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

[pentium]

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

Are those Canon ObjectStations I see in the last pic?

Also, are you sure you can't just slip three DDR sticks and a 3200+ off in the mail. By the looks of your pile, nobody would notice them vanish.

[Uranium-235]

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

Are those Canon ObjectStations I see in the last pic?

Also, are you sure you can't just slip three DDR sticks and a 3200+ off in the mail. By the looks of your pile, nobody would notice them vanish.

no one would notice, but i'm not an employee and it wouldn't take much for them to tell me to piss of

quite possibly are, we get a lot of old stuff

more pics!

unsorted shit from the teardown line


Yes! Never obsolete!


Tested 462


Tested, wiped

[jpdoe]

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

Hi, Uranium235
How do you choose which systems get dismantled for parts and which systems get refurbished? Judging by the impressive amounts of parts, it would seem parts are easier to sell. Are they?

[hardwareguy]

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

Hw does one tell what drive to drill holes in and which ones to write zeros to?

Here I use the following rule: Less than 20GB..... magnet extraction followed by "fun" ways of destroying the data. (frisbee anyone?)

Broken drive or funky nose while wiping: Same fate.

Some small drives may be spared the screwdriver and torch if they are fast.... I keep fast SCSI drives as small as 9GB.

[hardwareguy]

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

My rule on refurbs:

Can it be readily sold as a whole? (is it useful for Web 2.0 at least?)
Is the mobo good?
Do I have a LEGIT Windows 2000 or later key?
Does it look reasonably good?

If all four criteria are met.... and it passes my 24 hour burn in it gets a 90 day warranty and is put up for sale.

[Uranium-235]

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

Hi, Uranium235
How do you choose which systems get dismantled for parts and which systems get refurbished? Judging by the impressive amounts of parts, it would seem parts are easier to sell. Are they?

If the case looks not too scratched up...if its over 700mhz. past that, it depends on who'se doing it. If its our lead tech, if he can't get it to boot on first try, he sometimes just trashes it. If its our new tech, then he usually tries to replace/ram/cpu/video or whatever. Sometime he spends a day on a single computer. I try to get these guys to balance how much time they spend on stuff (is it worth your time?). Our lead spends too less time, the new tech spends too much. I don't do refurbs, only components testing

parts are harder to sell, we've just NOW gotten some motherboards in the store

My rule on refurbs:

Can it be readily sold as a whole? (is it useful for Web 2.0 at least?)
Is the mobo good?
Do I have a LEGIT Windows 2000 or later key?
Does it look reasonably good?

If all four criteria are met.... and it passes my 24 hour burn in it gets a 90 day warranty and is put up for sale.

We have valid Dell/Gateway/HP/Compaq XP Home/Pro recovery CD's. If the system originally had XP on it, these CD's will get the key from the bios and activate them. (yes, its legit). Try them on any other computer, and it won't work

we have no burn in period. and only a 30 day warranty

[jpdoe]

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

Thanks for answering, Hardwareguy and Uranium235
Very interesting read.

[Uranium-235]

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

more stuff!

Linksys! Some guy came in and wanted linksys home routers (all untested, without power supplies). We sold to him for $5 a pop. 200+ total, $1000+

[Uranium-235]

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

more!

my new system. Same as old, but with a SCSI rack infront. Running Raid-5 (17Gig x 5) and Raid 0 (OS drive) and a SATA 36G 10000 RPM raptor as a swap file drive


front of it


more "stacks"

[Uranium-235]

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

mmm, i've been going through all these pictures, bringing back memories :*)

I wish they could of hired me

[orbiter]

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

I think if I was looking for work and that place was anywhere near me I'd be applying for a job there too.

TFS

[Uranium-235]

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

they wanted to hire me, but there was no position open

[xrror]

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

Heh, I couldn't have worked at a place like that. The drill sergeant guy would have kicked my butt out for attempting to "save" way too much hardware

That or after I took a disposable camera flash unit, hooked it up to a random computer case instead of a flash, and then asked him to push the metal button on said case. "oh, and be sure you stand on this anti-static mat while you do that" ....

If you took a place like that + relaxed work environment + high pay = hardware junky wet dream.

Unfortunately like you seem to have experienced, most "salvage" places like that with a sweet source for equipment always seem to be low/non paying except for the possible guy who founded and milks/is forced to run the place.


regardless, that place is awesome. And that sucks they "couldn't" hire you. Ugh I'm sure they could have made back in monitors and just overall loyalty to the place by hiring you, but they never look at it that way.