Subj : Some days
To   : Somebody
From : Spectre
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 22:45:00

Some days you can be lucky.  I trundled down to the foodbank today, picked up
some veges, bread, bits and pieces.  I'd hate to have to live on foodbank
goodies alone but it certainly helps.

On the way home I dropped into the recycle store at the local waste transfer.
Haven't been in there for a long time, but I've been tasked with keeping an
eye out for another chromecast for a second TV.  Didn't find one of those,
but did find some other goodies.

The local mac man, maintains a vast array of firewire based equipment and is
almost always on the lookout for anything to add to the chain.  So I found a
firewire/usb 2 based DVD burner, can't say I've actually seen one before just
plenty of hard drives and the odd printer off hand.

The next one was interesting, small black box, looks for all the world like a
oversized lego brick. Came with its power supply still dangling from it,
interesting array of ports... HDMI, sound, USB, Ethernet.. appeared to power
on, but it wasn't doing much... to a while to prise it open, the case is one
of those snap fit things.  Turns out to be a Pi 3B v1.2 so about as old as a
Pi 3 can be..turns out I can't get a current boot image onto an old 2Gb SD
card so thats waiting on the back burner for further testing.

And last but not least, a Veriton. Same model as the ones I had some time
back now. I'll see about dropping the hard drive from the ol' Church setup
and give them their website back.

Not bad for a modest outlay, less than a Pi would cost new :)

Spec


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