So.. what's left of old Commodore headquarters?

[Dragster]

Hi,

because of work reasons, I'm located atm in Newton Square, Pennsylvania, USA. It turns out that I'm located pretty close to the old Commodore headquarters site, afaik, 1200 Wilson Drive, West Chester, PA. I'm tempted to take a drive there and see the remains of Commodore, if any, that is.

Does anyone know if there's still something Commodore-related worth to see there?

Cheers,

Dragster

[djbase]

AFAIK QVC has now a warehouse inside the old Commodore buildings and the rest might be already history.

[Linde]

300 boxed desktop A4000:s

[alexh]

Commodore Semiconductor (CSG) in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania is fenced off and marked as contaminated by the EPA.

Perhaps one of the largest reasons that CBM went bankrupt, they couldnt afford to pay for the cleanup.

http://www.epa.gov/reg3hwmd/npl/PAD093730174.htm

[LoadWB]

Linde wrote:
300 boxed desktop A4000:s

All stacked in a janitor's closet.  Let me know if you find them!

[Colin_Camper]

@Dragster

I think at this site there is a hidden underground chamber.

Inside are many objects and artifacts useful for Amiga in the afterlife.

On a bone dry papyrus parchment;
The plans and diagrams for OCS, ECS AGA



and

AAA

ASICs.

In a fabulous Gold Case, a mumified A40000T....

With a copy of Deluxe Paint II resting on top.


and ....


a gold A1000 case, the inside of which carries strange hieroglyphics of canine paw and scribbles signatures

and




a profound curse.

Wishing misery, poverty and despair upon any mortal who dares tinker, play or deal in the Amiga.   :-o

[Plaz]

@alexh

On June 29, 1993, EPA issued a unilateral order to Commodore Business Machines, and Allen-Bradley Corporation to carry out this work. Only Allen-Bradley Corporation has complied with the order. Commodore Business Machines went bankrupt.

That explains a few things to me. Already finacially strapped, ordered to do an expensive cleanup... "eh, I quit".

Plaz

[Dragster]

@Alexh

interesting, I didn't know about that and in fact, I've been a couple of times in Norristown already.. hehe

[Dragster]

@Colin_Camper

er... it looks like there's "funny" people, everywhere, everytime, eh?

D.

[TjLaZer]

You should take a trip to West Chester and take pics!

[amiga92570]

Heck, The janitor would have cleaned all that stuff out years ago.  :lol:

[rkauer]

 Nah, the janitor sold the equipment, years ago... :evilgrin:

[LoadWB]

Doomy is a janitor?  :sealed:

I'm going to coin a corollary to Godwin's Law:

LoadWB's Law: As an Amiga.org discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison or comment involving Doomy (Doommaster) approaches one.

Unless someone else has already done so  :crazy:

[hardlink]

TjLaZer wrote:
You should take a trip to West Chester and take pics!

One time, on a group road trip to a Software Hut open house (when they used to have them), a bunch of us in NCAUG did stop by and take pictures.

We parked our cars near the front entrance of what is now the QVC shopping channel, all went up and stood in front of the doors, and had someone take a group picture, and then got out of there quick. The security guards inside gave us some strange looks, but we got a great picture! I'll have to find it and post it.

BTW, at that time, I think the parking lot speedbumps used to reset A500 chips were still there