Computer Graveyard

A local recycling center is having a special tomorrow, with free recycling of old computers. I have a few old ones lying around, so tonight I decided to drag them all out and get them all ready to go.

I was surprised at how much old computer junk I have accumulated over the past few years. It's really sort of embarrassing to consider how many physical resources were used up to manufacture these things, and now I am getting rid of them. Fortunately they will be recycled as much as possible and the nasty pollutants won't go into a landfill.

It's probably a bit late for this, but if you see anything you would want before tomorrow afternoon, let me know (Seattle-area people only).

Computer Graveyard

The pile includes:

  • 3 old desktop PCs
    • An old 200(?) MHz Pentium I computer which my brother found when some local business went bankrupt (If I remember correctly).
    • A 500 MHz Pentium III desktop - the first computer I was able to buy and build for myself in high school, after saving for years.
    • A 1.8 GHz Pentium IV desktop - the computer I built while in college.
  • 3 laptops
    • A 500 MHz PIII Dell Inspiron - my first laptop (now dead)
    • A G4 12" Apple PowerBook, with bad hard-disk controller (dead)
    • Another Dell laptop, this time a P4, with a bad motherboardĀ  (dead)
  • G4 Mac Mini (dead integrated power supply)
  • One extra original XBox (functional - I randomly won it in a contest, keeping the other one)
  • One dead Nintendo Wii (killed by my homemade component cable)
  • 3 CRT monitors
    • 15" Gateway (bad condition, but functional)
    • 17" Sony Trinitron (good condition)
    • 21" Sony Trinitron (functional, except for a big gash across the glass screen - I filed a BBB complaint against UPS and then got it for free)
  • 2 identical Samsung DVD players (the first one got lost by FedEx for 4 months, during which time I had complained and gotten another one for free)
  • Bunch of keyboards

Now that I have started preparing to get rid of all the computers, it's taking a surprisingly long time to shred all the hard-disks with a Knoppix CD. I should have started this earlier..

Posted on August 29, 2008
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  1. Don’t feel bad about your accumulation…I have the same problem with shoes.

    (At least they aren’t thousand dollar Jimmy Choo shoes, though!)

    Congrats on moving those on out of your place and for recycling!

  2. If I was in town, I would have taken the P4 1.8 off your hands… that is faster than the aging web server I currently use at home.

    Are you thinking of putting anything on eBay? You could probably get something for the dead Wii and Macs, and you could probably get a few bucks from Gamestop for your original XBox (or give it to some kid).

  3. Hmm I guess in retrospect, I probably could have gotten a few bucks for the original XBox since it still worked. I don’t know about the dead Wii and Macs – I’m not sure where I would even sell them..

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