old but new stuff

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/15/2012 02:56 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Vu Pham<vu at sivell.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> A friend of mine, a system administrator, who has a cubicle in my
>>> company, although he does not work for us, becomes seriously sick and
>>> asks us to get rid of all of his computer stuff. They are technically
>>> old, like motherboards for Sempron, Pentium 4, some CPUs, hard drives of
>>> 120G or so, but they look like new. I think they have less value than
>>> the postage stamp to send them out.
>>>
>>> So if you know anyone in Houston who may want them and can stop by my
>>> office to pick them up, please let me know by this weekend.
>>>
>>
>> i think the cost of the gasoline to drive over there would likely
>> exceed the value of the hardware.
>
>
> I know. I just hate to see those stuff thrown away when somebody may need
> them.

anyone who truly "needs" 15 year old hardware arguably has far bigger
problems in their life.