{"id":29223,"date":"2006-10-26T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/10\/26\/let-the-dead-computer-scavenging-commence\/"},"modified":"2006-10-26T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T10:00:08","slug":"let-the-dead-computer-scavenging-commence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20061026-08\/?p=29223","title":{"rendered":"Let the dead computer scavenging commence!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/10\/25\/872891.aspx\"> my old computer is up on bricks in the virtual front yard<\/a>, the scavenging has begun. I got a piece of email from one of my colleagues saying, &#8220;Say, you aren&#8217;t using that PC-2100 memory any more are you?&#8221;\n Why no, in fact, I wasn&#8217;t. Christmas comes early. (He offered to buy the memory off of me, but since I had already written the old computer off as a loss, I just gave him the memory. But even he didn&#8217;t want the 256MB memory stick.)<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve still got a perfectly good Socket&nbsp;A 1GHz AMD Thunderbird, a full-size ATX (not ATX1) case with power supply, a modem (wow, remember those?), a network card, an AGP video card, a small farm of CD and DVD drives&#8230; I doubt anybody&#8217;s going to want to scavenge those unless they&#8217;re just stocking up in anticipation of their own old computer going bad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that my old computer is up on bricks in the virtual front yard, the scavenging has begun. I got a piece of email from one of my colleagues saying, &#8220;Say, you aren&#8217;t using that PC-2100 memory any more are you?&#8221; Why no, in fact, I wasn&#8217;t. Christmas comes early. (He offered to buy the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138,26],"class_list":["post-29223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-dead-computers","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Now that my old computer is up on bricks in the virtual front yard, the scavenging has begun. I got a piece of email from one of my colleagues saying, &#8220;Say, you aren&#8217;t using that PC-2100 memory any more are you?&#8221; Why no, in fact, I wasn&#8217;t. Christmas comes early. (He offered to buy the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}