When the end really comes

David Gibson clug at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Mon Jan 6 18:01:18 EST 2003


Now, I'm sure many of the people on this list are used to finding uses
for old, slow machines: as home routers or servers, or given away to
charity.  But there comes a point when a box's life really is over...

I have an ancient 386 which just plain don't work any more.  Either
the motherboard or the memory has gone and, it being a 386, I really
couldn't be bothered trying to figure out which.

So, is there anything I can do with the corpse, which doesn't involve
throwing it, with whatever PCBs, heavy metals and other nasties it
contains, straight into landfill?

-- 
David Gibson			| For every complex problem there is a
david at gibson.dropbear.id.au	| solution which is simple, neat and
				| wrong.
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