Wanna buy an old PC factory?

Going, going, going...

Someone's having the diorama away:

http://www.sweeney-kincaid.com/Sales/Live/PlaceLiveBid.aspx?SaleID=1294&LotNumber=369&CatMode=1&PageNo=280&strBidStatus=A

Mine's the one with the artificial plant display in the pocket.

MBI

Think ill buy this and the scale model of the plant and call it MBI, must be some good stuff in there, a deep fat fryer too :)

I think IBM may still have plants in um....nope I give up...

@ Richard 7

The flickr photos show the inside of the Sanmina-SCI side of the factory.

When Sanmina-SCI acquired the business they also acquired most of the manufacturing buildings which was approx. 700,000 square feet of factory. This is now almost completely demolished.

From what I can see the Sweeney Kincaid auction the article is about is showing equipment from buildings in the other half of the site that was not sold to Sanmina-SCI

Anonymous for obvious reasons

so, who d'ya think's bidding on the conference chairs?

<church lady voice>

Could it be....BALLMER??!

</church lady voice>

@Bulldoze it

So you forgot that there are only a handful of houses that face into the offices that are left here, your for the 'malky' pal! :D

@richard7/anon

The Samina side is all bulldozed, its gone!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/westernsmt/3600964016/

Used to be this big :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98346459@N00/360359175/

Nowt left now, the buildings left standing are being sold 'inside out'

I have no idea where the DataCentre will go unless there is a Greenock in India

That's ok

CEOs and their minions are still getting their bonuses.

Ex-Employees are still getting their boneses.

Memories...

A lot of that kit appears to be from the main site rather than the manufacturing bit that Sanmina bought. I'm pretty sure the site model was in the Canteen area, and a lot of the soft furnishings are from the Club House (onsite pub!).

Was a few years back, so I might be wrong.

Interesting...

Some interesting stuff for sale there...

Did they gut the building though? The are UPSes, rackmount cabs, boilers, kitchen equipment, ceiliing mounted, CRT TVs, drinks cabinets and a snooker table.

I was hoping to see some chip robots and surface mount stations for sale - shame.

Mike

Some of this looks familiar...

They don't seem to be selling off the massive automated warehousing system, nor the stacks of Psion II handhelds ;-)

The exploration on Flickr was me, by the way - black helicopters in case IBM/Sanmina take offence...

@Ben Cooper

Ben they have DEMOLISHED the automated warehouse system, all the modules and its all the way back to the 'Reception'.

The stuff for sale comes from the car park / club and the units the 'datawarehouse' was going to go into, so makes you wonder why you would sell off £1'000'000 UPS systems and build a £2'000'000 Data Warehouse no?

And yep no money in developing brownfield, best to tear down trees and use loads of diggers, the whole 'green' 'eco' thing is just another government tax.

Bet you they get a grant for the DataWarehouse after this very public 'up yours' :)

Silicon Glen?

Ahhh -- those were the days. When "Office Space" was a satire on meaningless jobs in the tech industry rather than a nostalgic look back at the time when there were jobs to be had.

Spent the day in San Jose recently. It was looking a tad down at heel as well. Was a very large tech company, a household name, was impressed by the time-capsule like nature of the buildings (you could tell when they were built by the decor), the suspicious absence of employees and what looked like prepping of more technology for the move overseas. Makes you wonder what you've got to do to make a company magnate love you (on second thoughts, I'd rather not think that......)

And the direction of...

Global Free Trade continues.

the joys of foreign investment

This is what happens when things become unprofitable and cheaper elsewhere. Sometimes you lose out. I bet Sir/Lord Al won't be stumping up any dosh... but then again... You never know.