Christmas came early

[LaneLander]

I work in a building complex and the tenants range well they are different. One in particular I have been watching as they are a Tech company that designs and builds computer parts. Or they did up till recently. Yesterday I hit GOLD. Bankruptcy finally announced and they were throwing things away. I being the garbage picker that I am walked over and said mind if I take a few things they said "nope take what ever you want."

I had a field day. Snagging 4 boxes of computer cables and accessories cat 5, SATA, USB basically anything that you would need inside cable wise. Water cooling rigs for CPU and GPUs, Computer cases for their high end gaming rig. Touch panel LCDs for those cases. 3 Motherboards, fans. Most of it was all brand new, even a Apple G4.
My prize were 4 brand new bare-bones Gaming Laptops. 18.4" display capable of dual gtx280m GPus and 8gb ram. I just took one to a buddy to have him source all the parts needed to get them running.
This morning when I came in another surprise, 4 resealable shipping containers for the gaming rigs that they sold. ( I have 2 complete computer cases and many spares) They are huge and remind me of roof top carriers. One will end up on the 4Runner for sure.
I am totally amazed at what they threw out. even all their accounting data. I did not touch that but snagged their exabyte 1X7 autoloader. Ebay here I come but wading through all this will take some time.

I love picken.

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[EmersonHart13]

 

[LaneLander]

 

[skeezer]

crazy that it was being tossed out

 

[LaneLander]

crazy that it was being tossed out

Happens all the time actually. I just got lucky.

 

[Fish]

I wish I could find people throwing out old PC stuff.

 

[LaneLander]

better to find people pitching new pc stuff.

 

[Fish]

Any PC stuff is always nice. Ive gotten about 3 total ever. I usually just take cables and screws if the thing is FUBAR or that old. I have a P4 that I am leaving in tact for now for a file server in the future.

 

[radioguy6]

wow, sounds like you are certaintly going to bank selling all that. I cracked open an old PC i was given a year ago, and it had RDRAM in it. I was happy to make a few bucks on such old RAM, but i can only imagine your situation. I would sell more parts on the side but its so time consuming sometimes.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Sell me that G4

 

[Runtz52]

those cases look badass

 

[daturbosix]

i learned once there is a fine line between picking and theif.

 

[EmersonHart13]

I only pick my own ass.

 

[LaneLander]

i learned once there is a fine line between picking and theif.

Good thing I got permission. I even told them I could have saved them the time and removed it before the dumpster. And provided them a certificate of destruction for data and what not.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

G4 me

 

[BrianG]

Sweet deal man! Nice find!

 

[LaneLander]

G4 is gone for now but I will let you know if the guy I gave it too does not want it.

This is the laptop I found. Bare-bones as it is should be great when I am done.

 

[Krang]

Nice catch, I used to dumpster dive at the datacenter that I used to work at and picked up some gems there as well.

 

[bikrboy128]

how much do you want for one of those barebones laptops? and touch panels?
PM me

 

[Mike K]

Yeah, put me in line for a bare bones laptop...

 

[E]

I would like a nice laptop (with working speakers)

 

[THEHKP7M13]

i learned once there is a fine line between picking and theif.

I thought once its in the garbage its free game?

 

[Theautoguy]

Once its in the dumpster the only law that could be enforced is trespassing.

While I worked the Rockford Grainger branch the company decided to drop the Stanley tool branded line in favor of their Blackhawk branded line. The branches ended up scrapping all of their remaining sockets, extensions, wrenches...pretty much all of the non-set tools. I put everything I wanted into a seperate box, tossed it in the dumpster and came back after work. I ended up with a bunch of 1/2", 3/8" and 1/4" drive socket sets (pieced together)...6-point, impact, deep-well, etc including extensions...

 

[LaneLander]

well I tested one of the touch panels and they power up and are running Debian as a default. Just not what I want to use in my car really. I may have to get a list ready.

 

[Mike K]

My Dell Studio is pissing me off. Make one of those gamer computers work and I'm on it so long as the price isn't completely retarded.