Found this lying on the pavement, I have no idea if it's even computer related but I saw some familiar connectors and decided to pick it up. Do any of you know what it could be?

Found this old Keyboard laying near the trash containers, is still on the box and there still the original invoice with the date and price in pta

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-jbd … SE0&usp=sharing

EDIT: The keyboards works

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Found this lying on the pavement, I have no idea if it's even computer related but I saw some familiar connectors and decided to pick it up. Do any of you know what it could be?

Looks like some sort of switching power supply...or something to do with telephone lines.
The resistor on the lower left is quite worn, probably bad hence why all that was thrown away.

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Found this old Keyboard laying near the trash containers, is still on the box and there still the original invoice with the date and price in pta

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-jbd … SE0&usp=sharing

EDIT: The keyboards works

Wow, that's awesome! Looks like a solid old keyboard to me... the box is a major plus!

Pair of MSI 9500GT DDR3 cards. Wondering if I should use them instead of my 7900GTX SLI pair 🤣. It would be slightly slower but use way less power

Looks like some sort of switching power supply...or something to do with telephone lines.
The resistor on the lower left is quite worn, probably bad hence why all that was thrown away.

Thanks for the info. I guess it'll go to recycling then 😀

Well, found this probably isn't the right word, it was laying around in my band's practice space:

Hyundai ImageQuest QV770:

Well, it isn't as good as my Belinea 17", but it was free and in good condition 😀

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Well, found this probably isn't the right word, it was laying around in my band's practice space:

Hyundai ImageQuest QV770:

Well, it isn't as good as my Belinea 17", but it was free and in good condition 😀

Damn! That has to be the ugliest looking monitor I have ever seen 🤣 .

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Damn! That has to be the ugliest looking monitor I have ever seen 🤣 .

Yup 😵

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Aideka wrote:

Damn! That has to be the ugliest looking monitor I have ever seen 🤣 .

Yup 😵

They drank deep from the Apple Studio Display kool-aid but didn't realise someone had spiked it. With LSD.

(I actually like it. A lot. 😜 )

I've seen worse CRTs 🤣 but it has been a long time though.

Trash picked a Compaq Presario on my way home, am2 era shitpaq with possibly dodgy psu and crippled asus board. Case while filthy looks to be in great condition so might board swap after cleaning. Even had or has Vista basic (vomits in mouth).

At least it was free 😀

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Found this lying on the pavement, I have no idea if it's even computer related but I saw some familiar connectors and decided to pick it up. Do any of you know what it could be?

Maybe a simply sort of power supply?

Not a dumpster find. My neighbor's moving so he gave me this stuff.

19" Viewsonic monitor. Going by the picture it produces, I've guessing it's a VA panel. 23" Benq monitor. Panasonic DVD recorder. Early to mid-90s Sony AV receiver. Compaq Presario R3000 laptop. 4GB of DDR2-667 DIMMs.

The Sony receiver.

This Sony is one of the Dolby Pro-Logic AVRs that were all the rage during the Laserdisc days. 🙄 Doesn't support discrete surround formats at all. I'm really happy to have this. I currently use an older Kenwood mini system for all of my retro PCs and Laserdisc viewing. I've been itching for something with more than 3 inputs. This baby has six and a phono input! Groovy!

The Presario laptop. Athlon XP-M 2800+, Geforce 420 Go, 512MB of RAM, 60GB hard drive.

What's this? An Athlon XP with SSE2? 😉

Wow... for a second after looking at that Athlon XP with SSE2, I thought it may be the lost holy grail to resurrect Socket A systems that are crippled by their lack of SSE2. Then I saw "socket 754", reality set in and I decided it was more likely to be some absurd renaming thing on AMD's part.

Sadly, that's the case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Ath … C_Socket_754.29

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Not a dumpster find. My neighbor's moving so he gave me this stuff. The Presario laptop. Athlon XP-M 2800+, Geforce 420 Go, 512M […]
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Not a dumpster find. My neighbor's moving so he gave me this stuff.
The Presario laptop. Athlon XP-M 2800+, Geforce 420 Go, 512MB of RAM, 60GB hard drive.

What's this? An Athlon XP with SSE2? 😉

That is not really an Athlon XP, rather a renamed mobile Semprom, there are only 3 models and is not really common here;
Mobile Athlon XP-M 2800+ = Mobile Semprom 2600+ (SMN2600BIX2AY)
Mobile Athlon XP-M 3000+ = Mobile Semprom 2800+ (SMN2800BIX3AY)
Mobile Athlon XP-M 3100+ = Mobile Semprom 3000+ (SMN3000BIX2AY)

None of them support 64 Bit

Found two beige box PCs. Once is a P4 2.8GHz and the other is a PIII 533B. They both POST.

The P4 didn't have any cards in it.

The PIII uses RAMBUS (ew). It has these components:
Diamond Viper V770 (TNT2 Ultra!)
Sound Blaster Live!
ZiVA PC mpeg2 decoder
384MB RAM
40GB IDE Seagate HDD

I found a box with tons of floppies (3.5 and 5.25 inch), some CDs and even few DVDs. Also an old Packard Bell Multimedia GL 1332 which i coudln't find any info of it. Some other stuff i found are a sealed CD of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, a DVD of Star Wars Episode 1 (videogame), Microsoft Golf and Outlook 98 in them, there more i'll list and upload more pics later

The specs are:
Pentium MMX 233
32 MB RAM
S3 Trio64V+ Integrated
AZTECH Soundcard
Seagate 10.2 GB HDD
Windows ME

OH MY GAWD, You have a nice Packard Bell there! Those models aren't too common here in the states but that's the case style after NEC bought them out. I'm a collector of Packard Bell computers, for the models that were here in the states I have almost every case style except three. Meaning I have six machines. 😁

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Not a dumpster find. My neighbor's moving so he gave me this stuff.

The Sony receiver.

This Sony is one of the Dolby Pro-Logic AVRs that were all the rage during the Laserdisc days. 🙄 Doesn't support discrete surround formats at all. I'm really happy to have this. I currently use an older Kenwood mini system for all of my retro PCs and Laserdisc viewing. I've been itching for something with more than 3 inputs. This baby has six and a phono input! Groovy!

My folks have that exact same receiver. Bought it brand new, along with two Bose speakers, and a Sony dual-cassette player, in 1993.

Two week ago I picked up a Samsung SyncMaster 2494HM that was left out in the rain for a while and got water inside the panel. It would power up but the picture would dissapear after 2 seconds. I figured it was the power supply and after googling for about 5 minutes, I discovered that there was a common fault with this model - a transformer that goes bad. Ordered one from China, replaced it and it works! The water that was inside the panel evaporated while we were away on holiday 😀 There are still a couple of spots on the screen but I'll try to ignore them.

On the other hand, I picked up one Phenom X3 machine with no RAM, a Core2Duo machine with no hard drive and two Lenovo Thinkcentre machines, one of which has two bad caps on the motherboard. All in all, not a bad haul 😀