Isn't it nice when you FIND a computer

[TomC25]

I walked out of my house this morning and saw the neighbor across the street had a desktop case sitting with the trash cans at the curb. I walk over and look and it is a Dell case. I look and there is no CD ROM drive so I look iside through that hole. I see there is a motherboard and RAM in there. There is also a power supply. I pick it up and take it to my house real quick before I leave. Now I can't wait to get home tonight and see what goodies are inside.

 

[technogeeky]

LMAO!


Never done that. Everyone here seems to have POS computers.

 

[xospec1alk]

i found a couple computers my neighbor threw out one time...nothing good tho...

 

[BigJohnKC]

LOL, that's funny....just the image of some guy digging through his neighbor's garbage for computer parts is hilarious. Hope you got something good

 

[CraigRT]

Does it look like ghetto parts?

~Pentium mobo? EDO RAM?

there is no way that guy would throw out anything new at all!!! :Q

 

[TomC25]

Originally posted by: BigJohnKC
LOL, that's funny....just the image of some guy digging through his neighbor's garbage for computer parts is hilarious. Hope you got something good

I was digging through his trash, it was just sitting there next to a can in plain view from my front portch. He and his wife make good money as they are both chemical engineers. He is not into computers so he would not know he was throwing out perfectly good parts.

I need to build a computer for my daughter who is 3. I don't need anything powerfull and I will just build one from spare parts. Hopefully this case has a good power supply as that is one part I still need. Extra RAM couldn't hurt either.

 

[TomC25]

Originally posted by: Yield
Does it look like ghetto parts?

~Pentium mobo? EDO RAM?

there is no way that guy would throw out anything new at all!!! :Q

With the quick glance that I saw of it I think the RAM is 168pin SDRAM. I think the motherboard could hold a Pentium II.

 

[BigJohnKC]

Originally posted by: TomC25

Originally posted by: BigJohnKC
LOL, that's funny....just the image of some guy digging through his neighbor's garbage for computer parts is hilarious. Hope you got something good

I was digging through his trash, it was just sitting there next to a can in plain view from my front portch. He and his wife make good money as they are both chemical engineers. He is not into computers so he would not know he was throwing out perfectly good parts.

I need to build a computer for my daughter who is 3. I don't need anything powerfull and I will just build one from spare parts. Hopefully this case has a good power supply as that is one part I still need. Extra RAM couldn't hurt either.

lol, no offense intended, amigo. I personally have built a computer from trash before as well - but the one I got was an old pentium 166 in an ATX case. For about 80 bucks I got a new mobo and pII 266 (this was two years ago) and reused the rest of the parts to build a spare machine. The case was in a pile of computer junk outside my school's computing center. Good luck finding te stuff you need...

 

[gar598]

486s hehe

 

[Jzero]

LOL
I once found some big old motorola server in a Drexel dorm helping my brother and his fiancee who was an RA clean up the place after moveout. It was tucked in a laundry room...no idea why. We dragged it home (it weighed over 100 lbs) but could never find a power cable for it, so we ended up tossing it. Other interesting items found: A Mazda steering wheel...still attached to the steering column. A busted neon light (still worked except for one of the tubes was broken).

At my own school, there was a "trash heap" in the basement of the admin building. There was some strange loophole about a gov't institution not being permitted to junk good equipment just because it was obsolete (and I'm talking about stuff as obsolete as AS/400 dumb terminals).
So instead of trashing stuff, the equipment was thrown onto the trash heap, where cheap techno-vultures would "decay" them piece by piece.
I knew a guy who made a whole slew of Pentium Pro systems out of parts found on the trash heap.
I mostly collected old chips and ICs from them. I have lots of 1kB RAM modules, and AMD 8088 equivalent, an Intel 8086, 386 with 387 coprocessor....if nothing else they make great push-pins.

 

[TomC25]

Whoops meant to say that I wasn't digging through his trash.

I don't need a screamer machine for what I do myself. I have 3 other computers and the best one is a P3 550@733 with 512MB. Another one of mine is a Celeron 566@850 with 256MB. I would rather use old parts so that I can spend more money on more important things, or save it.

The guy who lives right next to me builds computers for fun too. We can share the find.

 

[StattlichPassat]

Whee! Dumpster diving rocks! That's how my roommate and I got our living room MP3 server. It's a P1 200MHz/128MB EDO box with an ISA SoundBlaster and a network card, and a 15" Acer monitor that works well 95% of the time. Works great! My roomie even spraypainted the case and did a 'flame' job on it, lol.

 

[Shagger]

I once built a Pentium 100mHz "screamer" for free. Used all the old parts from 3 "junk" computers and did a good job too! It was fun except for when it would fail after a few minutes of work...turns out the HS fan was dying out, so I replaced that and voila! It made my sister in law happy so that's a good thing!