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Our city's school district just had a garage sale yesterday.
I got 9 workstation computers, 2 server towers, 22 keyboards, 5 deskjet color printers and a bunch of network stuff and prower and misc. cables.
The best part about all of this is it only cost me $5.30.:)
They are going to have another one in August and I am going back for more. :D
doh!!!....valueable things those are....let me guess those pc's had a real modem and none of this winmodem $hit bah...i need my school to have one of tose i would create a large *nix network :)
thats what i am going to do. Right now i am figuring out what is in each one. They all has 10Base T nics, one has 10/100. Servers both are running full SCSI. A few workstations have CDroms. All have memory except for the servers.
eeeeewwwwww scsi i hate scsi but it is really fast :)...good luck *wants a chance to do that*
update. Now I have 20 computers, 15 monitors, 22 keyboards, misc cables and 5 working Deskjet color printers.
lol, that is quite a collection, the spare parts alone are worth the $5.30. I went to a government auction and bought a dual Pentium 133 tower for like 5 bucks. Not as good a deal as you got, but still cool.
Awesome. Do you run your own webserver on any of them because with that many, you can run a whole network of services. **Hint Hint** Good way to make money! :) **Hint Hint**
I plan on building a webserver and and linux network once I figure out what all works and what doesnt. So far 12 computers I have tested work.
I plan on maybe building about 10 of them to sell and the rest for my network.
Awesome Casper! We should start a thread where everyone posts their good deals like this. It's fun to hear what everyone has gotten for so cheap. :) Hopefully we'll all get a turn atsuch good fortune.
Couple of my threads that are fairly similar to this one, but not quite as good of a deal:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=223997
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=223996 (same thing but different forum with different discussion and all)
Just thought you might want to see this since Valor said he'd be interested in seeing what everyone has gotten for cheap. :)
The only thing I can rant about is getting a bunch of old towers (ATX power supplies), some with motherboards (DX or DX2) still in it, some with the video cards in (1 to 2 megs), some with processors (DX 33 - DX2 66 - DX2 75), most with 5 1/2 floppy drives, and few with 3 1/4 floppy drives... (sadly no cd-rom, sound, ram or hds).... for free...
(not much use, but something, maybe set up a hardware firewall?)
one had a ram chip, but it's a different kind, shorter then 32 pin, no fastening holes and chips on half the card.... anybody know what it is? (only one slot for it on the board too...)
I got a Cisco Catalyst 1924 for $300 and a 19" NEC Multisync for $150.... but that was at an auction...
*chuckle* I bought a Tandy 1000, keyboard, dot-matrix printer, etc... from my school's band's garage sale... $3.50 :)
--PhirePhreak
one of my friends raided his workplace and got all tis really good stuff i bought a hub 3d card some HDDs case 2 motherboards and just some other stuff its mainly for spare parts but hey its always a good idea to keep an eye out
nothing computer wise have i gotten cheap..... except i did get a mouse once which cost me a quarter :)
ohh man man.. that means u got some real good things.. worth nothing... good man...that's great.. but u know the sad part is that these kind of sales are not there in my city... ohhh so bad..
Damn, if i could fine a yard sale like that i would probably do the same thing!!! but here in TN they aint **** like that!!!
that's soooo awesome..if you like cheap stuff..even better free stuff..check out dumpster diving, its become my favorite past time...
Good find!!!!!!!
I'll give you 10 dollars for the lot!