<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Ultimately, computers are plastic, beach sand, and a little bit of copper. </div><div><br></div><div>Yes, some of us can remember the original IBM PC XT was $6K of <span style="">plastic, beach sand, and a little bit of copper. </span></div><div style=""><span style=""><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="">Neal </span></div>
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Subject: Re: [ale] what to do with older PC's<br>
From: Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Mon, September 04, 2017 11:51 am<br>
To: <a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>, "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com">savithari@gmail.com</a>>, <br>
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Once my gear starts to fail, I recycle it. The laptops are junk. So is the P5. The remaining 2 machines could be usable baby servers (storage or backup with new drives).<br> <br> New gear has such a performance to wattage improvement the power savings almost pay for the upgrade over the lifespan. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 4, 2017 10:22:14 AM EDT, Narahari 'n' Savitha <<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com">savithari@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div dir="ltr">I am sure you all have faced this.<div><br></div><div>I have 5 machines at home (3 desktops and 2 laptops at home that are lying dumb not doing anything.</div><div><br></div><div>AMD cpu AM2+ BE 2450</div><div>AMD cpu AM2+ (dont know proc name)</div><div>Pentium 5 old CPU based machine, not sure what do even do with this, junk it ?</div><div><br></div><div>Pentium i5 old generation laptop with display taken <a target="_blank" href="http://out.es">out.es</a></div><div>Dual Core laptop, but display not cooperating, works well with external monitor. May be a HTPC or a NAS storage machine (connect all my drives with USB or PCMCIA-esata).</div><div><br></div><div>Any inputs ?</div><div><br></div><div>-N</div></div> </blockquote></div><br> -- <br> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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