I got a couple of things in the mail and collected by hand during the past week.
A Dell Inspiron 6000 from work. The HDD has > 190,000 bad sectors and one hinge is broken. It's old, but cost me nothing, and apart from the hDD, which can easily be replaced, it works.
And my first attempt after bringing the Reactor Core Green in from outside where it was sunny, into the laundry where it was darkest ...