[Hudlug] old hardware disposal

Chris Lindley hudlug at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Feb 3 16:03:01 2003


On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:42, Andy Macdonald wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> I've also got loads of stuff I can't bear to skip. I would love to give away to
> someone rather than bin it - including 100s of euro power cables, old machines,
> etc. Don't want to run a stall ...!

Well, if anybody else wants to do something, we could try to dispose of
it too!!

Go on,, who;s for a "HUDLUG 2nd hand market bazzaar type thing!!!" :-)

Cheers
Chris

> 
> On Mon, 03 Feb, Chris Lindley  wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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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