Getting rid of Computer Equipment.

[guyvert1]

Hello,

Can anyone point me in the direction of a company that takes old computers away (NOT PC's) for free, I remember years ago some firm sends them to places like Africa for dismantling etc..

Ta

[sadako]

There are a few firms that do this. What sort of machines are we talking about here?

[guyvert1]

Mainly SUN microsystems, things like Sparc 5,10,20's, E250's, E450's, E5000 etc... A few Sun Monitors...

[spants]

sun will do trade-ins.... as do most of the competitors

[zumbruk]

Well, I was about to point you at Acara, but their web site now says "Acara Limited no longer trade in used Sun Microsystems hardware.
" Damn.

Got any Sun 19" LCD monitors? I'll take 2 or 3, if you have. (No CRTs, though!)

There's a good trade on eBay if you want to sell them yourself, which is what I've always done.

I've bought Sun stuff from;

Server Emporium ([e-mail])
Unixnerd ([e-mail])
EOL Group (Several times; www.eolgroup.co.uk/)
www.5technology.co.uk/

And been quite happy, so I imagine any of them should be able to help. Mind you, Ultra 5s and 10s are skip fodder. I got a tenner for the last Ultra10 I sold.

Edited by zumbruk on Monday 21st May 22:21

[Scraggles]

goto www.freecycle.org and find local group, lots of pc stuff going on my local one

www.gumtree.com is another one to try

the freecycle one is better as u don't sell stuff and no legal obligation for it to work

[wildoliver]

I know a chap who does yes, he then recycles them, if your interested pm me and i'll send you his phone number.

Oliver

[zumbruk]

Scraggles said:

goto www.freecycle.org and find local group, lots of pc stuff going on my local one

Freecycle seems to be quite good. I got 7 or 8 responses in one day when I gave away a SPARCstation 10 recently. (I actually gave it away to save me the trouble of transporting the huge, incredibly heavy, Sun 21" CRT to the tip.)

(BTW, these aren't PCs and cannot run Windows.)

[wildoliver]

he does allsorts from classic stuff right through to modern pc's. Let me know anyway.