NEED TO GIVE THE NAME OF THE PLACE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AND NAMES OF ABUSERS, TO CALL THEM OUT, SO IT CAN BE INVESTIGATED. DON'T USE YOUR OWN REAL NAME, TO SERVE AS YOUR PROTECTION.
So we just don’t get to see what’s inside the brief cases
I wanna know what's in the biohazard bag. 22:12
@@kylefrank638 Probably needles from injections or from blood tests, nothing ever cool is in biohazard bags.
I really doubt that power was left on by mistake. Someone is still going in there for some reason.
some kind of fkkt up sex asignation
It's possible whoever the new owner is, they're paying the bill because they plan to turn the place into something else.
@@googlefish80 I still perform low key sexual acts for experimental research. Please don't venture here. PLEASE
Someone must have bought the place and made the power run, they will probably get rid of everything and make a bonus 100.000 US dollars.
@@googlefish80 lol no.
I like how one guy is a scaredy-cat and the other wants to inspect everything.
@Kyra oh hai, I found myself in here
Me too lol especially on the bumps in the night ones 😂 but he's a good friend he always leaves when the other ones ready lol
perfect combo
The duality of man. Honestly love that dynamic
It is no mystery why these guys are so popular! They provide serious entertainment 👍😀
There’s a good chance that room was taped up because of asbestus or lead paint flakes
Side note: if the AC is on, so should your masks be. You don’t know what’s fallen into those vents and is now blowing through the air
@El Tio There could be more then asbestos lurking in the duct.....You never knew.
@El Tio Any horror movie material, and likely there could be virus and infectious fungus.
Legionnaires disease.
@@DisabledLlama asbestos has a high risk of causing lung cancer and they used it a lot in the US back in the day
@@flopunkt3665 yea. I work in Telecommunications so I have a pretty high awareness of ACM. It was the wonder mineral, pretty much resistant to everything.
Roofing, tiling, floors, insulation. It was used for everything and is everywhere and all it takes is one fibre in your lungs to cause problems.
Ideally all of these urban explorers should be wearing masks, but 'youngsters' tend to have a "she'll be right" and "it'll never happen to me" attitude.
Ghost keeps paying the power bill
Nice account picture. Brings back memories.
Yeah, that's what i was thinking- who the heck is paying the power bill?
Michael Verzeilberg no, ghosts
Wow. Those patient records being left there is a massive HIPPA violation.
I was thinking this 🤦🏼♀️
hipaa
Khorzho what a buncha HIPPAcrites
Gosh, all I could hear my health informatics professor say was, “is that hippa compliant?!”
@Vegan Parent nope. computers running windows 98, HIPPA from 96
The "soundproof booth" at 23:20 is a Farraday room. Shielded from EMC, the walls/floors/ceiling are all grounded. Very useful for electrical studies of brainwaves. The 9 1/2 floor at Belleview has a few of them that were created from walk-in freezers. The isolation or the studies would sometimes freak out patients and I can remember a few of them running down the hall with a electrodes trailing behind.
They're also good for blocking government spying
30:10 That's an old autoclave, and I really, really, really wouldn't recommend turning any of those on in the future. They are essentially pressure cookers that get to much higher temperatures and pressures and can be quite dangerous, especially when they are wired directly into the building with no easy way of pulling the plug in an emergency. If you were to turn on one of those old units and something fails it could explode or start a fire. There PROBABLY aren't old rubber seals in the pressure chamber itself, because the clamping mechanism that holds the door shut looks like it's a metal-on-metal seal, but if there ARE 50 year-old rubber seals in there somewhere then those would likely have dry-rotted and could fail and violently decompress (boom). The thing I would really be worried about failing, though, would be something like a pressure gauge or old electronic control circuitry. You could get a situation where the machine starts the sterilization process, but then the pressure gauge is stuck and not registering the building pressure and so it just keeps building up until it explodes.
