Yesterday, I found a sad-looking Thinkpad laying in our driveway. No explanation, no clues as to origin, wearing a tire track over the front of the casing. All the keys are gone, the screen is obviously cracked, and the port side is busted open, but overall it withstood a serious beating.
It dates to 2006, so it would still be a useful laptop if it worked, but it won’t boot up (not surprising). I’m going to crack the case and pull the hard drive to see if there’s anything on it that’s worthwhile.
Update: The entire hard drive was filled with homemade latino rap tracks, each named something unique like “Slow Shit”, “Gangsta Shit”, “Smooth Shit”, and “Playa Shit”. I erased it and now it’s a 60GB backup drive. The rest of the laptop will get recycled at Best Buy.
Could it have fallen out of a garbage/recycling truck on its way to the dump and bounced into the driveway? The missing keys make me wonder if maybe a pro has already stripped anything useful …
I suppose it could have, but I tend to believe it’s more of a random dump job (possibly out of a moving car) than a garbage truck drop. It was way too far down the driveway to be unintentional, in my opinion.