Old Computer Equipment
Discussion
I'm tidying out our server room and have aload of old kit to chuck away.
Hows the best way to do it?
Some of it seems good enough to consider putting on ebay, but then there's the hassle of taking pictures, testing it etc...
Do old computers and screen etc.. need to be disposed of in a particular way, or can i just take it to the skip?
TIA
James.
Hows the best way to do it?
Some of it seems good enough to consider putting on ebay, but then there's the hassle of taking pictures, testing it etc...
Do old computers and screen etc.. need to be disposed of in a particular way, or can i just take it to the skip?
TIA
James.
Not sure if the legislation is in force yet, but in the near future you won't be able to take them to a dump. A mate of a mate has set up a firm to help dispose of old computers so that companies can comply with the new legislation. He turns up in a truck, clears the stuff out of the building and gives you cash for the equipment. He then sells on what he can, a fair bit of it going to eastern Europe or the former soviet bloc, and disposes of the rest in an environemntally acceptable way.
Smashing, thanks for the replies.
None of the PC's are good enough to pass on to anyone without a major time investment and they aren't a good enough spec to make it worth while. Got mainly old routers and isdn terminators, keyboards and monitors that still work. Rest is definately a bin job!
None of the PC's are good enough to pass on to anyone without a major time investment and they aren't a good enough spec to make it worth while. Got mainly old routers and isdn terminators, keyboards and monitors that still work. Rest is definately a bin job!
I think the WEEE relates to stuff you buy now.
New equipment comes with booklets on how to dispose of it properley once its useable life is over. New equipment is also traceable from supplier to customer, so that if it is disposed of incorrectly they can hold someone to blame!
As far as donating to schools etc.. this stuff really isn't worth it.
I have donated stuff to schools in the past and if they can't run their interactive multimedia DVD's on them, then they're not interested. LEA's have better budgets for the kind of top grade Computer equipment that schools need these days so it isn't even worth bothering with old machines. Also they have to be elec. tested etc to ensure they are safe and so on. In short, better just to take to skip!
New equipment comes with booklets on how to dispose of it properley once its useable life is over. New equipment is also traceable from supplier to customer, so that if it is disposed of incorrectly they can hold someone to blame!
As far as donating to schools etc.. this stuff really isn't worth it.
I have donated stuff to schools in the past and if they can't run their interactive multimedia DVD's on them, then they're not interested. LEA's have better budgets for the kind of top grade Computer equipment that schools need these days so it isn't even worth bothering with old machines. Also they have to be elec. tested etc to ensure they are safe and so on. In short, better just to take to skip!
sp60 said:
None of the PC's are good enough to pass on to anyone without a major time investment and they aren't a good enough spec to make it worth while.
How do you define "not a good enough spec" and how does your overall assessment change if you change "major time investment" to "blank the hard disks"?
sp60 said:
Got mainly old routers and isdn terminators, keyboards and monitors that still work.
Any IBM Model M keyboards?
Pigeon said:
sp60 said:
None of the PC's are good enough to pass on to anyone without a major time investment and they aren't a good enough spec to make it worth while.
How do you define "not a good enough spec" and how does your overall assessment change if you change "major time investment" to "blank the hard disks"?
Two old pentium pro 200's one with HDU one without, both have no extra's.
Couldn't let them go with the HDU's anyway due to the nature of the data that has been kept on them.
Alternatively would have to source some kind of software to properley blank off the HDU's
So...not good enough spec and too much time needed!
Pigeon said:
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Any IBM Model M keyboards?
sp60 said:
Got mainly old routers and isdn terminators, keyboards and monitors that still work.
Any IBM Model M keyboards?
Yes, but the Hardware Geek spotted them first and won't let go of them!
sp60 said:
Two old pentium pro 200's one with HDU one without, both have no extra's.
Oh, as low as that? Fraid that's too low even for me to be interested in.
sp60 said:
Pigeon said:
Any IBM Model M keyboards?
Yes, but the Hardware Geek spotted them first and won't let go of them!
Aaaargh!
Oh well. Thanks for answering!
Absolute sodding nightmare getting rid of old kit.
Asked various charities "we're not interested unless it's a Pentium 4"
- tried schools and various other places to no avail. Eventually found a charity who'd take some kit, and got a bill for £1000 two weeks later, as some of the kit was "defective and we had to pay for disposal"... 
