Dumpster Dived Equipment Thread

We recently had a thread about some Dell C2D machines an user found in the dumpster. It was a pretty good thread so let's have another. Share some of your best finds, etc.

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Never dumpster dived in my life, never will.

I'm not that desperate for 10 year old, mouldy hardware

I’ve found ivy bridge machines, didn’t get it out of a dumpster though. Office trash room but same idea.

A Toshiba laptop on Haswell manufactured in 2014, literally pristine condition. The owner left everything on the drive including all files, looked into them and it was a nigger with the most underwhelming life you can imagine, cheated on his fat gf too. It's a good machine, MSRP'd at around $500, guess I'll gift it to someone since I have no real use for it

The closest thing to this I have ever done has been frequenting a local recycle place for CRT Tvs and monitors. I went in and got permission from the manager though. I didn't want to look like some homeless digging through computers thinking he could find gold or something to watch porn on.

People throw out great stuff sometimes, nice find

Yeah especially so in my apartment complex. I've picked up more excellent furniture and shit than you can imagine just because people tend to throw the excess away when moving in or out. I occasionally sell some of it, and all things considered, I've found around $1.5k worth of stuff in the last year (and I'm not even actually diving, I just pick up the stuff they leave next to dumpsters)

I found a $425 LCD flat panel "smart" TV lying next to the dumpster where I live without a box or remote. I ended up selling it to a friend for $200 after verifying it worked. Had no scratches on it or anything - it looked brand new.

i found a welding machine, table saw, 4-5 bikes, power drill, DIY tarp car garage. and a bbgun all working condition. in a dumpster behind an Canadian Tire in Alberta. called my boss and my friend had two trucks there in 15 mins to haul all the shit we took.

People throw that kind of stuff out because its infested with roaches.
Enjoy

Give it back tyrone

One of these with two hard disks. I'm still haven't plugged it so I don't know if it works. But the hard disks do.

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Man it's been a long time since I've had a good curbside find, including anything PC related. Probably a better one was a Gateway server case found years ago; re-purposed into a headless network storage box. Haven't seen much lately; maybe metal scrappers snatch it up too quickly.

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jokes on you, it actually belonged to a black guy named tyrone. From what I could gather, he either moved away for college or ripped and his mom was throwing away some of his old stuff, probably figured the laptop wasn't working because it had some atrociously bloated and slow W10 install which took 7-8 minutes to boot up.

Not too bad

bump

Use to live in Overland Park KS. People there threw nice stuff out all the time. But the scrapers are scum there. They will make messes and cut the thinnest wiring. Also seen busted CRT tv's on the curb that a scraper will bust open for copper.

Best things I got were some old tube TVs that I took the flyback transformers out of for projects

Holy shit this, fuck scrappers

all that was missing was the hard drives and a few screws

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Went grocery shopping, sitting on a parking lot island (with tree) I found Dell Optiplex 755 mini formfactor.
Was p/w protected, took p/w lock thing off motherboard, win7 re-install, worked fine.
yay
Now is my music server (w ext hdd)

gf gave me two laptops her aunt was going to throw away, clean installs, work fine, just sit, win7. offered them back, -no thanks, she got a new one doesn't want it back.

rich neighbor threw out nice 32" or so monitor. I was late for work, drove by it, no time to back up and get. Other neighbor got it, bragged about it, then set out his own junk POS flat panel he had previously. I was so bummed.

put CloudReady OS on them and you have chrome netbooks to give some kids

Dat MSP life of charging customers to take away enterprise hardware to "recycle". This week I got 2 48port gig switches, 2 i5 machines, and a box of HDDs (mostly 1tb and 500g).

Why the fuck would someone throw this out?

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Big companies have a tech budget, they don't put time/manhours/money into seeing what is still good enough. If its in the business plan to upgrade 30 computers they upgrade 30 computers, even if Karen in accounting only had hers 3 months.

I know a company IT dept would, I figured those were private owned. Normally don't see that kind of stuff at businesses where i'm from.

>MSP
As in the Microsoft thing? Sounds interesting, can you elaborate more?

IBM Model M in mint condition with PS2 cord and my 600E Thinkpad I play all my DOS games on, saved it from a thunderstorm at the boneyard sky got black and I grabbed it off the top pile before the rain came, have had that 600E for 7 years now runs W98SE and plays DOOM, Dark Forces, Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem, Simcity 2000, Leisure Suit Larry, all the classics. I'll never get rid of it.

the electrical safety stickers were out of date, I guess the cost of getting them recertified outweighed the cost of just buying new ones

One time I found a laptop whose only problem was BSOD. Just installed a new OS and it worked fine.

>600E
Comfy machine right there

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Quality. Well done

>tfw living in Eastern Europe
>nobody throws a shit here

>XP on a 600E
that’s awful, literally the main reason I hated my 600E I had in my youth

Thinkpad X200s, X220, T420
4x256GB SSD, 120GB SSD, 160GB SSD
A few 500GB laptop HDDs
hp Z420 workstation (E5-1620 Xeon, 32GB ECC RAM, 250GB SSD, 2x500GB HDD, Quadro 2000 + a surprise HD7970)
A few Haswell i5s

Got all these from work, they were about to throw them out.

Runs fine for me, also dual booted with 98SE

I'm in EE and last year I got a c2d computer from a dumpster. Some punk apparently tried to "repair" it and mangled the PSU (I don't know why), other than that it only needed a couple caps replaced.

I found a functioning intel q6600 processor based computer, ram sticks and motherboard were working too. Only missing the drive.

Any advice on finding usable e-waste in Germany?
The strict recycling laws make it pretty hard.

Not really found much in the way of good stuff here, just some interesting items. Found a bike in pretty good condition in a skip one night and on another I found an oldish sound system in the bins belonging to a charity shop. I guess they figured they couldn't sell it so binned it.

I found two fully working TV's, three screens(two work) and a PPC mac.(turns on I think it needs a new PSU.

I have so much stuff I can't enumerate it all here. Desktops, laptops, LCD screens (a couple 22"), ram, HDD's, cables, peripherals, SCSI various, so much. But, the gravy train ran dry finally a few months ago. In Montreal I new 2 office buildings with an open box electronics recycling program, one hospital, one building with wide barred cage, and one store with a cage with frequent spillover. I regularly followed a route for almost 5 years, but one by one they stopped. This addiction was more powerful than alcohol and cigarettes, and regularly invaded my dreams. The pic (hospital bin) is from video I shot using an HTC smartphone, also found.

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Friend of mine got me my T500, a company in the same office building as hers was throwing stuff out and she saved the box of laptops. (rest was printers and crap) They took the hard drive out, but once I put one in it rune great. After a year and a half or so the fan started to make some noise and I had to replace it though.

same question only for Flyover Country, Burgerland. I haven't seen a computer left on the side of a residential street for disposal for years. All the thrift stores I've been to won't resell computers, if someone donates them they're sent for recycling. The town I used to live in has a municipal electronics-recycling program where you can drop stuff off - with a big sign about how you're prohibited from scavenging anything left there.

Set up your own box. I did that for a while in my appartment building, hauling the garbage stuff to one of these locations and keeping the good things. My best keep was a HP Pavilion dv6-3037.