Old Computers
What do you do with old computers?
I have 6 of them sitting here, 4 of them are Dell Dimensions L500 or greater, and the other two are a Pentium 3 Axis Systems and a P3 Midwest Micro. They all still work (as far as I know), but we’ve outgrown them.
The recycle center doesn’t want them, the dump wants $6 to dispose of them, the United Way isn’t interested, and the school corporation doesn’t need them. I don’t mind paying to dispose of them, but surely someone can use these puppies? Perhaps they’re worth something on ebay, but surely not worth my time to list them.
February 9th, 2006 at 11:25 am
There aren’t any LUGs around there? That’s where I dump all my old stuff. I’ve managed to find and give away useful stuff… and occassionally make a bit of cash.
February 9th, 2006 at 11:49 am
what about goodwill? or put them on craigslist. are they AEI assetts? Offer them to employees for $rhode island, or perhaps $connecticut. get a gun and shoot them.
February 9th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
Old PC’s make excellent dedicated webservers, mail servers, etc. Beanblog.com is on one I parted together form several old PCs. It’s a p3 600mhz. Runs WAMP fine, as well as some audio broadast stuff that fairly cpu-intensive.
February 9th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
donate them. there a bunch of websites like this: http://sharetechnology.org/
or, give them to someone you know (like me) who builds and repairs computers for people. parts is parts.
February 9th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
san souci might take them.
at worth, we auctioned off old equipment to employees. we didn’t make all that much money but it was better than nothing.
February 9th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
You could give one to me. I would use them a new Server
February 9th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
crane was supposed to sell off our old computers for cheap about 4 years ago, but it never happened…fuchers
February 9th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
I’ve been trying to put together some old computers to do dedicated tasks, like one to run tvtime and one to run a music player (along with boa and dropbear). This way, I get to experiment with some things I probably wouldn’t otherwise and try out cross-compiling with Gentoo’s uClibc stages. So far, I’ve made a lot of progress, but am not quite there yet; maybe you could do something similar with your computers (or sell them on eBay to someone like myself
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