Poll: What do you do with hardware you no longer use?
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Yesterday we participated in our neighborhood’s garage sale. I sold an old cell phone for $8 and a working SNES system with two carts for a mere $7. It pained me to part with my beloved SNES, but I knew that I was just hanging onto it purely out of nostalgia – that I would never use it again.
I have an unusual attachment to old gear that makes getting rid of old hardware really tough for me to do. (I still have my Colecovision, pictured above.)
What about you? What do you do with old hardware you’ll never use again?
Answer the poll above and share your thoughts in the comments below.
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William 'Shaggy' Chrapcynski
April 17, 2011 at 9:29 amI want your Colecovision! :) That’s one console I miss terrible and don’t have in my collection. heh
kaitou
April 17, 2011 at 9:36 amThe problem I have with old hardware is that it is so old, nobody wants it. This is why my basement is better known as “the Computer Museum.” To give you an idea, I have an old IBM AT, Sun 3’s, Sparcs, Primes, MIPs, Convergent Technologies (186 based), various terminals and an ASR-33.
qka
April 17, 2011 at 9:47 amI’m not a gamer, so old consoles aren’t an issue.
Old computers are. I hold on to them in case there is something on it that I didn’t transfer to the new computer. Years later, they’re still around.
My wife is worse. She teaches. She has Mac System 7 and System 9 era apps she uses in her classes, she saves even more old computers to be dragged out once a year for a particular lesson.
The local Chamber of Commerce has an annual collection of old electronics, to be properly disposed of/recycled. Old TVs, VCRs, and phones have gone there.
Jenn
April 17, 2011 at 12:20 pmI tend to give all of my unused consoles and dead computer parts to people who I know can build Frankenstein machines.
Lee Cherolis
April 18, 2011 at 8:25 amYou need more choices in the poll. specifically, I need an option that says: “Keep it because you don’t know what to do with it.
Also, “Just too lazy to throw it out.”
I would fall into both of those categories.
Dave Bergschneider
April 18, 2011 at 11:37 amIT is so easy to become an electronics hoarder. I had my old consoles for years before I finally sold them. Computer internals are always difficult because you never know when you might have a project or someone in need so they just sit in a box somewhere and forgotten about. I typically like to purge all of these items when a move occurs and either give them away or recycle. Trash is always a last resort.
docstar
April 18, 2011 at 4:09 pmThe SNES went the way of Goodwill. The PS2, an old TV and an old PC, monitor, and printer went to my brother. The N64 found it’s way onto eBay, as did the PSP and an XBox 360. Got another monitor that is in the accumulating Yard Sale pile (although I did try to give it away first). Got another old PC that I hung onto to use as as a media center thing, but that never panned out as it’s too old to be useful. Would most likely try it at the yard sale if I would ever get around to getting the old data taken care of.
But cables, I could never part with a cable. I don’t even know what half the ones in “the box” are for…