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atarom
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 03:49    Post subject: Recycling computer equipment Reply with quote

I have a ton of junk that i want to get rid of. a few NICs, an old mobo, sound card, modem, etc.

Ideally i would like to donate this equipment to a non-profit that builds computers for families in need.

sadly i don't like in portland or san francisco. i like in tacema. i would be willing to take them to seattle, as i travel there occasionally.

does anyone know of a good place to send or take old computer parts?

what do you do? do you recycle? do you trash them?

do you ebay them for $1.72?

i don't care onough to do this.

i want them to be recycled at least, if not re-used.

mostly i just want them out of my house.
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 03:51    Post subject: Reply with quote

you should donate your keyboard because it doesnt seem to type "live" probably.

i like in seattle lol lol hi atarom

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gotissues68
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 03:53    Post subject: Reply with quote

pm your phone # and address.. I'm heading up to Seattle on sunday and staying through the following saturday .. I can drop it off at freegeek when I get back.
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atarom
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 04:42    Post subject: Reply with quote

gotissues68 wrote:
pm your phone # and address.. I'm heading up to Seattle on sunday and staying through the following saturday .. I can drop it off at freegeek when I get back.


that would actually be awesome.

do they want all my worthless crap? ribbon cables? zip drives? on their site i didnt see exactly what they didn't want other than toasters.

regardless, i guess they'd probably know how to recycle it. i'll put it all in a box.

lol lol hi tiluvas, u r funnay
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 04:43    Post subject: Reply with quote

solution: move to portland!
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atarom
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 04:44    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah. if i could get a job tthere i would.

also if i could afford a house there i would.
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atarom
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 04:44    Post subject: Reply with quote

solution: offer me a six figure job in portland area!
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atarom
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 04:45    Post subject: Reply with quote

also: i've been typing dvorak for 7 months or so and i still suck at it.
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Aluaeia
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 04:47    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have Atari hardware from the 80's, pst /w offer.
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 08:34    Post subject: Reply with quote

atarom wrote:
solution: offer me a six figure job in portland area!


solution: http://xmaschicken.ytmnd.com/
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 10:23    Post subject: Reply with quote

build a robot
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 12:51    Post subject: Reply with quote

The place I work just threw away all their old computer shit (8 pallets stacked 6 feet high each hehe) so I threw my stuff away like that. I guess it goes to the prisoners over in Detroit where they sort the good stuff from the bad, and the bad gets recyled!
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 17:15    Post subject: Reply with quote

atarom wrote:
gotissues68 wrote:
pm your phone # and address.. I'm heading up to Seattle on sunday and staying through the following saturday .. I can drop it off at freegeek when I get back.


that would actually be awesome.

do they want all my worthless crap? ribbon cables? zip drives? on their site i didnt see exactly what they didn't want other than toasters.

regardless, i guess they'd probably know how to recycle it. i'll put it all in a box.

lol lol hi tiluvas, u r funnay


I think they pretty much take anything. They refurb what they can and get it back into the community for like poor kids and stuff.
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 20:03    Post subject: Reply with quote

Desolder all the electronic components (capacitors, voltage regulators, diodes, etc) from the circuit boards and organize then into bins to make neat shit with later.
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 22:12    Post subject: Reply with quote

A little off topic but I was going through my storage yesterday and I found a 1 gallon container filled with nothing but soda can tabs... Back in highschool some rumor went around that you could recycle them all for like $50.00 so I collected then and somehow forgot about it over all these years.

What should I do with them? I just figured i'd put them in the little green recycle can and let them take it.
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PostPosted: 01/21/06 - 23:06    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have a Garage/Yardsale.
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Shaym
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PostPosted: 01/23/06 - 11:47    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tura .. oddly enough, take them to your local hospital, I think up by oncology, the nurse's station will have a little container for those tabs.. they donate them and somehow the proceeds go to a cancer organization. Call up and ask if you want to check.

I know of them doing this in a few places.
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PostPosted: 01/23/06 - 12:28    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have never thrown away any of my old computer parts :p

I still have my first 286 in working order, and tons of video careds that i upgraded in past years heh.

I'm atm building about 6 systems i have lying around in various pieces that range from prolly '82 to '95 just to be able to play old games i still have that wont run in XP without issue heh

It's fun playing things like old wing commander on a 486 Smile

Posted from a laptop in an english airport that smells like eduin was here
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PostPosted: 01/23/06 - 12:46    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use em as targets.
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PostPosted: 01/23/06 - 13:17    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aviger wrote:
Posted from a laptop in an english airport that smells like eduin was here


Are you mocking me? =P
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PostPosted: 01/23/06 - 13:19    Post subject: Reply with quote

Owyyn wrote:
Aviger wrote:
Posted from a laptop in an english airport that smells like eduin was here


Are you mocking me? =P


That was a ninja edit!
When I first saw it it said "Posted from a laptop in an english airport that smells like p**s"

I swears it massah.
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PostPosted: 01/23/06 - 19:48    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ishmael wrote:
Owyyn wrote:
Aviger wrote:
Posted from a laptop in an english airport that smells like eduin was here


Are you mocking me? =P


That was a ninja edit!
When I first saw it it said "Posted from a laptop in an english airport that smells like p**s"

I swears it massah.


different post ish heh


And no, no mocking, it was posted from a s****y english airport (birmingham),s****y city, but they had a spearmint rhino of all things Razz
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PostPosted: 01/23/06 - 20:53    Post subject: Reply with quote

kemble wrote:
I use em as targets.


The round file works good too.


Big nose, you wanna donate shit, donate cash. Stop trying to give away your garbage.
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Tamrissa
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PostPosted: 01/23/06 - 20:56    Post subject: Reply with quote

take the usable parts save em up and put together little working comps and give em to neighbourhood kids who could put them to use... /shrug
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