Another computer...

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No, I didn't build another computer already. Actually, I found one. As everyone knows by now I'm sure, Hurricane Katrina left this place in shambles. What most people might not know is just how much debris was created. Nobody knows exactly how much, but it's been estimated that just this area alone could have over 80 million cubic yards of debris. That being said, contractors have been working all day every day for the past three months to get this place cleaned up. They're doing a wonderful job, but they've got to haul all this crap off somewhere, right? So needless to say, there are all kinds of temporary landfills around the area. We have one at the southeast end of our equipment stockyard, in fact.

So, this evening, I decided to play on the Water & Sewer Dept's 4-wheeler (they have it to reach the lift stations that are too far in the woods for their maintenance personnel's pickups to reach). I was hauling ass back and forth through the stockyard just for fun (after hours, of course ). I decided to take a little ride down to the temporary landfill site that's just on the other side of our concrete drain pipe stockpile and check it out. And what do I find as soon as I get there? An old Packard Bell Legend Supreme 1600 that someone had set off to the side (electronics have to be separated before being hauled off).

It looked a little dirty, but overall, looked like it was in good shape. So I picked it up and took it back into the stockyard. I took the case panels off and looked inside, and amazingly, I saw no water damage at all. I figured that it was thrown out because it might've been caught up in someone's home that'd been flooded in the storm surge, but that's not the case. It was thrown out simply because it's old. So I brought it home, checked it out a little better, and plugged it in. Amazingly, it booted up.

In this shot, it's sitting on the bottom shelf of the metal rack that's just to the right of my computer desk. I just put it there to test it out.