Brendan Reynolds wrote: I started looking for similar places 6 years ago, when I was collecting old public telephone exchange parts (very hard). My suggestion is to connect informations coming from both ends of the computer recyclyng/wasting. Personally I started to visit scrapyards. Here is hard to find someone that is specialized in reciclyng *only* or *mainly* computers, so you have to visit scrapyards looking for machines, but MAINLY for infos about from WHO or WHERE the machines come. This is important because those recyclers cares about metals only, so they load/unload them with no care, and keep them under the rain. After I know the organization's name, I contact them and try to know how it works:Was it a spot? or they throw machines on a regular basis? I found that I (as many of us, I think) can hardly replace recycler's work. Organizations prefers them for many reasons: 1)They are Companyes, not privates. 2)They are *specialized* and *careless* with items = very fast in cleaning up. 3)Sometimes they made auction for dismantling big installations (I.G. Telephony field) 4)Sometimes the "recycler" is one charitable association (they finance missions with the computer sales incomes) and responsibles of those organizations prefers (of course) to "help" those associations. So at least it's important to know when there will be the next "handover" and find the better way to try to pick rare/useful items. With some recyclers you have to pay the value of the equivalent iron weight, with someone else you have to try to lower a price made on the estimation based on they're own computer knowledge (=0) and it's a hard work. I have succeeded in making an agreement with a recycler that is satisfied with my help in moving items from those organizations to its scrapyards. Good luck! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo Romagnoli Classic Computers, Phones and Phonecards Collector Forli' - Italy chemif(a)mbox.queen.it ---------------------------------------------------------------------