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Dumpster Diving!

Originally posted by Fraggster
o hell yes, and i can drive now:cool:
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Hell, im fooking 25 and now I want to do this....any takers in detroit or just south of PM me!!
 
I posted a week ago about the monitors I found. No one I knew needed another monitor so we had to decide what to do with them.....

Monitor


Heres a very slow movie, but it's pretty funny.

monitor spear

By slow I mean very slow, don't know what happened.
 
Originally posted by sponrad
I posted a week ago about the monitors I found. No one I knew needed another monitor so we had to decide what to do with them.....

Monitor


Heres a very slow movie, but it's pretty funny.

monitor spear

By slow I mean very slow, don't know what happened.
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hahahahaha :D :D :D :D
 
oh sponrad........ the poor moniter!

Anyway, on my drive to school, i noticed an old computer being thrown out.

Picked it up, brought it home, WORKS FLAWLESSLY! Made in 92, but this guy kept it up to at least 97, it has office 97, a CD rom drive, 1.6gb hard drive, sound card g-card ^_^ and windows 95. Only thing it does'nt have is a NIC card, which i would have liked. Compaq 4/33 33mhz ^_^

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^_^ yea, so im happy (you can tell im poor).
 
On the way home from school yesterday I saw an older model desktop and monitor out for the trash around the corner from my house. Woke up around 1am and at about 3 jumped in the truck and went and made a few drive-bys to check if it was still there and wait for there to be no other cars then stopped and picked it up. Let it sit till this evening for the moisture to evaporate and plugged it up. Works perfectly. P1 133Mhz, 16M RAM, 500M HD, CD-ROM, Fresh install of Windows 95 (apparently by a guy named Gus :p ) This comp is blazingly fast for a 133, it smokes the 433s we use at work. Monitor is still untested as I was waiting longer for it to dry.
 
You did a suprising amount of work for something obviously out for the trash. First time?
 
Anyone in the Houston area want to meet up to do some diving ?

I live near tons of big retailers and mom and pop computer stores.

hit me on aim : jaz DASH z0r

0=zero
 
First time?
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Nope not at all. I have acquired many useful things that people have found to be otherwise. First pass was to see if it was still there. Second pass was slower to see if it was worth getting (basically intact, no hole through monitor). Third pass would have been to pick it up but cars were coming from both directions so could not stop. Where I like to look for the opportunity, my dad on the other hand likes to make the opportunity. I generally will make my retrievals with some planning. He on the other hand will just kill all the lights, pull in the driveway, drop the tailgate and start pitchin in the goods.

There are no good places for DD around here so I tend to curbside shop. If you become familiar with what days the garbage runs in what areas and dont live in a rainy climate then you can do quite well.
 
Alright its been a long time since i've done this -- think i might go out tonight. My best score ever yielded a shit load of stuff from a local shop second best score was at staples. When i was at school in VA everything was so close and i knew ALL the hot spots. Now that i'm in ATL i'm just a n00b again :(
 
Originally posted by Krazykemist
He on the other hand will just kill all the lights, pull in the driveway, drop the tailgate and start pitchin in the goods.
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Sounds like we'd get along famously.

My dive partner is like you. Super duper quiet, don't make a ruckus - at all. Park a ways away and walk in. Me? I drive right in, open the doors and start packing stuff away.
 
Originally posted by Peale
Sounds like we'd get along famously.

My dive partner is like you. Super duper quiet, don't make a ruckus - at all. Park a ways away and walk in. Me? I drive right in, open the doors and start packing stuff away.
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peale from build your own? hah.. small world
 
Today was my second time dumpster diving. What can I say, it sucks bad. I have no luck at all. All good computer stores around my area have compactors. fl;kjadfl;jadf

I hate those things.

the first time I went I found some gold, thats right....... gold. It was behind a goodwill, which was right next to office max. I decided to take a peek, and then I find a whole baggie of gold, bracelets, etc.............. It was hidden right next to the dumpster. Someone probably hid it and then probably wanted to pick it up later. Oh well, I got to it first, muwhahahahaha

Then, guess what...... a cop pulled up behind me, right when I was half way in the dumpster. I calmly climbed out, turned off my flashlight and walked up to him and asked, can I help you with something sir? He said, "what are you doing?" I answered that I was looking for some boxes. The he said "I think there are some boxes in that dumpster up there, but you didnt hear that from me!" I laughed and answered thank you, and he drove away.

