Re: Your Best Dumpster Finds



Nice wallpaper. You create it?...

Re: Your Best Dumpster Finds



Good god. Completely useless, yet so cool. So this is how pack ratting starts.. I would never give any of that anyway!

Being that members of my mom's side of the family to this day work on government projects that can't be disclosed except for bit parts (F-14 control boards, very odd prototypes such as missile launchers that ended up in the gulf war 1.0) it's hard to fully know.

I do know one family member went to see a shuttle launch which is in a binder along with the missile launcher prototypes, so wonder...

Re: Your Best Dumpster Finds

During the closing of gateway, we swung by the store locally and I went to work. Sitting on top was a case missing it's panels. In the vehicle that went. Also grabbed various cables, modems, etc.

Getting the case home showed it still had a motherboard, psu, memory, hard disk, etc etc. Worked also. Swapped it into a alien case from newegg where it chugged along until retirement in 2008/09.

The motherboard sits in a corner while I debate what to do with it. Has leaking caps on it, many of the usb ports are down for the count....

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Well here goes. I've joined the forum but mainly been a lurker. Helped some friends with a few systems who have bad caps in them, and now it's my turn. I've got this nice (infamous) Dell Monitor, the legendary E228WFPc. Made in May 2008.

I feel so tempted to scrap it, but it appears to be good except for the usual problems. Anyway, just wanting to get my first post out of the way and join the community more officially as a lurker!

Thanks for the resource, it's nice to not be so stranded with these...