Lucky find

[swift240]

Hi all, with my wife going to town to get some shopping in, I saw inside a front garden a tower case and monitor.
Asking the owner of the Items if I could have the tower case, she told me yes sure just take it I am trying to get rid of it, it dont work.
So took it home dried it out as it was raining.
Sure enough the mobo and CPU was totaly screwed up.
I took out an NVidia GX-440 8x AGP card tested and Working
SB128 sound card tested and working
2 x 128Mb SD DIMM ram tested and working
20 gig HD tested and working
Fast ethernet card 3COM tested and working
52 x CD rom tested and working
and the tower case of course, with a good clean it will come up nice.
FLoppy drive tested and working.

The 20Gig HD is now in my Amiga 1200.
GX-440 agp is in my Athlon.

This has to be one lucky find.

The PSU has a very dodgy mains plug fitting so I think that actualy took the mobo and CPU out. (possible shorting)






 :-)  :-)

[swift240]

Yes I know what you mean, the one company I used to work for threw out a new electronic typewriter because it didnt work.
I asked them for it, gave me the go ahead took it home to find the power lead was not presed into the back completely it was only half way in.

So there loss my gain.

Its amazing how many people do this.

I think the best one for me was when I was 17 the next door neighbour threw out a new stereo deck, so I claimed it to find there was no needle in the head, went down to the local shop got a new needle put it in and woooooo yes a new deck.
She said its better to throw it awaw than to get it fixed.
Did I tell her ?   errrrrr NO.