Thread: Gotta love technology

What kidn of hardware are we talking.
Network hardware? Servers? Storage? Workstations?

I tried to take twenty-five or thirty boxes of old computer junk, including working adsl modems, routers, etc. to the auctions. None of the local auctions houses would have a bar of it. I gave it to Reverse Garbage in Marrickville, and was grateful that they didn't ask me to give them money to take it.

One piece was my first laptop, cost me $1500 secondhand in '96.

Simon

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

I tried to take twenty-five or thirty boxes of old computer junk, including working adsl modems, routers, etc. to the auctions. None of the local auctions houses would have a bar of it. I gave it to Reverse Garbage in Marrickville, and was grateful that they didn't ask me to give them money to take it.

One piece was my first laptop, cost me $1500 secondhand in '96.

Simon

Five years ago a mate bought an entire Honeywell main frame system including 24 monitors at auction for $60. He wanted the disk drives and storage devices which are apparently industrial quality and of enormous capacity, and three huge monitors which he told me were ground glass screens and probably cost over $5000 each when new and are usually only found in muilitary and air traffic control applications etc. He designs and writes custom software, does analysis and debugging of other peoples. Most of the rest went to the tip.

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

One piece was my first laptop, cost me $1500 secondhand in '96.

Simon

I briefly worked as a maintenance fitter for a large company in Sydney that had the first private sector computer in Oz. It took up several floors of a city building, had its own electricity sub-station, and an engineering staff to maintain its support systems. The computer floors were air-conditioned. The only air-conditioning in a corporation which employed over 3000 people. Your $1500 laptop would have had greater capacity.

It was a machine for printing and labelling CD's.

There are mobs out there who'll take computer gear away and recycle it. I deal with one who do it at no cost, as they can recover their costs through the sale of some gear, and stuff that has no value is processed by Simsmetal, again at no cost.

Reverse Garbage in Marrickville is where I took a bunch of stuff to.

Dunno how long that is going to last with them, they were innundated with old computer gear. Just in the last year Leichhardt Council has stopped taking electronics or computers in their hard rubbish pick ups and now the whole Inner West is scrabbling to find somewhere to get rid of all of that junk.

Simon

Not sure of the regs here, but in the UK companies have to send circuit boards etc to have certain metals removed. There is a company that collects for free, I guess they make their profit from the scrap copper and gold?