12 Oct
2000
12 Oct
'00
5:07 p.m.
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, John Foust wrote:
Personally, I'm in a throw-away mood as opposed to
a
collection mood. I tossed 3" x 3" x 25" of old clone
8088 through 486 PCs and cases away last Tuesday.
I coalesced a box of Pentium 50-166 Mhz era motherboards,
some brand-new, and for heaven's sake, they would barely
fetch a few bucks on eBay. My other mantra was a friend's
rule that if you can't sell it on eBay, throw it out.
ACK!
As much as I hate having seemingly useless crap like this, I still refuse
to throw it out. It's useful to SOMEONE.
What I'm recommending to people who have older PCs these days is to donate
them to your local community college electronics or engineering
departments. I'm sure the students can use them for either spare parts or
as controllers for whatever projects they're working on.
Pentiums are still useful to schools and other organizations that take PCs
and refurbish them to donate to schools. Try to find places like this
where you live.
If you still don't want to do even these simple things, in the very least
donate your crap to Goodwill. Maybe someone will come across it and find
it useful. In the very least you can take a tax writeoff.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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