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Google electronics recycling. Where I used to live, the county had a free e-cycling event twice a year, and a private company recycled free on Saturdays. The rest of the week, they charged 45 cents per pound.
I just helped my brother recycle a tv near Phoenix; they charged $1 per diagonal inch, so $40. Yikes, I would have shopped that out a little more.
This thread is funny to me because I recently spent time and effort trying to have one of these huge heavy monster TVs removed from my 80 year old friend's house. Her kids bought her a 43" flat screen so the monster set had to go. She could not give it away or get anyone to haul it away. It took 2 men to move it and they almost busted a gut.
I can move my 32" TV by myself. Thank goodness for thin flat screen advancements. We do need a means to recycle the old sets though
Progress. My microwave and dishwasher have faster processors and more memory than a first generation IBM PC from 1981. The most memory you could put in the original PC was 256K. 64K on the motherboard and expansion slots for three 64K memory modules. A 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 is laughably slow.
Our first "real" computer. And I put more than 256k in mine using add in boards and some finicky-as-the-dickens software. 512k when I was done. No hard drive, but I eventually added a Seagate 20MB. 20MB! I was in heaven.
Taught myself Basic by creating a library program to track our books. It kept us from buying doubles. Taught myself Assembler, Fortran, Pascal, Lisp (AutoCAD), C, Cobol, etc.
Ended up managing over 200 computers world wide and setting up the first network at the company where I worked.
Then I started a one man computer consulting company and made a lot more money.
If you are in or near a large-ish town check their recycling facilities. Many now have a place where you can bring your electronics.
We have got rid of multiple VCR's, DVR's, phones, TV's, and all other stuff like that. No questions asked. Of course, you have to be able to heft them up and get them there.
If you are in or near a large-ish town check their recycling facilities. Many now have a place where you can bring your electronics.
We have got rid of multiple VCR's, DVR's, phones, TV's, and all other stuff like that. No questions asked. Of course, you have to be able to heft them up and get them there.
Where we used to live you could be charged as much as $50 depending on what the item was.
Where we used to live you could be charged as much as $50 depending on what the item was.
Wow! Ours was free - and so it should have been; they got money for all that stuff, sold it to some foreign country or something who yanked all the goodies out of them and got rid of the rest.
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