16 Aug
2007
16 Aug
'07
10:49 a.m.
If no takers for freebies within 2 weeks,
dumpster it. Better
a quick death and you don't have to pay for storage while it
rusts/deteriorates/loses magnetization for the hard drive bits. If
you keep it, it'll die eventually anyway and you'll pay for it
(fiscally and emotionally) over the decades it takes to die.
-
Mark, 210-379-4635
I will rarely dumpster anything computer related ... at least intact :). The
motherboards and cards usually have enough gold to be of some interest to gold
scrappers (Pax may have more to say about this!) Personally, I have a box that I
toss old cards into and sell them every six months to a year. Depending on the
gold content, I usually get somewhere around $0.50 - $1.00 per pound. No idea if
this is good/bad/indifferent but it sure beats giving it away to the electronic
recyclers (we can't through electronics into the dumpster here in Kalifornia.)