Great news. Not just for the computers but for all the other itms that can
be used. Reusing is a lot more efficient than recycling. There's a
surplus store near here that people drop a lot of old stuff off at. The
store owner leaves it out front and it's free to anyone that wants it.
That's how I got my IBM 5100. $0.00 FREE ! ( I won't make the mistake of
saying that I picked it up :-)
At 02:52 PM 1/6/98 +1100, you wrote:
>At 21:25 5/01/98 -0600, Anthony Clifton wrote:
>
>>
>>> Anything other than 486+
>>> get's melted down for scrap? I'm sorry, but that includes A LOT of
systems
>>> that there are a lot of people that would love to have them.
>>
>>You guys know that I agree with your sentiment 100%. That said, I'd
>>rather see the systems melted down for scrap (assuming it's a reasonably
>>efficient and environmentally safe process) than to see them go into a
>>landfill. I can't imagine how many beautiful systems are rusting away
>>under 3 million tons of garbage someplace. I don't want to see them
>>scrapped either, mind you, but given the choice....
>
>Actually, here in Canberra (which is the capital of Australia, *not* Sydney
>or Melbourne (off topic, but one of my pet peeves, sorry)), I'd much prefer
>they go to landfill. You see, at our local landfills there is a company
>called Revolve that has scavenging rights, and rescues all this stuff.
>I've picked up a Tandy CoCo 3 with box, manuals and some software, a
>Commodore 64 with Datasette, music keyboard overlay, manuals, software and
>box, a Commodore 128, a Commodore 1541-II and 1571 floppy drive,a BBC Model
>B with floppy drive, an Atari 1024STfm with monitor, a Amstrad CPC464 with
>monitor and an Apple IIe with disk drive, all for about $5 to $10 each.
>All of them except the Atari ST worked fine at first switch-on (the ST
>still doesn't work - I suspect a memory fault). I also managed to pick up
>four Vectrex cartridges for $2. It's now got to the point that people
>often drop their stuff off directly at Revolve rather than dumping it at
>the landfill (especially now the local government has instituted a fee to
>dump stuff at the landfill).
>
>Of course, the only problem is that since all the stuff is stored outside
>you have to get to it before the rain hits...
>
>Regards,
>
>| Scott McLauchlan |"Sometimes the need to mess with their heads|
>|Information Services Division| outweighs the millstone of humiliation." |
>| University of Canberra |__________Fox_Mulder_"The_X-Files:_Squeeze"_|
>| scott_at_isd.canberra.edu.au |http://www.canberra.edu.au/~scott/home.html |
>
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Received on Tue Jan 06 1998 - 00:19:54 GMT