There is not much on the hard drive, either. No Office (any version), no Adobe reader, nuthin'.

I found a set of games he/she had put in, and they were trial versions. On one of them it said the last usage was 4131 days ago - over 11 years ago!

The thing is, the case is a non-descript one with no manufacturer's logo on it. It appears to have been put together from parts (nothing wrong with that) and then abandonded after trying it out. I remember reading somewhere that at the time (a dozen years ago?) well over half of all computers pruchased wound up gathering dust in closets because people didn't use them. Maybe this was one of them. It certainly has enough dust to qualify.