More Hardware Follies: Another New Old PC
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Well, it's a new to me. Old to everyone else... even to its previous
user.

Just another rig found and - ever-so-briefly - added to the herd.
Located in the usual way, and given the usual treatment. Found
abandoned, sitting lonely on the curb, I couldn't help but give it a
new home. Took it back with me, blew out the dust, took it apart, and
scrubbed every component clean. Then put it all together, benchmarked
it, figured out what every component was, and admired it in all its
shiny, freshly-cleaned glory.

Then I stripped it for parts and sent the refuse to eWaste, because I
/really/ don't need another old PC in the house right now. ;-)

But before that, it was a perfectly ordinary no-name 3.4GHz Intel Core
i5 with 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard-drive. It probably dated to around
2012. It had naught but integrated video, and lacking anything but PCI
slots, it was NEVER going to be much use for gaming. It was an
home/office PC at its core, designed for basic word-processing and
e-mail, and not much else.

Its nameless mid-tower chassis did look sort of nice (black, of
course, but with some nice chrome highlights, and completely lacking
in unnecessary LEDs or windows), but I didn't really have the room for
even that, so to recycling it went. Shame, it was in really good
condition.

I did salvage the CPU, RAM, hard-drive and power-supply. I had to get
SOMETHING out of all my hard-work (the last two are likely destined
for the Win98 computer).

So, nothing exciting... still, I enjoy tinkering with old hardware,
and this gave me something to do. Although maybe the next PC I find
will actually be worth keeping. Here's hoping.

On 4/19/2024 2:43 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> More Hardware Follies: Another New Old PC
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Well, it's a new to me. Old to everyone else... even to its previous
> user.
>
> Just another rig found and - ever-so-briefly - added to the herd.
> Located in the usual way, and given the usual treatment. Found
> abandoned, sitting lonely on the curb,

Seriously, where the BLEEP do you live that people are setting computers
out on the curb?!?! There are half-a-dozen electronics recycling drop
off places within 10 miles of me, two of them within 2!! miles!

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On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:05:33 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 4/19/2024 2:43 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> More Hardware Follies: Another New Old PC
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
>> Well, it's a new to me. Old to everyone else... even to its previous
>> user.
>>
>> Just another rig found and - ever-so-briefly - added to the herd.
>> Located in the usual way, and given the usual treatment. Found
>> abandoned, sitting lonely on the curb,
>
>Seriously, where the BLEEP do you live that people are setting computers
>out on the curb?!?! There are half-a-dozen electronics recycling drop
>off places within 10 miles of me, two of them within 2!! miles!

While I don't condone it, I do understand why people do it. The
closest e-waste drop-off is about fifteen miles away, and is only open
four days a week (none of them weekends) and then only until 4:30 pm.
It's a right pain to rid yourself of electronics properly. Much easier
to just dump it out with the rubbish and let the bin men take it away.
Especially since it's fairly urban - lots of apartment buildings - and
most people probably just leave their old electronics in their
building's trash room for the super or staff to move to the skips.

(It's not really being left right out on the curb where cars drive by.
But there are a number of alleys I slip through as shortcuts on my
daily walk ;-)

Offerings have been slim recently, though. Either there is less being
trashed, or others are getting to the stuff quicker than me. I doubt
people are becoming more conscientious about their garbage habits.

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:05:33 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

> >On 4/19/2024 2:43 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> >> More Hardware Follies: Another New Old PC
> >> ---------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Well, it's a new to me. Old to everyone else... even to its previous
> >> user.
> >>
> >> Just another rig found and - ever-so-briefly - added to the herd.
> >> Located in the usual way, and given the usual treatment. Found
> >> abandoned, sitting lonely on the curb,
> >
> >Seriously, where the BLEEP do you live that people are setting computers
> >out on the curb?!?! There are half-a-dozen electronics recycling drop
> >off places within 10 miles of me, two of them within 2!! miles!

> While I don't condone it, I do understand why people do it. The
> closest e-waste drop-off is about fifteen miles away, and is only open
> four days a week (none of them weekends) and then only until 4:30 pm.
> It's a right pain to rid yourself of electronics properly. Much easier
> to just dump it out with the rubbish and let the bin men take it away.
> Especially since it's fairly urban - lots of apartment buildings - and
> most people probably just leave their old electronics in their
> building's trash room for the super or staff to move to the skips.

> (It's not really being left right out on the curb where cars drive by.
> But there are a number of alleys I slip through as shortcuts on my
> daily walk ;-)

> Offerings have been slim recently, though. Either there is less being
> trashed, or others are getting to the stuff quicker than me. I doubt
> people are becoming more conscientious about their garbage habits.

Maybe you should offer that you will take their old computers. ;)
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On 4/21/2024 12:20 AM, Ant wrote:

>
> Maybe you should offer that you will take their old computers. ;)

He could make, you know, a whole business out of it...

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On 4/21/2024 2:59 AM, Kyonshi wrote:
> On 4/21/2024 12:20 AM, Ant wrote:
>
>>
>> Maybe you should offer that you will take their old computers. ;)
>
> He could make, you know, a whole business out of it...
>
But he won't. Because then it would be work.

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dirty old man.