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Freecycle Score!!!
Kaytrim:
When I picked up the stuff last night the guy told me about the city government's simi annual 'garage sale' where I could pick up more like these for around $5 each. There was a box fill of drive cages and other odds and ends as well as the PCs and two old CRT monitors, either 15 or 13 inch. The nice case, the one with the window, will house my test setup after I get my office moved downstairs. I have to finish off the basement first though so they may sit for a bit. I should have plenty of parts coming out of this bunch and more than likely will use one of the motherboards in Dad's bartop because the one I have now in there is flaky.
TTFN :cheers:
Kaytrim
ChadTower:
I often pick up old PCs from my town's recycling area at our highway dept. The recycling fee has already been paid so they don't care what happens to them... the old guy who runs it lets me take as many as I want so long as I take them whole and don't open them up on site. Usually anything with USB ports is worth taking and well over half the time there is nothing wrong with the hardware.
shorthair:
I tried free cycle. The registration, as well as the user interface and search engine sucked. Plus you get hounded with ads. I bailed on that.
ChadTower:
Erm, it's just a Yahoo mail group, a collective of them actually, each group set up for a specific locality.
shorthair:
Dunno. Just remember it not being simple. You can't even look at the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- in your region without being registered. Maybe it's changed. I'll take a look.......
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