[TriLUG] [OT]proper disposal of old computer equipment

[al johnson]

Well there might be another option!!  On Nov. 16th there is a hamfest in 
Benson in Johnston County, and if the weather is good there will be 
"tailgating spaces" for sale which most people use to sell equipment for 
which they no longer have any use, and they will sell a lot of it if the 
proverbial price is right.  You never know when the junk you have is just 
what someone else is looking for, take ISA modems for example, most people 
would consider them obsolete junk, but those of us in the Linux world know 
better, considering the lack of PCI modems which won't work on Linux.  So 
there will no doubt be someone looking for an ISA modem which will work on 
Linux.
Furthermore, amateur radio operators are people who love turning one guys' 
junk and trash into something they can use for their radio hobby.  So if you 
want to take the time you might be able to get a few bucks back from all the 
computer junk you have.  Even electronic parts can be very valuable--- e.g. 
transformers, and transistors, and lots of individual electronic parts that 
are not broken in non-working computers can be useful to those who know how 
to use them.  

You will have to purchase a entrance ticket and a tailgating ticket for a 
space, but historically these prices are just about $10-15 together (I don't 
know what they're charging this year, but I'll learn this coming Thursday 
night).  Yeah, you probably might not want to waste a day with your junk, but 
if you don't mind wasting a day, you might not have to take it to the 
recycling center. To get rid of it, you have to take it somewhere anyway 
don't you?? 
P.S. Incidentally, the ham club that sponsers this event usually has one or 
more large garbage containers which you may be able to use if you don't get 
rid of what you were trying to sell.  In fact, there is actually a name for 
fetching electronic trash out of a dumpster, it's called "dumpster diving". 
----73  Al Johnson  KQ4FP.
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On Tuesday 14 October 2003 05:49 pm, you wrote:
> The North Wake County Landfill does.
>
> http://www.wakegov.com/county/recycling/households/multimaterialdropoff.htm
>
> Christopher.
>
> --- JoJo Almario <jalmario at intrahealth.org> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of any place around the triangle
> > that accepts old
> > non-functioning computer and computer related
> > hardware for disposal?
>
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