[LUNI] Computer Donations

[Martin Maney]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:41:57PM -0500, Svaldi, Fred E wrote:
> I have a 15-inch CRT monitor.  Does anyone think it has any donation value,
> or should I scrap it?

If you can find someone who wants it, I would suggest you not worry
about whether it's worth ten cetns or twenty cents.  :-/

> Goodwill wouldn't take it.  I was told I could throw it out with the regular
> trash.

In the sense that you might get away with it, I suppose that could be
said to be true.  Please don't, though: monitors are full of fairly
hazardous materials that should be properly recycled.  The annual
splurge of freecycling events was last month, but there are some from
time to time yet if you look around.

-- 
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His informal experiments and demonstrations on "Candid Camera"
showed us as much about human psychology and its surprising limitations
as the work of any academic psychologist.  -- Daniel Dennett