My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

[NxB]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Drives with bad platters could be drilled. Cobbled together drives could be low level formatted. Most people who have to send their computer in for a hd replacement probably couldn't figure out how to recover someone's overwritten data. That's what we do with drives. My previous employer didn't care so much about securely wiping data either.

[Uranium-235]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

for most hard drives, we have a guy in the scrap room that uses wipedrive, except for the ones that are physically damaged

on all sold hard drives, and refurbished systems, we use wipedrive.

More pics!

one of the things I did today (Lowlevel format 4 nice Cheetah 320's). Next to it is a 300G external WD I tested - and worked


Our wonderful untested processor collection (ones in the drawers underneath it i've tested)


Our cd testing machines, and very right is the drive wiping machine I built

[dood]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Still more Dr. P....

[grss1982]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

please do not let any of these guys anywhere near that building

BE Quiet!!!!!

Don't listen to this man. He's had too many beers today.

What he meant to say was "Please let us tour that building with a shopping cart."

Agreed. Don't listen to willawake.

@Uranium-235: Please let me visit your office one of these days WITH a shopping cart.

for most hard drives, we have a guy in the scrap room that uses wipedrive, except for the ones that are physically damaged

on all sold hard drives, and refurbished systems, we use wipedrive.

More pics!

one of the things I did today (Lowlevel format 4 nice Cheetah 320's). Next to it is a 300G external WD I tested - and worked
http://www.paullinebarger.net/files/work/SSPX0222.jpg

Our wonderful untested processor collection (ones in the drawers underneath it i've tested)


Our cd testing machines, and very right is the drive wiping machine I built
http://www.paullinebarger.net/files/work/SSPX0221.jpg

@Uranium-235: Can I have the bag of e6600 and 6550.

[Junk Parts]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Are you God?
Is that Heaven???
Our Good Will here always asks two or three hundred dollars for some old
AMD, or PI crap PC's. The trick is to go to the back room where they sell
the busted stuff. All they do to test a system is plug in, and power it up.
If it doesn't boot up or the programing is damaged it goes to the "AS IS"
room! "Junk Parts" loves this room! There is nothing like buying a PC for $12, and its loaded with good RAM, hard drives, and video cards...ect.

[Junk Parts]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Is there such a thing as a socket 478, Northwood P4, 3.06Ghz, 533Mhz FSB, Non Hyperthreading CPU??? I don't need a bag full. One will do it. Oh a few Gigs of DDR ram would help out too!

[Wizard]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Dallas/Ft worth goodwill is the only one with the computer store in DFW (its also the corporate office). Its also a small freaking store, so we dont' take in as much as we hope.

We also sell laptops, but our boss and a part-time lady does that. We do ebay stuff, heres our page

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/goodwi...Q_fromZQQ_mdoZ

Good but ok.

What I'm referring is good stuff to sell on ebay or direct as is and broken stuff like this 7600 video card with broken off coil for example?

And, I could use bad mainboards too.

Cheers, Wizard

[pentium]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Got an Athlon XP 3200+ in that pile anywhere?

Looks like you got us all hooked.

EDIT: What about three Pc3200 1Gb DDR sticks?! You got any of those too?

[NxB]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

My local thrift stores sell mostly P1s/P2s. I've never found anything over a really slow P3. On top of that people open the computers and steal things like ram and hard drives unless they are behind then counter and then they are $100+.

[Uranium-235]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Our P3's start out usually @ $120 (with CRT, keyboard, mouse). Our rule is, nothing under 700

Is there such a thing as a socket 478, Northwood P4, 3.06Ghz, 533Mhz FSB, Non Hyperthreading CPU??? I don't need a bag full. One will do it. Oh a few Gigs of DDR ram would help out too!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...icroprocessors
^^there is no such thing, it jumps from 2.8 non ht to 3.06 ht. Now as far as the DDR goes, we usually don't sell gig sticks, but we have tons of 512

BE Quiet!!!!!




Agreed. Don't listen to willawake.

