The cable box, that the relative's cable company never wanted back well over a decade ago, has come out of hiding down the back of a workbench in a shed and yielded a 500GiB Seagate hard disc. Not to be sniffed at.
If I can figure out how to get the heat sink off, I shall satisfy my curiosity about what CPU it used.
It's one of those affairs that uses the 'H' type of torx-head screws — purportedly a 'security' measure, but I was able to buy a set of L keys for £15 from Machine Mart.
Thanks should go to whoever it was on the FediVerse who put me on to #MachineMart a couple of years ago.
https://machinemart.co.uk/p/laser-miniature-star-bit-set-tamperproof/
Yes, I know. £15 for something that I could have got for a tenner off e-Bay is not the best trade. But I'm having fun channelling #BigClive, opening the thing up with pry bars and sticking the hard disc into another machine to see how it is partitioned and formatted.