The varying conditions of scrap yard computers.

Great post........I also buy computers from scrap yards and landfills........I rarely if ever re-sale the computers themselves........Usually just makes for a scavenger hunt to find a part you may need then only about half the time will it work..........I don't ask them to handle them any better than they do because then they may want more money.........Best recent find at scrap yard was a 2TB drive showed about 600 days of usage...........I ran around 8 hours of diagnostics on the drive before I felt comfortable selling something like that I bought at scrap yard...........either way my landfills and scrap yards are usually best source for older large socket stuff as most of the gov't surplus is at least P4