Archer57 wrote on 2025-07-03, 00:16:

The only disadvantage is the screen. I did buy a 11 inch tablet with oled and 11 inch e-ink reader last year and it is really hard to go back to those old TN screen on 1830T after using those. With how progress had slowed down in terms of performance... screen tech has really, really improved in last decade or so.

tell me about it.

I love my Thinkpad T60 and is my goto work-related laptop but man, that CCFL TN 14" screen...

Archer57 wrote on 2025-07-03, 00:16:

... Nowadays it is basically impossible to find something that is not a tablet and is smaller than 13.3...

Tell me about it - here in front of me are two Acer "small laptops" (At least they didn't call them netbooks) with 15.5" screens!
(but they are reasonably thin - and in most other regards quite similar to the Acer netbooks)

Nothing too exciting. Found a couple of DDR1 RAM sticks. They were on a motherboard, that looked mildly interesting, but it was beyond repair due to damage taken in the recycling bin.

Coworker had an "old" PC that was his son's that lives with him sitting under a tarp in the yard of the house he just moved out of that I was helping him tidy up some trash, that was destined for the trash. Broken to crap Zalman iBuyPower case that is now in my dumpster and these goodies.
-Evga Supernova G2 850watt PSU
-Gigabyte Am3 board
-Phenom ii 1090t
-2x4gb ddr3 1600 Corsair xm3
-Hitachi 250gb HDD
-2007 Memorex IDE DVD multiwriter
-Blu-ray drive
-and what caught my eye was a HD 7990 that some of the 3.5 drive bays had been cut out of to fit the GPU

ODwilly wrote on 2025-07-25, 16:25:

Coworker had an "old" PC that was his son's that lives with him sitting under a tarp in the yard of the house he just moved out […]
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Coworker had an "old" PC that was his son's that lives with him sitting under a tarp in the yard of the house he just moved out of that I was helping him tidy up some trash, that was destined for the trash. Broken to crap Zalman iBuyPower case that is now in my dumpster and these goodies.
-Evga Supernova G2 850watt PSU
-Gigabyte Am3 board
-Phenom ii 1090t
-2x4gb ddr3 1600 Corsair xm3
-Hitachi 250gb HDD
-2007 Memorex IDE DVD multiwriter
-Blu-ray drive
-and what caught my eye was a HD 7990 that some of the 3.5 drive bays had been cut out of to fit the GPU

Very nice! Time to clean it all up, give it a good inspection, and see if it all still works! 😀

StriderTR wrote on 2025-07-25, 16:48:

ODwilly wrote on 2025-07-25, 16:25:

Coworker had an "old" PC that was his son's that lives with him sitting under a tarp in the yard of the house he just moved out […]
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Coworker had an "old" PC that was his son's that lives with him sitting under a tarp in the yard of the house he just moved out of that I was helping him tidy up some trash, that was destined for the trash. Broken to crap Zalman iBuyPower case that is now in my dumpster and these goodies.
-Evga Supernova G2 850watt PSU
-Gigabyte Am3 board
-Phenom ii 1090t
-2x4gb ddr3 1600 Corsair xm3
-Hitachi 250gb HDD
-2007 Memorex IDE DVD multiwriter
-Blu-ray drive
-and what caught my eye was a HD 7990 that some of the 3.5 drive bays had been cut out of to fit the GPU

Very nice! Time to clean it all up, give it a good inspection, and see if it all still works! 😀

Everything is absolutely disgusting and a couple days away from cleaning/playing with. Just getting everything out of the case took a solid hour + after getting home from getting it after work. Everything looks solid besides the HDD, and some rusty standoff holes on the mobo. Fingers crossed most of it is usable! Even came with a cracked dual antenna USB 3.0 wifi chip 🤣. CPU cooler is some massive Zalman dual 120mm job with some damage, looks usable despite said dual fans being ziptied!

ODwilly wrote on 2025-07-25, 17:31:

Everything is absolutely disgusting and a couple days away from cleaning/playing with. Just getting everything out of the case took a solid hour + after getting home from getting it after work. Everything looks solid besides the HDD, and some rusty standoff holes on the mobo. Fingers crossed most of it is usable! Even came with a cracked dual antenna USB 3.0 wifi chip 🤣. CPU cooler is some massive Zalman dual 120mm job with some damage, looks usable despite said dual fans being ziptied!

The drives will be questionable, depending on what, and how long, they were exposed to the outdoors. On the MB, the CPU socket is the most fragile thing, hope it's good, nothing on the internal contacts. Maybe the GPU fans survived....

Yeah, would be fun to go through all that. 🤣

Let us know how it goes!

Was given a literal shoe box of what was described as “old computer junk” by the owner.

And these:

Also 3x 1.44MB floppy drives.

Not tested any of it yet, hopefully it’s all good!

Very nice junk ~

Tried to post this yesterday, but the guy with the kit I picked up asked me if I wanted another small box load.

This was haul #2:

There are also three Geforce 2MX 200 cards, Dell part numbers on them.

Responded to a Facebook Marketplace ad yesterday offering free Mac stuff, if I had a van or pickup truck I'd have taken it all but alas, I could only take this much.

Woo, congrats, happy beige toastering.

My car would look like this if I had to face this problem. No hardware is left behind! 😁

Lutsoad wrote on 2025-08-16, 08:33:

My car would look like this if I had to face this problem. No hardware is left behind! 😁

I don't believe so... more like this 😉

😁 100%

How much suspension do you need?

Yes.

Ima have to watch myself, gonna be driving a mini truck that can pull a uhaul trailer. 🤣

BitWrangler wrote on 2025-08-16, 03:38:

Woo, congrats, happy beige toastering.

The man had FIVE Color Classics but I only took one (it's in the dark blue bag there). Worst comes to worst, I get a parts machine and a free bag.