[blueflow]

A few month ago i took a machine from a scrapyard. That machine fell into my eye because its PSU had a female C13 socket in addition to the male C14 one, which i took as indication for an AT (not ATX) machine.

It turned out to be a pentium with ISA ports. I cleaned it, upon booting, i noticed the CMOS battery needed replacement. The CMOS was part of the dreaded Dallas 1287 RTC. Cutting it open and attaching another story, but i did it. Reading the required disk geometry from the label, i was able to configure the CMOS correctly for the disk to boot.

The yield: It boots into a windows 95 desktop, with a naked women with spread legs as a desktop background. I guess i recovered someones porn collection.

[kingcharles]

I worked for an SMS provider at one point testing some new things (e.g. i8n). I had to buy dozens and dozens of old cell phone models from eBay. Nearly all of them had not been cleared. A very surprising percent of them had naked photos of the owners or their lovers on them.