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atarom
Dalai Lama of RealPoor
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: 375th st. Y
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 Posted: 01/21/06 - 03:49 Post subject: Recycling computer equipment
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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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Tiluvas
RealPoor Guru
Joined: 19 Oct 2002
Posts: 2355
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 03:51 Post subject:
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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
RealPoor Sensei
Joined: 21 Aug 2003
Posts: 1866
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 03:53 Post subject:
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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
Dalai Lama of RealPoor
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 16398
Location: 375th st. Y
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 04:42 Post subject:
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| 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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Booker
RealPoor Guru
Joined: 12 Oct 2002
Posts: 2562
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 04:43 Post subject:
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solution: move to portland!
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atarom
Dalai Lama of RealPoor
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: 375th st. Y
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 04:44 Post subject:
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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
Dalai Lama of RealPoor
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Location: 375th st. Y
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 04:44 Post subject:
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solution: offer me a six figure job in portland area!
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atarom
Dalai Lama of RealPoor
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 16398
Location: 375th st. Y
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 04:45 Post subject:
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also: i've been typing dvorak for 7 months or so and i still suck at it.
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Aluaeia
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
Posts: 5670
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 04:47 Post subject:
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I have Atari hardware from the 80's, pst /w offer.
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Booker
RealPoor Guru
Joined: 12 Oct 2002
Posts: 2562
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 08:34 Post subject:
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| atarom wrote: | | solution: offer me a six figure job in portland area! |
solution: http://xmaschicken.ytmnd.com/
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Paden
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 23 Oct 2002
Posts: 9362
Location: North CAROLINA!
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 10:23 Post subject:
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build a robot
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Ishmael
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Joined: 03 Jun 2005
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Location: The US of A
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 12:51 Post subject:
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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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gotissues68
RealPoor Sensei
Joined: 21 Aug 2003
Posts: 1866
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 17:15 Post subject:
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| 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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Owyyn
RealPoor Guru
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 2900
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 20:03 Post subject:
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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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Tura
RealPoor Guru
Joined: 29 Oct 2003
Posts: 4866
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 22:12 Post subject:
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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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Yellow Journalist
RealPoor Sensei
Joined: 20 Oct 2002
Posts: 1973
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 23:06 Post subject:
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Have a Garage/Yardsale.
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Shaym
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 91
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Posted: 01/23/06 - 11:47 Post subject:
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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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Aviger
RealPoor Sensei
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 1509
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Posted: 01/23/06 - 12:28 Post subject:
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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 
Posted from a laptop in an english airport that smells like eduin was here
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kemble
RealPoor Sensei
Joined: 14 Oct 2002
Posts: 1912
Location: MI
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Posted: 01/23/06 - 12:46 Post subject:
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I use em as targets.
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Owyyn
RealPoor Guru
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Posted: 01/23/06 - 13:17 Post subject:
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| 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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Ishmael
RealPoor Guru
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Posts: 4446
Location: The US of A
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Posted: 01/23/06 - 13:19 Post subject:
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| 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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Aviger
RealPoor Sensei
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 1509
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Posted: 01/23/06 - 19:48 Post subject:
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| 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 
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kbarr
RealPoor Jedi
Joined: 05 Oct 2004
Posts: 11239
Location: New York, now go fuck off...
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Posted: 01/23/06 - 20:53 Post subject:
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| 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
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 29 Nov 2002
Posts: 7100
Location: at my computer
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Posted: 01/23/06 - 20:56 Post subject:
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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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