Abandoned AmericaDec 9, 2022

A Burroughs F5100 Adding Machine left behind in an abandoned auto parts manufacturer and distributor
EDIT: According to @MrNick it's a posting machine, not an adding machine. I believe I saw it refered to as an adding machine on ebay. Sorry for the mix up

Gallery/history: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/r-j-loock-auto-parts

#art #photography #history #abandoned #auto

The Abandoned R.J. Loock & Co. Auto Parts in Baltimore, Maryland | Abandoned America

From 1913 to 2001, R.J. Loock & Co. not only distributed parts they patented and created them and also operated a retail storefront in Baltimore. Then they closed, leaving behind a time capsule of decades of vintage auto paraphernalia.

Show threadJeremy L Lawson ☕
@AbandonedAmerica @MrNick Man, I haven't thought about Burroughs in so long! Was never around these, but in my childhood for a while my father had a Burroughs Large Systems Mainframe in our living room that he had been pulled from a building that was being torn down. This was in the early 80s and the machine wasn't even that old at the time.
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Show threadMrNick 🇨🇦Dec 9, 2022

@jeremyllawson @AbandonedAmerica

Wonderful man, your father.

Show threadAbandoned AmericaDec 10, 2022
@jeremyllawson @MrNick was he hoping to use it? Resell it? Or he just liked machines?
Show threadJeremy L Lawson ☕Dec 10, 2022

@AbandonedAmerica He did many things, programming for one. He didn't keep it that long and eventually he sold and set it up for someone. I was maybe 6 or 7 years old at the time and just getting into computers myself. Not long afterwards I got a TI-99/4A to play with and a big Atlas metal lathe and some other machinery related bits took the Burroughs place (Yes, in the living room)

Yeah, I had a very nontraditional childhood. Computers, machinery, vintage cars, etc.

Show threadAbandoned AmericaDec 10, 2022
@jeremyllawson that sounds like a really cool childhood, actually
Show threadMrNick 🇨🇦Dec 10, 2022

@jeremyllawson @AbandonedAmerica

Wonderful exposure to cool tech at the right age. If I may, what was your career path?

Show threadJeremy L Lawson ☕Dec 10, 2022

@MrNick I've done and still do several things, but at the moment I'm focusing on some recurring health things.

But previously I've built vintage cars & hot rods, studied architecture & engineering & designed a few houses & machine parts. And since I was around computers & tech from young age I did IT work for a number of years in the late 90s & early 2000s; mostly on the hardware side. Scott Studios systems for radio stations, some Linux bits, Windows NT, etc. I've had a varied career. 😀

Show threadMrNick 🇨🇦Dec 11, 2022

@jeremyllawson

Thanks for that. Your fathers influence is evident. Do you #homelab ?

Show threadJeremy L Lawson ☕Dec 11, 2022

@MrNick Just a bit. Right now I've got an 18U rack with a #Ubiquiti #Unifi Dream Machine Pro, 24 port switch, Minuteman double conversion UPS, and a HP SFF machine running #Linux doing #Pihole, #Jellyfin, torrents, monitoring the UPS, etc. there's a trio of Unifi access points and a small NAS too.

Lately I'm tinkering with #HomeAssistant in a VM on this machine and once I get it where I want it I'll shuffle it over to something in the rack as well, probably another SFF or SBC.

Show threadMrNick 🇨🇦Dec 11, 2022

@jeremyllawson

Figures. It’s in your DNA.

5kVA UPS in front of Dell and SM servers, 10Gbs Brocade switches, Edgerouter-8, ESXi with 2xpiholes, OpenVPN, reverse proxy,, XigmaNAS, NAS4free VMs etc. Primary purpose is running an Agent VM with 32 cams recording 7/24 using both hardwired and complex Wi-Fi with remote POE switches.

There’s so much to try… found this yesterday:

https://github.com/OWASP/Amass

GitHub - OWASP/Amass: In-depth Attack Surface Mapping and Asset Discovery

In-depth Attack Surface Mapping and Asset Discovery - GitHub - OWASP/Amass: In-depth Attack Surface Mapping and Asset Discovery

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Show threadJeremy L Lawson ☕Dec 11, 2022
@MrNick It's in my DNA for sure. There's a few more projects I plan on tinkering on soon, just gotta get to it.