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Sp0rAdiC · 08-31-2006, 01:21 PM

I'm looking for some old, used towers, like the title says. I don't need anything special, in fact I'd prefer if they were the dull beige oversized towers. I don't care what's in them, but the bigger the case is the better. I've looked on eBay and craigslist and I'm not having much luck. Does anyone have any advice?

maleficent · 08-31-2006, 01:24 PM

check out freecycle.org - when I closed our office, I got rid of a bunch of old cpus and monitors and other assorted crap... was cheaper to give it a way than it was to have a disposal company come in..

cyrnel · 08-31-2006, 03:28 PM

Keep watching craigslist.org. The upgrade/replacement phenomenon seems to go in waves. Definitely helps to check the larger areas if they're near enough to you.

Psycho Dad · 08-31-2006, 05:45 PM

Check local mom and pop computer stores. My father-in-law gives them away after he has had them piled up for five years or so..

kofspades · 08-31-2006, 06:06 PM

We have a University surplus store that sells old computers for cheap. You might try to find one of those.

Sp0rAdiC · 09-01-2006, 03:26 PM

Wow thanks for all the suggestions, I'm living near UVM so there should be several areas for me to go. Thank you!

08-31-2006, 01:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
Sp0rAdiC Insane Location: VT	Where to get old used towers? I'm looking for some old, used towers, like the title says. I don't need anything special, in fact I'd prefer if they were the dull beige oversized towers. I don't care what's in them, but the bigger the case is the better. I've looked on eBay and craigslist and I'm not having much luck. Does anyone have any advice?

08-31-2006, 01:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
maleficent Junkie Moderator Emeritus Location: Chicago	check out freecycle.org - when I closed our office, I got rid of a bunch of old cpus and monitors and other assorted crap... was cheaper to give it a way than it was to have a disposal company come in.. __________________ Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

08-31-2006, 03:28 PM	#3 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	Keep watching craigslist.org. The upgrade/replacement phenomenon seems to go in waves. Definitely helps to check the larger areas if they're near enough to you. __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

08-31-2006, 05:45 PM	#4 (permalink)
Psycho Dad Mulletproof Location: Some nucking fut house.	Check local mom and pop computer stores. My father-in-law gives them away after he has had them piled up for five years or so.. __________________ Don't always trust the opinions of experts.

08-31-2006, 06:06 PM	#5 (permalink)
kofspades Crazy	We have a University surplus store that sells old computers for cheap. You might try to find one of those. __________________ Even if you stop the clock, it gives the right time twice a day. Once we get out of the eighties, the nineties are going to make the sixties look like the fifties.

09-01-2006, 03:26 PM	#6 (permalink)
Sp0rAdiC Insane Location: VT	Wow thanks for all the suggestions, I'm living near UVM so there should be several areas for me to go. Thank you!