Some of my trash picking treasures

[eppur_se_muova]

37. For a second there, I thought you were going to write "someone threw out this perfectly good pizza ... "

Please don't go down that path, Niagara !

Our late neighbor used to be very into this. One day she let me know that a near neighbor of ours was throwing away a bunch of old computers -- turned out to be FOUR -- which I rescued. One was a dual-processor IBM server (from just before they became LeNovo) with two quad-core processors, which I upgraded to faster quad-cores for about $20, and later to hex-core processors after prices came down. It has 12 DRAM slots, supporting 16GB each (I only have 8 in each) and three FULL-LENGTH PCIe card slots, as well as a PCI slot, six SATA drive bays (plus CD/DVD), 1kW PSU (or is it 1.1?), fans for the drives and CPUs, even for the RAM banks (OK, I had to buy those). Quite a hulkster, even if the CPU technology is a bit behind the times. I have computationally-intense jobs that benefit more from 12 cores and 96GB of RAM than from superfast CPUs, so it's a good deal for a FREE computer !

I also picked up some jumbo flat-screen TVs that I think may have only PSU problems -- there was a plague of bad PSU capacitors a number of years ago -- and if I had a good workbench* I would have been working on them already.

We've only occasionally picked up furniture, though there are some examples in our house right now -- we don't get any more because there's no room, unless we throw other equally good furniture !




*good = at minimum, cat-free.