386 PC and Components to give away

Does anyone know of an organisation/person interested in a 386 PC with
keyboard, mouse and Seiko monitor? All works except the hard drive packed it
in. The 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 drives worked when I put it away.I'd rather donate it
than take it to the tip. I am in SE Michigan.

 

Check with your local school. I don't know of 386 would go far at all.
If not, maybe a local church could use it? I have a bunch of XT's,
286's and 386 in the garage because no one wanted them, not even
Goodwill or Salvation Army.

 

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What would they do with it? Even a 486 or low wnd Pentium is pretty
useless now. Sell the drives on E-bay and put the rest in the tip. The
PSU, if a 200 watt AT tower type might have value to someone.

 

Strip it down to the bare metal and trash the rest.
Take the metal to the local metal scrap yard.
The old used floppies might be worth saving for your later use if they work,
they are also pretty worthless now, maybe $1.00 max.

If it just so happens to be one of the units with GOLD plated contacts on
the memory connectors or board connectors, there are places that will strip
the Gold of the boards and take the boards for free (saving you the cost of
throwing it away).

David

 

Any stepper motors out of the drives (esp. old HD's) would probably
sell on eBay. Not really worth the effort for the return though.

Rick.

 

Thanks for the advise. To the tip it goes.

 

My experience is that non profits only want 486 or better that will boot to
windows 95 or newer (boot from the hard drive).

Why not call a couple of your local computer shops and see if anyone locally
is recycling? Our main landfill has desktops picked up
for recycling. Smaller landfill sites are only dumping the PC's they
receive.