Is it wrong to pull out
bits of old PC's that are on their way to silicon heaven?
i have 4 PC's (and 1 spectrum), which 2 of them are older that are mainly used for the internet. i often get donated a PC that is too old for any real use, but i find myself pulling out Floppy drives, RAM, NICs and even graphic cards such as the Voodoo or GeForce ones. the RAM and graphic cards aren't that reusable, so am i starting to become a hoarder or do others find themselves doing the same?
i have 4 PC's (and 1 spectrum), which 2 of them are older that are mainly used for the internet. i often get donated a PC that is too old for any real use, but i find myself pulling out Floppy drives, RAM, NICs and even graphic cards such as the Voodoo or GeForce ones. the RAM and graphic cards aren't that reusable, so am i starting to become a hoarder or do others find themselves doing the same?
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or cut the isa connectors for speccy connectors ;) hehe
if you get a really light version of linux, you'd be surprised what could still be used online.
But I still keep doing it.
Edit:- But now I get rid of most stuff through Ebay. Even if I get 99p starting price, i'm happy it's not gone to Larry Landfill.
The hoarder in me wants to keep stuff, but the way round it is to consider ebay as a lending library:- sell, and if you need it again later, you can always buy it back as someone will be selling something similar.
want a laptop to be given me next tho cos i dont have one :(
the missus talked about buying the kids a laptop next instead of the older desktop they now have, if so think ill nab the desktop back stick it under mi desk and use it purely as an emulator pc connected to this same monitor and get one of those switch thingys for changing pcs to use the same keyboard, mouse, monitor
I have my main pc, 2 laptops, 1 dedicated dos pc for old dos games, a pc hooked up to my bigscreen tv...etc
so why do I keep all this other crap? Dunno but I still don't want to throw it again heh.
The missus is reaching the end of her tether though. She recently had me get rid of several incomplete base units I had dotted around the house. The thing is a mate of mine who works in the trade said he'd take them in, because they recycle them. He's worse than me though, and drove round with them for the best part of a year in his boot, before stashing them in his own garage!
I'd much rather carboot the stuff away, ebay it for a pittence, or give it away than I would throw it in the bin. At my last car boot sale as seller, I was giving away hardware come the end, i.e. sound cards, CRTs, PCMCIA cards, modems, older memory,CD Rom Drives, ZIP drives and disks etc.
Like others have said my wife hates it, though last year I had a purge and when she last said "When you going to get rid of your crap in the loft", I was able to retort actually 70% of those boxes and containers are yours. I suppose the reputation must have stuck.
i got a digital TV receiver that has a USB port for taping the programmes. so i got an HD docking station and stuck in a HD that was too dodgy for the PC, but perfect for taping the TV.
i was also out at a friend of a friends house who just got a broadband connection and while she was on the phone to the help guy for an hour they could not get it working. i had a quick look and saw there was no NIC on the mobo, so one of my spares came to the rescue. i'd only love to know where she had stuck the CAT5 cable while talking to the phone help.
i think there is an element of nostalgia when i look at these devices, especially the Voodoo cards, but the trick is not to let it get out of control. i hate to through out working electronics, but silicon heaven is waiting for them all in the finish. which happens to be that recycle centre up the road?
no not just you!
Phew, I thought it was just me being weird, lol
YOU PERV !!!!! :p
Yep, my first reaction was "no, that's what you should do". ;)
Switch thingys:lol:
I've been using a cheap (?17ish - now ?20) KVM I bought from Maplin Electronics for the last two years and would now be lost without it (secondary box - media server - has HD caddy to accommodate one of the 7 HDs that hold our media files).
and while we are on the perv train the KVM is ideal for hard switching, but realVNC is what i use to control a PC over a network. ideal for controlling the porn sites that children have a knack of finding.