I bought the same one month ago ! I don't have any use for it right now as I don't have any builds newer than 2001 (but that's due to the lack of room, not the lack of proper hardware 😉 )

I don't know if this counts as a "dumpster" find, but some co-workers and I were cleaning out some old spares stock shelves, and we found three new-in-box Western Digital 160GB IDE drives. Mine! (who wants old-style IDE drives these days anyway 🤣 )

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I had one to give away BUT some doofus destroyed the "alignment pin" which indicates the right way it goes into the socket. A second one is missing it entirely... wonder who destroyed these two specimen of an already small pool.

Aren't those pins quite easy to fix if you can solder? I really don't want to spend more than 20€ on a CPU for a board I'm not sure works.

Can't make an definite statements but I'll upload a high res pic in a week or so, so you can gauge the damage yourself. The other one is missing that exact pin. I may be able to send you one for "free"(excluding shipping from EuropoorUnion)... but do not hold your breath.

Found this from the dumpster at my uni, I wonder if it works:

Full res:
https://i.imgur.com/IjrjUpP.jpg

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Found this from the dumpster at my uni, I wonder if it works:

Full res:
https://i.imgur.com/IjrjUpP.jpg

Test the capacitors with a digital multimeter just to be safe (if any of the caps read out as OL, it's bad) prior to installing it into your system. Also, replace the thermal paste on the GPU and clean the heatsink.

The university electronics dumpster is a fricking gold mine.

Friend of mine found a 1600*1200 display that didn't turn on. It had 3 blown caps in the PSU, now it has new life as my retro PC display:

Full res: https://i.imgur.com/XalRedX.jpg

TNT 2 Ultra without the fan:

Full res: https://i.imgur.com/TQsn9Gk.jpg

Random Intel Slot-1 motherboard:

Full res: https://i.imgur.com/BO88o9n.jpg

Random Socket A mobo (sadly KT133 chipset, might go back to the dumpster):

Full res: https://i.imgur.com/HS6yLSx.jpg

Socket 7 ATX-motherboard:

Full res: https://i.imgur.com/cqCr3eH.jpg

Abit BH6 (needs to be recapped):

Full res: https://i.imgur.com/fTBvkwE.jpg

Matrox Parhelia AGP (someone had taken it from the trash and it was lying around the electronics club and they didn't need it anymore):

Full res: https://i.imgur.com/p3UL0gh.jpg

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Random Socket A mobo (sadly KT133 chipset, might go back to the dumpster)

Why sad about KT133? Because of SDR memory?

Also:

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Matrox Parhelia AGP

Even more also; that GF2 Ultra, goddamn, a bit of a holy grail for me.

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Random Socket A mobo (sadly KT133 chipset, might go back to the dumpster)

Why sad about KT133? Because of SDR memory?

It doesn't work with 133 MHz FSB. The chipset was bugged as fuck and KT133A fixed it.

Saw this computer at my local garage near alot of trash.
Was there for maintenance at my car and asked him if I can take it, he said no problem was going to bring it to the recycling center anyway.

Was very dusty so cleaned the outside:

The graphic card and many connection caught my attention:

Removed the side panel, will need cleaning with the compressor:

Happy to find a Radeon 9800 XXL 128 MB inside

Yet have to test if everything works.

Ah, Medion MT6... I have an MT7.
Press the top edge of the "Connect XL" panel and it slides down to reveal connectors / card reader

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aop wrote:

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Random Socket A mobo (sadly KT133 chipset, might go back to the dumpster)

Why sad about KT133? Because of SDR memory?

It doesn't work with 133 MHz FSB. The chipset was bugged as fuck and KT133A fixed it.

Id keep it for the ISA slot and support for fairly fast processors by ISA standards at least 😊

Found this yesterday:

It's a laptop with 1680*1050 screen, 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, GTX260M and 320GB HDD. It was most likely thrown out because of overheating since the heatsink was full of dust before I blew it out with compressed air. No OS was installed on it but it booted up fine from USB stick. The HDD is a bit banged up, Crystal Disk Info gave a warning that it has 3 sectors pending reallocation.

