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Old 31st October 2010, 18:45   #1
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Dispose, recycle old desktop computer?

Title says most. I'm looking for ways to get rid of an old Dell computer, complete with kybd, ball mouse, CRT screen, and tower.

It's running xp pro, and has the following specs:
60GB ide/pata hard drive
20GB ide/pata hard drive
CD ROM drive
Creative Sound Blaster 5.1 surround PCI sound card with a lot of great dsp features and other "sound font" options (includes spdif digital out).
512MB SDRAM (I don't think it's DDR)(2x256 133MHz cards filling 2 of 3 dimms)
Intel Pentium II processor
3.5" floppy drive
motherboard has 2 USB (not usb2) ports and an Ethernet port, on-board stereo sound (line in, mic in, green out), on-board VGA (blue plug) video, parallel port, com port, Kensington lock, ps2 mouse/kybd inputs, and some oldschool bus ports that are longer than pci slots (what are these called?)
pci faxmodem includes in and out phone lines, and mic-in/speaker-out plugs.
200 watt power supply unit
120mm-ish case fan.

It runs Office 2003 Pro (word, power point, excel, outlook, publisher, etc.) and many other rather expensive oldschool office programs like Front Page, Visio, etc. It runs Winamp (even AVS/milkdrop) and Firefox like a charm. Youtube vids even work well on it.

I just don't use it or want it anymore (been over a year since I've needed it - was a garage computer for a while for looking shit up on the net and playing networked music, but I use a slightly newer P4 for that now.

What should I do with this thing?

All answers, serious or not, are welcome.



edit - just looked through it to back up anything necessary. Looks like I already did that job sometime in the past. Best screen resolution for it seems to be 1280x1024.

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Last edited by swingdjted; 31st October 2010 at 19:26.
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