[TriLUG] Good place to get excess equipment?

[David McDowell]

there's precious metals in those PCs if you have a way to melt,
separate and extract and be environmentally safe about it.  I know
places do that in so. CA and make a killing reselling the metals...
dunno if there is one in the RTP area.


On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Scott G. Hall <ScottGHall at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> When I went to the drop-off site for hazardous waste at the North-Wake
> Landfill, there were tons of PC's and some laptops being dropped off.
> You need to go the first Sat. of the month.
>
> Jeff The Riffer wrote:
>> So where's a good place to buy excess equipment? I'm thinking of things
>> like lot auctions, salvage and excess from IT shop upgrades.
>>
>> Specifically, I  want to get a laptop to replace my young daughter's
>> elderly desktop. Since I don't want it for mobility but to save space,
>> I'm hoping to find something with decent CPU and memory capacity but a
>> broken screen or the like so I can get a good deal...
>
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