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Pc compatible hardware: what should I do?

DaRkHoRaCeDaRkHoRaCe
edited January 2013 in Chit chat
Hi,
I've got a lot of old motherboards with socket 7, rams, ethernet cards, power supplies, graphic cards , cpus, power supplies ,fans etc(all the immaginable stuff).
Some of them work, some no.
Is there a way to recycle the components to do something new? Or to cannibalize some stuff?
I really don't know what to do with these boards... I put aside many years ago, but I'm thinking of disposing all.
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  • fogfog
    edited January 2013
    the ISA slots can be used to make spectrum edge connectors IF you have any. PSU's a few people I know use to power other bits besides pc

    depends where you are, there is always freecycle .. use it as a file / printer server etc.
  • ^m00h^^m00h^
    edited January 2013
    You may install lightweight linux, or Win95/98/FLP on this old harware to use it like typewritter, or oldish server.
  • guesserguesser
    edited January 2013
    put them all in cardboard boxes taking up space? That's what I do with all my 66MHz Pentiums etc :)
    My rubbish website including the redrawn Amstrad schematics and the Sinclair Wiki.
  • spiderspider
    edited January 2013
    I took a load of stuff like that to the local council recycling (tip) as it did not seem worth doing a lot with it.

    Some of it I'd had for years and years. Ebay seemed far too much hassle at the time.
    Please visit the JetSet Willy & Manic Miner Community
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited January 2013
    you've seen weird science, make a bimbo
  • Jumping StackJumping Stack
    edited January 2013
    thx1138 wrote: »
    you've seen weird science, make a bimbo[/QUOTE

    :D

    sfs sfs sfs
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited January 2013
    thx1138 wrote: »
    you've seen weird science, make a bimbo

    I thought you needed a Memotech MTX512 for that?

    http://starringthecomputer.com/appearance.html?f=7&c=7
  • DaRkHoRaCeDaRkHoRaCe
    edited January 2013
    fog wrote: »
    the ISA slots can be used to make spectrum edge connectors IF you have any.

    Fine. One good idea.
    fog wrote: »
    PSU's a few people I know use to power other bits besides pc

    depends where you are, there is always freecycle .. use it as a file / printer server etc.

    I don't know how usefull may be a file or printer server. I don't print to much..
    There aren't freecycle groups near here :( .
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