Also, If someone else goes there, grab one of those other keyboards that were laying around all over the place, that was extremely painful to watch. You could also bring in a Windows 98 compatible on-screen keyboard on a floppy and install it, if you were so inclined (I can't remember if Windows 98 accessibility settings had on-screen keyboard, yet.)
Kevin how do you know that stuff
Theflyingdog Because some people work with autoclaves, like me
@@conkcreet Used to work in medical, then recently have been working on starting a small commercial mushroom farm (and growing mushrooms is a lot like taking those cultures you grow on petri dishes in biology class and babying them under the most sterile conditions you can manage for 3 months or so until they spit out pounds of edible food). I don't own an autoclave, yet, but I know a fair bit about them. I've been using pressure cookers to sterilize equipment and agar, and I know that old rubber and crap pressure-release valves are a common cause of violent failure. For proof of the damage that even a cheap-ass pressure cooker can do, see the Boston marathon bombing. Then consider that an autoclave is essentially just a medical grade version of the same thing.
Kevin dont worry with the amount of asbestos it won’t burn down lmao
Scrapper: *Walks in autoclave room*
Autoclave: (ON) COMPLETE
Scrapper: OH SHI- *Boom*
Omg you need to do a video of going back here in 2020 to see if your log book has been signed, in fact am going to subscribe just in hopes we see that video... *cough* *cough* it's been signed *cough* *cough* sorry just clearing my throat.
Did you really sign it? Were there any others who did?
@@kaylast5686 Yes i did, and believe it or not yes they actually was 2 more in fact. So others from here have been :)
@Dawid Jandzinski You seem the sort of moron that is the reason Urbex folks like Proper People don't reveal where they have been.
Qweggy yesssssss
Really interested in going here respectfully. Please advise.
I wish they had tried to discover more from the computer.
Edit: Oh damn I didn't expect so much attention around one dumb comment I made-
I wanted to see Margo's dissertation!
And opened some books too
I would take everything related to that bad boy.
@@Dr-Random that's illegal, technically speaking
*Snowy_Hills* oh
This is a good place for a horror/mystery game or film. The computer being randomly on with mass information to old experiments and patients is a definite yes.
I can hear that Windows 98 startup sound
James Golen mines had a high whine and a lot of fast clicking from the hard drive.
Me too. And I literally haven't heard it in 10+ years
I am currently using windows 98 SE on a computer set up especially so that I can use an old dot matrix printer that I got last year.
YOU'VE GOT MAIL!
@@EphemeralProductions its my ringtone lol
16:52 Congratulations, you've hacked your first terminal in Fallout 3
The MS Word icon's look like 2010+
@@jestificated 🤔🤔🤔
@@jestificated for me, icons look like MS 2000 ;-)
Too bad they didn't find any Stimpacks.
Nothing like taking a stroll through a bunch of lead paint and asbestos 😂
morristim1 asbestos is only dangerous if it’s disturbed and set into the air.
Dgc7108 Thanks, I’m aware. What do you think happens to it, when it falls off the pipes, or other building materials, and gets stirred up when people go walking through it?
They should wear gas mask
Ones that still allow to speak
morristim1 I do hazmat and asbestos abatement for a living. You’re preaching to the choir here bud. I know quite a bit more about this mineral being born and raised in the home of asbestos mining and production in the US. Ever heard of Libby Montana? If you haven’t I’d suggest giving it a search. I’ve lived my daily life for years surrounded by asbestos from insulation to the mastic for tiles and about every other use they had for that nasty shit. When I say it was every where I mean it was fuckin everywhere.
Angry Beehive gas masks won’t do anything for asbestos they’ll need a full face respirator to be anywhere near effective and you really can’t just go by those respirators with a high quality nor would you want too for the price tag. The ones we use run almost 900.00. You can get a cheap shit one with a poor quality fit for like 100.00 off of amazon but I wouldn’t trust that. That’s just me though, many safety classes and seeing what asbestos can do to your lungs first hand is scary. High quality equipment is nothing short of a must when dealing with the shit.
I’ve watched a lot of your videos and I must say this was the one that intrigued me the most.
