Great Lies of the Modern Era, #12
Posted: May 7th, 2006 | 6 Comments »“No, we’re not throwing that out. I’m going to turn it into a Linux server.”
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“And that one too.”
(Took two old machines for recycling today, one of which was the original home of Shooting People, and had four 9GB SCSI drives precariously balanced in it. Should I ever get around to actually making us a server, it’ll probably be on a quad-core 12GHz Xeon with 8GB RAM that my mum doesn’t want any more.)
Where do you recycle old hardware? Got any tips?
Camden Council’s recycling depot at Regis Road (near Kentish Town tube) takes computers, and that’s where I took mine – no idea what they do with them, though.
Or perhaps:
http://www.freecycle.org
“No, we’re not throwing that out. I’m going to turn it into a Linux server.”
Don’t laugh too hard, this is basically my business model
Yoz: the perfect description to a modern IT dilema.
I’ve got more desktop PCs with virtually zero RAM than I know what to do with. Even charities will only take one or two. Paper Round (http://www.paper-round.co.uk/), our office paper recycling company, does take them off our hands but they do charge. Alternative suggestions welcome.
I’ve taken to pulling the drives out of my old boxes and hitting them with hammers, to make it clear to myself that I will never, ever use them again.
As for disposal – well, there’s Computer Aid – http://www.computeraid.org – for working and reasonably recent (P3 and above, I think) PCs. Most of my oldies are non-functional, however, and need van hire and a trip to my local recycling centre – recyclenow.org.uk should list your local centre.