Back then, your monitor was a boxy thing with a bulge at the back, your hard drive lived in a separate unit, and you had to use floppy disks to physically hand your texts over to colleagues. Email wasn’t a thing yet, and none of us had ever heard of Wi-Fi.
These expensive gadgets took up half your desk. To make sure they stayed put (small devices had gone missing from the office before), they were chained down with steel cables and small padlocks. The locks were tiny; a decent screwdriver could probably have defeated them. But they did the job until, years later, the clunky old machines were replaced by newer, much faster models. Why these weren’t chained to the desks, we don’t know. But the padlocks ended up in a plastic box in a filing cabinet, waiting for the day someone can put them to good use. If you have any valuables you’d like to lock away, please don’t hesitate to drop us an email.