2004-07-05 Athlon

One HP 6360 with Athlon 367MHz CPU and 10GB disk. It was missing its memory but upon being supplied some it booted fine. Lots of family pictures, tax docs for every year since 1998 and all sorts of other goodies on with working copy of Windows 98 (great, honest!). Extensive addressbook present (good for social engineering purposes?) and other assorted personal items. Too much data to wade through now, will store away and save for a rainy day. Here are the faqs and specs for this from HP, nice that the first item on the list is spyware. Errr, I run NetBSD and my machine is slowing down, do I have spyware......?

One sketchy screen dump of me rifling through the "My Documents" folder using Knoppix, much more stuff scattered all through the disk.

2004-06-28 Motor Mounts

One pair of new-old-stock industrial electric motor mounts, in the original plastic bag with screws etc. These could be handy. Not even any rust on them despite the fact they are cast iron and unpainted.

2004-06-26 Micron 1Ghz

One Micron 1GHz desktop in complete working order with a working install of windows 2000. Comes with 10G HD, 126M of RAM, slot loader CD drive and Zipdrive (oh joy). Surprisingly clean install, in terms of spyware and data from previous owner. We of course now have his ISP and work logins and passwords.

2004-06-23 Mongoose Bike

Aforementioned seatless bike now has a seat. A rather dated peugeot racing bike graciously donated its seat. A quick squirt in each tyre from the compressor and a wipe all over with a WD40 soaked rag made the bike look rather shiny. And we all know that shinyness is what counts, n'est pas? I rode it round the garden a few times during SFW to do proof of concept work. Now that thing is officially looking for an owner. I do not want it. Pic of it in it's "canadian-rebuild" glory:

2004-06-23 Mac CDrom

One apple 24x laptop cdrom drive. I suspect it to be broken but we shall see. Also found an iMac recovery CD. I suspect some macHeads have been cleaning out.

2004-06-23 Garden Shears

One pair of garden shears, in somewhat better condition that the ones I used the other day on the long bits round the front lawn. A second pair were examined but had loose handles. Long conversation with Costa-Rican guys about volcanos.

2004-06-23 DIMM

One Gateway 32M PC100 memory dimm. Not much use but I will throw it in the next elligable PC that I overhaul. Image (I suspect) not of 32M dimm but found from GS for part number:

2004-06-21 Push Lawn Mower

One push lawn mower in slightly rusty but working condition, identical to previous push lawn mower

2004-06-21 P3 parts

One Pentium 3 chassis and motherboard with 46G IBM HD. Hard drive proves to have flippy floppy heads, machine yet to be tested. Big Blue quality shines through again, I had one of these exact drives go bad a couple of years ago. Picture shows sample from GIS:

2004-06-21 Bar Bottle Wells

Two stainless steel bottle troughs from a bar, slightly dirty. One is just over 3 feet, the other is 2 feet long and both cleaned up nicely for the pic: