How to obtain a FREE computer

While you may have seen instructables that say "free" but you still have to pay for materials/suchlike I will start off by saying that the computer i got costed absolutely zero and i got it in less than 1 day. The monitor was also free as it was "incompatible" pah silly people it was just old.

The only downside is that it wont be brilliant, at best it will be a spare/homework computer so dont be looking to replace your sick alienware gaming computer that you overclocked so far it caught fire.

Step 1 Problems

Believe me not many people will throw out a computer that has NOTHING wrong with it. Though dont lose hope as the less computer-literate will take a dying hard drive as a dying motherboard and decide that the computer is old enough to justify throwing out instead of taking to an expert. This means that your computer won't be made of one but of multiple broken computers. This can also make it better by getting the best of everything.

Comments

[techboy411]

Macintosh LC!!! Oldie but sexy

[jrbout]

have a couple of those

[Data643]

My friend found an iMac G5 in a dumpster. It didn't work and he didn't know how to fix it, so he gave it to me. FTW : )

[superMacaroni]

Hey man,

Today I found out my Dad threw out my old comp stuff yesterday, even though I told him not to. I have 1 motherboard (Really expensive), 3 graphics cards (They're pretty cheap, they're about 8-10 years old, but they run fine), and an old nokia cell phone with apple written on it using a sharpie (It's dead, but it's cool).

Will you accept this amazing quest?

[magiccowy]

haha if i could i would. Don't suppose you know anything who would be likely to throw out an old woodworking router?

[BadVanGoh]

Great instructable! It pushes me one step closer to my dream of living in a room where the walls are not visible due to mass electronics!

[magiccowy]

Good luck! Definitly need a wall of led's

[mandra]

most of the time the people who trow their good things in a trash like a electronic and electric one, you know it work when you see they cut the power cord. each time the power cord will cut, the thing will work when i change it to new one, because the people dont want the people like me reuse their things. yes many many computer in trash, now i am on internet with a pentium 4 i found in garbage. i found very very much electronic thing in garbage even in my town have a politic and company to give a second life to the electronic. i made all my electronic workshop component with trash electronic devices.

[magiccowy]

Yea same deal here most of the time but i'm starting to suspect people are worried about someone getting it out of the trash, electrocuting themselves and sueing. Lst junk pile day i found a surround sound booster system with 8 speakers which now resides in my shed after i fixed its cut power cord.

[Juggling Knives]

All these pictures of computer parts lying around reminds me of me entire house.

[attackall112]

LOL

[rimar2000]

Here in my little town, people don't throw away even a broken sieve...

[magiccowy]

You could take that as a real positive but it does make it difficult to make things. Though I live in a faily small town and we still throw out some fairly decent stuff.