[clug] Homes for old hardware?

[Luke Mewburn]

On 24-04-07 14:41, Adam Baxter wrote:
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  | On Sun, 7 Apr 2024, at 14:08, Luke Mewburn via linux wrote:
  | > Hi all,
  | >
  | > I'm cleaning up a bunch of old hardware I have.
  | >
  | > Before I take it to eWaste at the tip in Mitchell, I thought I'd ask
  | > here if people were either interested, or knew of places that might be
  | > interested it some/all of it?
  | 
  | The green shed shouldn't put it all in landfill - I think they do try to sell some stuff on.

RIP Green Shed. (I'm not a fan of the other non-secular opshops with
IMHO terrible histories towards various marginalised communities.)

I've previously taking our excess stuff to the Green Shed for repurposing.
I'd rather that than deal with timewasters on the various online sale places
and/or elements of the freecycle community.
("What, you want $100 for this $1000 item? How about $80 [where I'll
turn around and sell on Fleabay/Scumtree for $200?]"...)

Although inner north nature strips are a quick way to upcycle excess
furniture. The longest time something was there was 2 nights.

I think my computing stuff is probably too old and/or esoteric
for the Green Shed, hence why I asked here (and got a great response).


  | > There's a mix of 10-25yo x86 servers and associated parts including:
  | > NICs, serial cards, SCSI cards, DVD burners, FDDs, SCSI tape drives
  | > (DDS4 & other?), tapes for the tape drives, RAM, network cables, etc.
  | > There's even some SCSI cards from old Sparc servers.
  | >
  | 
  | Will take a couple of (PCI? PCIe?) NICs, RAM, and at least 2 DVD burners.

Sure.


  | > I'm not sure there's much interest in this any more, even
  | > the older retrocomputing stuff.
  | >
  | 
  | The Sizzle forums and OCAU are also worth asking on.

I'll keep that in mind.


Luke.