On 10 February 2010 12:30, Brian Smith <br...@briansmithonline.com> wrote: > This has become an interesting thread. > > I have two old computers, both 7 years old (i.e. OLD) but both in perfect > condition for their age. > > It seems a dreadful waste to just take them to the recycling facility. There > must be hundreds of people who would find a use for an XP PC. One is a > Celeron but the other is a Pentium 4 hyperthreading 3 GHz, 4Mb RAM and a > recent nVidia graphics card and recent increased power supply (can't remember > the size but I upped it when I added the graphics card. > > But I wouldn't send them with the hard drives in. Always before, I've removed > and trashed hard drives and then recycled the old machine - but these are > both very usable still. > > Any thoughts? > > Brian
I normally put old PCs on my local Freecycle group. But you have to be careful - there are a lot of people on there who are out to make money. Choose the recipient carefully. You don't want to see it ending up at a car boot, on eBay or a advert in Tesco! Don't take them to the dump! Also, you can use a program like Boot and Nuke to erase the hard drive first. Takes a few hours, but its very secure. Andy _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
