Dumpster Diving!

[blk95civicex]

The wife and I decided to go out a few nights ago and see what was in the local dumpsters. We ended up with quite a few goodies...

$180 Air up mattress with a built-in air pump, brand new, works awesome

Homedics electronic scale with built-in body fat calculator, "up" button was supposedly broken, but all you have to do is push it a little harder

Barmaster electronic mixed drink thingy

parafin wax manicure kit, brand new, just had lid hinge broken, fixed with super glue, and pedicure kit, with dremel-like tool for nails, etc.

fogless shaving mirror for shower with built-in LED's, light button was broken, but just needed to be glued back in place

Intellivision 25 arcade games in one thing that hooks up to your tv, works fine...crappy games of course...

[pentup]

one time my buddies and me accidently opened up a dumpster at a chinese buffet, thinking it was the store next to it... BIG MISTAKE. that was one of the worst smells i have ever experienced.

[8Complex]

Originally posted by pentup
one time my buddies and me accidently opened up a dumpster at a chinese buffet, thinking it was the store next to it... BIG MISTAKE. that was one of the worst smells i have ever experienced.
Yeah, when I was really young I used to go to local businesses to get gallon containers to catch frogs in. I made the same mistake with a local Chinese resturaunt, absolutely horrible.


Guess I'll share a small grab that I had one time while I'm here. I managed to catch a K-Mart just before it was going out of business and someone had thrown out a large box full of Rand-McNally US atlases. The only thing they did to make them unreturnable was rip off the front covers. All my family has them in their cars, all my friends have them, and anyone that is talking about going on a trip gets one. I even have one I am planning on marking up for all the roads I've been on in my travelings. :)

[Wampa]

Poked my head in the OfficeMax dumpster today. Soggy as hell (it has been raining) but I grabbed a DVD+R disc still in its case. It looks to be new. I don't have a DVD-RW drive so I can't test it, but I might try to find a friend who has one. Going to go back tonight after it is closed to do some real diving.

EDIT: Went back tonight...it was empty! :( Guess I will have to start diving in the middle of the week.

[nochay]

Originally posted by Peale
Not the canned stuff either, freshly grated.


eew. That stuff is nasty. Good thing you have some good cheese ;) You could stick a fuse in that green can of crap and have a dumpster molotov cocktail!!! :p

Dane

[jeffmoss26]

I worked at my dad's office over winter break. I got a bunch of phone cords from the dumpster, nothing else good.

[Peale]

No new posts lately, so I thought I'd chime in.

Found two computers in the same dumpster over the course of a week. A 486 SX/25 (woo hoo) and a Pentium something or another. Both had working hard drives (200m and 2.2G) which will be good for some upcoming MAME projects.

Some variety of Mac @ a Mac store.

Gateway monitor like the one I already have, but I left it. Should have taken it for parts. Might have even worked.

[weebling1]

origionally posted by Wampa
Poked my head in the OfficeMax dumpster today. Soggy as hell (it has been raining) but I grabbed a DVD+R disc still in its case. It looks to be new. I don't have a DVD-RW drive so I can't test it...

Look at it, does the media show track marks? Put it in any DVD player and see what happens. You know a DVD+R is a different recording format than DVD-R or DVD-RW and is a once only write (or many once only writes) in a DVD+R or DVD+RW drive, right?

[Wampa]

My bad, it is a DVD-R.

I can't see any track marks, and nothing happens when I put it in my DVD player. I think it came from a larger set, maybe a 5 or 10 pack, because there is no UPC. It might have come out of a set and they just tossed it because they couldn't sell the individual disc.

[mac_cnc]

I found a DVD Dual format drive the other day. Tested and confirmed CD Read and CD Write, just need some burnable DVDs. Also found a USB Extension cable and a 128mb thumbdrive that works great.

[compslckr]

nice mac!!!

[mac_cnc]

Checked and....oh yeah this sucker burns the DVDs with no problem. Man God was on my side that night. It's a sweet drive.

[compslckr]

damn, you are one lucky man to find a thumb drive, dvd burner and a usb extension cable

[Peale]

Last night was luggage night. Found two practically brand new suitcases. Brand name stuff, really rugged.

Also about 50 rolls of wrapping paper. Not XMAS, birthday and the like. Pokemon, wrestling, Dragonball Z.

[NecessaryEvil]

I need to start going again, I've not dove in almost 4 months.

[AJG199]

Originally posted by NecessaryEvil
I need to start going again, I've not dove in almost 4 months.

better than me never going.... never have had the car to go! haha

AJ

[cgrant26]

Well, here I go again...
My wife just informed me that her job is getting ready to toss out a TON of good stuff. Boxes full of PC cards and, get this, at least 20 brand new, still sealed OEM 30 gig HDDs. I don't know why the hell they are throwing them out, I don't want to know. But I'm going to be going tomorrow to get as much of this stuff as possible. The IT dept. is so unorganized at her job its rediculous. Will report back later.

[eL c0L0mb1aNo]

PIF 30gig HD or five to me?

EDIT: Where do you live?

[yoda634]

Originally posted by cgrant26
Well, here I go again...
My wife just informed me that her job is getting ready to toss out a TON of good stuff. Boxes full of PC cards and, get this, at least 20 brand new, still sealed OEM 30 gig HDDs. I don't know why the hell they are throwing them out, I don't want to know. But I'm going to be going tomorrow to get as much of this stuff as possible. The IT dept. is so unorganized at her job its rediculous. Will report back later.

I'd love 2 of those 30giggers if you wouldn't mind PIFing!

[nochay]

I could use some of the hardware also, as I am going into computer forensics, and need to make a computer just for that purpose. When I would collect the evidence, it needs to be done on a totally different computer, not connected to the internet. Is there a way I could get some of this hardware? This would be a great help to me, as the pickings here are slim.

BTW, what does PIF mean?

Dane

[Format _C:]

Push it foward
basicly means give it to me:D

[insaneman37]

Originally posted by cgrant26
Well, here I go again...
My wife just informed me that her job is getting ready to toss out a TON of good stuff. Boxes full of PC cards and, get this, at least 20 brand new, still sealed OEM 30 gig HDDs. I don't know why the hell they are throwing them out, I don't want to know. But I'm going to be going tomorrow to get as much of this stuff as possible. The IT dept. is so unorganized at her job its rediculous. Will report back later.

Damm.:eek: That would be one hell of a dive. 600GBs in harddrives for free.:eek:

[SpangeMonkee]

Originally posted by insaneman37
Damm.:eek: That would be one hell of a dive. 600GBs in harddrives for free.:eek:

Oh yeah.. RAID, baby..

[workingnonstop]

Originally posted by Format _C:
Pay it foward
basically means give it to me:D

Fixed. ;)

[Maniacmous]

Yeah, I'd be interested in acquiring one of those 30gig drives as well as the others, I really need something to tide me over on storage space until I can afford to get another 120gig SATA for my RAID.

[AJG199]

both my hdd's just died lol it would be awesome if i could get a 30 off you... i'll pay you for em too if you would like some cash. ijust need to get my main rig back up and going.

AJ

[StOoTs26]

Went Dumpster Diving last night and found something you guys might like to look at. Yep I sure did I got a whole computer desk. The only thing wrong with it is a big scratch down the entire back side which you cant see b/c its up near my wall. I'll probably fix that this summer, but I tried Dumpster Diving last night and now its a new hobbie!


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid99/pb9dead6417af92e652b2eb422ada1e5d/f9edf80f.jpg

[ZeroS]

Went diving today (not my first time), didn't expect much since I can't drive and theres a foot of snow on the ground...

On top of of the garbage in one of the last dumpster I check (rest just had normal garbage in), I found a 1.6gb hd, from a company I've never heard from, (Daisy Disc Corpation). Took it hope and just clicks like my other HD I pulled from the trash during October. :(

W00t I now have another coffee cup coaster ~! :D

Going to go again once the snow melts, and maybe can find some parts I need for my HTPC. (Special Compaw PSU, larger broken VCR).

Damn, I can't wait to get my license so I can check out the parts at all the M & P places 10-20 miles away :( :(

[strid3r]

Originally posted by StOoTs26
Went Dumpster Diving last night and found something you guys might like to look at. Yep I sure did I got a whole computer desk. The only thing wrong with it is a big scratch down the entire back side which you cant see b/c its up near my wall. I'll probably fix that this summer, but I tried Dumpster Diving last night and now its a new hobbie!


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid99/pb9dead6417af92e652b2eb422ada1e5d/f9edf80f.jpg

Lucky bastard!

[nochay]

Originally posted by ZeroS
Went diving today (not my first time), didn't expect much since I can't drive and theres a foot of snow on the ground...

On top of of the garbage in one of the last dumpster I check (rest just had normal garbage in), I found a 1.6gb hd, from a company I've never heard from, (Daisy Disc Corpation). Took it hope and just clicks like my other HD I pulled from the trash during October. :(

W00t I now have another coffee cup coaster ~! :D

Going to go again once the snow melts, and maybe can find some parts I need for my HTPC. (Special Compaw PSU, larger broken VCR).

Damn, I can't wait to get my license so I can check out the parts at all the M & P places 10-20 miles away :( :(

Take the hard disks, and gut them. Inside are magnets, perfect for anything, like hanging your best friends car off a bridge ;) Okay, bad joke, but they are super *STRONG* magnets. At least you can get something out of the dead hard disks ;)

Dane

[ZeroS]

I will when I get that torq wrench from the dumpster :p

[Wampa]

I was driving by OfficeMax tonight around 10:30 with a friend when we noticed the dumpster in the back was full. Not even planning to dive, we poked our heads in the dumpster, and came out with three new DVD+RW discs and two CD-RW discs, still new in cases. It was hard to see because there were no lights and it is incredibly cold (dipping to negatives) so we drove back to my house to get gloves and jackets and a flashlight.

