[Bobboau]

A) No I don't give a damn about my non-existent social standing
B) I work there I was throwing away a bag of trash when I sat what looked like a mini-tower, monitor and miscellaneous peripherals

unfortunately after further examination it seems this was his mother's old crapy 150mhz Pentium clone based computer with a 1.5gb hard drive (lets not forget the 8x CD ROM ), but it's still got a case and a power supply and I can probably sell it for just that though I doubt I'm going to get anything for the monitor, it looks like it was decent for a 15' monitor but everything is fuzzy ether due to it being an old piece of crap or being throughen into a dumpster and getting rained on

but the printer kicks ass, 300dpi, no more unsightly horisontel lines running through everything we print, and it can print out a whole page in about a 1.5 seconds, I don't know what the current standards for printers are (this could be total crap) but it is a major upgrade from what we had before (cannon BJ-200e bout ten years old)

[Stryke 9]

Printer ain't shabby- it's no graphical printer I don't think (my ancient Panasonic KX-P4420 did about as well before it stopped doing anything not text pretty much at all, and it's been around for years); monitor could probably be fixed, it sounds like the lightguns are misaligned- prob. too far from the screen; computer makes nice scrap. 8x ain't so good, but I'm in the process of selling an 8x burner for around $20 (think of it this way, it's still ****loads cheaper than a new one), so you might be able to get someone who needs a backup CD drive. Rest of the computer- eh, rip out the CPU, plug it into your comp, get a little boost. It's worth it until you can afford a better one. Same with the memory cards, provided they stayed dry.

[Admiral LSD]

Originally posted by Bobboau
unfortunately after further examination it seems this was his mother's old crapy 150mhz Pentium clone based computer with a 1.5gb hard drive (lets not forget the 8x CD ROM ), but it's still got a case and a power supply and I can probably sell it for just that though I doubt I'm going to get anything for the monitor, it looks like it was decent for a 15' monitor but everything is fuzzy ether due to it being an old piece of crap or being throughen into a dumpster and getting rained on

Loonix Box!!!11!!1

[CP5670]

That computer might come in handy for playing the older games that don't run properly on today's machines.

Im not going to try to tell you what to do with your free time, nor what i think is a worthwhile investment of said tme.  But digging arround in a dumpster is not the best thing to do when you are trying to keep a good social standing.  Unless you are a hard core hacker, that is.  If not, it's more creepy than cool.

Actually I would do this quite often too if there were any corporate dumpsters nearby.

[Stryke 9]

Dude, who needs corporate? Just today I saw a guy throwing a perfectly good stereo system in the trash pile. People dump fully functional **** everywhere. And if you have a real junkyard around, you might never need to order parts again.

Well, the last is a bit of a stretch. Most junkyard hardware is in varying degrees of obsolescence, people seem to take out a lot of the really juicy bits before they ditch them (of course, I guess), and some of the stuff's in bad shape. Still, it's free and sometimes it's good, so it's worth a look.

[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
People dump fully functional **** everywhere.

"Hey, look at his perfectly good new toothbrush that Flanders threw out."