Too many computers!?

OK, Powered all the machines on today.

The Pentium 3:
NEC Direction; 300MHz, boots into Windows 98.

The Pentium's
Dell Dimension 466i, 66MHz
P5-166, 166MHz
Packard bell Executive Multi-Media, 120MHz, boots into Windows 95.
Compaq Deskpro XE 560, 60MHz
Hewlett Packard Vectra VE, 133MHz, boots into Windows 95.

Problems:
EvenshamVale; Wont power on
Viglen; Powers on but wont output and image
Compaq Presario 9230, Boots; "Disk controller Failure"
Compaq Prolinea 3/25s, Boots; "601 - Diskette Controller Error"
(3 of the same model below)
Compaq Deskpro, Boots; Beeps; no image.
Compaq Deskpro, Boots; Makes a funny noise (Like windscreen wipers) - no image
Compaq Deskpro, Boots; Makes a funny noise (Like windscreen wipers) - no image

So i have 6 useable machine at the moment and others will minor faults. :P
 
Personally I'd get rid of them (skip), perhaps keep the hard disks, floppies, cdroms, CPUs and RAM (might come in handy or perhaps a pc repair man might take them off you for about £30 for all of them)
 
1. Give them to charity. However, you'll find that most charities are rather demanding of the hardware they'll accept as donations!

2. Freecycle. There's bound to be someone out there who'll take these off your hands. Just make sure they have an honest use for them. If it looks like they'll end up doing #4 below, move on to #3.

3. Recycle. Your local refuse centre will have a section where you can leave these to be recycled in an environmentally friendly manner.

4. Throw them out? No! These need to be recycled. (I think it might even be illegal to dump them in the trash?)
 
For every one of you suggesting selling them online, consider

1/ cost to post a desktop computer
2/ value of these computers
 
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