What an Awesome Weekend!!

[menace]

So friday, I have the day off, and decide to empty the basement to make room for the rest of our stuff and take a load to the dump--at the dump i notice a large bin marked electronics, and me never shying from a good dumpster dive, decide to have a look--low and behold computers, printers keyboards etc.  So i pick up two machines and get a free 24X cd-rom (with windows XP Pro CD still inside) a couple floppy drives, some pentium chips and a ATI rage II with video out.

Then at the Starburst auction I pick up a cabinet in very good condition just missing the game for $50 (through in a new power supply and my new 25" wells gardner sprang to life)  I also managed --with urgings from the missus, who ended up buying it, bought a beautiful stargate pin for 875$!!

I need a day of rest from all this good gaming fortune...

[RetroJames]

Congratulations...you bastard

I missed out on 3 Dell GX1's at a thrift shop because I did not have a monitor to test with and little time.  Finding good PC stuff at the dump is pretty awesome though, I can't beat that!  

[JamesS]

Menace did you go to that auction here in Atlanta?

If so did you keep a price list of what a lot of things went for?

[menace]

sorry man toronto auction.

[shmokes]

Floppy drive???  They're not even worth the time it takes to unscrew them from the drive cages.  

[menace]

They're priceless when you only have one between 2 machines    Don't worry, on my next dumpster dive I'll get some good stuff

[Stingray]

Good weekend for me too. After a long search I finally managed to track down a dead cab, so my MAME project can finally get off the ground.

-S

[menace]

excellent...