On Thursday 02 January 2003 8:54 am, James Hatridge wrote:

Now that Christmas and New Years holidays are over and you have had time to put your new computer parts in, what are you going to do with the old parts & systems?

How about recycling them? It's better than letting the stuff become hi-tech doorstops and it's much better than stuffing the local landfill with parts that will sit there for 1000's of years.

I can use anything on the list below:

Hard Disks of 4gb or bigger (bigger is better <G>)

lemme see -- ahh, right at my side I have an old 100 megabyte SCSI drive that is obviously "not in service" [no, that's not a misprint -- it really does have less capactiy than a zip/ls-120 device]

Memory 72pin --- 16mb, 32mb, or 64mb 168pin -- 64mb or bigger

I think I have some flaky 8mb sets, and if I dig a bit, I'm sure I could find some 30-pin SIMMS

56k modem cards

would 9600 do?

CDroms 4x are fine ( got a DVD laying around? <G>) CD-RW burners of any speed LS-120 drives Zip drives ( I can use Zip 100 Disks too)

nope (nope), nope, I still use them, and never had one [in that order]

internal cables IDE / SCSI

those I've got, but I have plans for them anyway..

Mother Boards -- Anything above PI For example I have an AMD slot A CPU but no MoB for it

sorry, fastest "discard" around here is a 100mhz 486 [well, no, it's still "in service" as my firewall, now that I think about it]

CPUs PI 233mhz and up

ditto

CPU Fans PI type

hmm... the one P1 fan I had finally broke [choked to death on dust] turns out the CPU it was being used for wasn't generating enough heat to need it anyway [the aforementiond 486]

Video cards with more than 8mb memory or 3D types

thems I might have -- how are you fixed for VL-bus?

100mbs network cards

at $9.95 at the local store for a "new" one, you'll pay more for "cheap ground postage" anyway...

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long story short, I think you'll find many "linux" types are like me when it comes to "old hardware" -- it never "goes away", it just gets recycled into machines that "keep pressing on" in lesser duties - i.e., the "486" that was my "main machine" from 1990-1995 is now a firewall, the 233 "p1" that replaced it is now my "tape backup server"; the 266 P-II I used at work (and subsequently got to "take home" when the parent company closed the local office) is now a general file-server/web-server/etc-server; the 466 celeron I'm using now is due to be replaced soon (make that "as soon as I get a job"; till then it has to "make do") when it does, it will become the first installment into a "renderfarm" for background video processing (using cinelarra) The "truly excess hardware" I have is either broken or far too old for your tastes [not to mention expensive to ship from california, even if by "surface mail" :) ]