[COFF] Re: Typical Fate of Older Hardware

Grant Taylor via COFF wrote in <5ec59010-d848-8adc-9872-7a4e6fb599eb(a)tnetconsulting.net>: |On 7/29/23 6:26 PM, segaloco via COFF wrote: |> Howdy folks, I wanted to get some thoughts and experiences with regards |> to what sort of EOL handling of mainframe/mini hardware was typical. | |My experience disposing of things is from the late '90s and early '00s |and is for much smaller things. So it may very well differ. Around 1990(+ a bit) i worked during holiday for a company which collected old computers, monitors etc from authorities and, well, other companies. Myriads of (plastic) keyboards, cables, etc., it all was thrown into containers (ie rolled down the floor, then blindly thrown), all mixed up. I (a prowd owner of an i386 DX 40 by that time iirc) shortly thought of, you know, but to no avail. I have no idea, i am pretty sure it all went down to Africa or India, where young people and other unlucky then had to pave their way through, as is still mostly the case today, _i think_. Let's just hope they do not have illnesses because of the (likely) toxic interour. (Having said that, i myself also worked for a short time for another company where i was crawling through cable and such shafts, .. without any mask .. Not to talk about waste incinator and chemical industry here (Merck and Rhön etc), they were also filter free, .. and then i was also smoking for over twenty years. How did i end up here now?? I hope i am still from one of those generations which can live a hundred years nonetheless.) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)