Our council (Mascot in Sydney) has bulk rubbish collection every few months, but several people in our apartment block just dump stuff outside whenever they want. Mattresses, damaged whitegoods, broken picture frames, vacuum cleaners. Quite a lot of IT stuff goes out too, but its mostly cheap printers and boring late 2000s black boxes.

So imagine my surprise when I saw a tall beige box poking out of the grass! This was what it looked like as soon as I got it, I've cleaned it a bit since:

I'd never heard of a BlasterPC, image searches just return Creative's latest crop of sound cards.

It doesn't turn on, but it looks interesting. I'm slammed with work and haven't had time to check out too much, but looks like a socketed Pentium 3, Nvidia AGP card, and a PCI Sound Blaster of some description. It has a front-mounted IO daughter board with large MIDI ports and an FM antenna. There are lots of ports blanked out though, maybe this was an entry-level model?

The case itself is in surprisingly good nic, save for some dirt that was easy to wipe off. The outer metal looks bent, but that was just because one side wasn't screwed in, when I did that it sat flush. The metal frame for top 5.25" drive area does look a bit bent inside, but the beige bezel straightened out when I popped it off. Maybe with a bit of elbow grease I can straighten it back out.

Anyone heard of this line of machines before?