Friend bought a game in a 19" Dynamo cabinet. It was working and cosmetically was 8/10. I found this creative crayon choice for a ground. Also - anyone using ring terminals on a Peter Chou needs to be my monitor discharge tool for a month.
A few years ago I was dumpster diving at some sketchy apartments. Saw a big pile of wet garbage in front of a dumpster but it didn't look interesting.
As I was walking away I spotted a corner of a box I immediately recognized - a Commodore VICMODEM. The box was a writeoff but the modem looked intact. Digging into the pile I found a bunch of 8" floppies. Some were wet but they dried out. Even got some unopened disk labels. One sheet tucked in with the disks is labeled Ektachem worksheet.
I'm not a collector of mainframe stuff but it felt weird to rescue 8" floppies out of the garbage in 2023. From the other stuff I found this guy had a collection of things from the 70s up through Windows NT based on the ruined booklets/etc. It probably got thrown out on a weekday and I missed it.
Pulled this out of our parts stash and assumed the mottled coloring was supposed to look like a bowling ball.
Cleaned it with Gojo hand cleaner and now.its as white as a factory G07 flyback.