That moment you become the "Specialist" on a TV show.

[Sir Beregond]

2 hours ago, PCSarge said:

thats because " people" seem to consume any type of food they can around a keyboard, that lands between keys and festers

Bingo. They also spill lots of stuff too and seemingly don't care.

[PCSarge]

6 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

Bingo. They also spill lots of stuff too and seemingly don't care.

worst keyboard i had, had dried powerade and doritos mixed with hair under the keycaps. i pulled 3 keys, went nope and promptly pitched it and gave them a new $20 keyboard

[Sir Beregond]

2 hours ago, PCSarge said:

worst keyboard i had, had dried powerade and doritos mixed with hair under the keycaps. i pulled 3 keys, went nope and promptly pitched it and gave them a new $20 keyboard

Yeah, we'd get boxes of basic Lenovo keyboards as our stocked equipment and I would do the same. Time to chuck and replace.

[Fluxmaven]

I'm also the "I know a guy" IT person. It rarely ends up being a good thing lol.  

 

I hate working on old consumer spec junk. Especially laptops. I also don't like sifting through old slow hard drives (assuming they even work). 

 

Whereas If someone showed up with an old custom rig in a TJ07 I'd be chomping at the bit to go over every inch of it and get it fired up. 

[Avacado]

Today was exciting. The same guy from work that motivated me to create this thread showed me a storage auction fairly close to my house. I am going to bid on it with a cap of $150. The auction ends Wednesday at 10am. The pictures from the auction are of very low quality, however I posted them here to get a general view. Mostly old AF tech, I managed to make out a zotac H55 Mini-itx box in there and I happen to need an LGA 1156 board for the teamcup so . I see a few old towers. The one on the top looks like an e-machines. Either way, this should be fun. 

 

 

 

Edited September 12, 2022 by Avacado

[Diffident]

Looks like there may be a dot matrix printer in there under a keyboard.

[Avacado]

12 hours ago, Diffident said:

Looks like there may be a dot matrix printer in there under a keyboard.

IKR! I havent heard that sound since i was a child.

[Sir Beregond]

4 hours ago, Avacado said:

IKR! I havent heard that sound since i was a child.

Oh man, that took me back just thinking about that.

[Diffident]

11 hours ago, Avacado said:

IKR! I havent heard that sound since i was a child.

(After looking to find out what the hell IKR means)

 

I still hear the sound on a regular basis.  One of the electrical supply stores that I buy material from still uses a dot matrix to print out receipts.

 

A dot matrix printer came with my first computer, that I got for Christmas back in 1988.  I used that printer until 2004...with the original ink ribbon....try doing that with an Ink Jet.   Even though I no longer have the printer, I have a leftover stack of pin feed paper on my desk that I use for writing down notes...sure...it's 20 years old and a little yellow...but it's still perfectly good paper.

 

 

[Avacado]

Here are some pics.

 

 

[pio]

Some good stuff in there!  Any of those K5's or K6's?  Asking for a friend......  

[Avacado]

16 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

Some good stuff in there!  Any of those K5's or K6's?  Asking for a friend......  

I have not been able to open any of it up yet and most likely won't until next weekend. I am most excited about that Apple 2c and the Amstrad NC200. It is in impeccable condition because it was stored in a hard case. The thing takes 5 C batteries and if it is functional I think I can land between $200-300 for it shipped on the used market. I don't quite know if I have what I need to confirm the Apple 2c and 286/2 are working, but I haven't really gotten into it yet. 

[Bastiaan_NL]

Looks like a pretty decent haul @Avacado!

 

[Diffident]

The original Nintendo and the Apple //c are cool.

[GanjaSMK]

That's a huge score for profiting on the items you can part with / resell, AND you scored a NINTENDO! DOPE!

[pio]

You just take your inventory of what all you have there mate, and let me know and I'll have paypal / BTC in hand ready to go for you.  I see lots of good stuff there I'm very jelly of.