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    First of the week we(Phil & I) get a call to empty out a storage building. This lady had been paying the rent on her b-friends stuff, and he just never came back. 2 truckloads later, we end up with 20 some computers, and a ton of boxes of accessories and software(some brand new). This will give you an idea of what we got. The 'puters are mostly all tore down already.




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    That's pretty sweet.

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    Wow very nice! I bet the e-scrappers here would love to get that kind of call!

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    That is a great haul!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigRyan View Post
    Wow very nice! I bet the e-scrappers here would love to get that kind of call!
    Yeah. That'd be nice!
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    I think this and a couple of other pick-ups came from passing out cards.

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    What do you mean by mostly torn down? RAM and CPUs or motherboards as well?

    Or you already went to work on them?

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    Wow, nice score.

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    We broke them down into the individual boards, some were complete computers and some were partials. All were dated at around 15 years old. Even found old "new" windows 95 os install disks,lol

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    Nice score. Looks like lots of good stuff!

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    Lot of fle-bay material here,,,

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    Excellent haul, excellent haul indeed! I would take those Windows 95 sets and throw them on Ebay....Word of Advice though...put in the auction that you are including a piece of "OEM" equipment with the sale (if these are the type of sets that were included with computers). If you don't do that then you cannot sell them on Ebay or Microsoft will have the auction killed. I usually include something like a ribbon cable to make sure it does not raise the shipping too much.


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