This has become an interesting thread. I have two old computers, both 7 years old (i.e. OLD) but both in perfect condition for their age.
It seems a dreadful waste to just take them to the recycling facility. There must be hundreds of people who would find a use for an XP PC. One is a Celeron but the other is a Pentium 4 hyperthreading 3 GHz, 4Mb RAM and a recent nVidia graphics card and recent increased power supply (can't remember the size but I upped it when I added the graphics card. But I wouldn't send them with the hard drives in. Always before, I've removed and trashed hard drives and then recycled the old machine - but these are both very usable still. Any thoughts? Brian On 9 Feb 2010, at 20:50, Phil Thompson wrote: > On 09/02/2010 Andy Fletcher wrote: >> We spend £50 a pop to get them crunched. I doubt it's worth anything. >> > > there's a good market for them at £50-£100 depending on spec. > ecgo.co.uk near Huntingdon sell them (perhaps after being paid to take > them away). > > I certainly wouldn't *spend* anything to be rid. > > > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
