Have you ever cannibalized a computer?

[dax00]

i tried to once... epic fail

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Not quite, but when I was grad student, one of the jobs I had was assisting in with the computers, and once when we got some memory cards to upgrade some of them, the mem cards we pulled were added to some others that could use them. (The computers in question could use either one or two cards, but they had to be the same size.)

[Figueira]

I'm not a computer, but if I was, I would never think of consuming other computers.

[dead0man]

Yes, I've built all my PCs since the mid 90s.  Occasionally I'll use parts out of an old one in the new one.

[muon2]

Yes, at home, at school, and at work. One of my college labs required us to put together a simple microcomputer (ca. 1977) from spare parts and have it play the school fight song. Swapping good cards out of old desktops to put in machines with faster motherboards was common at work, and I was in charge of some of the high-speed processors (microprocessor, microcontroller, DSP, FPGA, etc.) on my experiment which often required taking parts from one board to fix another.

[DINGO Joe]

I don't but my wife does.  A room in the house is littered with computer parts and carcasses.  Think of it as a tech redneck version of a front yard littered with cars.