Dont you love it when you find PCs on the side of the road. I did today!

[Garlic]

I was driving down some side roads to get to my local grocery store when I suddenly spot 2 PCs sitting side by side on the side of the road with some other junk.

I dont know about you guys but when ever I see a PC on the side of the road I slam on the breaks and throw it in my trunk. I love the suspense of wondering whats inside. Most of the time the PCs are really old 486 or early Pentium 60mhz or 75mhz......but not this time Two PCs pic

PC #1 Works!

Pentium MMX 233mhz
64mb ram
4mb trident PCI videocard
Diamond sonic impact PCI sound card
24x CD-ROM
no hard drive
OK windows 98 machine
Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3

PC #2 After adding a stick of ram it works!

Pentium III 450mhz
Abit BH6 motherboard
Voodoo3 2000 16mb AGP videocard
8.4gb Quantum bigfoot harddrive
44x CD-ROM
floppy
no ram
Picture 1
Picture 2

 

[Budman]

congrads on pc 2, that's still a decent surfing pc ,too bad about the bigfoot drive.

 

[Garlic]

Never had a bigfoot drive. Is it that slow?

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: Garlic
Never had a bigfoot drive. Is it that slow?

# Formatted Capacity: 8037MB
# Interface: Fast ATA-2
# Data Transfer Rates: 33.3MB/s (ATA)
# Physical Pins of Data Connector: 40pins
# Average Access Times: <12ms
# Buffer Size: 128K
# Rotational Speed: 4000rpm
# Width: 5.25 inch
# Height (inch/mm): Slim (0.8/20.3)

 

[Garlic]

4000rpm on a 5.25" harddrive is = to 5400rpm performance on a 3.5" drive from what I have read.

 

[n7]

Nice find!

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Garlic
4000rpm on a 5.25" harddrive is = to 5400rpm performance on a 3.5" drive from what I have read.

Where the hell did you hear that?

4000 RPM is 4000 rpm..

 

[Garlic]

bjc112,

Hard drive rotational speeds and disk diameters are related.

For example, a 5.25 diameter disk at 4000rpm reads and writes faster at the outer sections of the disk than a 3.5" 5400 rpm drive does. Its simple physics.

 

[imported_g33k]

What are you planning on doing with them?

 

[Garlic]

The pentium 233mhz is going on freecycle after I pop in an old 4gb drive I have had lying around for years.

 

[Jeff7]

I saw one by the side of the road once - but whoever did it threw it out of the car at full speed. The PC was wrapped around a tree, and rusted. Friggin' morons. 1) They tossed out a likely functional PC, 2) They were littering, and 3) They're friggin' morons.


Nice finds though.

If it comes down to it, you can order a shipping label from Envirocycle, Inc. and send up to 69 pounds of electronic junk to be salvaged. It's $25, but if you stuff the box full, it's a good deal. I sent 66 pounds in - a big box can get damn heavy fast when it's just sitting on the floor.

 

[theMan]

ive never seen that before. i did take one that was lying aroudn in my scool, it was so old, it could only run 5,25" floppies but i had no monitor to hook up to it.

 

[StrangerGuy]

My guess will be the previous owner thought that a stick of SDRAM is worth keeping, but the P3/BH6/Voodoo3 is not. Hmm...

 

[CrackRabbit]

I wish I could find a P-3 that somone threw out... I did however find a Cyrix MediaGX machine, at least there was a very useable 15" monitor sitting beside it.

 

[KillerPotato]

My uncle keeps finding pc's lying around the streets of Annapolis here in Maryland. Hes found some real treasures- One was a pentium 3 with a 20 gig hard drive and 384 megs of ram and a sound blaster live, a 1ghz emachines that I dont know too much about, and an old P3 gateway with no ram and a tnt2 which i promptly replaced with an old gf2 that i had lying around.

Sadly theyve all been password protected so I've wiped their hard drives. I've gotten into one of them by hooking its hard drive to my computer, and the person left all of her personal stuff on it; so if you ever throw out a computer, delete your personal files please (and leave it without a password )

 

[Dyloot]

Originally posted by: Garlic
Never had a bigfoot drive. Is it that slow?

ROFL, I read right over that and you're comment just brought me back. If I remember correctly, the bigfoot drives were slow (as supported by the poster above) affordable storage solutions.

Dyloot

 

[KoolDrew]

I have a PC that has basically the same specs as the first one.

 

[Nomada]

I just found a P3 633 that I sold for $25. I'm still using an old P2 300 I found as a jukebox. I also just found a decent 17" crt the other day(using now).