Mark (and anyone else contemplating disposing of old computers etc.)
Please don't take them out to the curb (and by extension the landfill).
Computer components are chock full of nasty chemicals. elements etc. There
is an increasing problem with their disposal and toxifying the environment.
If your community has a hazardous wastew disposal sustem/centre, take them
there. If not, lobby your municipal/ state administration to put one in
place! Please do not land fill them as someone downstream will soon be
drinking your toxic soup.
Thanks
don
> From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net (Triumphs@Autox.team.net daily digest)
> Reply-To: owner-triumphs-digest@autox.team.net
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:28:19 -0700
> To: triumphs-digest@autox.team.net
> Subject: Triumphs@Autox.team.net daily digest V1 #1428
>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:04:14 -0500
> From: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
> Subject: Home for old computer parts? (not LBC)
>
> 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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