Anyway, who knows what the future holds? The season of scrounging has
just begun! ;-)
Anyway, who knows what the future holds? The season of scrounging has
just begun! ;-)
But I didn't even get that far; the motherboard was an obvious victim
of the capacitor plague, the HDD was clicking faster than a Xhosian on amphetamines, and I didn't dare even try the power supply, it looked
so crusty. Sometimes things are junked for a reason! But I salvaged
the RAM, CPU, an Intel modem and the optical drive (the latter two
items going off to a colleague I've hooked onto retro-computing who is building a PC for some old-school gaming. I've no idea what she wants
the modem for ;-)
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:>
Anyway, who knows what the future holds? The season of scrounging has
just begun! ;-)
I have enough old PC hardware at home to assemble a store, but what I
would give to find a 15" working CRT SVGA screen at home...
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:>
Anyway, who knows what the future holds? The season of scrounging has
just begun! ;-)
I have enough old PC hardware at home to assemble a store, but what I
would give to find a 15" working CRT SVGA screen at home...
I have enough old PC hardware at home to assemble a store, but what I
would give to find a 15" working CRT SVGA screen at home...
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:>
Anyway, who knows what the future holds? The season of scrounging has
just begun! ;-)
I have enough old PC hardware at home to assemble a store, but what I
would give to find a 15" working CRT SVGA screen at home...
I have enough old PC hardware at home to assemble a store, but what I
would give to find a 15" working CRT SVGA screen at home...
On Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 6:25:04 PM UTC-8, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
But I didn't even get that far; the motherboard was an obvious victim
of the capacitor plague, the HDD was clicking faster than a Xhosian on
amphetamines, and I didn't dare even try the power supply, it looked
so crusty. Sometimes things are junked for a reason! But I salvaged
the RAM, CPU, an Intel modem and the optical drive (the latter two
items going off to a colleague I've hooked onto retro-computing who is
building a PC for some old-school gaming. I've no idea what she wants
the modem for ;-)
BBSs? Hacking into secret government databases? Gotta catch all
the 90s peripherals?
Do those even work any more? Does anyone even have a real POTS line
anymore?
(I have a land line, but it's really just Telephony over internet set up by the cable company.)
On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:39:58 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
We still have it in the UK but it's scheduled to be switched off by 2025
and go all digital. We got rid of our landline a couple of years ago
when I thought why have it when its only purpose seems to be to allow
someone with a strong Indian accent phone me up from the Microsoft
security support team.
Oh, I get so few of those these days! I miss them. I got quite a lot
of fun trolling them as they tried to help me fix problems on my
computer. I'd pretend ignorance in the most basic of things, dragging
out the phone call to ruin any hope of profitability. A few times they
even managed to get me to connect to their servers (I either used a stand-alone sacrificial machine or a VM, of course). Too often they'd
catch on, but still... if I wasted twenty minutes of their time, that
meant twenty minutes less victimizing somebody more gullible.
Sadly, I seem to have fallen off their call lists.
It's that time of year again, when people think about upgrading. But
what to do with the old PCs? Well, dump them on the curb and let the
bin men handle it!
Or, you know, scroungers like myself.
Yeah, I rescued another PC. And then, two days later, got rid of it
myself (albeit in a more Earth-friendly manner by taking it to e-waste >collection rather than tipping it into a skip ;-)
So, I guess technically, I /don't/ have a new PC... not anymore.
It wasn't much of a find anyway; a banged up 2004 Dell Dimension, it
came with a pokey 2.4GHz Celeron processor, a mere 1GB DDR RAM, and a
tiny 40GB HDD. Even as I claimed it, I knew it wasn't going to stay
with me for very long. At best, I expected I might clean it up and
resell it for a few bucks.
But I didn't even get that far; the motherboard was an obvious victim
of the capacitor plague, the HDD was clicking faster than a Xhosian on >amphetamines, and I didn't dare even try the power supply, it looked
so crusty. Sometimes things are junked for a reason! But I salvaged
the RAM, CPU, an Intel modem and the optical drive (the latter two
items going off to a colleague I've hooked onto retro-computing who is >building a PC for some old-school gaming. I've no idea what she wants
the modem for ;-)
But even had the PC been in working condition, it wouldn't have been
anything to boast about. It was designed for office work, not playing
games.
So in the end, not a very profitable addition to the collection, but I
had fun cleaning, identifying and testing the old hardware. And now I
have a 2003-era Celeron to add to my collection of old CPUs. Plus,
better it go to e-waste where its metals might be recycled and re-used
than buried in a landfill.
Anyway, who knows what the future holds? The season of scrounging has
just begun! ;-)
On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:24:50 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh boy. Here we go again ;-)
On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 14:06:16 +0100, H1M3M <wipnoah@gmail.com> wrote:
3. No elevator in my apartment building (until we install it next year):
Last time I hauled a 19" CRT (that proved to be dead), My back was in
pain for a week.
That last one hits home. Those big CRTs were BEASTS!
A long-long-time ago, after a clear out at a job, I was allowed to
take home any old hardware that had been marked for discard. Since the business was heavy into publication, they had a number of large CRTs,
of the 20+ inches variety (at least 21", maybe 22" or 23"?). I grabbed
two.
I regretted it almost immediately after I got home and had to lug them
down to the computer room.
Years later, I'd scrounge a 70" TV. I had to single-handedly manhandle
that home. It was huge, clumsy, and heavy. But I'd rather that again
than moving those CRTs. They had that odd combination of density and fragility that I am happy to longer have to deal with.
Still, I kept one of those CRTs for the longest time. I was still
using it when most of the rest of the world had moved to flat-screens,
just because it was so large, crisp... and heavy.
Because I /really/ didn't want to have to carry that sucker OUT of the
house. ;-)
On 11/30/2023 8:22 PM, PW wrote:
On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:24:50 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson<snip more Spalls obsolete hardware crowing. :D
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
"Again" implies that it ever stopped.... :P
Oh boy. Here we go again ;-)
Oh yeah! A long time ago I got rid of a Sony CRT, I've regretted it ever since.
Just don't have the room for that beast though.
On 29/11/2023 15:48, Justisaur wrote:
Oh yeah! A long time ago I got rid of a Sony CRT, I've regretted it ever since.
Just don't have the room for that beast though.
I did used to have a 21" or 22" Sun monitor which was actually a Sony.
Boy was that heavy.
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