http://groups.google.com/group/alt.idiots/msg/6e4b5ea5c296fb7b?dmode=source&output=gplain [quote] Over the years I've managed to retrieve a perfectly good Craftsman drill press, hordes of hard drives and possibly a ton or more of homeless hardware and computers... The drill press still does duty in a friends work shop and the computers are reborn as low end linux boxes... [/quote]

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.idiots/msg/6e4b5ea5c296fb7b?dmode=source&output=gplain [quote] Over the years I've managed to retrieve a perfectly good Craftsman drill press, hordes of hard drives and possibly a ton or more of homeless hardware and computers... The drill press still does duty in a friends work shop and the computers are reborn as low end linux boxes... [/quote] Il mittente di questo messaggio|The sender address of this non corrisponde ad un utente |message is not related to a real reale ma all'indirizzo fittizio|person but to a fake address of an di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system Per maggiori informazioni |For more info https://www.mixmaster.it

* Jerry McBride fired off this tart reply: > George Orwell wrote: > > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.idiots/msg/6e4b5ea5c296fb7b?dmode=source&output=gplain >> >> [quote] >> Over the years I've managed to retrieve a perfectly good Craftsman drill >> press, hordes of hard drives and possibly a ton or more of homeless >> hardware and computers... The drill press still does duty in a friends >> work shop and the computers are reborn as low end linux boxes... >> [/quote] > > Ahhh... Thank you. I still visit the dumpsters on regular schedule. I wonder if Bill Gates still dumpster-dives. Old habits and all that. Why do "Anonymous" and "George Orwell" mirror each other? -- Tux rox!

"Anonymous" <xor@hermetix.org> wrote in message news:88df9e8941669511a3da8cc8f7f3a11e@hermetix.org... > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.idiots/msg/6e4b5ea5c296fb7b?dmode=source&output=gplain > > > [quote] > Over the years I've managed to retrieve a perfectly good Craftsman drill > press, hordes of hard drives and possibly a ton or more of homeless > hardware and computers... The drill press still does duty in a friends work > shop and the computers are reborn as low end linux boxes... > [/quote] > > Yep. Where I live...folks know that others will want their old computers so don't usually put them in the dumpster... they are usually just sitting out at the curb. I have found literally hundreds of machines that way and most of them were easily repairble. For the most part i donated them...but a few of the better ones...i was able to sell. About three years ago I found a brand new P-IV that someone had started to build... then must have given up on and tossed. At first I thought it was merely stripped down...but when I took a good look... none of the slot tabs for the cards had ever been punched out...so it was new. Ironically...the only machine I left sitting there and did not take...turned out to be an actual collector's item... one of those Compaq "sewing machine" models. Oddly enough I found one the next year that was in good working condition! I still have it

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.idiots/msg/6e4b5ea5c296fb7b?dmode=source&output=gplain [quote] Over the years I've managed to retrieve a perfectly good Craftsman drill press, hordes of hard drives and possibly a ton or more of homeless hardware and computers... The drill press still does duty in a friends work shop and the computers are reborn as low end linux boxes... [/quote]

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.idiots/msg/6e4b5ea5c296fb7b?dmode=source&output=gplain [quote] Over the years I've managed to retrieve a perfectly good Craftsman drill press, hordes of hard drives and possibly a ton or more of homeless hardware and computers... The drill press still does duty in a friends work shop and the computers are reborn as low end linux boxes... [/quote] Il mittente di questo messaggio|The sender address of this non corrisponde ad un utente |message is not related to a real reale ma all'indirizzo fittizio|person but to a fake address of an di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system Per maggiori informazioni |For more info https://www.mixmaster.it

* Jerry McBride fired off this tart reply: > George Orwell wrote: > > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.idiots/msg/6e4b5ea5c296fb7b?dmode=source&output=gplain >> >> [quote] >> Over the years I've managed to retrieve a perfectly good Craftsman drill >> press, hordes of hard drives and possibly a ton or more of homeless >> hardware and computers... The drill press still does duty in a friends >> work shop and the computers are reborn as low end linux boxes... >> [/quote] > > Ahhh... Thank you. I still visit the dumpsters on regular schedule. I wonder if Bill Gates still dumpster-dives. Old habits and all that. Why do "Anonymous" and "George Orwell" mirror each other? -- Tux rox!

"Anonymous" <xor@hermetix.org> wrote in message news:88df9e8941669511a3da8cc8f7f3a11e@hermetix.org... > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.idiots/msg/6e4b5ea5c296fb7b?dmode=source&output=gplain > > > [quote] > Over the years I've managed to retrieve a perfectly good Craftsman drill > press, hordes of hard drives and possibly a ton or more of homeless > hardware and computers... The drill press still does duty in a friends work > shop and the computers are reborn as low end linux boxes... > [/quote] > > Yep. Where I live...folks know that others will want their old computers so don't usually put them in the dumpster... they are usually just sitting out at the curb. I have found literally hundreds of machines that way and most of them were easily repairble. For the most part i donated them...but a few of the better ones...i was able to sell. About three years ago I found a brand new P-IV that someone had started to build... then must have given up on and tossed. At first I thought it was merely stripped down...but when I took a good look... none of the slot tabs for the cards had ever been punched out...so it was new. Ironically...the only machine I left sitting there and did not take...turned out to be an actual collector's item... one of those Compaq "sewing machine" models. Oddly enough I found one the next year that was in good working condition! I still have it