Uh, folks... Please don’t smash your old computers!
There is a lot of life left in even the oldest systems. It doesn’t take much work to take a hard drive from one, a motherboard from another and have a working system that can go to someone who needs one.
My computer is 10 years old, and I’m praying to be able to get another one. Some of these computers I see on this thread — smashed and burning — are newer than mine.
That computer you are smashing could be the answer to someone’s prayers.
Please find some techie who can refurbish your old computer and get it in someone’s hands.
Bless you!
Some of us are already there...half the machines we own are cobbled together from bits and pieces of the previous, and anything not in use is benched for a reason...mobo that blew a cap and let the magic smoke out, another with an IDE controller issue that causes it to eat hard drives.
Ok, so technically the second still boots and all, but it’s been stripped to the bare board for several years now, even if I don’t have the heart to pitch it....I’ve seen it destroy a drive that was in it less than two weeks.
Mine got a nasty virus this afternoon...fortunately my good friend and neighbor is *THE* IT specialist/primo geek for all of Bloomberg’s enterprises. I was afraid we were going to have a funeral.
Thanks JIM! Smooches!!!