Sparky Kronkite
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When I recently inherited the "Systems" department here - I was amazed at the boat loads of boat anchors sittin' around collecting dust.
Bunches of 5/6 year old lap-tops. Big-ass clunker cell phones deactivated for years. Puter's that had tuned this yellowy orange color. Cables out the ass.
Now as most of you know - I'm a TV dude, more directly and originally an audio person. Now an old reel to reel tape deck let's say - if it works you can use it - make a pretty damn good recording. Old microphones, speakers, amps - same thing. They can be put to viable professional use. Even old B&W TV's can find some sort of place - security monitoring in a pinch - for instance.
But at the rate some of this stuff, the real digital stuff - "improves" - well, the physical durability of the units far outlive the technical practicality of keeping them.
So what can you do with all this shit? I donated some - but I felt I could only donate the stuff that had some sort of use, some sort of educational value. And monochrome/green CRT's monitors of yore - well - junk? A lot of it's just junk. And get this - a lot of it's so fucking worthless it's inefficiant waste of time and money to even haul them to the dumpster. The shit is that worthless.
Maybe I should invent the - "Data Cruncher" (a play on words or sorts) it would be a shredder for old electronics. Crunches up puter's into little tiny bits. Maybe you could mix it up with Sacrete and pave a drive-way with it.
What do you guys think? Got loads of old boards laying around? Do you scavenge computer parts? Do you have a garage full of old monitors?
Bunches of 5/6 year old lap-tops. Big-ass clunker cell phones deactivated for years. Puter's that had tuned this yellowy orange color. Cables out the ass.
Now as most of you know - I'm a TV dude, more directly and originally an audio person. Now an old reel to reel tape deck let's say - if it works you can use it - make a pretty damn good recording. Old microphones, speakers, amps - same thing. They can be put to viable professional use. Even old B&W TV's can find some sort of place - security monitoring in a pinch - for instance.
But at the rate some of this stuff, the real digital stuff - "improves" - well, the physical durability of the units far outlive the technical practicality of keeping them.
So what can you do with all this shit? I donated some - but I felt I could only donate the stuff that had some sort of use, some sort of educational value. And monochrome/green CRT's monitors of yore - well - junk? A lot of it's just junk. And get this - a lot of it's so fucking worthless it's inefficiant waste of time and money to even haul them to the dumpster. The shit is that worthless.
Maybe I should invent the - "Data Cruncher" (a play on words or sorts) it would be a shredder for old electronics. Crunches up puter's into little tiny bits. Maybe you could mix it up with Sacrete and pave a drive-way with it.
What do you guys think? Got loads of old boards laying around? Do you scavenge computer parts? Do you have a garage full of old monitors?
