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Homeless Wires?
BladesP9 asks: "I'm in the process of moving. As such, I have stumbled upon no less than five boxes of wires and various parts. Everything from PS2, SCSI, FireWire, USB and God knows what. Having forgotten all about this stuff I know I will never be needing any of this again as long as I live. Not to mention the roughly 100 boxes of 10 pack 5.25 inch floppy discs. I could just throw all this stuff away, but I am feeling somewhat guilty about that. Is there anywhere I should look to donating this stuff? It doesn't seem like the kind of thing 'Goodwill' would really get use of, but I hate to throw away perfectly good hardware and media if someone could make use of it. I'm looking for suggestions. My wife has given me until the end of the week to find a home for it or I have to take it to the dump."
A bulk-buy on eBay. Charge shipping + $1.00. Sort by cable type.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
So meet in a public place. Duh.
But then you'd have to go outside. What kind of half-assed geek are you?! :P
Local schools, too, will take in such equipement.
In high school, the director of technology let my friends and I clean out an entire room being used for parts storage. What we didn't throw out we got to take home. Trust me, schools don't want your old shit - they have plenty of their own to deal with.
...and that's all there is to it.
Check in local papers (including the cheap traders), and any local usenet ".forsale" groups.
I advertised twice on austin.general with large lots of "junk", and within hours had several people wanting to come haul it off. One guy traded me a SCSI card and some install help for one of the lots, because he wanted to do something for it.
perhaps you're not married. frequent sex will alter your appreciation of some computer cables.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
I think you misunderstand: it is usually only the single people getting regular sex. As the joke goes: "They've discovered a food that stops women from having sex. It's called wedding cake."