Too good to throw away

Nope, no need, there are a few that see the beauty in old PC parts.

Perhaps making the wife new shoes.

I thought up to this point that you were referring to the top of a desk, and was wondering why you would put its case in a bin.

What have you done to disable it?

DerbyBorn scribbled

Rather than bin so much, you could offer the comp to a charity that can reuse it -

The real cost in doing that is the time to wipe the hard disk to a really good standard. It's far easier just to hit it hard with a big hammer.

Even an old PC may be able to run a lightweight OS. RemixOS is a version of Android that may be interesting.

Very new, so I guess the alpha means you would be testing it.

The official release is out:

Having decided out desktop is no longer needed and it wasn't worth passing

I did the opposite. I found the case of my old desktop PC was made of heavy enough gauge steel to use for fabricating a repair panel for my Land Rover foot well. It folded and welded nicely:-)

Mike

Or run DBAN on it.

GB scribbled

A load of bollocks. There are plenty of programs that can be used to wipe a hard drive, for free - Crap Cleaner for instance. And exactly how many people get a hard drive in the hope of obtaining the secrets of some unknown previous user. It's yet another myth probably coming from Seagate, who's drives were known to spontaneously fuckup if there was a D in the day.

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Not as someone who appreciates good engineering, no.

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Takes too long. A linux boot CD and

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4M

is how I do it.

Or when I was on La Palma, playing 'toss the rock' with it. Outside. It was strangely satisfying smashing up a drive that had actually dared to fail on me.

They're quite stylish actually. I hope they have twinkling LEDs. :-)

Pull the hard drive to bits, it has a super dooper magnet in it.

If it is ok stick it on Ebay. Someone will buy it.

Well, some of them do.

I once took a printer to bits. It was extraordinarily well made.

Got it out. The case of the hard drive was also beautifully made.

No ... but you need to get out more

BTW .. what interconnects wonderfully took a long time to evolve .... I have printers with Centronics parallel port .... DB15 serial port .... USB .... Ethernet

There you go 4 different types of plugs and cables - just for a printer

Two. USB and ethernet are all you need.