Personal computing discussed
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BIF wrote:People with too much junk ... end up with garages they can't walk in. Forget parking a car!
BIF wrote:My last two computers did not use floppy ribbon cables, parallel PATA cables, or removable PATA drive bays, so the next community garage sale attendees will have lots of my old mercury-laden equipment to choose from.
Starfalcon wrote:Well I have a lot more than 6 boxes of stuff in my place.
ludi wrote:Now that StarFalcon has the Super7 box,
While I appreciate the value your perspective adds, nobody was making this particular argument.
You think have any recycle value?
Yes -- the glass face, the metal and plastic elements of the frame, and the battery are generally designed to be readily disassembled for recycling.
Scrotos wrote:Old case covers typically are. A few screws and it's one sheet of metal bent in 2 places.
just brew it! wrote:Scrotos wrote:Old case covers typically are. A few screws and it's one sheet of metal bent in 2 places.
Yeah, but that's not one of the pieces with toxic materials in it, so the fact that it is easily recyclable matters less.
It is just completely wrong to state that any part of them is "readily disassembled for recycling"
derFunkenstein wrote:Man it's fun to reminisce, but there's no way I'd want to actually USE any of that old hardware in a productive manner today. 486SX with 8MB of RAM on today's internet? Scary. A Macintosh SE for a modern publishing gig? No way. They're just relegated to playing old games nowadays.
Scrotos wrote:just brew it! wrote:Scrotos wrote:Old case covers typically are. A few screws and it's one sheet of metal bent in 2 places.
Yeah, but that's not one of the pieces with toxic materials in it, so the fact that it is easily recyclable matters less.
I disagree for two reasons. First, why is there a relative value to iron versus lead?
Chrispy_ wrote:Heh, Final Reality was a product of Remedy's game engine which spawned an offshoot project under the guise of MadOnion called 3DMark; You may have heard of that before somewhere
It stopped being fun, but I used to go back and run Quake2 timedemos every time I upgraded, also Aquamark which eventually just started crashing (probably an x64 issue).
just brew it! wrote:Scrotos wrote:just brew it! wrote:"Old case covers typically are. A few screws and it's one sheet of metal bent in 2 places."
Yeah, but that's not one of the pieces with toxic materials in it, so the fact that it is easily recyclable matters less.
I disagree for two reasons. First, why is there a relative value to iron versus lead?
The relative value is in keeping the lead out of the waste stream.