Dual MDD from Surplus

[John8520]

As of the last few months, my mom's laptop has been dying. Nothing surprising considering it's a $500 toshiba budget machine. Regardless, this morning (thursday morning, the day surplus is open) she wakes me up saying something along the lines of "It's thursday, get dressed and lets go to surplus and get me a new computer." So I did, and 30 minutes later I was browsing the available machines. They had about ten quicksilvers mixed in with B/Ws and Sawtooths. Most were G4/800s with no RAM or drives, and they were all $20. I considered one of the QSs but I figured that would be more of a downgrade than anything so ignored them.

Farther down the line, in with the dells and stuff, there were some more QSs, and some MDDs mixed in. Most of them were marked with RAM and HDD, so they were much more expensive. There were a couple that were stripped, however, that were only $20, so I checked the specs on the back label. The first two were low down, more 800s I think, but the next one I looked actually said it was a Dual 1GHz, so I got pretty excited. Upon popping it open I saw the massive heatsink, so I tossed it on the cart.

I also picked up one of those graphite ADC flat CRTs for $10, until I can get another DVI LCD. Speaking of graphics, it has a Radeon 9000.

Here's some basic pictures - http://picasaweb.google.com/john8520/Etc

Right now it has half a gig of RAM and a 20GB HDD, I'll upgrade it later on. Tiger is installing as well, not yet done.

All in all, good stuff for $30!

(also, please, no "I hate you" posts )

 

[Unknown_K]

Very decent.

 

[tyrannis]

$20 working MDD's? You could make a little money flipping them on eBay, if you enjoy that kind of thing.

 

[Mars478]

I hate you post.

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[Bunsen]

Ditto

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What is this "surplus" of which you speak?

 

[John8520]

Basically when state entities such as universities, schools, offices, etc get finished with things like desks, chairs, projectors, computers, and so on they enter the surplus system where they can either go to a central state warehouse or the entities themselves (in this case a local university) can run their own little stores. The store I go to is about 30 minutes away and only open Thursday mornings, but often very very rewarding.

 

[Hrududu]

Its probably a good thing nothing like that is anywhere near me, or my house would have more obsolete Macs than it already does. I'd have a hard time stopping myself from picking up even more systems I don't need. :beige: