Got these off freecycle last weekend
The post just said 3 working computers, hard drives removed. It was the beige dell that got my attention but the pic in the post wasn't clear enough to work out model numbers.
So what did I get?
Dell Inspiron 530s
I liked the case but it doesn't turn on so its getting parted out.
The motherboard gets power so will sell the PSU, someone might want that. DVD drive is going to my XP PC as its drive died last month. Also keeping the 2 sticks of 1GB RAM, the E4500 CPU and the card reader as they sell cheaper then shipping but may be useful
The Fujitsu is even more boring but maybe slightly more "useful"
Socket 478 Celeron 2800, 256MB ram, Asus P4GE-FSC motherboard.
It turns on and has a AGP slot so will probably just dump it in storage for now.
and best for last the Dell 4100
P3 1Ghz, 2x 128MB ram, ES1373 Sound, NEC D720101GJ USB 2.0 card with internal USB port, Ati Rage 128 Pro AGP, Realtec Nic, and a 20GB HDD?
oh and dust
Starting that up was a real step back in time. Looking at the WinXP logs looks like it was used till 2006 and had the typical software back then. Office XP, LimeWire, dial up ISP software, jokes in powerpoint you would email each other. Guess he thought anything over 10 years old doesn't matter anyway. After 5 minutes of poking round I was board and started stripping it down to clean.
Also got a pair of those Cambrige Creative speakers every OEM were giving away back then a 4:3 15" no name and a 16:9 or something dell screen. I'll keep the dell as I'm still using 5:4 17" on my desk, but the 15" and cheap filthy keyboards will get chucked