Death Row...

Errius wrote:

Death Row...

My work has a data centre that has pallets full of rack mount sun systems, like... hundreds of them. All for e-waste... and I can't do anything about it!

Tandy 1000 HX? This came up....

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=218&ad=39748192&cat=& … =tandy&ad_cid=2

That's 2 miles away from my in laws. The only thing....I have enough.

Next 3 months I'm working for a company, already scored the below 😀

Most other places I work are pretty good as well. Saves them having to pay to dispose of it and know any data will be securely wiped. Worst case they may want the HDD and I get the rest.
There is still the occasional place that wont let you just take it, say charities where they don't technically own the equipment, but swapping it out for something similar usually works.
Both cases its usually going far enough up the management food chain but not to far
Store manager or whatever isn't going to risk getting in trouble just giving something away
Upper management who don't really know what it is will just want to play is safe and dispose of it securely
Somewhere in the middle say IT manager are your best bet. They know its worth nothing (from the company perspective) but doesn't pose any real risk if it disappears somewhere.

Chinny, that Dell is a X58-based workstation isn't it?

I'm also starting to see e.g. HP Z400 boards + Nehalem/Westmere Xeons popping up on the local market recently. These systems are moving past the 5-year cycle so guys you better look out for them! Crazy bloody usable things these systems are! 😀

archsan wrote:

Chinny, that Dell is a X58-based workstation isn't it?

Yeh Kinda, The T3500 has the X58 chipset T5500 has its big brother the 5520, Same as the 2 R710's servers its sitting on.
The Workstation and server are so similar hardware wise 1 server has already donated its 2Ghz Xeon 5504 and RAM to the T5500 for some SMP fun...but that's for another thread 😉

I'd hate to say it, but the only thing of any real value is that Tandy.
Don't get me wrong it sucks to see it all go.

Maybe we should all get together and start a recycling company and save this stuff wile making money off what's not worth saving like gx270's and 240's 🤣

As for the setting things out for free, that's works wonders, I do it with scrap all the time.

EDIT:
wow they gave you a CCTV system?

I'm in on that petition if it comes through 😀
Man, that is sad. It stems mostly from ignorance, I assume.
I like the idea of starting our own recycling company 😈 Mwa ha ha! We can suck up all the beige left in the universe and keep if for ourselves! Ahem. Just don't tell the BBB that... 🤣

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A large percent of my retro machines have been "rescues" from e-waste centers. Unfortunately, in the past year every center in my area (Illinois) has been shut down due to lack of funding. The worst part of it all is that people are likely just throwing their old hardware in the garbage now. Far, far worse of a fate than recycling.

All hardware deserves to have a second chance in my opinion, even if it's a "boring" early 2000s Dell box like one of the millions upon millions out there.