Probably my favorite so far.
I love the whole fact that you got the computer to work.
That was awesome !
I have an earry feeling this building is still being used and more specifically that hallway or somewhere around there because the motion security alarm detector in 2:39 looks almost identical to the ones I installed on my property roughly 5-7 years ago.
Yeah. Especially the fridge/cooler gave me the exact same thought. Still plugged in, turned on and with stuff in it... Something unusual is going on in there, still
@@mikalaybourn Meth lab
Organ harvesting
the computer was probably turned on by someone else not long ago and the surgical room was too clean/in good condition compared to the other rooms. Notice the cart beside the surgical bed is clean and has things placed on it neatly. There is also a broom on the side and the surgical area is swept clean.
Yeah, someone is paying for the power. If no one's paying for it, then it wouldn't be running, most likely.
After a few run-ins of my own with abandoned places with power I did some research and found out that Interestingly enough it's somewhat more cost effective to leave the electricity on? It deters people from breaking in and squating since there is the illusion that it isn't TRULY abandoned but it's also somewhat difficult to disconnect government owned properties from the grid apparently. Not only that but if they have any hopes of selling the building or buildings the fact that there is still electricity is a HUGE selling point and also helps keep the building in better condition. I went into a school that had shut down 10 years ago and they still have the heat running so that pipes don't burst and the walls/floors don't warp in the winter. Unfortunately though it's usually tax money funding this since they are government owned and not privately owned. Private homes and hotels are cut off since it's expensive but the government is usually like "hey we aren't the ones paying for it but it might benefit us so let's go for it"
Leaving the power on also ensures that fire alarms and emergency lighting systems are still working. This building was probably decommissioned rather than abandoned.
Electrical inspection on a place like that would be $$$$$ in order to get the power back on
No. Government and corporate buildings are all run on free energy, (etheric energy that comes from the air) that's why no one bothered to disconnect the power because it doesn't cost them anything so why bother? But we have to pay for power.
@@magicalhoof7431 bro
@@doddgarger6806 Not only that with power on it can stay on without an inspection. An inspection would just be the start it would fail and need work done before the power would be reconnected.
10:21 Everybody gangsta until Minecraft cave noises starts playing
Roblox djsjjdjd that's what i thought of as well 😭💀
Sounds like the terraria opening song 😂
Roblox I thought the same it sounded like angelic humming one
th-cam.com/video/LwcgG7ZYlFE/w-d-xo.html Its SO NUMBER 2
I thought that sounded familiar
Imagine entering the sound-proof room closing the door and the door locking and the only way to unlock it was a button in some desk which either was stolen or doesn't work and you get trapped forever in a sound-proof room rendering impossible to be helped
I don’t know what to think about this comment.
This is why you prop doors behind you in dead-end rooms, or you don't go past said doors.
Was there a basement in that building? My guess is that is where the real work was taking place. Video gave me Silent Hill vibes.
I had the exact same thought. And oh boy... Silent Hill really creeps me out, especially 2.
i was looking for a comment for someone also thinking of silent hill lol
could you just IMAGINE how much a private company would want to charge any film production to shoot in there? working power, no graffiti, every room with that typical 'distressed' look, genuine medical props...
Riverview Hospital just outside of Vancouver, Canada is used weekly for film/tv shows... Lots of abandoned aesthetic on that property
I was just thinking how many music videos could be filmed there
@@evilemuempire9550 Key example: Agnews Developmental Center was used by Green Day in 1994
It probably wouldn't be legal due to safety risks
My computer: left on once while I was at work, something I never do, killed by a power surge, 2019
This computer: left on since 2002, still works
@bg4tification generator systems are spun up on periodic schedules to ensure everything works and is kept lubricated. usually this is a contracted item to a service company and is not cheap.
@2017 Ford Escape S VIN 1FMCU0F72HUC91915 2 years. But it was self built.
@2017 Ford Escape S VIN 1FMCU0F72HUC91915 Of course it shouldn't have. By 'shouldn't', though, do you mean 'unlikely'?
