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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures:
SCP-XXXX is held in a storage containment facility on the premises of Site-12.
Due to the foundation’s knowledge that the object provides a non-immediate threat, its observational period lasts approximately 4 hours every 6 months, and includes a technical inspection of the object’s functionality.
Only those with a certified license can inspect and come in contact with the object.
Every two years, those at the foundation with certified blank licenses will collaborate together to investigate the object and to further current research.
Description:
SCP-XXXX is an IBM branded PC 300GL model personal computer, operating under the Windows 95 operating system (as produced by the Microsoft Corporation).
It evidently contains an ability to correspond with and perceive time from 1997-2002, with each individual year displayed in a selection menu upon startup. Once a year is selected, the user can define an exact date and time within that calendar year, and use the world wide web to directly perceive time as it linearly passes.
Considering that the architecture of this process does not mimic modern advanced simulations in any way, and there is no hardware or software based indications of a simulation encoded in the device, the current consensus is that the computer can access an alternate timeline. This theory is evidenced by news stories displayed on the computer, which include foreign and sometimes anachronistic details in almost all stories. For instance, the signage of The Good Friday Agreement between Ireland and the United Kingdom in 1998 was, according to CNN’s website on this machine, delayed by two months.
Although these deviations occur, this timeline still roughly falls in line with our own, suggesting that some force is causing these events to remain on course. This could have further implications for our entire understanding of how alternate timelines operate.
Current studies have tried to locate the exact origin of how the past is accessible in this machine, but certified blanks have still not concluded whether this phenomenon is software or hardware based.
History:
The origin of this PC can be traced back to Nathaniel Hartwell, a computer engineer who was employed by IBM at their headquarters in Armonk, New York from 1991 until 2004. Hartwell was specifically employed as a computer research scientist, mainly due to his experience with LG from 1986-1991, shortly after graduating with a Phd. from UC Irvine in 1984, and was an integral employee during the company’s waning success in the early 1990s.
In 2004, Hartwell was fired from his position as ‘Lead Research Specialist’, from what he claims were “ideological differences”-(from his website created shortly after his extermination).
His website also includes a blog-post response that foundation members believe might refer to SCP-XXXX:
7/7/2006
User ’Titor01’:
“What have you been working on recently?”
Admin:
“I’m currently developing a technology that is based on a process discovered by
IBM in the late 1970s. In my 13 years at the company, I became very familiar with
this process, so much so that I’m able to recreate it at my home, which is my
current project. I can’t share much, because I don’t want to put myself at legal
peril with the corporation, but it’s safe to say that this project is larger and more
complex than anything I’ve ever worked on in my 30 or so years as a computer
Scientist.”
This post was the last one he made before his suicide on October 12th, 2006. After his death, IBM claimed that he was using their intellectual property for personal gain, and after a lengthy court battle with the corporation and Hartwell’s family, his family was forced to overturn over 2000 documents and $47,000 in hardware and software assets to the company.
Through the means and identification abilities of the foundation, they successfully intercepted the computer and immediately began studying it shortly after it was placed in IBM’s possession.
