I am working an hour or so every day cleaning out my dungeon of a basement.
I am now down to my piles of (sadly) worthless old PC parts. What a poor way
to spend one's money. Buy a computer for a couple of thousand dollars and a
few years later it isn't even sellable at a garage sale! For God's sake I
was doing parallel image processing in 1995/6 with a pile of 486s for a
farm. Now the stuff is completely worthless. I have at least 15 286, 386 and
486 motherboards and a couple of slow Pentiums. Five or so working 486
computers and a pentium or so. Quite a few small hard drives (40-300+MB),
quite a few old-style cases, keyboards and a whole box filled with serial
mice. And all of it not worth a tinker's damn. It's all not new, but if
stuck on a desert island I could make quite a few good computers out of it.
(Good being a term relative to 6 years ago.) It just kills me to throw it
all in the garbage, but that's what I will end up doing. What a bloody
waste!
I remember hearing mention of organisations that send slower PCs to less
developed countries where the need to have the latest Pentium4 2 GHz pales
beside the overwhelming need to provide basic education and access and even
a simple machine is useful. Has anybody heard of any sort of organisation
which might have a Canadian address where I could ship the stuff to feel
that it might do somebody somewhere some good? I know, I know, forget it
even the starving want a Pentium3-500 and the costs of shipping would never
justify the charity spending the money. Not to mention charities don't want
useful goods, they want cash to pay for their New York offices and to bribe
the warlords. (Ooops sorry, slipped into reality mode there. Promise not to
do it again)
I guess I will hunt a little to see if I can send it somewhere. But after
that it's out to the curb. :^(
Mark Hooper
1972 TR6
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