Got old computer from 1999 , It has been running for years, Kids play games on it. Plug in 1999 left on until 2015 . Plug in 2017 still running. Old computers where made to run full time. It runs win 95 can load up and run much faster than most win 10 computers and much faster than win 7. And beside going on internet it can also run most programs faster.
@@rJayisawesome you got lucky though, mine died after a month by a surge when its not even open, just connected to a plug
I explored an abandoned farm silo with my friend last year and there was a ladder in the rafters just chilling until it fell after we just looked at it. It was about 20 feet up so it was pretty loud when it fell. I'll never forget that moment.
I wonder how long that Pc was left on. Especially with that fan sounding like that.
They said the last file was accessed in 2002, so this machine could have been running for 17 years.
@@cmans79tr7 that's fucking crazy to think about, it's been on for 17 years. Just sitting there, waiting for it's owner to return to it. Although, they never will.
I dont think that was the fan, rather it sounded like a failing spinning hard drive. Considering it might have been on for 17 years, those years would put a LOT of wear onto that drive.
I had a very similar CRT monitor, I would put the time frame between 2004 to 2006, I remember buying mine new in 2005
@@cmans79tr7 17 years is absolutely crazy... My max was 35 days! ...if it wasnt for those damn windows and avg updates...
I enjoy these videos, but I seriously wish you guys would wear respiratory and other protective gear accordingly.
I think they’ve briefly spoken about this before. Even with things as little as boots, it makes it too obvious of their intentions if they travel towards abandoned buildings all geared out, and get spotted.
That being said, in a perfect world I too would like to see them be safe and wear the necessary gear
They do wear it sometimes, but it usually makes them stand out. Think about what you would think if you saw someone wearing a hiking backpack, and wearing a respirator.
Think about the risks of inhaling mold spores, asbestos, and other dangerous fumes or particles. They have those big backpacks, so they can't carry boots, respirators, gloves, etc to explore safely and responsibly? It's their health so they can do what they want, but I would hate to see them get hurt.
Keep all your PPE stuff in the backpacks. Problem solved?
Asbestos related diseases is the first thing that occurred to me. Buildings of this age will undoubtedly be riddled with exposed material. Very worrying!
Oh man that intro is the boss. It's like when your fav show comes on tv.
I know right I’ve been watching for years
The orange Glucose liquid is used for glucose tests (urine test usually). Most commonly used in pregnant women who have a high or low sugar count during blood test.
Anyone else just imagine the time the building was brand new?
Yes
That looks like the Dejarnett Center. Staunton, Va. Dr Dejarnett mentored Hitler while both were in Europe. Smh
@@loisagnor4445 no it doesn't match up.
facebook.com/pages/Dejarnette-Childrens-Asylum/201660246549161?fref=ts
Coming across a wall notice about a patient coming in lately to the hospital with strange symptoms sounds like a great intro into a zombie game in an abandoned hospital.
the strange symptoms might have been why it was abandoned, fear of another plague or something, why else leave a computer on? or half of the stuff in disarray? obviously it could of just been a scare, but when it comes to lawsuits and personal health, it's not too far fetched to consider them leaving everything on the spot to evacuate for an unknown virus
@@backtrakk2121 Oh please. The computer wasn't left on. That's so obviously staged
Where are the lurking game devs when you need them?
Invest in some gloves - it might be prudent to have them on while doing stuff in a medical facility.
Cain if there were anything not cleaned during operation, it’s died by now
@@danielmilner8946 Definitely not dead - life finds a way. Not really rubber gloves but even workmans gloves would be safer than barehand - would possibly save from a tetanus shot. Either way, great work. Stay safe.
So much years after it's over now and totally gone
@@parydarksix yeah that's horseshit. Viruses can hibernate for extremly long periods of time.
@@parydarksix Tell that to the Earth - after billions of years life just happens.
If you feel lonely, just think of the computer
Just Driving I just want to take it home with me so it has a user and a friend so it’s not forever alone
It’s one of my favorite Windows!
