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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: Shawn Stanford on Wed, 16 November 2011, 08:35:17

Title: Dumpster score!
Post by: Shawn Stanford on Wed, 16 November 2011, 08:35:17

The city of Wilkes-Barre is having an electronics recycling event and in the lobby of my building are a couple of large cardboard boxes filled with old computer junk, VCRs and even a 19-inch black-and-white console TV - WITH NOBS! Anyway, I've been keeping an eye on it and this morning while contributing an old Sony flat panel, I spotted a PS/2 Model 50. On closer inspection, it turned out to have a DOS 3.2 disk in the floppy drive! Deciding that where there was a PS/2 there would be a keyboard, I poked around and there it was: a 1988 Model M.

Woot!

Title: Dumpster score!
Post by: slueth on Fri, 18 November 2011, 16:45:46

Nice find.

Title: Dumpster score!
Post by: Internetlad on Fri, 18 November 2011, 16:56:11

wish people near me threw out cool ****.

The weird thing is that this thread makes digging through garbage sound appealing. wtf.

Title: Dumpster score!
Post by: whiskerBox on Fri, 18 November 2011, 17:34:52

Nice find, hopefully you will find more!

Title: Dumpster score!
Post by: WinstonSmith on Mon, 05 December 2011, 13:53:28

Lucky, I wish I could get a find like that!