A LOT of 30pin SIMMS, what to do with them?

[Choralone]

We were cleaning house at work today and came across a box full of 30 pin (approx 100) and about 10 72pin memory chips. Most of the 30pin ones are 256K to 1MB chips and the 72pin chips appear to be 1-4MB each. Obviously they're not worth much if anything at all and I have no idea if they're actually good or not.

What should I do with them? I don't want to just throw them out, and I'm not interested in 100 keychains. Any other constructive ideas? Anyone ever built anything neat ouf of old SIMM's?

Apparently these memory chips came from a round or two of upgrading that was done at the company before I came on in the summer of 98. It was policy then that ALL company equipment had to be kept for X amount of time no matter if it was worth anything or not. Apparently over the years a lot of stuff that wasn't bad but also wasn't needed was put away, forgotten about and is now useless. I've already taken a mini cargo van full of junk to the landfill to be recycled/disposed of properly.

Ideas?

 

[Utterman]

You could have a mini SIMM chip fight and have the cleaning crew pick them up.

 

[shiner]

They make pretty cool sparkle effects when put in the microwave for a few minutes...

 

[JC]

Keychains, or landfill.

 

[Sukhoi]

See if you can take them to one of those computer recycling centers. I know my country does it once or twice a year.

 

[DaveSimmons]

eBay and/or FS/FT sets of 4 x 1MB 30-pin and 2 x 72 pin -- someone setting up an old 386 or 486 could use the memory, and any 72 pin EDO could help someone upgrade an old P1 or K6 before passing it on to a relative. You won't get much, but you'll keep them from being wasted.

 

[Choralone]

The eBay thing had crossed my mind, but that would probably be more work than it's worth. I'll probably end up recycling them after keeping a couple for keychains.

The landfill here has a pretty cool recycling program. A business can recycle paper, cardboard, glass, metals and such for free. But they also take monitors, printers, fax machines, laptops, boards, PC's, and more. The rates are reasonable too for businesses $1 for an inkjet printer, $11 for a monitor, $1 for a whole desktop or laptop, $1 for a regular fax, $6 for a laser fax or laser printer and misc parts are free. The director of the recycling program told me last time I brought a load over that the landfill as a whole has been able to use 40% less space on the average since they put the program in place. That's a pretty big chunk if you ask me. Best of all residential recycling is free, provided you bring most things in to them (although one can call for bulky waste pickup too).