fathergoat

it's not just for hobos

They were throwing this all out at work. All the monitors work, mostly burn-in or lines. Some of the PCs have bad power supplies, many missing procs, all missing ram and hard drives. I'm gonna piece a few together, sort, ebay leftover good parts.

b00gers

Wish we had dumpsters like that.

fathergoat

I happen to know there are an ass load of perfectly good monitors coming up. They are trying to decide wether to auction them, sell em, or give them away. Apparently some asshat decided we need to upgrade to LCDs great business decision. Bye bye budget :wavey:

Omniscient

At the newspaper where I work they just remodeled the composing room and replaced pretty much everything from monitors to to the memory stick hubs. Theres like 15 computers sitting out in the hallway ready to be thrown away and nobody can have anything. It sucks. I'd love to take one of the Mac's for recording purposes.

fathergoat

I hate it when companies would rather throw something away rather than give it to someone who would use it. I can see no sense in being such assholes. My company usually sets stuff out on a palate labeled free. In this case they put them on the back dock and didn't tell anyone. My connections let me know where they were and that it was ok to take them.

Omniscient

The paint can and milk jug are a sweet find.

yellowbastard

Optiplex GX150's? I've got a warehouse full of them and CRT monitors at the moment ranging from 17-21". We don't throw ours away however, we have a vendor that buys them from us.

Schwa

They can also be 270s, which used the same case.

yellowbastard

Could also be a 260 or 280. That case is shared among all of those models.

Schwa

Indeed. I find these machines make good PC's if you're just using raw processing power. In my experience, it's tough to find good video cards and sound cards that will fit into those narrower PCI slots.

They are great for decoding satellite signals though