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[Chris Kassopulo]

Greetings,

I don't know any jokes so I'll tell a story.

I took my trash to the transfer station on Saturday and spotted a
full size tower 10 feet down at the bottom of a dumpster.  Hey, I
thought: maybe the power supply is a good atx one I could use
in the pentium II I rescued from the rubbish heap the week before.
I borrowed a rake and fished it up.  As I lifted, the bent up cover
fell off.  Oh good.  It's the right power supply.  I'll take it home and
pull it out.  I look at the rest of the boxen.  A socket 7 mobo, the
processor still in it, an amd k6-400.  Hey, that's 50 faster than I'm
running now.  An agp video card, a cheapo sound card, 10 gig
hard drive too.  Even the memory is still in it.  64mb.

Hmm.

What are the chances someone would just dump a working boxen.
And what are the chances it would still work after a drop to the
hard bottom of a dumpster.  Plus it had rained the night before.

I dried it out, cleaned the crud out of the fans and vents, and
plugged it in.  Fans turned, lights started blinking, a beep was
heard and up comes w98 with a screen full of aol icons.

Damn, another box to put linux on.  Now I need a power supply
and a cover.

Chris