Lucky Day at the dump

[Wade E]

Saturday i went to my transfer station(dump and while throwing out my trash I noticed what looked to be a very high end computer along with a very nice keyboard and a laser mouse. i also grabbed a nice boom box and a dvd player, ALL of it worked with the exception of a small problem with the computer but it fired up and i knew it was worth having it checked out. I got it back today after having a Pop capacitor replaced and had the comp wiper clean with my XP loaded in. It is a Pentium 4 2,8 Ghz, 250 gig hard drive, 2 dual layer dvd burners and 1 gig of Ram, and hs 4 fans to keep it cool. Its way faster then my older desk top so Im very happy. I think it was a gamers computer as those need lots of fans cause those games eat up resource. Its amazing what people throw out. I also grabbed another boom box which is an exact duplicate of the one this weekend so now my daughter and son have stereos, even the cd and dble tape players work along with full antennas. I have tokeep looking as there is always computer stuff over there like printers and desktops and monitors. I want to look for a comp for my son now as I want to keep my pld desktop in storage for awhile, hes 6 so I dont want him ruining that computer, its till to nice to give it to him.

 

[IQwine]

way to go, Wade

 

[ibglowin]

Nice score! I would never get rid of any computer with a working hard drive inside! With the right tools you can retrieve everything off them.

 

[Wade E]

Me neither, I usually save the hard drive and use them as a back up.

 

[grapeman]

Our local landill is run by a company from Vermont and we getmost of Vermont's garbage trucked over here. What used to be a small landfill is now known as Mount Dump! Anyway a month ago I took over a truck full of old computer equipment gathered over the years and I asked about it and the weigh station- no, you can't dump anything electronic anymore. It costs $14 per piece to get rid of it and they recycle it and make money off it. Well I didn't have hundreds of dollars on me to pay for all of it, so it came back home with me. I was told of a local place that accepts the stuff for free. Every couple months they call a company that sends a trailer truck to pick it up and be recycled.


So yes Wade, you got quite a score while dumpster diving!

 

[admiral]

Good score!

 

[AlFulchino]

good score Wade......i have collected everything from an antique Mobil Oil Gasoline pump to a large assortment of toys and playthings for my grandson when he comes up for a visit..indeed, the dump is no dump

 

[vcasey]

Wow, great find.

 

[hannabarn]

That was a great find, Wade. I just now got a new computer and I can't find a place to recycle my old one unless I pay about $50. I guess I'll have to clear everything out and give it to my son. good ideaabout saving the hard drive!! I now have Windows 7 and so far it seems to be OK!

 

[scotty]

Thats a winner wade.

 

[Wade E]

You can reformat that old hard drive and use it for back up files, thats what I do. I used to copy and burn all my own moves so I have around 16 160 gig hard drives and 4 360 gig hard drives all full with movies on them, each movie takes up 4.36 gigs a pce.

 

[Melissa]

I just read that last post as "you can referment that old hard drive" LOL!

 

[Waldo]

You can reformat that old hard drive and use it for back up files, thats what I do. I used to copy and burn all my own moves so I have around 16 160 gig hard drives and 4 360 gig hard drives all full with movies on them, each movie takes up 4.36 gigs a pce.

Dang wade, you must be hell on computers buddy to have accumulated that many hard drives from defunct computers

 

[Joanie]

I just read that last post as "you can referment that old hard drive" LOL!

Melissa,

Hehe I guess we know we are at wine making forum! =)


Great finds, Wade

 

[AlFulchino]

you have to watch out on that Melissa.....she has *corrected* me as well

 

[Joanie]

you have to watch out on that Melissa.....she has *corrected* me as well

Al?

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=)

 

[Wade E]

Hell is finally over. I have spent the last week working on computers. My daughters laptop was screwed up for sometime so i finally broke down and figured out how to fix that right before all this started which required reformatting the hard drive using the partitioned section without a disc and that took me forever to figure out. Then hat free one which needed a little work once I got it back setting it up with all my hardware and stuff. In that process my screen went on my laptop and got that fixed. Now I just finished up setting up the other computer for my so and it made it into his room tonight. Im sick of these things now, so what the heck am I doing here!

 

[gaudet]

Glutton for punishment????

 

[AlFulchino]

Al?

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She went to my vineyard page and (thankfully) read it and pointed out the errors in grammar and need for better overall readability...it was very helpful

 

[Melissa]

Yeah..I'm trouble
I generally need just as many corrections! This time I just had wine on the brain instead of computers. (That's true more often than not!)