Author Topic: I gave an inch of space and wtf!!! (Read 2992 times)

delta88 · « **on:** June 30, 2006, 12:35:49 am »

I mean its cool and all to get free stuff. Especially when its PC suff. Well A friend works at a place that has updated a lot of systems and sked if I wanted some old pc's... sure I said. Toss them in my garage I said.. and I came home to this...

LPZ · « **Reply #1 on:** June 30, 2006, 12:41:48 am »

I have a friend that is an IT manager and he is the same way. Everything comes his way also, and he is always asking me if I need anything computer related. Gotta love those friends!

LPZ

pointdablame · « **Reply #2 on:** June 30, 2006, 09:29:18 am »

wow, that is a lot of systems to have sitting around.

I hope they're at least somewhat useful. I'd hate to have 40 486's sitting in my garage haha.

You going to sell some of them? Make a fort?

TheOtherBob · « **Reply #3 on:** June 30, 2006, 10:14:12 am »

Quote from: pointdablame on June 30, 2006, 09:29:18 am

Make a fort?

lol... I was going to ask the exact same thing....

shmokes · « **Reply #4 on:** June 30, 2006, 11:15:22 am »

That's obnoxioius. I hate CRTs. I've got so many of them and I can't give them away fast enough. They take up so much space. As for the computers, I'd get rid of those as fast as I possibly could. Maybe you can go to local church groups and ask them to put out the word that you've got some PCs you can donate to some families in need. I really wouldn't have been very happy to come home to that mountain.

ChadTower · « **Reply #5 on:** June 30, 2006, 12:28:31 pm »

Dude can part them out and sell them here for MAME folks. He'd make a little cash with the only real hassle being testing if he wanted to do that or disposing of the cases.

Donating old PCs is a ---smurfing--- nightmare. You have to build them, put the OS in, update the OS, and then the end users will harrass you forever about supporting ten year old Win98 boxes. That you gave away free.

CRTs that work can easily be passed along via Freecycle.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #6 on:** June 30, 2006, 03:00:28 pm »

hell I wouldn't complain a bit.... I'd be happy to take all that old stuff... I'm sure I could find many good uses for alot of it....

and I actually prefer CRTs compared to LCDs....

ChadTower · « **Reply #7 on:** June 30, 2006, 03:23:42 pm »

I prefer CRTs too. Much better picture and you can't write on many LCD screens with a dry erase marker.

thebrownshow · « **Reply #8 on:** June 30, 2006, 04:38:40 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on June 30, 2006, 03:23:42 pm

I prefer CRTs too. Much better picture and you can't write on many LCD screens with a dry erase marker.

That's a lie.

You can write on LCD screens with a dry erase marker. It's erasing it that's the problem.

shmokes · « **Reply #9 on:** June 30, 2006, 05:32:36 pm »

The new LCDs using the brand new version of the HDMI spec (with the deep black, etc.) are finally surpassing CRTs in terms of picture quality. But I much prefer LCDs in spite of the inferior picture because my eyes don't get nearly as tired looking at an LCD screen for long periods of time. I always feel like I haven't been blinking nearly enough when I use a CRT for a long time. Also, of course, they take up a lot less space which is nice. And as a network admin supporting about 100 users spread out between multiple offices, there's something to be said for not having to lift the damned things. I've got a couple of 10 year old 21 inchers that must weigh 85 pounds. That's heavy enough as dumb bells or something, but when it's something big and awkward that has to be held out in front of you it's back breaking.

And so on . . .

Dartful Dodger · « **Reply #10 on:** June 30, 2006, 05:55:49 pm »

The 4th of July is just a few days away.
I'm not suggesting anything. I'm just saying, the 4th of July is just a few days away.

NIVO · « **Reply #11 on:** June 30, 2006, 08:00:54 pm »

yo delta, i'll be up there for the cruise as usual, so if you get any touchscreens i WANNA know about it

USSEnterprise · « **Reply #12 on:** June 30, 2006, 09:46:36 pm »

Cluster them all together, and do some video editiing

SithMaster · « **Reply #13 on:** June 30, 2006, 11:03:56 pm »

first of all build a fort.

second use the monitors and pcs to play games in your fort.

third did i mention build a fort.

keep in mind a fort.

really part them out hds can be useful, cd roms can be used for spinners, sound cards for dos based cabs, and power supplies for powering stuff.

USSEnterprise · « **Reply #14 on:** June 30, 2006, 11:34:55 pm »

what is the speed range of them?

nullb0y · « **Reply #15 on:** July 01, 2006, 12:48:38 am »

ill be over tomorow ed just wait for me

lol after i just got rid of my record of 27 WORKING computers you have officially out done me

delta88 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 01, 2006, 01:05:43 am »

4th of July.. ohhh...firewerx and... ahh I see...
There like 333, 433,466 . 32mg ram, 4gig drives. nic's vid cards snd cards win 98 and 95. offers?

boykster · « **Reply #17 on:** July 01, 2006, 02:35:45 am »

too slow to be of much use......

You should build a fort...

shmokes · « **Reply #18 on:** July 01, 2006, 07:39:41 am »

Hah! So much for parting them out.

SirPeale · « **Reply #19 on:** July 01, 2006, 08:28:27 am »

Those machines should run the Williams classics @ full speed. Robotron, Defender and the like.

