Linked by Richard White on Tue 15th Mar 2005 11:21 UTC
My basement is like a mortuary with the remains of computers all lying in state, waiting and hoping for a new lease on life. But what is there to do with the K6s, the Celerons, and Pentiums of the past. It seems nothing short of a miracle would bring these ghosts back to life.
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Unless he's keeping the computers in a pool of water which he then pumps into the drinking supply, it's not a toxic waste dump.
Old computers have their places in devices like the Linux Car GPS system, Car mp3 players, mp3 jukeboxes, home-made arcades, stand alone devices such as CNC or vynl cutting machines, Electronics workstations & microcontroller programmers, headless internet terminals, hometheater PCs (higher spec ones), Backup computers attached to printers in case the main one goes down and you need to print a thesis on why you should junk old computers, home automation, home made WWW-viewable security systems.
If you're buying a new computer to use a web browser and MS Office, that's pretty silly.