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what to do with old PC hardware

PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:03 pm
by UALOneKPlus
I've got a AMD K6 193 Mhz CUP w/ MMX, w/ 32 MB RAM on the Mother Board, in an old PC case w/ a 36X CD-ROM and HP 2X2X6 CD-RW.

The PC is missing a HD and a Floppy, since I parted those out for another PC.

What should I do with it? Would it be of use to any donation place, or anyone here? I hate to throw it out since it works well if installed with a HD and OS... What do you folks do with obsolete hardware like this other than junk it?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:30 pm
by Dartman
I upgrade family members with my leftovers and my freind who does networking and repairs updates me with his :)
Goodwill used to take em but I hear they are getting more and more picky about everything they will take. Has to be functional and at least a Pentium 3 now supposedly, I can't confirm this directly but I know they hardly take anything anymore unless it's perfect :(

PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:34 pm
by UALOneKPlus
That sucks.

You'd think we could ship it over to somewhere like Bosnia, where poor kids in school could use it for educational purposes!!

PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:51 pm
by tazdevl
Donate it to a local school, you can write it off.

PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 10:29 pm
by Turkeyscore.com
you could give them to me :P

PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 10:53 pm
by David
You could always sell old hardware on Ebay or you could try to sell in the Buy & Sell section of the forum.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:02 am
by UALOneKPlus
Thanks for the info. I just wanted to get rid of the PC, because I had to clear out some room for baby's stuff.

Anyway, I donated my PC to a needy PC shopper at the store when I was shopping there today. :)

PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 12:58 am
by BurninMan921
Target practice :)

I do believe that a favorite past time of another member here...

PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 3:38 pm
by manni
Get a HD for old system, you could run Linux and make it as your server (IRC bouncer, WWW server for testing etc).

PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 4:42 pm
by UALOneKPlus
manni wrote:Get a HD for old system, you could run Linux and make it as your server (IRC bouncer, WWW server for testing etc).


That's a great idea!

I gave away my 1st PC at a computer store - a customer there as interested in the PC...

I have a 2nd PC that I have the HD and floppy. I'm interested in learning Linux, so that would be a great idea!!

By the way, what kind of Linux would you recommend to try out first? What site could I download?

Thanks!!!

PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 6:55 pm
by dodecahedron

PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 2:11 am
by BurninMan921
Get Mandrake Linux...easy install, lots of supported hardware. Only one I could get to boot on my system...

PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 2:33 am
by pranav81
Red Hat is the best distribution of Linux around.Literally all hardware is supported and is rock solid.
See ya later,


::Pranav::

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 5:00 am
by blakerwry
BurninMan921 wrote:Get Mandrake Linux...easy install, lots of supported hardware. Only one I could get to boot on my system...


I have to say I prefer mandrake 9.x vs Redhat 8 (they were released around the same time... haven't tried redhat 9.x yet, my biggest dissapointment with 8.x is that SAMBA (the file server) was broken by default.. I mucked with it for about an hour and couldn't get it working right, so I went back to mandrake and within a few moments the file server was up and running great.

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 9:43 pm
by TheWizard
No one likes FreeBSD anymore?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 1:28 pm
by manni
Something about old HW. I got a HP Vectra Vl 5 yesterday. P166MMX with 24 MB RAM and 7.4 GB HD. I installed Debian, it's nice server, running psybnc and Apache, small and silent PC, what else can I ask.