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Treasure hunting

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NeoNemesis

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Was walking my dog about an hour ago when I see this HUGE pile of trash sitting beside the driveway of an abandoned house (just been sold, I have no idea how long its been abandoned by evidently someone had cleared it out). After searching I found some really need stuff, for instance:

Pole position for the atari 5200
A six person inflatable mattress
An extention light
2 wrapped copies of Norton Anti Virus version 1.0 for the IBM/PC
and of course...
A pentium computer.

I can't wait to take this thing apart, all I know now is that it has two sticks of ram a mobo and processor in it. Updates will follow.

By the way I wasn't really sure if this was the section I should post in so please move it if it isn't.
 
Dumpster Diving would have been a better section, but would are you going to do with all those things? i say PULL, then shotgun.
 
Your probably right except for the air mattress witch is actually very nice, I will probably keep the ram and processor for fun and toss the rest.
 
good find. ive found tons of stuff walking my dog, including a pIII 900 computer and a 15" kds crt.
 
once i got like 5 old 486 comps... each one seemed like it had a different formfactor... well i got some cool old processors, each had a different socket type, some old ram and a few neat heatsinks.
damn, a 900mhz p3 is a nice find!
 
You have to wonder what the owner was doing with a 6 person inflatable mattress...
 
BillLeeLee said:
You have to wonder what the owner was doing with a 6 person inflatable mattress...
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ROFLMAO!!!

the pIII was only the case, processor mobo and hsf. all i had to do was clear the bios and it worked flawlessly.
 
i just built a comp for a friend of mine and she gave me her old p3 866 comp, acctually had an asus mobo, but no AGP :(
 
This morning I took the computer apart and kept the ram, processor and the network card which are all in good condition, unfortunately the floppy drive was destroyed and there was visible damage to much of the motherboard.

I put the ram to good use in an old power pc 6100 my I keep lying around to play some old mac games. It brought it from 20 MB of ram to 32 MB which isn't a bad upgrade for a computer thats only 60 or so MHz.
 
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