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Title: Another man's garbage my treasure!!
Post by: Edgedamage on September 07, 2003, 10:01:44 pm
Look what the office building across the street had in the trash. No screen burn no yellow bezels just nice clear pictures.
Title: Re:Another man's garbage my treasure!!
Post by: TalkingOctopus on September 07, 2003, 10:29:24 pm
So many offices and even schools throw away perfectly good stuff.  It is really sad.  I am glad you got to snag it before it landed in the dump.
Title: Re:Another man's garbage my treasure!!
Post by: spidermonkey on September 08, 2003, 12:53:17 am
What are they 15"s ? Good for bartops or caberet's I guess. Maybe even a cocktail.
Title: Re:Another man's garbage my treasure!!
Post by: Jakobud on September 08, 2003, 01:47:38 am
You guys wouldnt' believe the stuff our IT dept throws in the dumpster at my office...
Title: Re:Another man's garbage my treasure!!
Post by: walls83 on September 08, 2003, 04:10:54 am
I here that my IT office just tosses crap out It really pisses me off..
Title: Re:Another man's garbage my treasure!!
Post by: Aceldamor on September 08, 2003, 12:52:31 pm
We're going through a big hardware upgrade where I work....plenty of 15' monitors and P3 450's to be had.   ;D
Title: Re:Another man's garbage my treasure!!
Post by: tmasman on September 08, 2003, 12:59:51 pm
15' monitors and P3 450's to be had.   ;D

15 foot??? Holy cow!

Seriously though...
Are you getting your hands on any of them?
Title: Re:Another man's garbage my treasure!!
Post by: Edgedamage on September 08, 2003, 03:12:10 pm
they are all 15" I am thinking of making bar top pinmame machines.
Title: Re:Another man's garbage my treasure!!
Post by: CitznFish on September 08, 2003, 06:52:10 pm
they are all 15" I am thinking of making bar top pinmame machines.

integrate the buttons into your bartop..sure, you couldn't move them later, but it'll be cool! :)


As for garbage, i always find old doughnuts in the trash by my house. They just throw em away! imagine that!
Title: Re:Another man's garbage my treasure!!
Post by: Brax on September 08, 2003, 06:54:33 pm
We're going through a big hardware upgrade where I work....plenty of 15' monitors and P3 450's to be had.   ;D

Care to toss an extra 450 my way?  ;)
Title: Re:Another man's garbage my treasure!!
Post by: JoyMonkey on September 08, 2003, 07:14:43 pm
I was walking home from work the other day and came accross two Dell Optiplex P3 500Mhz machines sitting out for the trash - the exact same machines that I've put in cocktail tables.

I had intended to give them a good home but by the time I came back with my truck it  was raining pretty hard so I didn't bother with them.  :(

About a month ago I found a perfectly good P2 333Mhz system (with monitor) waiting for the trashman. Not sure if I'll end up using it for anything, but its amazing what people throw out when they're moving homes.

PS> I know what you're thinking and the answer is no, I don't go around trawling through my neighbours trash collecting whatever useful/unsoiled items I can find.  :P
Title: Re:Another man's garbage my treasure!!
Post by: Brax on September 08, 2003, 10:23:38 pm
PS> I know what you're thinking and the answer is no, I don't go around trawling through my neighbours trash collecting whatever useful/unsoiled items I can find.  :P

Why NOT?
Title: Re:Another man's garbage my treasure!!
Post by: BillyJack on September 09, 2003, 03:24:59 pm
I found a magnavox big screen TV (42" i believe) next to a dumpster last week.  I think it needs the heat transfer fluid in the green CRT replaced, then a convergence job (which I'm gonna try myself...  GOOD LUCK ME) and then it should work great.  So all in all i think i'm gonna spend about 25 bucks and 20 million hours of work and I should get a working big screen!

BillyJack