Came back and dug through some more. The flashlight I grabbed was HUGE, made of metal, over a foot long easily. Although the dumpster was full it was mostly Earthlink demo CDs, regular trash, parts of a chair (not the seat so we didn't bother to grab it all) and a Sentry safe (the door was broken off). Since we were in the mood, we checked out Circuit City and Best Buy in the area. Both had compactors, so no luck. It was strange walking behind buildings at midnight with a giant flashlight in my hand...real adrenaline rush during the dives though :). We tried to find the CompUSA by the mall but got lost and ended up going home. Going to try tomorrow for CompUSA maybe, since it looks like people here have had better luck with it. I might bring my camera with me to take action pics, but I am not sure if I am ballsy enough to carry a $200 camera into a dumpster :cool:.

A picture of our small haul! (http://www.extensiontech.net/wampa/pictures/dd/11904.jpg)

2 x imation 80 min/700MB CD-RW
3 x Memorex 4x DVD+RW 4.7GB

[battleangel3222]

Anyone in Houston wanna try with me :rolleyes: We got a micro center or 2, tons of bestbuys and circuit city, if thats ur pref, tons more that I can name.

[RavinDJ]

too cold to dive, huh?

[Wampa]

It's never too cold to sift through people's trash for discarded freebies :cool:

Plus I've noticed the cold keeps the smells down a bit. The Noodles & Company dumpster next to the Office Max barely reeked at all last night. We made the mistake of poking our heads in there over the summer...:eek:

[jrod1014]

yeah i would like to start doing it... sounds like fun and i want to see if i can get lucky and find a desk... that one that was found looks nice

[StOoTs26]

Went again but this time I kind of cheated. I work for a construction crew and we are remolding a church. Well today I over heard the pastor talking about his new printer and how he got rid of his old one. Well today after work I went behind the church and there it was a HP DeskJet 690c. So I'm kind of sceptical, that a preacher would throw something away like this. Thank god the cords where still plugged up to them. But anyways I took it home and tried it out and it worked! I mean it even had half of both cartriges still. :D

Diver for life.

[Wampa]

Originally posted by StOoTs26
the pastor


Thank god

Heh heh...I just found that funny :)

I found parts to desks in the Office Max dumpster and the neighboring dumpster, but nothing complete. Did you find that desk all in one piece, Stoots?

[UrinalCakeMIx]

Originally posted by Genix
Hmm, why does it seem like most threads on this forum somehow include porn or masterbation? :-P


dude - do you think anyone in this forum gets laid? think about it.....

[feelingshorter]

hahahaha tips

[NotSoSimple]

What if we do get laid here...:D

[Maniacmous]

Of course some of us do....silly

[Thrash]

After a three month sabattical, I went to the local Staples for another look-see. The dumpster was practically overflowing, so I climed on top, nothing to see. I was freezing, so I didn't do much digging. I saw stuff laying around the outside of the dumpster so I hopped down and looked behind. In the dark, I see something that looks like a black lump with straps. I reach for it, pull it out; lo and behold, I come up with a Swiss Army Backpack (made by Wenger, not Victorinox) with a small tear where one of the straps attaches.

Win!

Oh, I can take a picture if any skeptics need proof.

[NotSoSimple]

My girlfriend works at a Drs office near a locla hospital and she noticed 3 PALLETS OF COMPUTERS AND MONITORS! So she told me, I drove down and scoped it out. Couldnt get in close becuase their were alot of people. So I call tonight from the parking lot and this snotty lady answers and is all rude. I nicely ask her if they are going to throw them out and if they mind if I take one for a school project. She tells me they are not for me and she reminded me this was the hospital after all and hung up.

Sooo I gave them a chance..Tomorrow night im taking a friend or two and doing it heist style. Roll up fast, Jump out, swing open the doors, pitch in as many as we can, close doors, jump in and speed off. Catch me now rent-a-pig!

Ill give you all a run down on it in a couple nights, maybe pics. Wish me luck guys!

[Wampa]

Have fun! I find that every once and a while my DD friend and I like to do a quick 'hit' on a dumpster that is right out in the open, just to see how fast we can get in and out and if anybody will see us. It is a total adrenaline rush :)

[humvee13]

Anyone in the Long Island, NY area wanna DD, I used to do it last year but never knew of good spots.

Anyone know some good spots and want to go around the long island area, I got a pickup truck ready to haul!!

[StOoTs26]

Originally posted by Wampa
Heh heh...I just found that funny :)

I found parts to desks in the Office Max dumpster and the neighboring dumpster, but nothing complete. Did you find that desk all in one piece, Stoots?


Yes I did, well one of the sides was completely off, so all I had to do is get some new screws and go to work. As far as the droors they had no rails and they where out of it and thrown everywhere. So I went to wallmart and got all my rails and fixed this beast up. It still needs some work though, but hey One man's junk is another man's treasure.

[nochay]

Originally posted by NotSoSimple
My girlfriend works at a Drs office near a locla hospital and she noticed 3 PALLETS OF COMPUTERS AND MONITORS! So she told me, I drove down and scoped it out. Couldnt get in close becuase their were alot of people. So I call tonight from the parking lot and this snotty lady answers and is all rude. I nicely ask her if they are going to throw them out and if they mind if I take one for a school project. She tells me they are not for me and she reminded me this was the hospital after all and hung up.

Sooo I gave them a chance..Tomorrow night im taking a friend or two and doing it heist style. Roll up fast, Jump out, swing open the doors, pitch in as many as we can, close doors, jump in and speed off. Catch me now rent-a-pig!

Ill give you all a run down on it in a couple nights, maybe pics. Wish me luck guys!

NotSoSimple: go for it. I hate people who say it is just there, and it is not yours. Who knows, maybe she is protecting "her computers" and was rude to you because she staked it out. If they are a decent computer, I could really use one. Let me know if they are a good computer. I don't except it to be a pentium 4, but something a little upgraded on the technology scale ;)


To me, it would be fair game. They are sitting loaded on pallets, near a trash can, or out in the open. It's not like they are boxed up, and have new pentium 4 stickers all over them. If they wanted to keep them, they would protect them from the elements!!!

Dane

[NotSoSimple]

Hmm well after sitting in the parking lot for 15 minutes, the security didnt leave. They sat in there little cart the whole time. Pissed me off, but Im not leaving that lot alone. Tonight it will get stalked upon again.

Instead, I took a buddy and we hit two local computer shops, and Staples. Found a HP CD-RW (Not Tested), A7N8X BackPlate, about 5 PC Magazines w/ CD-ROM Included (Not slashed up!) and one Computer Shopper Mag, and finally the correct base for my leather office chair. When I dove it, it didnt have a base, so I finally found one that works so it will be complete!

Ill hit up the hospital later tonight, see if the rent-a-cops are out for a donut break.

[mrbobo]

Security has only messed with me once, and I just told them I was looking for boxes. :D

Now me and my friends also got pulled over once, and the cop ran my tag, got all of our licenses, and asked what we were doing. I told the cop that we were moving and needed boxes, he said why are you moving at 3 in the morning? I told him you have no clue what it's like living with my mom, and he let us go. :p

[DiskSpeed]

Does anyone know about the legality of this in Texas?

edit:

also if anyone is from Denton,TX send me a PM!

[Ravemaster Rich]

Went tonight. Drove the few miles to a retail park that usually has something for me, but didn't have any luck in the PC shop dumpster. However, I got a weird point of sale thing from an electrical chain store that looks brand new. It's about 3' high by maybe 8" wide, with a strip light inside, I guess you're meant to put posters in it so they're lit up from behind. The protective covering is still on the perspex at the front, it's opaque white so it might make quite an unusual lamp. I'll wait untill it dries out to plug it in though, it's raining here. It needs a new plug 'cos the old one is smashed, I wonder if that's why they threw it out?:eek::).

Anyway, I figured I might as well try the bins at my local supermarket. After working up the courage to go up to them....SCORE!!! Loads of food and other stuff. Mainly dented tins or damaged packaging. Amongst other things:

15+ cans of cola, 10 soft packs of fruit juice
6 cans of beer:)
5kg bag of Basmati rice with a tiny tear in it.....Basmati is ****ing expensive:D:D
muesli bars
cans of tomatoes, hot dogs, fruit slices (several of each, all slightly dented)
packet soup
4 litre cartons of UHT milk.
Bag of pasta, again a tiny tear in the bag
bottles of shampoo and fabric conditioner

I plan on going back, that's for sure:)

Rich :¬)

[Poop]

It's been about three months since I've gone DD'n and I think I'm about to break it tonight....

Just kind of been turned off from it since a run in with the police (and it was my favorite spot, too.) but what the hell.

It's going to be fun, being it's single digits with a wind chill in the negative.

[mrbobo]

I'm going out tonight first time I've gone in awhile I'll report my findings:D

[jpmkm]

Well instead of studying for my russian test tomorrow I went out to the office equipment company here in town and I got a 30 gig western digital "recertified" hard drive. There was a bit of toner on it but it works just fine. 15 fucking degrees F out there too(there's a bank with a temp display that I drive by. It's just a reminder of how crazy I am for doing this shit). I got a cash register there a few days ago, but the printer module is missing so I can't do anything with it. It should be good for a couple vfd displays(numeric only, though:mad: ) and a couple cool keyswitches though. I've also gotten a small tv out there with the cable plug missing, but I should be getting a part tomorrow to fix that. When I was home over Christmas I pulled a nice microwave out of oriface max and it is just missing the turntable. That's about it. Oh yeah and there was quite a few hardcore porn mags out at this place, but I was only able to grab one(I wasn't about to jump into a dumpster in 10 degree weather to get some damn porn mags).

[workingnonstop]

Originally posted by Thrash
Oh, I can take a picture if any skeptics need proof.

Not a skeptic...but pictures of stuff people dive are always interesting. :)

[cyber_lord]

just read all of the 179 pages. I have thought about dding before. But now, tonights the night. I'll hope to have pics of the findings in the next couple days.

