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Inside Iron Mountain's underground room 48
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 11:52 am
by complacent
linky of coolness.
Computerworld - Down a road that winds through the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, just across from a cow pasture, the bucolic scenery of Butler County is interrupted by a high chain-link fence topped with razor wire.
Cars entering the compound are channeled into gated lanes before being searched by a guard. A short distance beyond the security point, the road disappears into a gaping hole in a cliff face. The hole is sealed off by the thick, steel bars of a tall sliding gate controlled by guards carrying semiautomatic pistols. They are protecting a 25-foot-high passage that leads 22 stories down to Iron Mountain's main archive facility, which takes up 145 acres of a 1,000-acre abandoned limestone mine.
Re: Inside Iron Mountain's underground room 48
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 2:49 pm
by sirwilliam
Pretty sweet article...thanks!
Re: Inside Iron Mountain's underground room 48
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:25 am
by Mr Kleen
Dept of education uses Iron Mountain. Or they did when I worked there a few years back.
Re: Inside Iron Mountain's underground room 48
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:39 am
by complacent
Mr Kleen wrote:Damn near everyone uses Iron Mountain. Or they did when I worked there a few years back.
Re: Inside Iron Mountain's underground room 48
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:47 am
by chicken n waffles
complacent wrote:
isn't that where, you know, that thing w/ the thing a while back?
Re: Inside Iron Mountain's underground room 48
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:39 pm
by complacent
chicken n waffles wrote:complacent wrote:
isn't that where, you know, that thing w/ the thing a while back?
yerp! one of 'em
Re: Inside Iron Mountain's underground room 48
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:00 am
by Sabre
We used Iron mountain at NASA too.
Very cool article. I've always wanted to build something like this... just didn't have the money!
Re: Inside Iron Mountain's underground room 48
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:05 am
by Sabre
BTW, that light beam into the room is AWESOME!