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dhoelzer

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Does anyone care about a Dell 4300 Pentium 4? How about a Dimension 4600 P4?

If you want them and want to pay to have them shipped (or pick them up on Shelter Island, NY) let me know. Both work, of course.
 
try a private thrift store.. not goodwill, they don't set out older PCs since they have a deal with Dell taking them away.
a private store will allow some young kid to be able to afford them & tinker..
 
i have two private thrift stores that i visit regularly and they sell computers (but do not accept CRTs) -- it may vary from store to store
goodwill accepts pc-anything, but Dell takes care of the recycling/e-waste, no PCs go on the shelves of my goodwills.
 
Our Goodwill had a poster on the window "computer recycling drop-off" but I brought some stuff in there to recycle, they said they don't accept computer stuff. So I was pretty confused. Not sure what was up with that.
 
That's really weird.. I have recently taken bad & empty chassis & CRTs to goodwill. -- they don't set them on the shelf no matter how good they look.
I know a guy who took-in 14 CRTs to googwill.. covered in a layer of filth & dust from sitting in a mechanics storage garage.
 
Several of my local thrift stores won't take CRT monitors, and I imagine that that discourages a lot of donations of the rest of the computer stuff as well. I've seen less and less show up barring the period when LCD monitors started getting popular of course.

I imagine these changes in policy will eliminate a lot of otherwise nice hardware as they head to recyclers.
 
It's something to do with EPA regulations and fines for disposing of electronics with hazardous material (CRTs are loaded with lead in the glass and some part of the computer or monitors have mercury). So it's more of a liability instead of being overwhelmed with hundreds of unwanted or broken CRTs that they'll end up having to pay $5 or $20 to dispose of legally they just say they won't accept them. e-waste is a huge problem with all the throw away electronics being made today. Cell phones are a huge problem just themselves for the same reasons.

Have you tried posting them on your local craigslist though? One day isn't very long to get responses but since they aren't vintage but are huge I'm not sure how much interest you'll get :-/
 
Where I live Goodwill takes PCs / CRTs for recycling. They resell LCDs / TFTs / LEDs, mice, joysticks, keyboards and boxed cards. Best Buy takes PCs / CRTs for recycling as well as does the town junk yard. St. Vincent de Paul sometimes sells vintage laptops and the occassional LCD / LED / TFT.
 
luvit said:
That's really weird.. I have recently taken bad & empty chassis & CRTs to goodwill. -- they don't set them on the shelf no matter how good they look.
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And yet they have piles of CRT televisions.

That's just evil.
 
barythrin said:
It's something to do with EPA regulations and fines for disposing of electronics with hazardous material (CRTs are loaded with lead in the glass and some part of the computer or monitors have mercury). So it's more of a liability instead of being overwhelmed with hundreds of unwanted or broken CRTs that they'll end up having to pay $5 or $20 to dispose of legally they just say they won't accept them. e-waste is a huge problem with all the throw away electronics being made today. Cell phones are a huge problem just themselves for the same reasons.

Have you tried posting them on your local craigslist though? One day isn't very long to get responses but since they aren't vintage but are huge I'm not sure how much interest you'll get :-/
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Yeah, I think in some cases the phosphors themselves are slightly radioactive or carcinogenic, so it's probably best those don't end up in the groundwater either.
 
I once heard a panic about all that phosphorus getting into the groundwater from discarded CRTs. There's no phosphorus in CRTs....

St. Vincent de Paul here has computers and all related peripherals for sale when they get them. It's great.
 
KC9UDX said:
I once heard a panic about all that phosphorus getting into the groundwater from discarded CRTs. There's no phosphorus in CRTs....

St. Vincent de Paul here has computers and all related peripherals for sale when they get them. It's great.
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Not phosphorous, but there are plenty of phosphors in them. ;)
 
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