Mark,
I recently sorted through my PC museum and sold a selection of
everything from (2x)386, (3x)486, P233, PII 450, about 10 hard drives
from 80 meg- 2 gig, and 4 14-15" monitors I got $120.00 for the works
from the network administrator in my wife's office. He said he would use
the 450 Pentium and turn the rest over to a local charity here in
Calgary that supplies computers to the Indian reservation schools and
other needy organizations. He regrettably is on holidays this week so I
can't get info from him, but I would suggest contacting your local
school board or the United Way both should be able to point you in the
right direction. My current PIII 550 lap top is due for replacement I
intend to put it in a drawer in my garage so with it's wireless network
card I can scream out to the electronic world for help without going in
the house. That and I have PDF versions of the shop manuals for both the
Triumph and the Fiat. Now if I added a LCD projector and a wireless
mouse to the mix I could project my manual on the appropriate wall of
the garage or even the underside of the hood being that both cars are
white and page through the manuals as I work on the car. Got an LCD
projector in your pile you want to get rid of? When my wife gets bored
with her new Toshiba E330 PDA I'm taking it for my tool box it has a PDF
reader so I could have all my shop manuals in my shirt pocket.
Doug Hamilton
1960 Triumph TR3A
1963 Fiat Cabriolet
>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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