What have you found on the "side of the road"?

[JimS]

I can't say I ever found anything directly Amiga related on trash day.... But I did find a PIII machine that's still my main pc. Found a dead P4 that yielded up an 80GB HD and some RAM. While garage saleing this summer, just randomly following signs, I found a guy with a couple of baker's racks on the lawn and a sign "Free Stuff". Got a nice HP scanner with document feeder, and a wireless G router.
The city used to have an e-waste dropoff at the recycling center... they closed it I think because too many people were scavenging it and taking all the good stuff first. ;-) I know I got a Pentium laptop down there.

[JimS]

What galls me is that people can get so paranoid about security that they remove the hard drives, when it's easy enough to do a wipe. Couple weeks ago, I bought a 2.1gHz Athlon XP system at a garage sale for 5 bucks... but no HD. It's getting harder to find PATA drives these days, at least the cheap ones.
Couple winters ago, I found a dead P4 at the side of the road... that goof thought that cutting the power leads to the HD was good enough. ;-) Pulled it out & got an 80GB drive with all his data on it. (Which I wiped before reading) Now it's filled with music in my sister's computer.

[JimS]

You guys in the UK need to think about tossing those local councils into the waste bins. ;-)