that seems like it will be almost completely true. i would imagine that such a system would make the somewhat educated drunk driver who knows how to disable the system much less likely of getting caught than he is now.
if you are certain that you will never again use them, donating them somewhere would be a great idea, but i cannot imagine that the tax benefit would be much. i know that if i had those kinds of parts around, i would simply add a few more and build two computers - not necesarily for me, but i know lots of people who could use one.
i do most of the computer work for my uncle's small law office and i havent yet gotten rid of anything that works, with the exception of maybe some old ( 200mb) hard drives. everything else eventually gets used. i have a few relatively new machines where the cdrom drive went bad and was replaced with an 8 year old 4x cdrom.
last time i had parts like that around, i built a computer for my brother. it is a 266, but even running windows, it is as useful and almost as fast as my fathers 1.2 ghz for internet and word processing use, and even a few games.
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that seems like it will be almost completely true. i would imagine that such a system would make the somewhat educated drunk driver who knows how to disable the system much less likely of getting caught than he is now.
if you are certain that you will never again use them, donating them somewhere would be a great idea, but i cannot imagine that the tax benefit would be much. i know that if i had those kinds of parts around, i would simply add a few more and build two computers - not necesarily for me, but i know lots of people who could use one.
i do most of the computer work for my uncle's small law office and i havent yet gotten rid of anything that works, with the exception of maybe some old ( 200mb) hard drives. everything else eventually gets used. i have a few relatively new machines where the cdrom drive went bad and was replaced with an 8 year old 4x cdrom.
last time i had parts like that around, i built a computer for my brother. it is a 266, but even running windows, it is as useful and almost as fast as my fathers 1.2 ghz for internet and word processing use, and even a few games.