Look what i found in the recycleing center today.

[allforcarrie]

I found this POS in the trash with no Ram, HDD or Disk drive. It had a 56K and an ISDN modem so I swaped them out with a NIC and a USB card I had laying around. Threw in a hard drive and a DVDrom and it is up and installing Ubuntu Linux.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/allforcarrie/Computers/IMG_1169.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/allforcarrie/Computers/IMG_1170.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/allforcarrie/Computers/IMG_1171.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/allforcarrie/Computers/IMG_1172.jpg

[az]

Mmmmmmmm. Fun.

Throw in some beer and a barbecue and I call that the perfect day off!

[void_false]

Congrats.
So... What are the specs? ;-)

[oddabe19]

my roomates and I have found the best place for PC parts....

at the end of everysemester at some university.

Go dumpster diving, students don't want stuff anymore, so they chuck it.

[allforcarrie]

I think it is a 400mhz celeron. I have 256MB of ram in it now.

[poofyhairguy]

I gave you some luck I guess!

II got the case for my junker today...two whole days before is was supposed to be here.

[N'Jal]

Nice case, and advice about uni, im there in a matter of month's hmm PC parts will be mine.

[poofyhairguy]

my roomates and I have found the best place for PC parts....

at the end of everysemester at some university.

Go dumpster diving, students don't want stuff anymore, so they chuck it.


Good idea,

[az]

"Go dumpster diving, students don't want stuff anymore, so they chuck it."

Exactly my social life in the late eighties...

[allforcarrie]

computer $0.00

spare parts to make computer work $0.00

case made from cardboard $0.00

spray paint on card board $0.00

Pics soon.

[panickedthumb]

allforcarrie:

Making a frankenstein box out of junk parts to experiment with Linux: priceless

[allforcarrie]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/allforcarrie/Computers/IMG_1174.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v16/allforcarrie/Computers/IMG_1173.jpg

[allforcarrie]

http://www.twistedforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4220&page=2
if you are board, click here.

[CospeFogo]

computer $0.00

spare parts to make computer work $0.00

case made from cardboard $0.00

spray paint on card board $0.00

Pics soon.
You forgot:

Ubuntu CD $0.00

[az]

:

[allforcarrie]

Nice job!!!

[poofyhairguy]

I noticed a key difference in the pics.....


In the new ones the window's sticker is ripped off!

[panickedthumb]

nice ;)

[Markp.com]

Um... wont the cardboard get hot and burn?

[allforcarrie]

it doesnt get that hot.

[az]

I am putting together a desktop for my girls (3-yr-old and 1-yr-old) They both use the laptop and I want something they cannot drop on the floor.

I asked my wife at a good time.

I found a used-computer store advertising pII computers for 40 bucks, I called and asked for a pII 400 Mhx with no ram, disk or cd. Twenty bucks.

The thing is quieter than my main computer (it looks like it has been kicked around a lot but it works fine) It is a pentium 400Mhz which seems to run almost as fast as my Via C3 (735Mhz)... It also suspends to disk (hibernation) which my main computer does not do....

Go figure!

[BWF89]

You rock AFC!

[skoal]

Well, apparently no one's taken the opportunity yet in this thread, so here goes:

Hauling heavy computer parts back into house and seeing a doctor about your hernia the next day...$35.

Repairing torn jeans while dangling from a metal dumpster to salvage a 400 MHz "celery"...$5.

Slappin' all the computer parts together and showing off what a might fine distro CD can do for old hardware...priceless!

\\//_

[allforcarrie]

I have decided to give this box away to someone on another board but, i do have a replacement i found :grin: It is a 1.2!!!

[poofyhairguy]

I have decided to give this box away to someone on another board but, i do have a replacement i found :grin: It is a 1.2!!!


Pics?

[allforcarrie]

http://www.twistedforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4372full thread if you are interested.

[az]

My day off: