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You have two options: donation and recycling.

If the parts work, there's quite a few organizations that would like to ship your old components to places like West Africa for all the GN's there and so on. The trick, however, is to use it to write off some REALLY hefty tax deductions -- your old 386 is still worth the $3000 you paid for it in the eyes of the IRS :)

Links to donation places can be found here:

http://www.wastecap.org/wastecap/commodities/compu ters/compdonations.htm

But if they're broken, and you don't feel like giving away dead parts to cheat taxes either, recycle them and make a few bucks. Here's a list of places:

http://www.microweb.com/pepsite/Recycle/recycle_in dex.html

You have two options: donation and recycling.

If the parts work, there's quite a few organizations that would like to ship your old components to places like West Africa for all the GN's there and so on. The trick, however, is to use it to write off some REALLY hefty tax deductions -- your old 386 is still worth the $3000 you paid for it in the eyes of the IRS :)

Links to donation places can be found here:

http://www.wastecap.org/wastecap/commodities/compu ters/compdonations.htm

But if they're broken, and you don't feel like giving away dead parts to cheat taxes either, recycle them and make a few bucks. Here's a list of places:

http://www.microweb.com/pepsite/Recycle/recycle_in dex.html

Hahah, they have a section on their site for donations:

It's difficult for us to turn people away when ... Some of the items the Museum can no longer accept include:

• IBM PC
• Commodore 64

I guess they put this section on their website for a reason, right? Do people really think a C64 is that old? Speaking of Commodores, a nice C64 emulator for Pocket PC's was recently released. (It runs great on an h5555 iPAQ - It's been providing me with hours of entertainment... oh yeah, Archon II: Adept) /nostalgia

There was a useful link in this section on finding local PC recyclers: There's even one in Seattle that recycles, repairs & redistributes old computers to local nonprofit organizations. Very cool! Sites like this need more publicity.

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Odds are good that if you're anywhere near a metropolitan area, there's a place that will recycle your old PC. Further, in many states it's illegal to just throw an old PC out on the curb. It's not only your ethical duty, it's your legal obligation to make sure this stuff doesn't wind up landfilled.

There's several good resources on the net to help locate computer recycling centers. My favorite though, by far, are the good folks at the Alameda County Computer Recycling Center. The only bad thing I can say about them is that their front page won't render under Netscape 4.7 because of bad table code.

If you're looking for a list, there's a good one buried in the shitty graphics at this site.

PEP National Directory of Computer Recycling Programs

You can go there to see what options you have on recycling computer parts in your area.

A State, National and International Directory of agencies
that facilitate donations of used computer hardware
for schools and community groups.

Computer Recycling Center accepts for Donation drop-off, ALL computer equipment of ANY age and ANY condition, working or non-working. We charge a small REUSE FEE for older items.
Our Mission is to promote the highest and best re-use of computer equipment, and recycle the unusable items to keep them out of our landfills.

Also there's the arsDigita Foundation which sponsers a prize for web service designed by high school age students and aDUni, a tution free computer science program. (Since I am an aDUni, this is a bit of shameless begging/advertising, but so far it has proven itself a very worthwhile program.)

http://www.microweb.c om/ pepsite/Recycle/recycle_index.html. This is not the most updated directory, but most of the organizations listed should still be around.

From the: It's-too-darn-cute-to-throw-away! dept.

There has been for awhile an effort to create "Computer Shelters", lists of people willing to take in and house computers that were no longer wanted by others. This is still a large effort, and I urge you if you have interest in this to sign up at one, or all of, the shelters available. It doesn't mean that you have to take any computer offered, but it does get your name and contact info out there to people looking to give computers to a better home.

Some of the shelter members use the computers themselves around the house, others clean them up and repair/upgrade them and then give them to charitable causes, relatives, etc. Apparently on the east and west coast a lot of shelters have given away compact Macs to a lot of kids who think they are the greatest! It's good to think that this older hardware is up to something good.

Here is the list of available resources that I know of dealing with Abandoned Computer Shelters, etc.:
Jessicat's JMUG Shelter List, although this is down right now, you can view the cached copy HERE
Tarsi's Abandoned Computer Shelter List
California Computer Recycling
Share the Technology
No good reason to throw them away when they're wanted! :)

PEP maintains a National/International Directory of Computer Recycling Organizations.