@Uranium-235: Please let me visit your office one of these days WITH a shopping cart.




@Uranium-235: Can I have the bag of e6600 and 6550.

Our boss has this issue with letting general public back into the tech area. He lets some special volunteers back there. annndd...NO to the 6600

[grss1982]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Snip......

Our boss has this issue with letting general public back into the tech area. He lets some special volunteers back there. annndd...NO to the 6600

Well at least I tried.

Anyways where in the world do you come up with these cool stuff? Donations? But who would in there right mind donate an entire bag of e6600 processors?

BTW....with the current economic crisis business must be booming in your end, right?

Found this while googling: http://www.kptv.com/news/18672677/detail.html

[Uranium-235]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Well at least I tried.

Anyways where in the world do you come up with these cool stuff? Donations? But who would in there right mind donate an entire bag of e6600 processors?

BTW....with the current economic crisis business must be booming in your end, right?

Found this while googling: http://www.kptv.com/news/18672677/detail.html

nonono misunderstanding here. I got A 6600, and 6550 from a system torndown

all the computer/electronics donations come from every goodwill in the dallas/ft worth area

I dunno know how the computer works is doing from an economic standpoint, all I know is we're moving Pentium III systems faster then anything else

more pics!

to be ebay'd stuff


Tested cards


UN-tested cards


256M PC-133/100 untested sticks


Got DDR?


The front of the scraproom, the teardown line (its lunch, and Pats asleep ). The computers closest to the camera are ours, to be refurbed, everything seemingly out of the 'black computer' section are to be torn down. Anyone want any 486's?


What I got to play with today (and totally works)


heh...wrapped gifts nobody wants (except me)


and finally, a video I took, of me going through a box of networking stuff, I think people thought I was crazy cause they thought I was talking to myself

http://www.paullinebarger.net/files/work/SSPX0231.3g2

[NxB]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Anyways where in the world do you come up with these cool stuff? Donations? But who would in there right mind donate an entire bag of e6600 processors?

People give us barely broken and working stuff all the time. They have no use for it and don't know or care to figure one out. Sometimes they have too many and just want to clear up the space. Better than throwing it away. And for goodwill people can write stuff off, not the case with a for profit shop like mine.

[Uranium-235]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Someone donated to us a XPS 420, vista was bad on it. thats it (Q6600, 3G DDR2)

[zandrax]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Tell me I'm dreaming ...

BTW, never got into 8 bit ISA cards? Too old, I suppose.

Zandrax

[Wizard]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Those goodies should be on the ebay as well which I am not seeing any. like loose parts, CPUs, memory, etc. What happens to the defective/dead parts? They are still useable in other uses and parts to repair other that your shop don't have ablity to do.
Like me.

Cheers, Wizard

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Someone donated to us a XPS 420, vista was bad on it. thats it (Q6600, 3G DDR2)

Figures, Windows was corrupted.

Darn PC-dumbies and malware.

[Uranium-235]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Those goodies should be on the ebay as well which I am not seeing any. like loose parts, CPUs, memory, etc. What happens to the defective/dead parts? They are still useable in other uses and parts to repair other that your shop don't have ablity to do.
Like me.

Cheers, Wizard

it depends. if its something like a 15" LCD monitor, then we recycle it. Most of the stuff isn't worth fixing. Larger 19" I collect and try to refurbish in some way (which we never did before until I got here).

everything else, networking equipment without power supplies, and most everything else, gets recycled

old ram gets bought by someone else for $4/lb. metal and some electronics gets bought by dell

[Wizard]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

Geesh!

No wonder methods are what pushing prices high on these older parts where they should be staying where they should be for value.

My issues: PC133 256MB low and high density and DDR 333/400 256MB (qty of 12) *or* 512MB sizes (need around 6). Otherwise I'd sell my boards for someone else to use and use money to buy newer one board and much cheaper DDR2 sticks.

Cheers, Wizard

[NxB]

Re: My work (e.g: the cool stuff I come by)

We keep everything except plastic and steel. Wish we could recycle all of those 15" lcds for you, lol.