[jpmkm]

Originally posted by cyber_lord
just read all of the 179 pages. I have thought about dding before. But now, tonights the night. I'll hope to have pics of the findings in the next couple days.
Holy shit I can't believe you read all through the pages! I understand how addicting it can get though, reading about what people find. Not nearly as addicting as dumpster diving itself though. I've been going out nearly every night now. A lot of times I don't find much of anything, but it's like gambling - there MIGHT be something there so I just have to look. I just wish we had a dding forum here instead of this hugeass thread. Welcome to the forums and enjoy your stay.

[Wampa]

Went diving a bit tonight. We cruised to another Best Buy, Circuit City, and Office Depot, and they had a compactor, a compactor, and a locked dumpster (we pried up the side a bit and peeked in but there was nothing interesting). Drove around for at least half an hour looking for stupid CompUSA...next time we will have to Mapquest it. At the end of the night we hit up our favorite location, OfficeMax, and scored a box of DVD+R discs (FujiFilm) valued at $25. We have a you-get-what-you-grab policy, so he got 3 discs while I got 7. They are all still shrink-wrapped in their jewel cases. Next time CompUSA is making the list :).

[AJG199]

Originally posted by Wampa
Went diving a bit tonight. We cruised to another Best Buy, Circuit City, and Office Depot, and they had a compactor, a compactor, and a locked dumpster (we pried up the side a bit and peeked in but there was nothing interesting). Drove around for at least half an hour looking for stupid CompUSA...next time we will have to Mapquest it. At the end of the night we hit up our favorite location, OfficeMax, and scored a box of DVD+R discs (FujiFilm) valued at $25. We have a you-get-what-you-grab policy, so he got 3 discs while I got 7. They are all still shrink-wrapped in their jewel cases. Next time CompUSA is making the list :).

I GRABBED 2 BUT YOU STOLE THEM FROM ME!!!! :D heh jk good policy you got. i'd be bitchin if i only got 3 tho haha.

AJ

p.s. it all evens out anyways

[Poop]

I've nabbed some stuff out of CompUSA dumpsters, but I'm more interested in the search for interesting stuff; IE weird hardware shit and just anything out of the ordinary.


Check places other than retail, it's more fun. Like office buildings.

[NotSoSimple]

Do office building dumpsters really pay off? Like big offices (Corporations) or smaller (10-20 person offices)?

[Peale]

Originally posted by NotSoSimple
Do office building dumpsters really pay off? Like big offices (Corporations) or smaller (10-20 person offices)?

Both! But you never know what you're going to get. Dive early, dive often.

[mrbobo]

Originally posted by jpmkm
I just wish we had a dding forum here instead of this hugeass thread.

COUGH

[workingnonstop]

Originally posted by mrbobo
COUGH

Your site appears to be down? :confused:

[jpmkm]

Originally posted by workingnonstop
Your site appears to be down? :confused:
Yeah no kidding. I came across dumpsterworld.com the other day but there was nothing there. Get it up!

[AJG199]

Originally posted by jpmkm
Yeah no kidding. I came across dumpsterworld.com the other day but there was nothing there. Get it up!

may i suggest a blue little pill? :p

AJ

[Peale]

Pretty sure he's doing some maintenance on the site right now.

[mrbobo]

Yes, I'm a moron lol, I FTPED to what I thought was my personal page turns out I had the account name for dumpsterworld in the ftp client and wrote over everything. :rolleyes: Yes I'm a moron.

it's up now and will be up for good ;)

[Benny Blanco]

Not dumpster diving, but off the street... 2 (two) cd duplicators.

Specs: PIII 750mhz socket 370
EPoX EP-3VCA (apollo kt133a)
64mb PC100
20gb Quantum Fireball Plus
4 "initio" ultraSCSI cards
12 SCSI CD-RW's, 12x10x32
1 ISA bootrom controller thingamashit
2 power supplies, 1 ATX and 1 AT
4 sunon fans :cool:

This first one seems to be fully functional. I'm assuming the other one works also, but I havent picked it up from my friend yet. The guy knows nothing about computers, but he knows enough to take stuff he finds on the street and call me up :)

I'm gonna part one out, and keep the other... :)

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1l3bm/dup1.jpghttp://mysite.verizon.net/vze1l3bm/dup2.jpg
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1l3bm/dup3.jpghttp://mysite.verizon.net/vze1l3bm/dup4.jpg

(ph34r the santa clause mug)

[NotSoSimple]

Holy Cow! Thats crazy...

Good find!

[bleedingcancer]

very good find what idiot would put that in the trash or the street

[Talon Blackrazor]

No idiot, those boxes are worthless in a production environment.

[nochay]

Originally posted by Benny Blanco
Not dumpster diving, but off the street... 2 (two) cd duplicators.

Specs: PIII 750mhz socket 370
EPoX EP-3VCA (apollo kt133a)
64mb PC100
20gb Quantum Fireball Plus
4 "initio" ultraSCSI cards
12 SCSI CD-RW's, 12x10x32
1 ISA bootrom controller thingamashit
2 power supplies, 1 ATX and 1 AT
4 sunon fans :cool:

This first one seems to be fully functional. I'm assuming the other one works also, but I havent picked it up from my friend yet. The guy knows nothing about computers, but he knows enough to take stuff he finds on the street and call me up :)

I'm gonna part one out, and keep the other... :)

(ph34r the santa clause mug)

would you be interested in selling one of these? what is your price?

Dane

[Benny Blanco]

Nah, because I have no idea what the reliability is. I did play around with one, and it looks fully functional, but I could not guarantee it, therefore I couldn't accept money for it. I will be parting one out, and keeping the other for some possible time travelling :p

Oh, and whoever said they are worthless, is a homo.

[Poop]

I'll take one of the 12x SCSI burners off of your hands.

If you'd be parting out in the future.

[Talon Blackrazor]

Originally posted by Benny Blanco
Oh, and whoever said they are worthless, is a homo.

Do you lack basic reading skills? I said they were worthless in a production environment.

You have two towers built with obsolete drives on an expensive obsolete interface on an obsolete platform.

I'm sure they're cool to you and your friends, but to a professional they're so much garbage; that's why they were thrown out.

[Morpheus256]

i never knew scsi was obsolete......

[Benny Blanco]

Originally posted by Talon Blackrazor
Do you lack basic reading skills? I said they were worthless in a production environment.

You have two towers built with obsolete drives on an expensive obsolete interface on an obsolete platform.

I'm sure they're cool to you and your friends, but to a professional they're so much garbage; that's why they were thrown out.
If they work, how could they be worthless?

It has a 20gb hard drive able to store probably about 22 cd's. I'm guessing that the hard drive can be swapped for a bigger drive as well. It has 12 cd burners that may not be 52x, but if they do the job, then that's all that matters. If it works, which it appears it will, then it's hardly obsolete.

I don't know about lancaster PA but in NYC people get rid of things for different reasons, know what I mean??

Anyway I will test it out later tonight.

[SpangeMonkee]

ooh ooh.. I always wanted to try the multiple drive burning in Nero..

What OS is installed..?

[Little Grabbi]

Okay, so I tried this wednesday... I went to our local chain electronics store "Media Market", what a stupid name... and encountered a padlocked gate. I inspect the padlock, see that these idiots left the serial number sticker on it. I call Abus (lock company), say "Yea well I've got a door in our house's communal celler, it's padlocked with 1 of these hugeass things, how do I open it I lost my keys.". The service rep asks for my number, Ipretend to rifle thru my desk, give it to him. 2 days later the keys are mine.

Last night I snuck in there, did the photo-in-front-of-the-camera trick, and started digging... MOTHER LODE!


Micro-ATX board for AMD xp / N-Force 2 chipset
6 sticks of DDR ram, of which 2 stics of 512/128 are functional
a SHITLOAD of wiring
a CCFL with a burned inverter... the 8-inch CC is fine
a P3 600
a RAID card where the third IDE channel won't work
an 80 GB HD with 61 broken sectors, but otherwise functional
various writable media
2 KEyboards, w/broken keys, repaired in under 1 hour
1 14" monitor


DAmn... I'll drive over to celle to the other media market in 5 hours (1 am). Wish me luck!

[jpmkm]

That's a nice haul, but there's no way I would open a lock to get to a dumpster. That lock obviously means they don't want people in there, so they could bust you for trespassing(at least).

[Little Grabbi]

The question is, did they know I was in there? hehe

And I opened the lock the normal way, and had latex gloves on...

No way 2 trace me hehe. I had the keys delivered to a po box.

But yea, there's always some risk left... paranoia sets in... angst

[Talon Blackrazor]

Originally posted by Morpheus256
i never knew scsi was obsolete......

As a mechano-optical drive interface it is. The whole point of SCSI CD burners was to reduce the number of buffer underruns, IDE drives with buffer underrun protection make that pointless, especially when contrasted with the much higher cost of SCSI.

Originally posted by Benny Blanco
If they work, how could they be worthless?

It has a 20gb hard drive able to store probably about 22 cd's. I'm guessing that the hard drive can be swapped for a bigger drive as well. It has 12 cd burners that may not be 52x, but if they do the job, then that's all that matters. If it works, which it appears it will, then it's hardly obsolete.

Ok Benny, you're a dumbass. You obviously don't understand what a production environment is.

My whole point was explaining why some company would throw away those drives, it apparently went right over your head. :rolleyes:

The company who pitched those towers probably replaced them with IDE drives that are at least 4X times faster, don't have buffer underrun problems, and were several thousand dollars cheaper. The new towers are entirely based on firmware and don't have whole computer, operating system, burning software in the loop to cause problems.

It's like comparing an old 486 to a present day system, sure the old computer might still power up, but what are you going to use it for? The old system is worthless in it's original role to any company that wants to stay competitive.

From your blurry pictures those drives look like Matshita's; I had at least 60 of those sitting around until we threw them because they were taking up to much space. Doing the job is not all that matters when you're paying people to operate the drives and have a deadline, at that point speed becomes quite a large factor.

