27 Jun
2013
27 Jun
'13
12:29 p.m.
On 27 June 2013 20:02, Alexandre Souza <alexandre.tabajara at gmail.com> wrote:
Well, perhaps. I Freecycled all the old PCs in my garage about 3-4y
ago. Pentium 1 and 486s, mostly.
Of course, within weeks, I needed a well-specced 486 for something (a
DOS media-conversion PC) and I'd given it away.
And the guy junked them all. :-(
But the thing is, there are thousands of times more PCs around now
than there were in the 1980s. Also, they are mostly built much more
cheaply and the old ones just wear out and fail.
Yes, I've done that, too. :-)
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for a while
until another half-decent freebie comes along. They're not
collectable, they're not interesting and they have little sentimental
value. They're junk: when they wear out, they get tossed in skips.
("Dumpsters" to American-speakers.)
They are not collectable NOW. Someday - maybe - it will have some value. I have about $1000 in XT parts, brand new, in
boxes. 5 or 10 years ago,
it was junk. Now - dunno why - it has the value of gold.
Yes, I know that feeling. I wish I could teleport all my old kit of
that era to you, but I fear it's going to go for recycling. :-(
Well, I
don't like waste, so I take them out of skips (real or
metaphorical), fix them and use them.
I love that :) Last week I recovered a 250GB external HD. The external
controller was fried, and the HD is working nicely :o)