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A Different Way To Recycle Old PCs

Posted by timothy on from the better-than-most-modern-art dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Glasgow based artist Sandy Smith has some slightly different suggestions for what to do with those outdated PCs and Apple Macs -- build your home out of them! Photographs of his work; rooms and structures made out of up to 100 (switched-on) computers and other equipment can be seen at computersforart.org/create/; these should be of interest to anyone who has a habit of collecting old (working) computers, or just hates the thought of throwing out their old 486 friend."

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  1. Junk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    It looks like my basement.

  2. call your own cell phone to find it by BinLadenMyHero · · Score: 2, Informative

    So just connect to it and:
    while true; do printf "\a"; sleep 1s; done

  3. Re:You wouldn't need a heater... by argent · · Score: 3, Informative

    This may only be one case, however many more people keep old, old computers running for no reason, using up alot of electricity that doesn't need to be used

    How much electricity does it take to make a new computer to replace them?

    Not to mention that when I switched from a new 1.7 GHz PC to a 400 MHz half-decade-old Mac my room became much cooler in the summer. Older computers may well use less electricity than newer ones.

  4. Re:Queer eye for the... by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 2, Informative

    You stole that from bash.

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