I found a computer on the street today

[bentwookie]

On my way to work, I stopped at a little ma and pa deli store. I parked near the dumpster for some reason...as I was walking in I noticed, a shoe, some papers scattered about..and a emachine 1 ghz computer tower sitting upside down.

I went to grab it and noticed all the features it had, since the product info sticker was still on the front. 1Ghz,20gigHD,256MB ram, AGP, it has also windows XP home...figured I try and take it home. If it worked I will give it to my mom. Amazingly it worked! The OS wasn't even finished registering yet..good thing the product key# was on the back..I can't believe people just toss this stuff. I checked ebay, they are selling for $100-150..

now for the emachines cracks....Ithankyou

 

[imported_Mike]

nice find

 

[Eli]

Wow.. Nice find!

Only 100-150$ for a 1ghz system with 256mb of ram and a 20gb hdd?

hmm

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: Eli
Wow.. Nice find!

Only 100-150$ for a 1ghz system with 256mb of ram and a 20gb hdd?

hmm

its an emachines...and you can get a P4 from dell for less than $300

 

[n7]

Nice find indeed.

 

[loup garou]

Crazy! I see systems on the street all the time, but never anything that modern.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Eli
Wow.. Nice find!

Only 100-150$ for a 1ghz system with 256mb of ram and a 20gb hdd?

hmm

I picked up a dual amd 1600+ barebones with 512 mb ram and 40gb hd for that.

 

[chuckywang]

pics?

 

[intogamer]

:thumbsup: use it as a server of some sort

 

[Kalvin00]

Nice job. The most valuable thing i've ever found was a quarter.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: Eli
Wow.. Nice find!

Only 100-150$ for a 1ghz system with 256mb of ram and a 20gb hdd?

hmm

I picked up a dual amd 1600+ barebones with 512 mb ram and 40gb hd for that.

Nice.. I guess I'm way out of the hardware loop, heh.

 

[villageidiot111]

:thumbsup:

I wish people just threw out computers around here, I could find plenty of uses for old ones.

 

[aplefka]

Nice find. May wanna throw in another stick of 256 to get XP to run smooth though.

 

[mpitts]

:thumbsup:

 

[Svnla]

Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Nice job. The most valuable thing i've ever found was a quarter.

The most valuable I ever found on the street was a $20 bill. Guess where I found it? On the street of NY City...LOL.

 

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: Svnla

Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Nice job. The most valuable thing i've ever found was a quarter.

The most valuable I ever found on the street was a $20 bill. Guess where I found it? On the street of NY City...LOL.

Errr... why is that so funny?

 

[Thurgo0dy]

Maybe it belonged to a hobo and you stole it from him...everybody these days has a computer

 

Cool! Make it an mp3 server!

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: aplefka

Originally posted by: Svnla

Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Nice job. The most valuable thing i've ever found was a quarter.

The most valuable I ever found on the street was a $20 bill. Guess where I found it? On the street of NY City...LOL.

Errr... why is that so funny?

Probably because HE was the one to find it, as opposed to finding it stuck in the mud while hiking in the mountains or something.

 

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: aplefka

Originally posted by: Svnla

Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Nice job. The most valuable thing i've ever found was a quarter.

The most valuable I ever found on the street was a $20 bill. Guess where I found it? On the street of NY City...LOL.

Errr... why is that so funny?

Probably because HE was the one to find it, as opposed to finding it stuck in the mud while hiking in the mountains or something.

Just give me more :beer: and I'm sure it will start to make sense.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
pics?

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Eli
Wow.. Nice find!

Only 100-150$ for a 1ghz system with 256mb of ram and a 20gb hdd?

hmm

Just remember that all the parts were ordered from the lowest bidder.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Thurgo0dy
Maybe it belonged to a hobo and you stole it from him...everybody these days has a computer

You laugh, but a couple months ago I saw a homeless guy downtown with a bunch of old computers he had dug out of dumpsters. He had torn the access panel off a streetlight and plugged a complete system into the power outlet in there.

 

[canadageek]

LINK
OMFG !!!!!!!!!
that's just crazy!!!!!!!!!

 

[mdbusa]