Abandoned Chip Fab: Bil Herd's MOS Technologies Factory Walk-Through 35 Years Later

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"The second floor was where our offices had been. The hot press of design deadlines has long since left this space, now all there is to see is the golf course out the window and a little camp fire someone had made. I got to show this video to Dave, including the view looking out his old office window, and we both smiled at the thought that it was now 35 years later.

Dave has since passed away, the world has one less wizard and as the video shows, the dragon has long since gone quiet."


https://hackaday.com/2020/09/30/vid...oned-birthplace-of-the-6502-and-commodore-64/
 
Day One of owning the C64 = "omg...I have the greatest video game system ever made"
Day 30 of owning the C64 + 300 baud Modem = "omg......I am....ON LINE..."..
Day 60 of owning the C64 + 1200 baud Modem = "Right mom, and with this faster modem I will use the phone line LESS! Yes I know it was expensive, but THANK YOU! Oh...now...uh....please don't pick up the phone for the next 6 hours..."
Day 61 of owning the C64 + 1200 baud modem = "My God....the warez...haha...hahahahaha.....hahahahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"


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Look...I was young.....

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Piracy is bad, and this isn't the early 80's anymore where if Toys R Us or your local computer store didn't stock it, you never even heard of it........Piracy, racism, leaded gasoline...leave it in the past where it belongs!
 
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I only bought a few games like QBert and had to load them using the cassette tape drive that crashed the load half the time. I mostly fiddled with programming the graphics and sound hardware that was ahead of its time. I understand They are still being used and have value in the Ham radio field as radio controllers.
 
I only bought a few games like QBert and had to load them using the cassette tape drive that crashed the load half the time. I mostly fiddled with programming the graphics and sound hardware that was ahead of its time. I understand They are still being used and have value in the Ham radio field as radio controllers.
 
Day One of owning the C64 = "omg...I have the greatest video game system ever made"
Day 30 of owning the C64 + 300 baud Modem = "omg......I am....ON LINE..."..
Day 60 of owning the C64 + 1200 baud Modem = "Right mom, and with this faster modem I will use the phone line LESS! Yes I know it was expensive, but THANK YOU! Oh...now...uh....please don't pick up the phone for the next 6 hours..."
Day 61 of owning the C64 + 1200 baud modem = "My God....the warez...haha...hahahahaha.....hahahahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"


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Look...I was young.....

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Piracy is bad, and this isn't the early 80's anymore where if Toys R Us or your local computer store didn't stock it, you never even heard of it........Piracy, racism, leaded gasoline...leave it in the past where it belongs!
Ah for the days when computing was a gentlemens pursuit.

Back before every Joe Sweatsock could wedge himself behind a keyboard and log on to facebook.
 
Yeah you knew you were part of a very specific audience when you went online in those days ;)

I'd even say the AOL days of the emerging Internet, and the subsequent death of the dial-up BBS in the 90's were not bad.......it's these phucking phones with their always-on/always with you "exploiting your reactions/triggers" nature that has ruined the entire experience and clogged the pipes with shit, to to speak........
 
I'm not surprised it's taken them this many years to go back inside, as the entire fab location was classified under Superfund.

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0301146

They didn't do much cleanup in those days (and boy is making semiconductors hazardous to the environment!) The bigger companies could afford to update their fabs, while Commode didn't have enough money to care/didn't have the leadership to put their foot down.

When you're owned by a Jetsetter Venture Capitalist like Gould, then you tend to not care about the rest of the world.
 
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