What can I say, that was a close one.

Now, the second time I went (tonight, it is almost 3 am and I got back not long ago), I scored some games. I peaked into the dumpster from GameStop, and the damn thing was filled with all kinds of games. Tons of empty game boxes, some t-shirts from splinter cell, as well as some posters. I think I scored pretty good. That was the only thing I found. Pretty shitty for spending over 3 hours looking into dumpsters. Ah well, maybe I'll try again soon.

Good luck everyone, and yes I know my spelling is horrible...... but what can I say, I'm tired and I wanna go to sleep! nite

Jnox
 
It sucks i live in northern maine, there is absolutely nothing around here worth going DD for. If i goto Edmundston New Brunswick, then there are decent places but then i have to cross the border w/ tons of stuff in my car. not good.
 
Originally posted by Jnox
Today was my second time dumpster diving. What can I say, it sucks bad. I have no luck at all. All good computer stores around my area have compactors. fl;kjadfl;jadf

I hate those things.

the first time I went I found some gold, thats right....... gold. It was behind a goodwill, which was right next to office max. I decided to take a peek, and then I find a whole baggie of gold, bracelets, etc.............. It was hidden right next to the dumpster. Someone probably hid it and then probably wanted to pick it up later. Oh well, I got to it first, muwhahahahaha

Then, guess what...... a cop pulled up behind me, right when I was half way in the dumpster. I calmly climbed out, turned off my flashlight and walked up to him and asked, can I help you with something sir? He said, "what are you doing?" I answered that I was looking for some boxes. The he said "I think there are some boxes in that dumpster up there, but you didnt hear that from me!" I laughed and answered thank you, and he drove away.

What can I say, that was a close one.

Now, the second time I went (tonight, it is almost 3 am and I got back not long ago), I scored some games. I peaked into the dumpster from GameStop, and the damn thing was filled with all kinds of games. Tons of empty game boxes, some t-shirts from splinter cell, as well as some posters. I think I scored pretty good. That was the only thing I found. Pretty shitty for spending over 3 hours looking into dumpsters. Ah well, maybe I'll try again soon.

Good luck everyone, and yes I know my spelling is horrible...... but what can I say, I'm tired and I wanna go to sleep! nite

Jnox
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WTF...pics of the gold stuff...and get that to a pawn shop right away, man, it looks shady for you to have it on you, and the cops might be looking for it.
 
chances are if it isnt stolen it isnt solid gold only cheap plated jewery and not all jewery sells at pawn shops for lots of money and if most of it is solid gold you will be luckey to get gold price for it
 
holy shit this thread is almost 3 years old, i remember DD in college, it was great, got about 11 AT and ATX cases and i remember we got some old modems (2400 baud modems i think) as well as a fully functional 15"monitor
 
BULKY ITEM PICKUP DAY!!!! Oh it's a junker's wet dream. Bulky item pickup day for the west half of Kirksville is this thursday, and there's already plenty of good stuff out. Just in the time since I've come back from spring break a few hours ago, I've gotten a tube amp, a microphone mixer, and old packard bell, five dot matrix printers(old shitty ones, not nice ones) and an electric typewriter. I'm going out tomorrow(and every day this week!) once it's light out so I can actually see the shit out there. Last year I got a fucking microvax II(that thing is a beast!! It has like 32 serial ports on the back of it!). I also found an Alps printer that I sold for $100 on ebay. I don't understand why people throw that shit out.
 
DONT TRY AND change how people think!! we need idiots so we can get free stuff LOL they are there for a REASON
 
we got 7 17" monitors a month or so ago

princeton graphics. couple years old, but were $500+ when they were new.

weren't exactly in the dumpster, but they were near it and every single one of them was marked surplus.

now the question is, was that surplus supposed to go somewhere special or not...:rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by SpangeMonkee
yeah, but their intention was to make the longest thread via spam and other shens..

not even quite up to par..
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pffft.

