On 10/02/10 12:48, Phil Thompson wrote: > problem is you then create a £30+ cost to the recipient to source a hard > drive and, in the case of Windows, an OS licensing or cost issue. >
This does indeed tend to make re-use too costly. We (at work) take old PCs from businesses, wipe them (Boot & Nuke), re-install them (assuming a suitable OS OEM sticker is on the case), and sell them for what we can get for them (basically we try to get enough to cover the time it took). It just seems better to do this than to throw them into landfill. (Stuff that can't be re-used gets re-cycled through proper WEEE facilities.) If anyone has anything they want to get shot of let me know - obviously if you can get some money from someone else that ought to be your priority. Anything pre-pentium is going to be little use to anyone unfortunately (unless it's so far pre-pentium that it has historical value). -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