That is why those drives were thrown out. Not everyone is coming from a "Oh, this is cool" standpoint, there are often more practical matters to consider.

[Lunas]

Originally posted by Little Grabbi
The question is, did they know I was in there? hehe

And I opened the lock the normal way, and had latex gloves on...

No way 2 trace me hehe. I had the keys delivered to a po box.

But yea, there's always some risk left... paranoia sets in... angst
i call shens i require pictures of the stuff gained also po boxes are traceable

so you used illegal methods of access to dive an off limits dumpster. way to comit a felony genius:rolleyes:
you know the photo taped to a security camera thing doest work as it would just cause an blacked out camera

also never beleive every thing you see on tv

i recomend you dont do it agian becasue so far i believe you have commited the following crimes well in the US at least

Fraud, Tresspassing, Theft and if the value of the items stolen is above a certian ammount the theft is upgraded to grand theft, also Breaking and Entering.

also dont assume that since you covered all the classic movie things that your untraceable

[Morpheus256]

Talon Blackrazor, personal attacks like that are not really necessary or tolerated.....

[t0x1k]

Every page I read, every post I read the more I want to go diving. I feel embarrassed though. I don't want to go diving alone either....Man, I've got some good stores around too.

Anyone want to meet up in the Stratford Somerdale, NJ area for a dive?

[Wampa]

I'm not sure if what you did would count as breaking and entering, but it was unlawful entry for sure. I'd cut your losses and never go back there again (maybe the laws are different in Germany, though).

[Benny Blanco]

Originally posted by Talon Blackrazor
Ok Benny, you're a dumbass. You obviously don't understand what a production environment is.

My whole point was explaining why some company would throw away those drives, it apparently went right over your head. :rolleyes:
Company? Buddy, these things were found on the curb in the backstreets of BRONX NY in front of someone's house, a crackhouse probably... The company is called "FIVE FINGER DISCOUNT, INC" and the merchandise being "produced" is bootleg music cd's.
Originally posted by Talon Blackrazor
From your blurry pictures those drives look like Matshita's
They are princo 12x10x32x with burnproof underrun protection.
Originally posted by Talon Blackrazor
Not everyone is coming from a "Oh, this is cool" standpoint, there are often more practical matters to consider.
Which takes me back to your original post:
Originally posted by Talon Blackrazor
No idiot, those boxes are worthless in a production environment.
What the **** do I care what they are worth in a production environment? THIS ENTIRE THREAD is about **** that is thrown away but STILL useful. And ultimately, this is why you were a **** who has now progressed to being a ******* ****.

[jpmkm]

Originally posted by t0x1k
Every page I read, every post I read the more I want to go diving. I feel embarrassed though. I don't want to go diving alone either....Man, I've got some good stores around too.

Anyone want to meet up in the Stratford Somerdale, NJ area for a dive?
Yeah I was pretty embarassed when I started diving. A lot of times I would just go out and drive by the dumpsters or something and not even get out and look. After I did that a while I started getting braver about it and now it doesn't even phase me. I'm still a bit worried about the cops though, even though I'm pretty sure it's not illegal.

[Benny Blanco]

Let me retract and apologize (to blackrazor) for my namecalling as morpheus is surely right that namecalling/personal attacks are not necessary. Originally posted by SpangeMonkee
ooh ooh.. I always wanted to try the multiple drive burning in Nero..

What OS is installed..?
No video card, and no OS as far as I know. I believe it boots off the ISA card and the interface is the display at the bottom of the front there. It has 5 buttons and a pretty intricate menu.

Gonna try it out here in a little while :)

[nochay]

lemme know if the second one works ;) Obviously you would be keeping the first one.

Dane

[yoda634]

Originally posted by Little Grabbi
Okay, so I tried this wednesday... I went to our local chain electronics store "Media Market", what a stupid name... and encountered a padlocked gate. I inspect the padlock, see that these idiots left the serial number sticker on it. I call Abus (lock company), say "Yea well I've got a door in our house's communal celler, it's padlocked with 1 of these hugeass things, how do I open it I lost my keys.". The service rep asks for my number, Ipretend to rifle thru my desk, give it to him. 2 days later the keys are mine.

Last night I snuck in there, did the photo-in-front-of-the-camera trick, and started digging... MOTHER LODE!


Micro-ATX board for AMD xp / N-Force 2 chipset
6 sticks of DDR ram, of which 2 stics of 512/128 are functional
a SHITLOAD of wiring
a CCFL with a burned inverter... the 8-inch CC is fine
a P3 600
a RAID card where the third IDE channel won't work
an 80 GB HD with 61 broken sectors, but otherwise functional
various writable media
2 KEyboards, w/broken keys, repaired in under 1 hour
1 14" monitor


DAmn... I'll drive over to celle to the other media market in 5 hours (1 am). Wish me luck!

Any chance you don't need that AXP board and would pif?

[Wampa]

It looks like he'd have to ship it from Germany ;)

The cold streak here in Chicagoland is supposed to break sometime in the next week, so I might go out and do some diving then.

[Talon Blackrazor]

Ok, this seems to have gotten a bit out of hand.

This is why I got involved in this thread.

Originally posted by bleedingcancer
very good find what idiot would put that in the trash or the street

To which I replied

Originally posted by Talon Blackrazor
No idiot, those boxes are worthless in a production environment.

as a simple reason why these boxes would be out in the trash.

Then we got

Originally posted by Benny Blanco
Oh, and whoever said they are worthless, is a homo.

Then I addressed exactly why someone would throw these away.

Morpheus tried to slide in his two cents

Originally posted by Morpheus256
i never knew scsi was obsolete......

not really caring how relevant they were to the topic.

Benny didn't get my point
... again.
Originally posted by Benny Blanco
If they work, how could they be worthless?

So I expounded on it, during which I called him a dumbass, a direct corolation to his "homo" comment.

Morpheus, bless his heart, must have delusions of grandeur and fancy himself a mod.

Originally posted by Morpheus256
Talon Blackrazor, personal attacks like that are not really necessary or tolerated.....

And then we ended up with this.

Originally posted by Benny Blanco
What the **** do I care what they are worth in a production environment? THIS ENTIRE THREAD is about **** that is thrown away but STILL useful. And ultimately, this is why you were a **** who has now progressed to being a ******* ****.


This doesn't track right. I never said they were worthless, there was quite a large caveat in my original post.

This whole thing started because I tried to explain why somebody would not be an idiot to throw those towers away. As a diving find, they're one of the best I've seen.

Now isn't this whole thing just a tad ridiculous? :rolleyes:

[Benny Blanco]

Ahh, I think I see now...

See, when you said "No idiot,..." that looked like you were calling bleedingcancer a idiot. I see now that you meant the person putting them on the street is no idiot, for said reasons...

Well that's why I called you a homo. Anyway glad that's straightened out, lets go play some nintendo now :D

[Talon Blackrazor]

Alright then. :)

[Benny Blanco]

Test results for cd duplicator number 1 here (http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=722476&perpage=20&pagenumber=2) :D

[Talon Blackrazor]

Very nice.:cool:

[Killermac]

wow could you see this poor sticky being deleted because of a few people... 181 pages that would be a shame.

NOW BACK TO THE DUMPSTER.

Killermac

[Little Grabbi]

Diving request:

On the off chance that someone lives in Germany (Munster/Soltau/hemannsburg-region):

Wanna dive?

[weebling1]

Don't mess with Talon, he's right.

Lighten up!

"One man's trash is another man's treasure."

don't part them out, individually those parts are cheap, they're much more valuble intact.

and don't pull the HD's, you'll probably never find the software and drivers for it!

http://www.dataspacesys.com/ds_jagdup.htm

Morpheus256: i never knew scsi was obsolete......

20+year old 50pin SCSI-2 tech gives 20Mb burst, are you still using ATA33 drives?

[Hoth]

Sorry to bring this thread up but I have been doing some diving in the UK, best places for some of you UK folk is:

Maplins - If they have a back alley, the bins are never shut up or anything.

Maplins has been my main source of everything, I got a whole load of stuff from there, external CD-rw badly damaged outside shell any other questions pm me.

[Benny Blanco]

Originally posted by weebling1
20+year old 50pin SCSI-2 tech gives 20Mb burst, are you still using ATA33 drives?
I don't know much about scsi, but I know that this setup pumped out 3 full length (79 minutes) audio cd's in UNDER 8 minutes (on "slow"
12x burners).. so as far as I'm concerned, the scsi in that box is pretty damn good :p

by the way THANKS FOR THAT LINK :)

[Ravemaster Rich]

Originally posted by Hoth
Sorry to bring this thread up but I have been doing some diving in the UK, best places for some of you UK folk is:

Maplins - If they have a back alley, the bins are never shut up or anything.

Maplins has been my main source of everything, I got a whole load of stuff from there, external CD-rw badly damaged outside shell any other questions pm me.

Nice, thanks mate, there are a couple near me, I'll be sure to check them out. A tip for you is to try the bins of charity shops, I've got a shedload of stuff from my local ones recently, including loads of books which I'm listing on Amazon. Sold my first today! It seems that the shops get loads more stuff than they can sell, so the rest goes in the bin, even some really good stuff!

