[rescue] Electronics Recycling Day

[John Floren]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So my county had an electronics recycling day, and I shed the bulk of my
> PIII systems, because there's really no reason to keep them around (IMHO).
> In that cut-off I included PIII-class Xeon boxes.
>
> I shed
>
> 2x dual P3 Xeon 933 servers (kept one, not sure why)
>
> 2x dual PIII 450 Mhz workstations
>
> 3x 1Ghz PIII desktops
>
> And an orange iMac.
>
> Most amazing item in the heap, a very, very clean flat screen iMac (24")...
>
> I pulled CPUs, RAM, and optical drives (SCSI, not IDE) first.
>
> What would be your 'no question, scrap' cut-off? P4s are still useful (above
> 2.0 Ghz), IMHO.
>
> Lionel
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I wish I had 3 PIII desktops to toss out... somehow, when I actually
*need* a machine (Plan 9 server), I don't have any :(


John
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