Harry Potter · « **Reply #20 on:** July 01, 2006, 10:54:47 am »

Stingray's got treb. Mebby he'll let you borrow it.

Chris · « **Reply #21 on:** July 01, 2006, 10:57:19 am »

I'm in a similar position... I have to dispose of about 20 Athlon 600's and a dozen 15 and 17 inch monitors. The PC's are hardly worth even parting out. What's going to take forever is doing a secure wipe of each drive... *sigh*

SithMaster · « **Reply #22 on:** July 01, 2006, 12:28:26 pm »

secure wipe=power drill

pointdablame · « **Reply #23 on:** July 01, 2006, 01:04:22 pm »

Quote from: Chris on July 01, 2006, 10:57:19 am

I'm in a similar position... I have to dispose of about 20 Athlon 600's and a dozen 15 and 17 inch monitors. The PC's are hardly worth even parting out. What's going to take forever is doing a secure wipe of each drive... *sigh*

600mhz is a useable speed IMO. You could use it as a classics machine with little trouble.

I could actually use one for my cocktail project if you're looking to give em away

SirPeale · « **Reply #24 on:** July 02, 2006, 10:34:49 am »

Quote from: pointdablame on July 01, 2006, 01:04:22 pm

Quote from: Chris on July 01, 2006, 10:57:19 am
I'm in a similar position... I have to dispose of about 20 Athlon 600's and a dozen 15 and 17 inch monitors. The PC's are hardly worth even parting out. What's going to take forever is doing a secure wipe of each drive... *sigh*

600mhz is a useable speed IMO. You could use it as a classics machine with little trouble.

I could actually use one for my cocktail project if you're looking to give em away

Agreed. I could use an Athlon 600 in my next setup, the 450 I have won't run fighters well.

SithMaster: drill is only good if you don't want to use the drives again.

Chris · « **Reply #25 on:** July 02, 2006, 10:43:01 am »

Yeah, 600 is a usable speed; in fact, one of these systems ran my first MAME cabinet. But they're hardly worth the effort to ship. Packing materials, boxes and shipping would cost more than the things are worth...

delta88 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 02, 2006, 11:45:29 am »

well a 4gig HD will fit all of the vertical games with the mng files needed to run with AdvCd. That wouldn't take 2 long. Verts 4 ever!!!!

missioncontrol · « **Reply #27 on:** July 02, 2006, 12:34:23 pm »

Cris, I'm sure there are a few locals in your area that might help you take them off your hands.......

SirPeale · « **Reply #28 on:** July 02, 2006, 01:59:09 pm »

Quote from: Chris on July 02, 2006, 10:43:01 am

Yeah, 600 is a usable speed; in fact, one of these systems ran my first MAME cabinet. But they're hardly worth the effort to ship. Packing materials, boxes and shipping would cost more than the things are worth...

Forget the case, ship just the boards and hard drive. Can fit that all in a Priority box. Flat rate one, if you do it right.

Chris · « **Reply #29 on:** July 02, 2006, 02:09:55 pm »

I'll see what I can do. I'd rather see them in cabs than dumpsters.

DrewKaree · « **Reply #30 on:** July 02, 2006, 03:06:15 pm »

Chad was right when he posted that up there.

Find the local Freecycle group in your area www.freecycle.org and post an offer with some details. You'll soon be overwhelmed with e-mails asking when they can pick one (or more) of 'em up. My guess is that it should take you less than a week to get rid of all of them.

Chris, if you were in my area, I'd take 3 of them off your hands. Those are great boxes for gramma and grampa to surf the 'net with and check their e-mails.

USSEnterprise · « **Reply #31 on:** July 03, 2006, 01:56:40 pm »

Athlon 600 is still a good speed for most emulators and MAME IMO

str1der · « **Reply #32 on:** July 03, 2006, 04:37:26 pm »

The 600's would probably run Barcrest's juke box software.

Chris · « **Reply #33 on:** July 03, 2006, 04:42:27 pm »

Quote from: str1der on July 03, 2006, 04:37:26 pm

The 600's would probably run Barcrest's juke box software.

For that matter, they'd run mine!

ChadTower · « **Reply #34 on:** July 03, 2006, 05:18:21 pm »

Quote from: Peale on July 01, 2006, 08:28:27 am

Those machines should run the Williams classics @ full speed. Robotron, Defender and the like.

Exactly. And they're also still very usable as Win98 boxes.

pointdablame · « **Reply #35 on:** July 03, 2006, 05:22:23 pm »

Chris, if you find a good way to ship them (no cases needed), I'd definitely take one or two.

ChadTower · « **Reply #36 on:** July 05, 2006, 08:21:48 am »

Personally, I would part them and sell them off here for MAME hardware. Cheap motherboards/power supplies/hard drives/older ram are useful in this community. Especially if any of the video chips are among the native 15khz capable sort.

leapinlew · « **Reply #37 on:** July 05, 2006, 05:53:20 pm »

I've got a few of those HP Vectra machines...

The problem I had with them was hooking up an ipac the machine would beep beep when a few controls were pressed and run choppy for a few seconds.

The picture's funny though. It looks like all thsoe computers need to fit in that arcade machine. I just gave away a ton of junkers that were P1's -P3's. It's easier to give them away than try to donate them or pay to have them recycled.

SithMaster · « **Reply #38 on:** July 05, 2006, 05:58:08 pm »

put me down for a hard drive if you decide to part em out. maybe even a stick of ram.


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