Bye bye, Babbages's

winder, originally uploaded by Spinetree.org.

Babbages was an incredible place, and my corvid/scavenger side will sorely miss it. Basically it was lots of flannel-clad men and t-shirted high school nerds cobbling together working computer systems from nonworking ones. They had incredible piles of serial port mice, 5.25" disk drives, CRT monitors.... they also operated in an old factory on the top of a hill, and had incredible things unbeknownst in the 21st century, like ashtrays in the bathrooms and giant rooms containing nothing but broken glass and dead birds.

Took many of my favorite photos there. Take a look at 'em here on Flickr