Rich :¬)

[Catuela]

defitnetly the best thread ever....going to dig out some old jeans and sweatshirt and hit every damn dumpster in NC this weekend :D

[pntbllskat]

After saying for awhile that I would try this....me and my friend decided to go out last night. We stuck around our side of town to start. We went behind this little mini-mall near my house, I wanted to check out the paintball store dumpster.
So we get there....hop in the first one. I find this bag full of little nic nacs. In-the-box christmas ornaments, misc spongebob stuff, and some sweet lookin purses (GF's birthday comin up :D). On on the next one.....jackpot. Inside we found about 3 bags of paintballs, a few broken ones inside but other than that perfect. Also some army/navy "survival tabs"....I guess theyre emergency food rations in a pill, all fresh sealed, $25 a bottle the sticker said. Also a 4 pod camo paintball harness, 1 VL pod, a Custom Products barrel display stand, and some army issue boxers.
Alrighty on over to staples....They had one of those really tall ones, so me and my friend hopped right in. We found about 15 Maxwell CD-Rs brand new..in the cases. 1 clear computer desk rollmat...sittin on it right now :D. A few billion day planners and a lil bit of paper. Also inside there were tons of ink toner cartridges...I opened some of them but it looks like they were all used. I thought they had to recycle these?
So earlier in the night we decided to
try Officemax, so we took a drive behind only to see a few guys unloading stuff into the back door. So we decided to go back later.
We came back to Officemax, parked our car in the back. We walk out of my car only to see an employee walking to the back to throw some trash away. I can imagine we must have looked suspicious...parking in the back....wearing gloves. So we kept on walking around the building...to make it look like we were there for other reasons. So we chill around the front for awhile then decide to go back. As were walking back....I peek over the corner to see a cop car parked right behind mine.....crap.
So we run into the nearby Shop-Rite buy some sodas, and plan out our story to the cops. We were gonna say we were lookin for some boxes, and ran inside the store to get some sodas real quick. As we walk out the door..I see the cop driving away from the area and out onto the highway.....whew! But then I think wait....cant they leave tickets on your car window?! So I rush over....no ticket, thank god.
As you can imagine we decided to leave that part of town and go see my GF for a few minutes. Did that and decided to try one more place. Maybe some of you know the corporation Pfizer (makers of Viagra)? Well yea they have quite a few offices around my city. So we gave it a shot, I was a little nervous doing it because of the tight security. I drive around the back of the building and see 2 dumpsters...decided to leave my car running...just in case:D. We walk on over...and wow. A PILE of computer monitors and systems sitting in a pile of snow.
So we rummaged through the pile. Most of the towers were gutted and werent very appealing. But the monitors..wow. I picked out 2 Samsung 17" Syncmaster 710s's which looked to be in good condition. Threw em in my car...and decided to call it a night. I'll let you guys know the condition of the monitors once they dry out :D . Overall I'd say it was a good night, im doin it more often.

[AJG199]

nice dives man.

AJ

[pntbllskat]

Monitor works :D

[SJetski71]

Scored pretty well tonite. Was hanging with a bud over at his condo/complex. Lo and behold amongst the dumpsters and garbage a small emachines midtower poked its head.

Brought it home to discover that it was probably thrown out because of a loose ide cable. The thing works perfect and was very well kept...it was dust free on the inside as well.

-emachines micro tower and psu
-celeron 400
-2 x 128=256 pc133 sdram
-Win98
-some BX mobo w/integrated ati video & integrated sdram onboard ?! (anybody know about these?).
-4.3gb HD, wasn't wiped but don't feel like creeping thru his trojans/spyware
-pre-soundblaster creative sound card
-10/100 nic
-24X cdrom
-floppy
-great condition
- i wished it was a slightly more powerful system... :o

[Benny Blanco]

Thats a nice score, sounds like a very usable system with the 256mb of RAM. PC100 and 133 have gotten expensive lately.

Sounds like you could reinstall windows and make a quick buck off that system :)

[towert7]

Driving down a street, i noticed a moniter at the side of the road. Brought it home, it works, and displays a good picture, execpt for a few black dots in it.

Only thing is, ive never seen a moniter like this one... anyone know who makes it? It's a 17", 15" viewable.

pic1 (http://home.comcast.net/~towert7/pics/moniter1.jpg)
pic1 (http://home.comcast.net/~towert7/pics/moniter2.jpg)
pic1 (http://home.comcast.net/~towert7/pics/moniter3.jpg)

[NotSoSimple]

Hope this helps tower. On your monitor, I did an FCC ID lookup and the company that came up was Royal Information Electronics Company (AKA RIC). It says they are based out of Taiwan, but your monitor was distrobuted from their Fremont, CA Plant.

Thats all ive found. Hope that gives you a little more info on your mystery monitor!

https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/oet/forms/731/731_Form.hts?mode=print&RequestTimeout=500&application_id=68401&fcc_id='HSUTRLDH-1764'

[Wampa]

I had no luck last night whatsoever :(. Our last hope, CompUSA, had a compactor! That makes two Best Buys, two Circuit Citys, one Office Depot, and one CompUSA in the area that ALL have compactors, and Office Max was empty. All the other dumpsters we checked were just boxes or regular trash.

Compactors are evil :(

[Pianomahnn]

I used to work for a maintenance company that did most fix-it work for Public Storage. The one perk of the job was cleaning out the units of people who never paid their monthly fee.

A few units were freaking goldmines. However, it's hard to load a piano into a untility van . . .

This one unit I ended up snagging a meat slicer (yes, like from the grocery store), an awesome Coleman sleeping bag and camping stove, both retailing for well over $100 a piece.

I also found this nice pen, which I've never used, but it's nice.

I knew the universal code to unlock the front gates, and there were a number of times I wanted to just rent a uhaul, go there and have my way with the units. Yea. . . fun stuff.

edit: I forgot about all the pharmacy rep stuff. The Public Storages in downtown Chicago had a crazy amount of tossed stuff from drug reps: pens, notepads, backpacks, clipboards. I once found an unopened case of A-1 steak sauce. . .that was cool. However, since it was food, I decided against taking it home.

[Falls Included]

this is by no means a dive, but while i was at work, i found a sandisk 128mb memory stick lying on the ground, cleaned it up and tested it. WORKS LIKE A CHARM!

[Bad_Boy]

man after reading some of this thread, i only WISH i could find newegg.com's HQ dumpster lol. but im on the other side of the country :(

[weebling1]

Bad_Boy :
man after reading some of this thread, i only WISH i could find newegg.com's HQ dumpster lol. but im on the other side of the country

Nah!, they're most likely dedicated "computer recycling technicians" like us :)

[jpmkm]

Holy shit I had a damn scare tonight!! Fucking wild animals!! So there's two dumpsters out at the office equipment shop around here and they usually have some good stuff out there. I went out there tonight and checked the first dumpster, and I heard something in the second dumpster, but I figured it was just the trash settling. I looked in the second dumpster and I saw an interesting box so I grabbed it, but then I heard something rustling and moving around in the dumpster!!! I thought a fucking raccoon was going to jump out at me or some shit. Holy shit I was scared. I ran to my ex and drove the fuck out of there and didn't look back. Man. I never even saw what it was but I heard something moving around and that was enough for me. It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't alone tonight, but I don't want to get attacked by some rabbid piece of shit raccoon and then have to drive myself to the damn hospital. That shit won't stop me from going back, though.

Lesson: try to avoid diving alone and if you hear something in the dumpster than leave and come back another night. Whatever is in there isn't worth getting bitten by some damn wild animal. Can you tell I'm freaked out/pissed off?

[AJG199]

good thing my pet raccoon was in there staking out for me. i heard there was a laptop tossed :D

AJ

[Thrash]

My solution? Carry a big-ass (four D-Cell) Mag-Lite with me. If anything is alive, just beat it until it stops moving. Great for when those mutant trash bags try to devour you as you stand on them.

:rolleyes:

[jpmkm]

Originally posted by Thrash
My solution? Carry a big-ass (four D-Cell) Mag-Lite with me. If anything is alive, just beat it until it stops moving. Great for when those mutant trash bags try to devour you as you stand on them.

:rolleyes:
Well I use a 3D maglite but I really don't feel like fighting wild animals. I didn't know what the hell was in there and I didn't want to find out.

[yoda634]

Stopped by officemax tonight.

Found:

http://yoda634.com/pouches.jpg
11 nice pencil pouch thingies

http://yoda634.com/certificates.jpg
11 packs of 25 certificates each, blank so you can print on em.

http://yoda634.com/notebooks.jpg
Like 10 or so assorted notebooks.

That was just right on top. There were also several boxes of dot matrix paper...didn't feel like getting in, and too heavy to lift from the angle I was at.

[towert7]

I wonder what the 00¢ means. Ive never seen that.

Good find though, i wonder why they chucked them.

[nochay]

can the stickers peel off without too much of a fuss? If they are a royal hell to get off, and tear up as they come off, it might be their way of "slashing" them. They figure you may not try to return them for store credit if they have those on there, or they are torn as they come off.

Dane

[pntbllskat]

Woo hoo...I'm leaving to go DDing with 3 of my friends. I'll report my findings later on.....:D .

[yoda634]

Originally posted by nochay
can the stickers peel off without too much of a fuss? If they are a royal hell to get off, and tear up as they come off, it might be their way of "slashing" them. They figure you may not try to return them for store credit if they have those on there, or they are torn as they come off.

Dane

Not really, most of the notebooks have plastic covers which those stickers come off of quite easity.

[Garzilla04]

Did some dumpster diving tonight..just got back actually. It was great, we hit up this spot that I found last time I went. It was an industrial park...with a brand new Pfizer building. So we drive around back again....now last time, I really didn't look to hard through the pile of junked computer stuff...this time I did. First time I went I found a working 17" Samsung Syncmaster 710S....this time I found a 17" Samsung Syncmaster 750s :D (yet to test). After we got this baby...we hit up a bunch of other places.
We went to 2 Staples stores, Officemax, and many many others. Here's what we came up with (that I can remember):

1 packaged copy of Norton Antivirus 2004 Corporate (in package)
2 packaged copies of Turbotax deluxe (brand new)
2 printers: A fairly new HP and an older lexmark I believe
1 box of Staples Floppys (in package)
1 250MB Zip Disk
8-10 Various notebooks (All Brand new)
1 USB high speed printer cable (in package)
30-40 Rolls of packing tape (I got some ideas for this) :D
1 400W Power Converter ( I guess its for car audio:confused: )

Like I said...this is all I can remember. I'll post again when I go through it all. BTW...most of this stuff is for sale. Just PM me with offers...

[nochay]

what is the HP printer model number? Picture?