Unfortunately it also has the übermensch keyboard layout.

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It's a laptop with 1680*1050 screen, 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, GTX260M and 320GB HDD. It was most likely thrown out because of overheating since the heatsink was full of dust before I blew it out with compressed air. No OS was installed on it but it booted up fine from USB stick. The HDD is a bit banged up, Crystal Disk Info gave a warning that it has 3 sectors pending reallocation.

Unfortunately it also has the übermensch keyboard layout.

QWERTZU! I've never seen a German keyboard layout before. Sometimes I forget that the entire world doesn't use the same QWERTY layout.

Love that generic NOTEBOOK COMPUTER brand 🤣

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Found this yesterday:
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It's a laptop with 1680*1050 screen, 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, GTX260M and 320GB HDD. It was most likely thrown out because of overheating since the heatsink was full of dust before I blew it out with compressed air. No OS was installed on it but it booted up fine from USB stick. The HDD is a bit banged up, Crystal Disk Info gave a warning that it has 3 sectors pending reallocation.

Unfortunately it also has the übermensch keyboard layout.

QWERTZU! I've never seen a German keyboard layout before. Sometimes I forget that the entire world doesn't use the same QWERTY layout.

Love that generic NOTEBOOK COMPUTER brand 🤣

Generic Notebook with serious graphics firepower. Id also bet that MXM slot isn't locked to one manufacturer.

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Found this yesterday:
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It's a laptop with 1680*1050 screen, 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, GTX260M and 320GB HDD. It was most likely thrown out because of overheating since the heatsink was full of dust before I blew it out with compressed air. No OS was installed on it but it booted up fine from USB stick. The HDD is a bit banged up, Crystal Disk Info gave a warning that it has 3 sectors pending reallocation.

Unfortunately it also has the übermensch keyboard layout.

QWERTZU! I've never seen a German keyboard layout before. Sometimes I forget that the entire world doesn't use the same QWERTY layout.

Love that generic NOTEBOOK COMPUTER brand 🤣

Generic Notebook with serious graphics firepower. Id also bet that MXM slot isn't locked to one manufacturer.

I was going to comment that the GTX 260M in that laptop is better than the video card I had in my main desktop until like a year ago 🙁

Too bad I can't further test it until next week because I just left for a "weekend" (4 days) trip to the countryside. No raiding the university dumpster either. Yesterday there were three computer cases there with LGA775 motherboards, CPUs and PSUs left in them. One had E6750 and the other two had Q9400 and Q9500. I was a bit stupid and just took the CPUs (our electronics club is still running some C2D machines, C2Q should be nice upgrade) without thinking that someone else might have had use for the entire system.

I also found a 3.4GHz Prescott space heater.

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QWERTZU! I've never seen a German keyboard layout before. Sometimes I forget that the entire world doesn't use the same QWERTY layout.

We Hungarians use QWERTZU too, with even more esoteric vowels at the right side than Germans 😁

And I switch way too often between English and Hungarian layout not to hate the Y/Z swap thing.

Not a dumpster find, but caught up with an old friend who dumped these on me. He thinks they're from an old Altair. All look fairly mint other than some flux run. Don't know if they're worth anything, but I thought some of you could identify the boards. Not my area of knowledge for sure.

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I'd say yes. they are from an altair:

#1 is actually from MITS, look at the bottom right.

#2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbell_Cassette_Interface

#3 is a floppy disk controller
#4 uses D2104's witch are 4kbit chips for a total of 16KB
I'd wager the 5th image is 32k. They look like mostek mk4118's (8k-bit)
date codes are late 77 so 32k of ram in that time frame was like $500 in 77 or almost $2000 today.

#6 looks like the 8080 cpu board
#7 is another memory board. This one is a bit strange, I think those are 4kbit chips (16kb)
#8 is likely the cable that connects to a cassette recorder

Are they worth something? oh yes. Exactly what, I can't say. I'd go post over here: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum.php? These parts are more relevant to the people there.

This guy had 64kb of ram in 1978. This guy had MONEY or a real interest in computers.