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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2950 on: June 12, 2023, 01:59:36 pm »
Quote from: Kamaji on June 12, 2023, 08:00:41 am


Guilty.

I STILL retain the cabling to transmit files over serial and printer ports. WHY???
I still have IDE hard drives and cabling laying around (all the way down to 80g)...
I still have a full selection of molex cables to go with em.
There's a whole tray box FULL of SDRAM (though nothing under 512).
I have processors all the way back to AMD K series.
There's a whole stack of CD-Roms, and another of DVD-ROMS and a bucket of CDRs and DVDRs to go with em.
I was digging around the other day and found an ISA modem...
I still have a 5 1/4" floppy drive... Just in case, I guess...
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2951 on: June 12, 2023, 02:02:04 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on June 12, 2023, 01:59:36 pm
Guilty.

I STILL retain the cabling to transmit files over serial and printer ports. WHY???
I still have IDE hard drives and cabling laying around (all the way down to 80g)...
I still have a full selection of molex cables to go with em.
There's a whole tray box FULL of SDRAM (though nothing under 512).
I have processors all the way back to AMD K series.
There's a whole stack of CD-Roms, and another of DVD-ROMS and a bucket of CDRs and DVDRs to go with em.
I was digging around the other day and found an ISA modem...
I still have a 5 1/4" floppy drive... Just in case, I guess...

Your collection certainly beats out mine!
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2952 on: June 12, 2023, 02:23:10 pm »
Quote from: Kamaji on June 12, 2023, 02:02:04 pm
Your collection certainly beats out mine!

I've been at it a while. It's bloody nothing compared to my pal Jim... He has a literal barn-full - I mean to the rafters full... I KNOW there's got to be running antique boxes in there worth bank... But I have no idea how you'd ever get at em.  2 foot wide rabbit warren trails running through it, stacked 12 feet high all over... Maybe 4000-5000 ft2 on the floor, packed clean to the roof.

He HAS whatever you need... If he can find it. And no one else ever will.
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2953 on: June 12, 2023, 03:02:36 pm »
Quote from: andy58-in-nh on June 12, 2023, 11:59:34 am
It looks like somebody slipped her a Mickey.

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I am eaten alive with  envy  that I didn't think of that.
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2954 on: June 12, 2023, 03:04:54 pm »
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2955 on: June 12, 2023, 03:05:29 pm »
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2956 on: June 12, 2023, 03:05:49 pm »
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2957 on: June 12, 2023, 03:11:21 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on June 12, 2023, 01:59:36 pm
Guilty.

I STILL retain the cabling to transmit files over serial and printer ports. WHY???
I still have IDE hard drives and cabling laying around (all the way down to 80g)...
I still have a full selection of molex cables to go with em.
There's a whole tray box FULL of SDRAM (though nothing under 512).
I have processors all the way back to AMD K series.
There's a whole stack of CD-Roms, and another of DVD-ROMS and a bucket of CDRs and DVDRs to go with em.
I was digging around the other day and found an ISA modem...
I still have a 5 1/4" floppy drive... Just in case, I guess...

@roamer_1

I think this is pretty  much true of everybody  that didn't grow up wealthy,or even  middle-class.

I remember using electrical tape to get the tires on my first bicycle to hold air. I got the bike at a dump. This was back in the days when people with low land just let people dump stuff on it so they could build it up. OR,it could just be because people dumped stuff there and he wasn't around to stop it. I even remember seeing an abandoned and complete 31 Ford 4 door sedan there once. Even still had the tires and hubcaps on it,but  my father HATED old cars and there was no way in hell he was going to bring it home for me.

Probably/maybe could have patched the tube,but my  father wouldn't let me use any  of tools to take the wheel and tire off,and wouldn't help me do it. Now that I look back on it,I guess he was probably  embarrassed that I had to pull a bicycle out of a trash dump to get one.
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2958 on: June 12, 2023, 03:23:08 pm »
Quote from: sneakypete on June 12, 2023, 03:11:21 pm
Now that I look back on it,I guess he was probably  embarrassed that I had to pull a bicycle out of a trash dump to get one.

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Nothing to be embarrassed of in that.

I'm a redneck boy, and can testify... The only way we get nice things is to drag em home busted and fix em. It's just a bare fact. I rarely buy anything new, even if I have the money. Just got a new (to me) barbecue here... The boy drug it home for me and we put a new propane kit on it. Maybe twenty bucks in it... And now I can grill up a burger without building a fire. It's a little one, maybe 125 bucks new... But the point is, I never even thought to look for a new one.  And neither did my kid. happy77
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2959 on: June 12, 2023, 03:35:02 pm »
@roamer_1  @sneakypete

Reminds me of the guy who got a new fridge and put the still working old one out on the sidewalk with a,"free" sign on it. It sat there for days. He put a $50 sign on it and someone stole it less than an hour later.
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2960 on: June 12, 2023, 03:37:30 pm »
Quote from: bigheadfred on June 12, 2023, 03:35:02 pm
@roamer_1  @sneakypete

Reminds me of the guy who got a new fridge and put the still working old one out on the sidewalk with a,"free" sign on it. It sat there for days. He put a $50 sign on it and someone stole it less than an hour later.

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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2961 on: June 12, 2023, 03:44:29 pm »
Quote from: sneakypete on June 12, 2023, 03:02:36 pm
@andy58-in-nh

I am eaten alive with  envy  that I didn't think of that.
@sneakypete

On rare occasion I actually laugh at my own jokes. This is one of those times.
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2962 on: June 12, 2023, 03:46:13 pm »
Quote from: bigheadfred on June 12, 2023, 03:35:02 pm
@roamer_1  @sneakypete

Reminds me of the guy who got a new fridge and put the still working old one out on the sidewalk with a,"free" sign on it. It sat there for days. He put a $50 sign on it and someone stole it less than an hour later.

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And IMMEDIATELY put it up for sale for 100 bucks on one of those "shopper papers".
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2963 on: June 12, 2023, 03:54:45 pm »
Quote from: sneakypete on June 12, 2023, 03:46:13 pm
@bigheadfred

And IMMEDIATELY put it up for sale for 100 bucks on one of those "shopper papers".
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There is something to that. I knew some people that would go to the Sun Valley (Idaho) dump and score high end appliances and other assorted items. Some things in unopened boxes. Brand new stuff. Seems the rich people would trade out stuff just to get the newest models. Probably after a redecorating spree. The people I knew would sell what they salvaged for the most part.
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2964 on: June 12, 2023, 03:58:31 pm »
Quote from: bigheadfred on June 12, 2023, 03:54:45 pm
@sneakypete

There is something to that. I knew some people that would go to the Sun Valley (Idaho) dump and score high end appliances and other assorted items. Some things in unopened boxes. Brand new stuff. Seems the rich people would trade out stuff just to get the newest models. Probably after a redecorating spree. The people I knew would sell what they salvaged for the most part.

That's part of dealing 'smalls'... I used to do it all the time.
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« Reply #2965 on: June 12, 2023, 11:27:03 pm »
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2971 on: June 13, 2023, 07:15:13 am »
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2972 on: June 13, 2023, 07:15:36 am »
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #2974 on: June 13, 2023, 12:27:27 pm »
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