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Found a sempy in the garbage

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I was driving home today and noticed someone had abandoned a sempy 3000+ emachines rig on the curb. I peeked inside when scooping her up and the poor child was missing a hard drive. No time to give her a good once over, but she looks to be whole otherwise. It's a shame to see poor mistreated hardware left to fend on its own in the wild. She has a good home here now and we'll nurse her back to health before making her available for adoption by a new pwner.
 
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any more specs? like mobo etc....
 
#9 ·
I've found more than a few strays and took them in and later found them a good home.
Several of my students whom couldn't afford a PC got them
 
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Originally Posted by RonindeBeatrice
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I was driving home today and noticed someone had abandoned a sempy 3000+ emachines rig on the curb. I peeked inside when scooping her up and the poor child was missing a hard drive. No time to give her a good once over, but she looks to be whole otherwise. It's a shame to see poor mistreated hardware left to fend on its own in the wild. She has a good home here now and we'll nurse her back to health before making her available for adoption by a new pwner.

ROFL! Same thing happened to me about a month and a half ago I'm actually posting this message on it right now! I had to take the guts out and put it in a spare case because the people tore it apart to get the video card, ram and hard drive out of it. completely ruined the case It must have gotten rained on because the motherboard mounting screws have rust on them. LOL The thing still works like a charm. I don't know what those people were thinking.
 
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I've found more than a few strays and took them in and later found them a good home.
Several of my students whom couldn't afford a PC got them


Outstanding.
+REP
I have a couple Dell GX270 small desktop pcs I was thinking of donating too.
They were given to me and were still under warranty so Dell sent me new motherboards as they had bad caps.
 
#18 ·
Wow, i see lots of threads like this.

You would never see such a thing in the UK. Mainly because the chavs would scavenge it away before anyone else would have chance lol

I don't think i would be able to pick up an old rig and bring it home, it takes balls. I lack them unfortunately
 
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You would never see such a thing in the UK. Mainly because the chavs would scavenge it away before anyone else would have chance lol

Haha, so true.
 
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