[FRIAM] Old Computers and Peripherals

[Steve Smith]

Owen Densmore wrote:
> Santa Fe'ers: Does anyone know where we can get rid of old computers  
> and their trappings?  We have lots of old computer electronics and  
> don't know how to dispose of them.
>   

Put them in the boxes your new(est) computers came in, seal them well 
with packing tape, leave them in your car unlocked at the mall, someone 
else will magically dispose of them for you.

I understand a variation of this was used often during the NY City 
sanitation workers strike a couple of decades ago.  As always, it 
doesn't really solve the problem, it just pushes it off to someone much 
less likely than you to be responsible about it.   Kinda like much of 
our foreign policy.

Or you could do what I do, let it build up in your closet or shed until 
you can't stand it anymore, find a way to dispose of it and 10 years 
later kick yourself for letting it go!  Like that Apple Lisa, Classic 
Color, NeXT, NeXT Color, etc... that I have let go of over the years!

There are projects for recycling computers/peripherals to the third 
world, I have a nephew who spent years helping make our old junk work 
for schools in Africa... I'll see if I can find anything more about 
that... I think they asked a "donation" with each "donation", enough 
cash to  defray the costs of transport, etc... it might have been as 
little as $20/computer/system.   Strange economies we construct, eh?

Good luck...