Seriously, DOD-Wipe that sucker hardcore or take the drive out and smash it with a brick before dropping it off at the thrift store’s donation drive-up. Protip: for privacy’s sake please wipe your hard drive before giving a computer away. The machine had seen very little use and that showed in the condition. The handful of documents written at that time were still present.
A quick check of the document & browser histories showed that the machine, which had been built in 2005 ( and sold for $1,300 then), had last been used around 2012 to write a couple of articles for a community newsletter and to write someone’s biographical letter. Once I located all the bits, I took the laptop to the testing station and verified that it booted right up to a clean-looking non-passworded Windows XP Pro SP3 OS. In the next aisle I found the power supply, and in a different room altogether I found the matching accessory DVD-ROM drive. I saw this little Dell Latitude D410 laptop on the bottom shelf of the camera aisle at the Deseret thrift store, no price tag, but it looked like it was in excellent condition – good enough to carry around and see if I could locate the accessories as well. Weapon of Choice: 2005 Dell Latitude D410, running MX Linux 18Ģgb DDR2 400MHz SDRAM, 40gb IDE HD, 1024×768 XGA screen
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