I spend a few hours a week looking at FB marketplace for electronic deals, usually picking up an improved CPU or GPU for our home computers which are the constant focus for incremental upgrades. In addition I buy from AliExpress and wait patiently for the postman, a recent upgrade was to the mSATA solid state drive on one of our NUCs, but making a post about that would just be repeating an older one.
A few weeks ago, I picked up two boxes of industrial grade, fanless, computers from a company who had long abandoned the intended project, computers from around 2015 that were destined for importance yet ended up being scrapped and recycled.
In my little world of fiddling, this is the sort of exciting stuff that gets me out of bed in the morning.
The large box had a bunch of fanless computers, cases and enclosures, the small box, two brand new units. I paid the company what they wanted, two hundred dollars without even knowing what I was getting into, the excitement was palpable and over the following week, every day, I delved deeper into the contents.
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