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Hi. Requesting some advice, if I may. Not Linux related I am afraid, and I am sure most of us have this problem, but for me it is getting out of hand: I have quite allot of laptop/computer/TV/networking related odds and sods, mostly pretty crappy, but I don't want to scrap it if I don't have to, though maybe you will all think that is exactly what I should do.
I have 4 or five bags brimming with power cords in all sorts of sizes, CAT5, laptop and phone powerpacks and chargers, some TV and audio related cabling + a few mice and a couple of keyboards, and a few more bits and bobs.
Also, for a while I would buy broken laptops on eBay and fix them and sell them. Well that was years ago and what I have left now is pretty dated: three or four motherboards (god knows if what work), some laptop shells, three or four screens, many RAM sticks (mostly DDR2), a few CPUs (mostly Celerons), probably a few IDE HDDs, some gubbins, like HDD brackets, etc, batteries, etc, etc, etc.
I also have a working and really old Toshiba Satellite SP600 that will run BSD but not Linux. And a working Inspiron 1300, that I actually ran myself and so is âspecced outâ, so to speak â as it is laughable now: Highest resolution panel available, 2GB of RAM, USB3 ExpressCard and the fastest Intel processor that would fit the motherboard (I think something like a Pentium M @ 2.10GHz).
Right, so I guess the laptop related stuff is all to old to be worth donating to any project that might actually use any of it, so should I just take it to the tip? ;( Though all the cabling et al is still good of course, if anyone wants to pick it up near Exeter ...it's handy stuff. Whenever I come across some gizmo I can usually hook it up and power it on after a quick rummage.
Anyone is welcome to the two working laptops.
I hope I don't annoy anyone by asking this here. Clearly the LUG is not Craigslist or something, I just thought as it is a local group who are obviously interested in computers, if someone could get some value from this stuff and was close enough to make pickup worth it, that would be good. Perhaps it could even be a valid function for this list: LUG gear-cycling. Or perhaps I am off-base.
I would hold onto to much of it myself but I am going to be in uncertain accommodation for a while.
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