Yes, people in general are strange. I found a fully working 128D in the wasteyard. I visited it regulary a period on my life, the electronics section that is. My 28" stereo TV , stereo tranciever and my 19" monitor all came from the dump too, all fully working.
I am like you there... My last pc was basicly built from trash. My laptop that use all day i also found and the only reason it was throwed out was that it had been replaced with newer systems. I also found my monitors which was 19-21" like for example a sony trinitron 21", a Nokia 447Xpro and so on..
I also found 2 brand new proson speakers a year or so ago, which was apparantly thrown out by a electronic store called Siba. One of them had not even been packaged out while the other one had a small cosmetic scratch in the wood, which was hardly noticable at all. I sure as hell would have had no problem buying it for a small discount and i dont know if i would even have complained if i had bought it for full price.
I also know someone who work at a recycle center and you wont believe what he picks with himself home. What he found most recently was a fully working 32inch lcd tv, a Toshiba sp6000 laptop "1.2ghz pIII with 256meg ram" and a projector that has only been running for somewhere between 300-400 hours. The problem with the laptop was that the cable going to the lcd had loosened and this was fixed in less than 5mins.
Why not sell this for a discount or give it away to someone needing it?
I have only found one Amiga though... And that was a a500 with an a590 disk"sadly no psu, so the a590 is unusable for me so far" The a500 was fully working but the memory expansion seemed to have died from battery leakage.
