One man's trash... (AKA schools trash good stuff)

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:31 pm

APHawks: You mean you were using Windows 2000?

Killer_Rabbit · Post by **Killer_Rabbit** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:27 pm

APHawkes wrote:When I left my high school in '99 they were still using a lab full of IBM PS/1 machines. We were learning "business applications" with DOS versions of Microsoft Works. Sneakernet with 1.44 floppies was totally "IN". No mice, no hard disks, keyboards that had actual switches... it was totally retro.

Wow. Weren't 1.44 floppies from the mid 80's?

SonyPortableizer · Post by **SonyPortableizer** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:43 pm

Yes that is how I got my computer for my PC2
http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?t=24699

I was just about to be thrown out because the teacher said the HD did not work
Wasn't using the proper connections to the HD[/url]

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:45 pm

school has a rummage sale with a ton of computer stuff the second weekend of every july.

I got a box full of over 200 windows software programs, 6 keyboards, 2 PC's (of course these were terrible) a few moniters, and like 8 macs and random mac parts (spanning from the late 70's-early 90's) and a bunch of random other stuff (java/c++ text books, hundreds of pages of boring dell documentation, a few lunch trays, and a desk that had "f*** you carved into it that I put on the tracks

) last year.

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:14 am

my college is a kleptomainiac

they keep even the most useless thing, they have a big CD spindle, half of it is just Windowns 95 Install CD's, must be a good hundred or so

Bubbles · Post by **Bubbles** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:40 am

My Senior year I got a copy of "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego".

That's it.

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:46 am

Well, got XP with AstonShell loaded on one of these boxes and a fresh copy of Ubuntu v8.04 on the other. Just picked up the Official Ubuntu Book from Borders. Let the Linux adventure begin...

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:11 am

I'm using ubuntu on a crap laptop I have for five years.