As for the IBM Model M keyboards... er..?
I'm obviously too young - anyone care to enlighten me?
Asked various charities "we're not interested unless it's a Pentium 4"
- tried schools and various other places to no avail. Eventually found a charity who'd take some kit, and got a bill for £1000 two weeks later, as some of the kit was "defective and we had to pay for disposal"... As for the IBM Model M keyboards... er..?
I'm obviously too young - anyone care to enlighten me?Podie said:
As for the IBM Model M keyboards... er..? I'm obviously too young - anyone care to enlighten me?
I'm obviously too young - anyone care to enlighten me?The classic IBM "clicky" keyboard, using overcentre-spring key switches from ALPS. Beautiful piece of kit. Great for typing fast and accurately. The keys have a decent amount of travel, are sensibly sized and give a definite click which you can both hear and feel at the exact point that the switch makes contact. Absolutely beats the shit out of the horrible rubber-dome things you get these days which feel like pressing the nipples in on a corpse.
I have one, which I found in a skip, and I love it. If my computer system got blasted by lightning or some other calamity, the only piece of hardware I'd have any trouble replacing is the Model M keyboard, so I'm always on the lookout for opportunities to acquire a spare.
Pigeon said:
Podie said:
As for the IBM Model M keyboards... er..? I'm obviously too young - anyone care to enlighten me?
I'm obviously too young - anyone care to enlighten me?The classic IBM "clicky" keyboard, using overcentre-spring key switches from ALPS. Beautiful piece of kit. Great for typing fast and accurately. The keys have a decent amount of travel, are sensibly sized and give a definite click which you can both hear and feel at the exact point that the switch makes contact. Absolutely beats the shit out of the horrible rubber-dome things you get these days which feel like pressing the nipples in on a corpse.
I have one, which I found in a skip, and I love it. If my computer system got blasted by lightning or some other calamity, the only piece of hardware I'd have any trouble replacing is the Model M keyboard, so I'm always on the lookout for opportunities to acquire a spare.
Cool. I'll have a nose about (you'd be amazed at the crap we have in storage)... if I find one, there's one with your name on it.
Pigeon said:
sp60 said:
Two old pentium pro 200's one with HDU one without, both have no extra's.
Oh, as low as that? Fraid that's too low even for me to be interested in.
Oh yes mate, I found the original bill for them as well, best part of £2k in 1997!!
Pigeon said:
sp60 said:
Pigeon said:
Any IBM Model M keyboards?
Yes, but the Hardware Geek spotted them first and won't let go of them!
Aaaargh!
Oh well. Thanks for answering!
No problems mate
Personally can't get on with the annoying clicky keyboards, find them too big and cludgy.
There's plenty of decent keyboards around these days that are better (IMO of course
). The ones that come with HP servers are pretty good. Solid and nice 'action' !! The ones that used to come with Dell servers are pretty close to the Model M ones. Don't really have that clicky action, but about as close as you get on a modern keyboard.
Podie said:
Pigeon said:
I have one, which I found in a skip, and I love it. If my computer system got blasted by lightning or some other calamity, the only piece of hardware I'd have any trouble replacing is the Model M keyboard, so I'm always on the lookout for opportunities to acquire a spare.
Cool. I'll have a nose about (you'd be amazed at the crap we have in storage)... if I find one, there's one with your name on it.
Cheers, excellent
Podie said:
Absolute sodding nightmare getting rid of old kit.
Asked various charities "we're not interested unless it's a Pentium 4" - tried schools and various other places to no avail. Eventually found a charity who'd take some kit, and got a bill for £1000 two weeks later, as some of the kit was "defective and we had to pay for disposal"...
As for the IBM Model M keyboards... er..? I'm obviously too young - anyone care to enlighten me?
Asked various charities "we're not interested unless it's a Pentium 4"
- tried schools and various other places to no avail. Eventually found a charity who'd take some kit, and got a bill for £1000 two weeks later, as some of the kit was "defective and we had to pay for disposal"... As for the IBM Model M keyboards... er..?
I'm obviously too young - anyone care to enlighten me?Bloody hell! I hope you told them where to put their bill!
Think I'll do a high speed drive by of the tip and sling it outa the window
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