[Hudlug] old hardware disposal

Chris Lindley hudlug at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Feb 3 16:01:04 2003


On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:29, Chris Lindley wrote:


Alternatively anybody with a faster cpu than my duron 750, or a better
soundcard than my ISA SB16 can come and have the lot!!! :-)


> I've loads of bits and pieces of oldish hardware that I want to get rid
> of.
> 
> Basically I would like to make room, but perhaps make a little bit of
> cash on top! (added bonus!  Beer money as am poor impoverished ex-PhD
> student!!)
> 
> Now there's a few cases, few monitors, cdrom drives, floppy drives, old
> hard drives (a few scsi), scsi tape drives, mobo,s cpu's, loads of
> cables etc...You get the gist!!  Probably enough to build a few low end
> systems.
> 
> Now individually there's not enough value to get rid of on eBay or
> something like that.  So has anybody got any suggestions.
> 
> I though a car booter or perhaps a market stall for one sat/sun? In fact
> if anybody else has lots of stuff to get rid of, do they fancy going
> halves on a market stall on the Hudd 2nd hand market on one saturday?
> 
> Or realistically, do you think that it would nto be worth the effort,
> and just to trash the lot (am reluctant to do this, as it's not exactly
> envirmentally friendly, and after all I am a tight-arsed
> Yorkshireman!!!)
> 
> Cheers
> Chris
> 
> 
> PS, if anybody is after something, email me, and if I have it, you can
> have it for the price of a pint!!!!  (...or if it's a cable, perhaps the
> price of a pack of pork scratchings!!)
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  Chris Lindley                                  
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