May 16, 2007...8:17 pm
Things that the everyday folks leave behind
Monday’s donation of surplus or redundant IT equipment was a small but diverse van full of equipment for reuse and redeployment. I have lots to sort out including a large server, 100 wireless access points with pcmcia cards, a largish colour laser printer and quite a few mono laser printers along with my first donation of a flat screen monitor (which may show how far along the changeover to flat screen monitors that we’ve all traveled as 1st and 2nd generation tft monitors are now up for disposal). I also have a number of scanners but no real call for them so will check them over and just give away via freecycle no doubt.A number of inkjet printers will go the same way. Nothing is dumped as I try to make sure that I’m not palmed off with too much broken equipment as that usually costs money to dispose of safely and responsibly.
I’m promised some laptops though laptops (I will not call them lappies) are not my favourite item for refurbishment. Hotly in demand but much more fiddly to turn around especially if some have broken screens, faulty keyboards or missing parts and dead batteries. Usually there is a way of reusing them all in one way or another but I tend to get wary of large donations of laptops due to the unavailability of many of the components. Broken screens are the most common fault.
I am, at least some of the time, the unwanted technology Womble.
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