Dane

[NotSoSimple]

Printer? Model? What printer? I didnt read anything...He said a USB Printer Cable..Didnt see a printer.

[towert7]

Originally posted by NotSoSimple
Printer? Model? What printer? I didnt read anything...He said a USB Printer Cable..Didnt see a printer.

OMG.

Reread garzilla04's post......................... i think you'll find it this time. Hehe

[Garzilla04]

lol yea I found 2 printers, just for clarification...:D. But yea I'll take a look at it all today, and let you know the model numbers...etc. The only thing is my friend has half of the stuff in his car..at his house. I have both monitors, 1 of the printers......bunch of other stuff.

[nochay]

Originally posted by Garzilla04

1 400W Power Converter ( I guess its for car audio:confused: )


hehe. nope. it's for "growing lights" :p ;)

Dane

[mjcason]

anyone know of any choice dumpsters in minneapolis area just thought id ask

[SJetski71]

Originally posted by mjcason
anyone know of any choice dumpsters in minneapolis area just thought id ask Don't know any choice dining areas in east bumblefrick...why do you ask btw? :p

[thrashd]

I have GOT to try this once I start driving. I knew a few potential diving spots around here.

My dad is friends with the guy who runs the warehouse for Savvis Communications. I'm sure I could get a shitload of free/cheap old computer stuff, but it's more fun if you have to dig for it :D

[Garzilla04]

Yea that power converter...it works :D. Now I just gotta find a small TV and I can play PS2 in my car...awwww yea. Oh yea and one of the monitor's I found work. This is definetly gonna be a weekly thing for me.

[OverlordQ]

Shits lol, I got to find some ppl in my area to go diving with lol :) Anybody in/near the DFW area :D

[AJG199]

once again.... anyone in milwaukee? :D

AJ

[brainchasm]

Originally posted by AJG199
once again.... anyone in milwaukee? :D

AJ
I'm in Milwaukee (well, West Allis)...but I really debate DDing. I'm fricking 28yrs old, I'll likely break a hip or something!

And then there's that warrant...

Yah so anyway, um, I'll think about it.


BC

[Peale]

24 Feb 04

Haven't posted any finds in a while.

I posted in the general forum that they had locked one of my favorite dumpsters. Well, I guess it was short lived, because after the first week it was unlocked ever since.

Having not found anything cool (or unbroken) in quite some time, I've been avoiding Selpats because I don't want to waste a trip.

Last night I was in the area anyway, so I figured, "what the hell."

Oh, man! Glad I did! Right on top I found a Kensington cordless keyboard/mouse combo pack. The seal was broken, but everything was intact, including the batteries. Since they were still open, I opted to take my find home and test it, and come back later.

Got home, tested it, it works just fine!

Went back ~10:30. As I was pulling in to the lot, a police car was pulling out. I kept an eye out to see what he was doing, and sure enough, he turned right around and headed my way. There was no way I was heading right to the dumpster, so I headed for the movie theatre next door (this is a small town, so nothing in this 'mall' is terribly large.

Now, this is Monday, and it's 10:30 at night. Luckily there will still cars in the lot: three of them. I parked and headed into the theatre. The manager is outside, and I ask to look at the video games in the lobby. Luckily he says yes. I go inside for a moment, give them a gander, and come back out. The cruiser is parked a short distance away.

I strike up a conversation with the manager. I've spoken with him before about games, but he clearly does not remember as it was some time ago. Mention that I do arcade games as a hobby, mostly classic stuff like Galaga and Pac-Man. He's interested if I could put a cabinet in his lobby. Cruiser finally leaves.

Go around back, and start poking in the dumpster. There's GOLD in them thar dumpsters!

What I remember, all in one box:

Motorized Disc Dr
Standard Disc Dr
Sony Mavica Starter Kit
Four laptop USB 2.0 PC Cards
Electric Xerox hole punch
Misc software (Lord of the Rings, MusicMatch)
Universal PDA Keyboard
Three USB hubs
Handheld Calculator (didn't work, back to the dumpster)
USB Cordless Travel Mouse (can't get it to work yet, will operate)
Serial --> USB adaptor

And much much more! I can't belive my good fortune!

[mowerman]

Tried my usual dumpster route the other day and nearly left a trail out of my pant legs. Walked up to the 10 yard box behind the CUSA and out pops this dude throwing out a box! Nearly lost it.lol. Asked dude if he found anything good and he tells me "I'm just taking the boxes." right. I should have pulled rank on him as this dumpster has been a honeypot. But WTH we all gotta share.

[MPython8118]

I'm in Milwaukee. Fox Point, to be specific, but I couldn't really get out to try this out anytime soon, but I'll definitely try this out once I have access to a car and such.

[muhsbandit]

im in milwaukee, a couple miles away from downtown near wauwatosa.

[Xelarator]

So has anyone tried diving in the NYC area? Specially, in like Queens, around Queens Blvd, places like Compusa, Circuit City, Best Buy and etc? If anyones interested, i say we set something up.

[punt]

Anyone in the Omaha, Nebraska area?


I don't have a car so diving is a bit of a hassle for me. :(


I have found several computers and monitors, though.

[andy71600]

So, i just read through about half this stuff here and i have decided that i cant wait to do this.

Is anyone here from around Atlanta? I'm up north of there in Woodstock, so if anyone is around here give me a holla!

[jellysandwich]

Dammit. I want to go DD'ing sometime, but I don't trust the streets of NYC...

[SpangeMonkee]

Originally posted by andy71600
So, i just read through about half this stuff here and i have decided that i cant wait to do this.

Is anyone here from around Atlanta? I'm up north of there in Woodstock, so if anyone is around here give me a holla!

I live in East Cobb..

J Ferry & Shallowford..

[Lunas]

Originally posted by punt
Anyone in the Omaha, Nebraska area?


I don't have a car so diving is a bit of a hassle for me. :(


I have found several computers and monitors, though. Lincoln, ne

[sponrad]

After reading this thread a while ago we've been thinking about going diving for a long time but haven't. Until last friday hehe.

We went to Fry's and found two 17" monitors someone had just dumped off there and not bothered to put in the dumpster yet even.

We then headed to a local comp shop and looked in thier dumpster. Nothing. We noticed a few barrels and stuff in the corner of the dumpster enclosure and checked them out a bit.
One of them turned out to be a completely full KEG OF COORS. We took that and now its sitting in my friends room until we aquire a tap.

Both monitors worked, except one is a little dark and the brightness/contrast broken. Definately going to dive weekly now I think. Its freakin awesome.

[yoda634]

Originally posted by sponrad
One of them turned out to be a completely full KEG OF COORS. We took that and now its sitting in my friends room until we aquire a tap.


BEST FIND EVER

[jpmkm]

Alright I'm heading out. I didn't find anything all last week so there HAS to be something out there tonight. I need to get some dental floss anyway so the trip won't be a complete waste I guess.
edit: didn't find a damn thing. :mad:

[nochay]

Originally posted by sponrad

One of them turned out to be a completely full KEG OF COORS. We took that and now its sitting in my friends room until we aquire a tap.

Any pictures? Reminds me of that 70's show!

Dane

[maxxratt]

Originally posted by sponrad

One of them turned out to be a completely full KEG OF COORS. We took that and now its sitting in my friends room until we aquire a tap.

Not a Coors man, but that is the greatest find evar:eek: :p








Edited cause beer makes me happy.

[mcravenufo]

I live very near Longview, WA and I just found out that this city is first in the USA to make dumpster diving illegal. There is a $125 fine for anyone caught.

[DrTacoElf]

Originally posted by andy71600
So, i just read through about half this stuff here and i have decided that i cant wait to do this.

Is anyone here from around Atlanta? I'm up north of there in Woodstock, so if anyone is around here give me a holla!

i'm in alpharetta :)

[[H]ot & [H]eavy]

Athens, soon to be Duluth.

[Thrash]

Originally posted by mcravenufo
I live very near Longview, WA and I just found out that this city is first in the USA to make dumpster diving illegal. There is a $125 fine for anyone caught.


That's it? ;)

I've been diving for two years now and have already found stuff worth much more than that. I wonder what it puts on your record?

[sp00]

Originally posted by mcravenufo
I live very near Longview, WA and I just found out that this city is first in the USA to make dumpster diving illegal. There is a $125 fine for anyone caught.
did you find out the hard way?

[guito13]

Originally posted by Fraggster
o hell yes, and i can drive now:cool:

Hell, im fooking 25 and now I want to do this....any takers in detroit or just south of PM me!!

[sponrad]

I posted a week ago about the monitors I found. No one I knew needed another monitor so we had to decide what to do with them.....

Monitor (http://files.sponrad.com/monitor.html)


Heres a very slow movie, but it's pretty funny.

monitor spear (http://files.sponrad.com/revised/impale.html)

By slow I mean very slow, don't know what happened.

[Beave]

Originally posted by sponrad
I posted a week ago about the monitors I found. No one I knew needed another monitor so we had to decide what to do with them.....

Monitor (http://files.sponrad.com/monitor.html)


Heres a very slow movie, but it's pretty funny.

monitor spear (http://files.sponrad.com/revised/impale.html)

By slow I mean very slow, don't know what happened.

hahahahaha :D :D :D :D

[towert7]

oh sponrad........ the poor moniter!

Anyway, on my drive to school, i noticed an old computer being thrown out.

Picked it up, brought it home, WORKS FLAWLESSLY! Made in 92, but this guy kept it up to at least 97, it has office 97, a CD rom drive, 1.6gb hard drive, sound card g-card ^_^ and windows 95. Only thing it does'nt have is a NIC card, which i would have liked. Compaq 4/33 33mhz ^_^

http://home.comcast.net/~towert7/pics/compaq.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~towert7/pics/compaq2.JPG

^_^ yea, so im happy (you can tell im poor).

