Old P.C., what to do with it?

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Margie

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Hi all,

I have an old P.C. at home. It has windows millennium with an older version of microsoft office. Consists of: tower CPU, large monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers. The computer is functioning fine - it is just old and we don't use it as we have a new modern PC. I can't seem to give the old PC away never mind sell it. My question is, is there some charity etc. that anyone can suggest would be interested in taking it? I cannot justify dumping it.

Regards,

Margie.
 
There's a group that send old PCs to Africa - will do some digging and try and get you the details. They'll pick it up from you too.

Sprite
 
before you just hand it over to someone - you might want to take out the hard drive and destroy it - for a security point of view. unless you use some type of block eraser any information stored on the disk will be recoverable.
 
You could ring a couple of your local schools and see if one of them would like it for a classroom.
 
Camara will love this - I got rid of an old (and perfectly functioning) Pentium III recently. They have minimum specs that are outlinged on their website.
 
I contacted Camara a few times asking if they were interested in some old hardware that I had but they never bothered getting back to me. :(
 
Margie said:
....My question is, is there some charity etc. that anyone can suggest would be interested in taking it? I cannot justify dumping it....
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The reality is that hardware becomes obsolete and then no one including charities want it.
 
ClubMan said:
I contacted Camara a few times asking if they were interested in some old hardware that I had but they never bothered getting back to me. :(
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Just drop it around - they are open until 1pm on Saturday. They took my machine, as well as a few graphics cards, CD-ROM drives, etc.
 
aircobra19 said:
The reality is that hardware becomes obsolete and then no one including charities want it.
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They have minimum specs - Camara seem to be pretty organised. The work shop is churning out 100's of PC's for devloping countries. The employees / volunteers seem to be pretty dedicated, and will chop and change machines to get them working. They only requrie a minimuim spec for word processing, etc.
 
before you just hand it over to someone - you might want to take out the hard drive and destroy it - for a security point of view. unless you use some type of block eraser any information stored on the disk will be recoverable.
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Well at least destroy Windows ME. No one will want that.
 
quinno said:
Just drop it around - they are open until 1pm on Saturday. They took my machine, as well as a few graphics cards, CD-ROM drives, etc.
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If they can't be bothered replying to emails then I'm not that inclined to support them. Thanks all the same.
 
This man advertises on DublinWaste.ie in the Wanted section. I contacted him and he took our 10 year old computer.You have to deliver to him in Tallaght. He repairs them and uses them for spares.
Phone: 0863573571
Email: [email protected]
 
Or to look at it another way, you help pay for the costs to deliver your old PC to a worthy cause.
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Not quite - depending on how low the spec is, you pay more:

Please note: If your computer meets only some of these minimum specs, e.g.
a Pentium 3 with only 128Mb of RAM, Camara can still accept it, but an excess
charge will be required to cover the cost of upgrade.
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