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[NO SPAM]

Years ago, just as PCs were making headway into the market, there were
magazines with ads where companies bought up used PC boards I suppose from
computers, but probably other items as well for whatever reason. Anyone do
this anymore? Any one buy used computer power supplies, disk drives, etc?

Just curious.

NS

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:45:28 -0400, the renowned "NO SPAM"
<NOSPAM@NOSPAM.COM> wrote:

Years ago, just as PCs were making headway into the market, there were
magazines with ads where companies bought up used PC boards I suppose from
computers, but probably other items as well for whatever reason. Anyone do
this anymore? Any one buy used computer power supplies, disk drives, etc?
Just curious.
NS

In many places you have to pay to get rid of them. Lead and all that.
Especially monitors. Whole working recent model computers have some
resale value and there are companies (and sellers on eBay) who do that
thing, as well as sell some parts. For example, I bought a replacement
PII motherboard for (IIRC) $15 US plus shipping for an old computer I
didn't want to retire quite yet.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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[Chaos Master]

In an ADM3A terminal, NO SPAM typed:

Years ago, just as PCs were making headway into the market, there were
magazines with ads where companies bought up used PC boards I suppose from
computers, but probably other items as well for whatever reason. Anyone do
this anymore? Any one buy used computer power supplies, disk drives, etc?

Older PC's are useful for low-end applications where a modern PC isn't needed.

A 200MHz Pentium-I can make a good 'terminal' via Telnet/SSH/VNC [1].

I have a 300MHz Pentium (very silent) as a MP3 player machine, controlled via
VNC.


[1] There's 'Terminal Services' from Windows 2003, but I never used this, and
therefore I don't know if it works with slower machines as clients.
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