Computer Graveyard?

[Amarkarian]

im looking for a large amount of free computers, i live on long island and can drive anywhere on long island, ny. Is there someplace that large offices dump there old computers? i want to borg them and run them in my basement as a project. anybody have any ideas?

[sno.lcn]

I would love to find something like that too. The closest I have been able to come is here http://www.liquidation.com/

[Amarkarian]

yeah but i didnt meen one on the net, becuase theres shipping, i wanted absolutely free computers i could dump in the back of my car and bring to my basement

[sno.lcn]

lol that would be nice.

[Amarkarian]

i was looking at liquidation.com. it would be interesting if we made a group purchase, and and split it up, becuase 75cents per mobo is pretty good!

[dz_jad]

either that, or buy them all, and sell them...
it'd be easier that way.

[King Warg²]

check out your local city dump.. sometimes they will have a section of it just for pc electronics, and you'll be amazed at what you'll find that actually still works. i'v heard of people finding working p2's and p3's that all they needed was a hard disk or something. Just give the yard keeper a few bucks, tell him your looking for scrap computer parts for some experiments, and have a field day.

[sno.lcn]

Nice tip. I'm going to have to check that out too!

[Amarkarian]

my local dump has a special area for that kinda of stuff that can still be used, but it isnt covered so when it rains............................. my dad works for a large firm and has emailed his tech guy to look into a graveyard near long island, ill keep u updated

[King Warg²]

meh you'd be surprised, i had a Dell laptop given to me that was on fire and had sat in a dumpster through rainstorms for a week or so, after getting carbon out of the chips and cleaning off the rust, it actually works...

[enhanced]

Might try a newspaper ad, I have seen them before for gold recovery.

[Amarkarian]

what is gold recovery?

[veryhumid]

a lot of computer recyclers will try to get any of the metal off pcbs and everything to sell.

computers get trashed, stripped down and recycled, or sent to a country that doesn't have computers let alone good ones. I don't think you will find anywhere with free computers sitting around. However the recycling part costs money, that's why you see them on liquidation. they are trying to actually get a little money instead of paying someone to take them all and process them.

[michaelpi]

when you get old cpu's and stuff and take the gold conectors off and sell them

[Adak]

Thoughts on liquidation or dump computers.

Wouldn't be too hard to wind up with a roomful of "heaters", burning a lot of electricity, and barely able to fold a handfull of points per day.

Might be fun and all, but it could turn your family against any further efforts to put up a really capable farm in the future. :bang head

And of course, the liquidation lots that are labelled as "Salvage", I'd be surprised if many of those would boot, at all.

Adak

[ghettocomp]

Might try a newspaper ad, I have seen them before for gold recovery.
what is gold recovery?

I tried to do that once, Time consuming &/or expensive & dangerous. Plus there are not a lot of pallets of elextronics that actually have recoverable gold in them any longer. Most big elextronics manufacturers have ways to recover gold from buggered elextronics and reuse it.

Clipping off gold connectors and visible gold parts will result in hours of work only for a couple of dollars.

The real gold is inside certain parts, but require almost as much work, as well as knowing the chemical extraction methods for removing and collecting the metal. Plus buying the chemicals in large enough quantity to do that now could probably result in a visit from those Homeland Security dudes :shrug:

[sno.lcn]

I'm pretty sure you have to have a good bit of scrap(even gold) for it to be worth very much.

[CJ-5]

I tried salvaging the gold from electronic circuit boards before. I was given a barrel full circuit boards to develope a technique and see if it was worth the trouble.

The gold plating isn't much more than 1 molecule thick, having a place where you can play with chemicals costs money too and with todays regulations it's just not worth it. You'd be better off spending your time working at the local convience store. You'd make a lot more money for the time spent and it would be a steady income.