Great find!

[Ghoward]

The people next door to us tossed out a PC ready for the trash man to take it away. At first I didn't go get it I thought it might be really old and no good for anything.

But I guessed I could use it for something so I went and got it, anyway it turns out to be a two year old Emachine with Windows XP and 300 plus of ram. So now I have great starter pc for free for my upcoming Jukebox project.

Anyone else found anything good for free?

Gary

[Edgedamage]

Found a great computer it is the tallest tower I have ever seen. It now holds up my A/C unit outside my window. Also found a p2-450 outside of a law office. Went home booted it up hit cancel at the password screen found 3gigs of client files lucky for them I am honest and wrote over the whole disk with zeros. Another system I found outside of a house had homemade husband/wife porn on it eww.

[MnMCaputo]

notice you didnt mention putting zeros on the drive full of homemade porn    

[paigeoliver]

I bought a 500 mhz 128 MB ram comp at a garage sale recently for 50 cents. It was dirty and the side panels were not attached, but it actually works perfectly.

AND it was actually a good comp.

Actual AGP video card, actual sound card, 15 gig hd, and a real live no kidding rockwell 56K ISA hardware modem (never seen an actual hardware modem over 33.6K that I didn't buy myself). Normally every system I ever work on has a 56K software modem that is a complete mystery modem that half the time is unidentifiable (windows can't tell what kind it is, never works with any of the drivers for the 6 different modems the manufacturer used in that model, etc, etc. I must have like 15 of those unidentified softmodems laying around).

[NoBonus]

Damn softmodems...

[hyiu]

I once found $20 on the street !!.... I think this should be considered great find also... hee hee...  

[JamIt]

About 5+ years ago, I found this wonderful site called
http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm.

Sorry, couldn't resist
--JamIt

[Ghoward]

You know that pc I found was the first one I'ne picked up off the street, but I've seen 3 or 4 before that I guess from now on I'm going to have to take them all and see if they are any good.

If nothing else they work for MAME.

Gary

[TOK]

My MAME cab came about as the result of a non-working PC that was given to me. There was a problem with the motherboard, but the processor (2ghz P4), power supply, DVD ROM drive and 256meg of DDR RAM were all fine.
That solid spec gave me the start of a great MAME PC. I got a new motherboard with integrated sound and ethernet, put in an old GeForce 3Ti200 from when I upgraded, and started building a cab around that core.
I just played MAME games on my regular PC with a Logitech gamepad up until then.