What do you do with your old system?

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The new beasts arrival is getting closer and closer and I'm just wondering

What the hell do you do with your old computer? Base unit and screen??

I've got an old Dell Tower and Dell screen I deffinately won't need any more!!
 
I sometimes sell parts but some things I keep like PSU and GPU as they are always handy to have spare for troubleshooting :)
 
The previous components, usually motherboard/cpu/ram gets sold on individually after I have replaced them. I rarely ever build a complete new pc as it's usually only these three main components plus the gpu that ever gets replaced. Case, psu, drives etc all get reused. I do however have a complete socket 754 pc that I use for really old games and for backing up my weather station data.
 
Some parts are reused in HTPC, some family takes into new PC build, some resold, many collect dust.

That said I just sold a load of vintage PC's on eBay, some went for the grand sum of 99p each, well at least someone is using them!
 
Usually by the time I replace my stuff they're not worth selling on. I tend to keep them for spares (not that most of it is compatible given the age) and usually end up giving the whole lot to a family member when their even older PC goes kaput.
 
Depends. If I can make any money from the parts, I sell them. If I can't, or there's a particular part I think requires support, I donate said part to the organisation I want it supported on. I've donated a lot of stuff to FreeBSD over the years so various maintainers and people can create drivers for things.

Other PCs I've given to family or friends kids that needed computers for school work and stuff. Recently donated an old tower and monitor to a friends kid who was enthusiastically telling me all about his android phone. And I started telling him about how it runs Linux. "What's Linux". So that got us talking and I said I had an old Linux box I wasn't using and if he wanted it. Old C2Q system with Ubuntu Gnome on it. Now he won't stop pestering me on Jabber. Every time I log in "how do I..." or "why does...". But if I link him to an article or manual page or document he'll read it and understand it no problem.

I miss that feeling of discovering and understanding computers and OS's. Now as an adult they're mostly just tools for work and so ubiquitous as to be nothing more than background noise as opposed to the magical information box that sits in the corner of the living room / in the study.
 
OhEsEcks said:
Recently donated an old tower and monitor to a friends kid who was enthusiastically telling me all about his android phone. And I started telling him about how it runs Linux. "What's Linux".
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Androids phones run android OS which is based on Linux so its not actually true or am I picking hairs.
You can get pure Linux for your Android phone but I am pretty sure he will be using Android OS.
Maybe you still have stuff you need to discover ? ;)
 
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