[Krazykemist]

On the way home from school yesterday I saw an older model desktop and monitor out for the trash around the corner from my house. Woke up around 1am and at about 3 jumped in the truck and went and made a few drive-bys to check if it was still there and wait for there to be no other cars then stopped and picked it up. Let it sit till this evening for the moisture to evaporate and plugged it up. Works perfectly. P1 133Mhz, 16M RAM, 500M HD, CD-ROM, Fresh install of Windows 95 (apparently by a guy named Gus :P ) This comp is blazingly fast for a 133, it smokes the 433s we use at work. Monitor is still untested as I was waiting longer for it to dry.

[Peale]

You did a suprising amount of work for something obviously out for the trash. First time?

[NotSoSimple]

Ya but it isnt work when your having fun!

[l337*g0at]

Anyone in the Houston area want to meet up to do some diving ?

I live near tons of big retailers and mom and pop computer stores.

hit me on aim : jaz DASH z0r

0=zero

[Krazykemist]

First time?

Nope not at all. I have acquired many useful things that people have found to be otherwise. First pass was to see if it was still there. Second pass was slower to see if it was worth getting (basically intact, no hole through monitor). Third pass would have been to pick it up but cars were coming from both directions so could not stop. Where I like to look for the opportunity, my dad on the other hand likes to make the opportunity. I generally will make my retrievals with some planning. He on the other hand will just kill all the lights, pull in the driveway, drop the tailgate and start pitchin in the goods.

There are no good places for DD around here so I tend to curbside shop. If you become familiar with what days the garbage runs in what areas and dont live in a rainy climate then you can do quite well.

[maxxratt]

Originally posted by NotSoSimple
Ya but it isnt work when your having fun!

So true.

[DrTacoElf]

Alright its been a long time since i've done this -- think i might go out tonight. My best score ever yielded a shit load of stuff from a local shop second best score was at staples. When i was at school in VA everything was so close and i knew ALL the hot spots. Now that i'm in ATL i'm just a n00b again :(

[Peale]

Originally posted by Krazykemist
He on the other hand will just kill all the lights, pull in the driveway, drop the tailgate and start pitchin in the goods.

Sounds like we'd get along famously.

My dive partner is like you. Super duper quiet, don't make a ruckus - at all. Park a ways away and walk in. Me? I drive right in, open the doors and start packing stuff away.

[Veeb0rg]

Originally posted by Peale
Sounds like we'd get along famously.

My dive partner is like you. Super duper quiet, don't make a ruckus - at all. Park a ways away and walk in. Me? I drive right in, open the doors and start packing stuff away.

peale from build your own? hah.. small world

[Jnox]

Today was my second time dumpster diving. What can I say, it sucks bad. I have no luck at all. All good computer stores around my area have compactors. fl;kjadfl;jadf

I hate those things.

the first time I went I found some gold, thats right....... gold. It was behind a goodwill, which was right next to office max. I decided to take a peek, and then I find a whole baggie of gold, bracelets, etc.............. It was hidden right next to the dumpster. Someone probably hid it and then probably wanted to pick it up later. Oh well, I got to it first, muwhahahahaha

Then, guess what...... a cop pulled up behind me, right when I was half way in the dumpster. I calmly climbed out, turned off my flashlight and walked up to him and asked, can I help you with something sir? He said, "what are you doing?" I answered that I was looking for some boxes. The he said "I think there are some boxes in that dumpster up there, but you didnt hear that from me!" I laughed and answered thank you, and he drove away.

What can I say, that was a close one.

Now, the second time I went (tonight, it is almost 3 am and I got back not long ago), I scored some games. I peaked into the dumpster from GameStop, and the damn thing was filled with all kinds of games. Tons of empty game boxes, some t-shirts from splinter cell, as well as some posters. I think I scored pretty good. That was the only thing I found. Pretty shitty for spending over 3 hours looking into dumpsters. Ah well, maybe I'll try again soon.

Good luck everyone, and yes I know my spelling is horrible...... but what can I say, I'm tired and I wanna go to sleep! nite

Jnox

[nuentoter]

It sucks i live in northern maine, there is absolutely nothing around here worth going DD for. If i goto Edmundston New Brunswick, then there are decent places but then i have to cross the border w/ tons of stuff in my car. not good.

[yoda634]

Originally posted by Jnox
Today was my second time dumpster diving. What can I say, it sucks bad. I have no luck at all. All good computer stores around my area have compactors. fl;kjadfl;jadf

I hate those things.

the first time I went I found some gold, thats right....... gold. It was behind a goodwill, which was right next to office max. I decided to take a peek, and then I find a whole baggie of gold, bracelets, etc.............. It was hidden right next to the dumpster. Someone probably hid it and then probably wanted to pick it up later. Oh well, I got to it first, muwhahahahaha

Then, guess what...... a cop pulled up behind me, right when I was half way in the dumpster. I calmly climbed out, turned off my flashlight and walked up to him and asked, can I help you with something sir? He said, "what are you doing?" I answered that I was looking for some boxes. The he said "I think there are some boxes in that dumpster up there, but you didnt hear that from me!" I laughed and answered thank you, and he drove away.

What can I say, that was a close one.

Now, the second time I went (tonight, it is almost 3 am and I got back not long ago), I scored some games. I peaked into the dumpster from GameStop, and the damn thing was filled with all kinds of games. Tons of empty game boxes, some t-shirts from splinter cell, as well as some posters. I think I scored pretty good. That was the only thing I found. Pretty shitty for spending over 3 hours looking into dumpsters. Ah well, maybe I'll try again soon.

Good luck everyone, and yes I know my spelling is horrible...... but what can I say, I'm tired and I wanna go to sleep! nite

Jnox

WTF...pics of the gold stuff...and get that to a pawn shop right away, man, it looks shady for you to have it on you, and the cops might be looking for it.

[NotSoSimple]

Hmm Pawn Shops are notified by the PD of stolen items though.

[Lunas]

chances are if it isnt stolen it isnt solid gold only cheap plated jewery and not all jewery sells at pawn shops for lots of money and if most of it is solid gold you will be luckey to get gold price for it

[afirawker]

This has to be the biggest thread i have ever seen:O

[Peale]

Originally posted by Veeb0rg
peale from build your own? hah.. small world

Not really...BYOAC isn't that far a cry from hardware hacking.

[klowngoblin]

holy shit this thread is almost 3 years old, i remember DD in college, it was great, got about 11 AT and ATX cases and i remember we got some old modems (2400 baud modems i think) as well as a fully functional 15"monitor

[jpmkm]

BULKY ITEM PICKUP DAY!!!! Oh it's a junker's wet dream. Bulky item pickup day for the west half of Kirksville is this thursday, and there's already plenty of good stuff out. Just in the time since I've come back from spring break a few hours ago, I've gotten a tube amp, a microphone mixer, and old packard bell, five dot matrix printers(old shitty ones, not nice ones) and an electric typewriter. I'm going out tomorrow(and every day this week!) once it's light out so I can actually see the shit out there. Last year I got a fucking microvax II(that thing is a beast!! It has like 32 serial ports on the back of it!). I also found an Alps printer that I sold for $100 on ebay. I don't understand why people throw that shit out.

[klowngoblin]

DONT TRY AND change how people think!! we need idiots so we can get free stuff LOL they are there for a REASON

[klowngoblin]

Originally posted by afirawker
This has to be the biggest thread i have ever seen:O

hmm this one is over 800+ pages http://www.protege5.com/vbb230/showthread.php?t=1756

[SpangeMonkee]

Originally posted by klowngoblin
hmm this one is over 800+ pages http://www.protege5.com/vbb230/showthread.php?t=1756

yeah, but their intention was to make the longest thread via spam and other shens..

not even quite up to par..

[Ch1m3r4]

we got 7 17" monitors a month or so ago

princeton graphics. couple years old, but were $500+ when they were new.

weren't exactly in the dumpster, but they were near it and every single one of them was marked surplus.

now the question is, was that surplus supposed to go somewhere special or not...:rolleyes:

[klowngoblin]

what store was this infront of?

[yoda634]

Originally posted by SpangeMonkee
yeah, but their intention was to make the longest thread via spam and other shens..

not even quite up to par..

pffft.

That's fucking nothing. ~12.7K in TWO AND A HALF YEARS.

On genmay, lol, we've had bigger spam threads pop up in a single day.

One got to like 60K then was deleted because of server load. That only took a few days.

Good example that hasn't been deleted: http://www.genmay.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=269716

10h5m and 20698 posts. That's like one post every second and a half sustained for 10 hours.

[jpmkm]

:rolleyes: Are there any threads on genmay that aren't spam threads? We need to cut out all this offtopic stuff; I don't want to see this nice thread closed.

Back ontopic, I got a dehumidifier last night on the side of the street(bulky item pickup week). The coils get DAMN cold. I'm going to get my watercooling system set back up and hopefully I'll be chilling by tonight. I also got a couple computers last night. No drives or memory, but both have motherboards. One has a celeron 333 and some agp video card. They're probably garbage like the rest of the stuff I've found, but at least I got a couple cases and power supplies out of it.

[SpangeMonkee]

Originally posted by jpmkm
They're probably garbage like the rest of the stuff I've found, but at least I got a couple cases and power supplies out of it.

If its an ATI card, you can get $$$ for it when you buy a new ATI card.. It has SOME value..

[klowngoblin]

got tons of stuff last night but nothing computer related,

1) goose feather filled feather bed queen sized (thick blanket basically), it was thrown out because the feathers stuck threw, (all feather filled blankets are like that you idiots) anyways looked at it, it is brand new, even smells new and had its own zippered case

2) 15 tall glasses and some wide beer glasses, all wrapped up nicely in some paper and sealed in abox, no clue why they threw those out

3) 6x9 speaker, not blown will probably use it for something

4) mounting bracket for car still sealed in plastic

5) alot of greeting card envelopes

6) filing cabinet, looks new, says the front panel was broken off, i snaped it back in place nothing broken using it for my software cds, (has keys too :))

[yoda634]

Originally posted by jpmkm
:rolleyes: Are there any threads on genmay that aren't spam threads? We need to cut out all this offtopic stuff; I don't want to see this nice thread closed.