But it’s illegal as someone else said.
@@Dr-Random me too
@@Dr-Random if you called the owners they would probably let you take it, they don't seem to care. And if may be illegal but it's not morally bad
Michał C. Yeah but there’s one small problem... I don’t know the number tho.
Some of those chairs have 'convenient' iron eyes under armrests. Something tells me these were to attach handcuffs to :(
The device found @30:10 is an autoclave. TLDR: These are pressure cookers.
These are used to sterilize liquids and solids/tools. Often these reach up to 121 Degrees Celsius and 1 extra atmosphere of pressure (14.7 psi), however the PSI may vary based on the temperature's short comings.
The reason the device probably didn't work is the lack of steam from a boiler. The audible clicking noise is probably the disengagement/engagement of electronic solenoids used to prevent steam entrance or exit to the jacket chamber or main chamber.
Its probably for the best that this didn't work, since it doesn't look like you fully shut it. Additionally, the older machinery lacks safety mechanisms and could very well blow open when not fully shut. Even when not satisfactorily shut, these machines may vent steam out the front due to the high pressure. Unfortunately there is no guarantee this machine can take the extra 1-1.5 atmospheres of pressure and could explode after a long instrument lifetime (unlikely). Alternatively, if the boiler was working it could fill with boiling water and pour out.
Lastly, these machines are typically quite loud, since steam is being forced into the inner chamber at high pressure, or during the initial purge and later exhaust phase, when steam is moving out of the chamber.
I touched the back of my arm on an autoclave door, got a nice 1x1 inch hashbrown tan.
The autoclave I use is retarded and would definitely startup without water and probably explode. Im glad this autoclave had a safety or else they could have been in some danger.
O Y yea yea whatever nerd
@@LemmyTho yeah fuck that guy for adding to the conversation
Did ghost wash their clothes🤔🤔
Just imagine the screams that would have came from there, scared people being tortured, can't imagine where they would have ended up at??
Mloc its so sick to think that the people working there voluntarily tortured these mentally ill people. Sad to know that those people had to go through the testing and experiments on them without any alternative therapy to help their mental ill nesses
that's what I hate from asylums, they treated mentally ill people as if they were abominations
That's what the soundproof booth is for...
Either family helped them or they're probably in jails or institutions
This place reminds me of an old NHS psychiatry hospital and neighbouring school in England that my boyfriend and I spent a summer exploring (it was in the middle of a neighborhood watch zone, so we had to space out our visits for each building over time)
Abandoned for roughly 5 years, so not only was it clean, it had all of the resources still but we had to wear masks and stay low because there were windows everywhere, but it was well worth the discovery into what it was like before the demolition project right after.
Glad we found your channel and that there's more of us out there that we can talk to about our explorations together ☺️❤️
The place in this video is indeed an NHS psychiatry hospital.
In a SINGLE frame in the video I could find that information where they forgot to blur A SINGLE FRAME
I’d really like to see you guys go back and look at the sign log just to see who’s been there
computers probably trashed or stolen by now
R. P. McMurfey
I worked for The Grass Instrument Co. In Quincy, MA. Those upright 12-16 channel polygraph consoles were made as is through the 90's. They were used for EMG.
Those machined and anodized silver and gold rectangular knobs cost $20 each. We used to steal them and replace the ones on our stereos with them.
They are all selected Telefunken vacuum tubes inside worth up to $200 each if perfect.
If we only knew where this place was now🤔....
I wonder if solid state can replace those. Sometimes vacuum tubes offer advantages. I mean, sure, yeah, but it may cost a fortune for very expensive digital electronics.
imagine opening one of those files and theres just a picture of yourself...
"Welcome, our newest patients...."
can someone please create a movie with this plot? OR black mirror episode
That would be an amazing movie like actually though
that has some real creepypasta potential.
And imagine the image is of yourself looking at the computer. Then u turn around...
the fact that that old computer still works is amazing!