That's fucking nothing. ~12.7K in TWO AND A HALF YEARS.

On genmay, lol, we've had bigger spam threads pop up in a single day.

One got to like 60K then was deleted because of server load. That only took a few days.

Good example that hasn't been deleted: http://www.genmay.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=269716

10h5m and 20698 posts. That's like one post every second and a half sustained for 10 hours.
 
:rolleyes: Are there any threads on genmay that aren't spam threads? We need to cut out all this offtopic stuff; I don't want to see this nice thread closed.

Back ontopic, I got a dehumidifier last night on the side of the street(bulky item pickup week). The coils get DAMN cold. I'm going to get my watercooling system set back up and hopefully I'll be chilling by tonight. I also got a couple computers last night. No drives or memory, but both have motherboards. One has a celeron 333 and some agp video card. They're probably garbage like the rest of the stuff I've found, but at least I got a couple cases and power supplies out of it.
 
Originally posted by jpmkm
They're probably garbage like the rest of the stuff I've found, but at least I got a couple cases and power supplies out of it.
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If its an ATI card, you can get $$$ for it when you buy a new ATI card.. It has SOME value..
 
got tons of stuff last night but nothing computer related,

1) goose feather filled feather bed queen sized (thick blanket basically), it was thrown out because the feathers stuck threw, (all feather filled blankets are like that you idiots) anyways looked at it, it is brand new, even smells new and had its own zippered case

2) 15 tall glasses and some wide beer glasses, all wrapped up nicely in some paper and sealed in abox, no clue why they threw those out

3) 6x9 speaker, not blown will probably use it for something

4) mounting bracket for car still sealed in plastic

5) alot of greeting card envelopes

6) filing cabinet, looks new, says the front panel was broken off, i snaped it back in place nothing broken using it for my software cds, (has keys too :))
 
Originally posted by jpmkm
:rolleyes: Are there any threads on genmay that aren't spam threads? We need to cut out all this offtopic stuff; I don't want to see this nice thread closed.

Back ontopic, I got a dehumidifier last night on the side of the street(bulky item pickup week). The coils get DAMN cold. I'm going to get my watercooling system set back up and hopefully I'll be chilling by tonight. I also got a couple computers last night. No drives or memory, but both have motherboards. One has a celeron 333 and some agp video card. They're probably garbage like the rest of the stuff I've found, but at least I got a couple cases and power supplies out of it.
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Did one of those computers have an AT power supply? I'm looking for a spare AT PSU to help power some extra hard drives for my main rig. I'd be willing to pay shipping and maybe a few bucks if you didn't need it.
 
Originally posted by yoda634
Did one of those computers have an AT power supply? I'm looking for a spare AT PSU to help power some extra hard drives for my main rig. I'd be willing to pay shipping and maybe a few bucks if you didn't need it.
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I may be able to help you, I have a stack of old 386-early pentiums that's been sitting in my room for the past year. What exactly are you looking for?
 
Originally posted by workingnonstop
I may be able to help you, I have a stack of old 386-early pentiums that's been sitting in my room for the past year. What exactly are you looking for?
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do you have a isa nic card? My 486 could use one.

Dane
 
Veeb0rg :
lemme dig around, i KNOW i have atleast 3 of em
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Dang!
and I thought I held onto alot of worthless stuff

at least I got rid of those Proliant 6500 quad P-pro mother boards:p
 
Originally posted by weebling1
Dang!
and I thought I held onto alot of worthless stuff

at least I got rid of those Proliant 6500 quad P-pro mother boards:p
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well they usta be in my linux router till i upgraded.

i still run a proliant 800 dual ppro server. :)
 
Originally posted by Ch1m3r4
we got 7 17" monitors a month or so ago

princeton graphics. couple years old, but were $500+ when they were new.

weren't exactly in the dumpster, but they were near it and every single one of them was marked surplus.

now the question is, was that surplus supposed to go somewhere special or not...:rolleyes:
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Hey, check and see if those monitors will take a 15KHz signal. If they do, they'd make great MAME cabinet monitors.
 
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