Back ontopic, I got a dehumidifier last night on the side of the street(bulky item pickup week). The coils get DAMN cold. I'm going to get my watercooling system set back up and hopefully I'll be chilling by tonight. I also got a couple computers last night. No drives or memory, but both have motherboards. One has a celeron 333 and some agp video card. They're probably garbage like the rest of the stuff I've found, but at least I got a couple cases and power supplies out of it.

Did one of those computers have an AT power supply? I'm looking for a spare AT PSU to help power some extra hard drives for my main rig. I'd be willing to pay shipping and maybe a few bucks if you didn't need it.

[workingnonstop]

Originally posted by yoda634
Did one of those computers have an AT power supply? I'm looking for a spare AT PSU to help power some extra hard drives for my main rig. I'd be willing to pay shipping and maybe a few bucks if you didn't need it.

I may be able to help you, I have a stack of old 386-early pentiums that's been sitting in my room for the past year. What exactly are you looking for?

[klowngoblin]

got a P200 PSU, works, let me know thanks! i accept paypal

[nochay]

Originally posted by workingnonstop
I may be able to help you, I have a stack of old 386-early pentiums that's been sitting in my room for the past year. What exactly are you looking for?

do you have a isa nic card? My 486 could use one.

Dane

[Veeb0rg]

Originally posted by nochay
do you have a isa nic card? My 486 could use one.

Dane

lemme dig around, i KNOW i have atleast 3 of em
heh

[SpangeMonkee]

Originally posted by nochay
do you have a isa nic card? My 486 could use one.

Dane

I have some.. BNC/RJ-45.. Lemme know if you want one..

[weebling1]

Veeb0rg :
lemme dig around, i KNOW i have atleast 3 of em



Dang!
and I thought I held onto alot of worthless stuff

at least I got rid of those Proliant 6500 quad P-pro mother boards:p

[Veeb0rg]

Originally posted by weebling1
Dang!
and I thought I held onto alot of worthless stuff

at least I got rid of those Proliant 6500 quad P-pro mother boards:p

well they usta be in my linux router till i upgraded.

i still run a proliant 800 dual ppro server. :)

[Peale]

Originally posted by Ch1m3r4
we got 7 17" monitors a month or so ago

princeton graphics. couple years old, but were $500+ when they were new.

weren't exactly in the dumpster, but they were near it and every single one of them was marked surplus.

now the question is, was that surplus supposed to go somewhere special or not...:rolleyes:

Hey, check and see if those monitors will take a 15KHz signal. If they do, they'd make great MAME cabinet monitors.

[huxley]

Originally posted by yoda634
pffft.

That's fucking nothing. ~12.7K in TWO AND A HALF YEARS.

On genmay, lol, we've had bigger spam threads pop up in a single day.

One got to like 60K then was deleted because of server load. That only took a few days.

Good example that hasn't been deleted: http://www.genmay.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=269716

10h5m and 20698 posts. That's like one post every second and a half sustained for 10 hours. who cares? Spam threads are dumb

[jpmkm]

Oh shit I think I hit something cool. Out at the office equipment shop there are 2 or 3 somewhat heavy, somewhat large copy machines. Better than the last one I found. At least one of them has a nice little lcd screen on it. Problem is, they are still in the fucking dumpster! I just couldn't get a good grip on any of them to pull them out. Now I am just waiting for my roommate to get back to see if he wants to help me get them out. Also, some shit is leaking out of the bottom of my car. I heard an occasional clanking when I was out tonight, and looked underneath the ex when I got back. Nothing is dripping, but there is certainly some moisture there. Looks like I know what I'll be doing this weekend. FUCK.

Oh, and for whoever was asking, oddly enough, none of the computers I found had AT power supplies. None of the computers worked, either(which, I guess, is why there were on the side of the street).

Update:
Well holy shit. I have outdone myself. There were a couple copiers in the dumpster and they were fucking HEAVY. My roommate and I were able to lift one up just enough to get it on the edge of the dumpster, then we just let it fall. We dragged it over to my explorer and somehow got it in the back. But my fucking door wouldn't close! I have a computer tied down in the back that plays music, and it was keeping the copier from getting far enough in. I ended up just tieing the hatch with some rope. I drove about 20 mph the whole way home. Also, when my roommate and I first went out, there were three cop cars about 200 feet down the road from the store and they were searching through a pickup truck on the side of the road. Damn bitches. That son of a bitch copier is still in the back of my car. I don't know what the hell I am going to do with it. All I really wanted is the lcd screen, which I probably won't even be able to interface to. Motors should be good, too. I am planning on making an xy engraving table out of some old printer parts. Shit I'm tired and I'm rambling. bah.

[Az2]

I have one as well. (ISA NIC)

[workingnonstop]

Originally posted by nochay
do you have a isa nic card? My 486 could use one.

Dane

I have some.:)

[CrimandEvil]

Hey, anyone that lives in Boulder/ Denver area want to get together and try the local college before springbreak is over? Plus I think I know of a few places to look at.

[Mizugori]

I live in Woodstock, CT...I need some help lol, who lives near here and wants to give this Dumpster Diving Business a shot?

06281 /01550 are closest to me

[Rpkole]

any one live near Tyler Tx

o so far i have found a 15 inch monitor works a fold up chair with bag a good vac just needed a little duck tape :p a mouse adn about 50 3.5" floppeys all from behind Radio Shack

[jpmkm]

Hey I go to school with a guy from Tyler TX. Pretty crazy dude.

Well this week is bulky item pickup for the east side of town so I got some good stuff. Today I got a couple Echostar satellite receivers(no cards:(), an old mac that doesn't look like it is working, a nice scsi scanner, a canon bjc-620 colour inkjet printer(looks like it just needs ink), and an old panasonic colour dot matrix printer. I think that's it. There were a lot of junkers out driving around. Some dirty fucking couple picked up a nasty old matress. Crazy fucks.

[nochay]

Originally posted by jpmkm
Hey I go to school with a guy from Tyler TX. Pretty crazy dude.

Well this week is bulky item pickup for the east side of town so I got some good stuff. Today I got a couple Echostar satellite receivers(no cards:(), an old mac that doesn't look like it is working, a nice scsi scanner, a canon bjc-620 colour inkjet printer(looks like it just needs ink), and an old panasonic colour dot matrix printer. I think that's it. There were a lot of junkers out driving around. Some dirty fucking couple picked up a nasty old matress. Crazy fucks.

how old is the mac? I could use some stuff from it.

edit: how old is the scanner? useable?

Dane

[jpmkm]

The mac is a performa 6300cd from around 95-96 I believe. Some of the cables inside were cut and fucked up, so I have already gutted it. I have the motherboard, 1.2 gig hard drive, cdrom drive, floppy drive, and power supply. I have pictures of the stuff if you want to see anything. If not then no big deal. It will just be going to ebay(and then probably the dumpster).
edit: scanner is an epson perfection 636, but I think I am going to keep that. I just won a scsi cable for $.01 about a minute ago. :)

[Gear[H]ead]

just got this the other night

I'm guessing its a 159
Clicker bindings

Edges are still sharp

http://home.gci.net/~gearhead/Random/Snowbaord.jpg

[mrbobo]

Originally posted by Gear[H]ead
just got this the other night

I'm guessing its a 159
Clicker bindings

Edges are still sharp

http://home.gci.net/~gearhead/Random/Snowbaord.jpg

man nice find!

[Gear[H]ead]

thanks. I'll use it as a rockboard unless I can find one more, then make a talbe, or a bench out of them.

[space_monkey]

I scored five NCD19r Thin Client X-terminals last night (19" monitors with built-in network/KBD/mouse jacks;
I could have had a few more, but as I was pulling the last one out of the dumpster some indian guys walking by saw me with a monitor in hand and ran over...
one of them jumped right into the dumpster (no hesitation) and started hauling out monitors and passing them to his two friends, and I guess there weren't any more screens left because then he started pulling out garbage bags too (getting garbage juice all over himself!)
So the guy started freaking out and yelling loudly, probably because he really smelled like he had jumped into a dumpster, so I figured it was a good time to take off before the moron attracts some rentacops... there were only some filthy PS/2 keyboards left as far as I could tell, and they didn't look like anything I'd want to put my fingers on without disinfecting them first. When I think back I think I might have seen some CAT5 cable and mice that were used with the X-terms, too bad because I could have used those.

[nochay]

Originally posted by space_monkey
I scored five NCD19r Thin Client X-terminals last night (19" monitors with built-in network/KBD/mouse jacks;
I could have had a few more, but as I was pulling the last one out of the dumpster some indian guys walking by saw me with a monitor in hand and ran over...
one of them jumped right into the dumpster (no hesitation) and started hauling out monitors and passing them to his two friends, and I guess there weren't any more screens left because then he started pulling out garbage bags too (getting garbage juice all over himself!)
So the guy started freaking out and yelling loudly, probably because he really smelled like he had jumped into a dumpster, so I figured it was a good time to take off before the moron attracts some rentacops... there were only some filthy PS/2 keyboards left as far as I could tell, and they didn't look like anything I'd want to put my fingers on without disinfecting them first. When I think back I think I might have seen some CAT5 cable and mice that were used with the X-terms, too bad because I could have used those.

sounds cool ;) Pictures? Are you keeping all of them?

Dane

[CyberSlave]

Originally posted by Rpkole
any one live near Tyler Tx

o so far i have found a 15 inch monitor works a fold up chair with bag a good vac just needed a little duck tape :p a mouse adn about 50 3.5" floppeys all from behind Radio Shack

I'm from there.
Momma still lives there, and I go back every now and then.

I currentl'y live in Denton though.

[space_monkey]

Originally posted by nochay
sounds cool ;) Pictures? Are you keeping all of them?

Dane
Here's a google image that looks exactly like mine, except I have five of them of course