How so? the vast majority of computers from the 80's and 90's still work. I would be more surprised if it didn't work.
@@Alobster1 keep in mind as computers age, components deteriorate, such as capacitors, hard drives, fans, and the like. With a computer of this age, in the environment of an abandoned building that likely has more moisture and debris in the air than usual, (and judging by the sound of those fan bearings, it's been turned on for a pretty long time in this environment!) It's a more impressive feat than you might think that it's still mostly functional.
@@TheRealMMC The majority of capacitors from the 90's are still good. I usually have to recap things that are either much older or suffering from the mid 2000's capacitor plague. I plug in crusty old computers all the time and I usually expect them to work.
That computer fan could be heard from a hundred feet down the hallway!!! How could the bearings not have seized??
*Amazing* exploration!!
There's no bearings in computer fans, it's a steel axle in a plastic housing so there's not a lot to fail. Surprised the motors hadn't burned up for how long they'd been running
probably clogged with dust. no one probably cleaned it since 98
That sounded like the hard drive was going out
@Moon shiner Computer fans (especially ones from the 90s or early 2000's like this pc was) in fact, do not have roller bearings.
I don't understand why you think they do. Maybe some newer, way over engineered ones do, but spinning a piece of plastic at fairly low rpms doesn't create a lot of horizontal or perpendicular thrust/movement. So they don't use mechanical bearings and just rely on the plastic housing to do the support work.
What they were hearing they described as a "falling" sound, and from the audio it sounds like i'd expect any old gateway or hp to sound like, just the sound of older style fans in a not very well designed case for airflow.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk, hope you learned you're wrong.
@@tylergarza8695 Please don't answer questions if you don't know what you're talking about.
Most computer fans use either ball bearings or sleeve bearings (there are other types of bearings being used too).
Maybe check out this wikipedia article so you can learn a thing or two about computer fans.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_fan#Bearing_types
This place is straight up terrifying
Maybe the coolest Proper People video to date, and that is saying a LOT
Way better then all of Joshs vids combined for the last couple years to.
this is the first video I clicked on (only because of the PC) due to the strange username
That old computer though. Pure nostalgia!
imagine someone who used to work there is now watching this on youtube
That i knew i forgot something at work feeling
@@BigBodyBiggolo YES!! Especially the guy who left that poor computer on for 17 years!
Imagine someone who used to be a patient is now watching this on TH-cam
@@plupkination Probably some earlier explorer who turned it on, since there was a loose stick of RAM next to it I'm guessing an earlier explorer turned the PC on, it didn't work, and removed one of the RAM chips to see if it would start, which it did.
RAM chips can get corrupted with age and prevent a computer from starting up
Youz guyz don't seem to have much electrical or mechanical experience but when it comes to complimentary colors of random luggage nobody can touch you. Great vidya fellers.
I do digital forensics and I would be so tempted to pull that hard drive for analysis
@Dawid Jandzinski same
@TheRageMaker I'm not talking about data recovery, I am talking about analyzing what data I find. What is it? Some idea as to when the system was last used.
@@jefftank3300 Did u see those 1960s magnetic tape reels too?? @ 24:42
There must have been like an old minicomputer in there somewhere, would be so interesting to see what they were used for and what programs were on the tapes..
Tfw you realize that booth was probably soundproof so they couldn't hear people screaming on the inside while they electrocuted them.
Biomed here, no, it's just an audiometer booth (you can google it and see similar devices). They do hearing screening tests with them, even to this day they haven't changed much. Nothing sinister about that particular device.
@@canisdirus6045 Not a hospital for the deaf Canis. These were EEG booths complete with metal shielding.
@@GenoSalvati Doesn't need to be a hospital for the deaf. These booths were commonly used for hearing tests for the last couple decades in every hospital. I work in a hospital that still has one, it's actually just in the employee health department because they get all the oldest medical equipment. It's not uncommon for them to also be upgraded with EEG functionality since it's already isolated. It definitely wasn't just used to electrocute people and soundproof it though, as the original comment said so long ago.
@@canisdirus6045 Agree with the electrocution part.
whoever had the job of making sure everything was turned off before leaving didnt do a very good job
Hey ted! You turned off the power right?
Absolutely!
TL;DR - This computer was running since 2006 at most, but was most likely turned and left on by some scrapper or explorer at later time, and restarted itself due to an error or a power cut at some point.
I highly doubt that the computer was running since 2002, since it seems that it has been moved
(dust on the desk), and it had a printer connected at some point, which has not been seen anywhere near
(HP Deskjet 5700 Series icon on desktop, according to driver files on the internet the printer is from 2003/2004 time period).
At 18:00 a pop up comes on asking to scan for printer software update, so this thing has been connected to the internet at one point, but isn't now
(you can see that the modem/networking card at the bottom of the case has nothing plugged in).
When they first touched it the Norton Antivirus window came up with the last test dated 3/25/2019, however I'd suggest the scan was automatically set up to start at a specific time everyday or week.
The antivirus window covered the logon window for Windows Networking, which basically means that it was not logged on and the antivirus started anyway. This could mean that it restarted itself at some point or
the power went out as it was running (some computers are set up to restart at power loss automatically), but as some suggested Windows 98 automatically freezes after running continuously for 49 days, so
it either froze because of that, or because of some error it encountered during the time it was running there but for a shorter period.
The noise heard from the computer means it's either a fan bearing or a hard drive. It is possible that the hard drive survived after being turned on for a long time period, Windows is automatically set
to spin down hard drives after a period of inactivity unless the setting has been overriden by the administrator; the file system at 17:43 shows C:\NOVARTIS\My Documents, instead of the usual username, so
computers set up for specific facilities like this (Novartis is a pharmaceutical company according to Wikipedia) could have different system settings. Anyway, constant spinning for a hard drive does less
harm that turning it on and off repeatedly (unless the bearing on the motor wears out, but I've heard of people running consumer class hard drives for several years 24/7 with no harm, and this could be a business class hdd
designed to run for longer periods of time).
Here are some time stamps suggesting the time it was last used:
- SPSS 9.0 for Windows, a program used for data analysis, was released about 1999
- Adobe Reader 6.0 was released in July 2003 according to Wikipedia
- At 17:30, on the left there is a PDF (?) file with 2005 in the name
- At 17:11, a windows comes up that the time and date has been updated to Daylight Saving Time, so even if the CMOS battery was dead (which it should be after 10+ years), this computer still knows the time and date
while not being plugged into the internet, so either it really was plugged in the whole time and restarted due to power cut, or someone went in there and set it ubefore.
- The whole "FBI has your file scam" mail is dated on 28 May 2002, so obviously it was then connected to the internet
So, to add all this up, this is a possible story of how this thing ended there:
The facility was completely shut down at around 2005/2006, so one of the employees moved the computer from its original place to that room (a lot of computer parts were seen in the hall so maybe they were taking the data off them or just testing
if they work before throwing them out, judging by the fact that the monitor lacks the stand and how the cables and the tower is positioned), and left it there turned off. At one point someone came around and turned it on just to see if it works,
but found out that the RAM stick was bad and took it out (or maybe the RAM was taken out by the employee?), and then left it there without turning it off. Later on the power was cut off for a short while so the pc restarted,
and was left there displaying the logon screen, and the antivirus started periodically running automated scans.
PLdenny327 wow
You analysed that pc well
Huh, thanks
Impressive
My Hero!
splendind detective work, well written.
WHY AM I WATCHING THIS WHEN I AM THE ONLY ONE WORKING AT NIGHT IN THIS OLD BUILDING. ARGH.
I suggest you look Al Bielek pl next then watch this video again : )
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Because you have nothing better to do with your life?
@@vertitis dumbass
@@zacharyreynolds4303 Why so offended?
vertitis Shut up
One of my dad's cousins (no this isn't the begging to an urban legend) worked at an Asylum. According to my dad, a popular joke was:
'Whoever puts the coat on first is the doctor."