What to do with ancient electronics?

[blackrain]

I ran across a PCMCIA CompactFlash Adapter Card (Kingston) with a Kingston CompactFlash 8mb Storage Card. What do I do with something like this? Is there a market for this? Or should I just call my city to find out if they will recycle this? Hello 1997.

 

[Mixolydian]

Trash.

 

[lxskllr]

There might be a market for the adapter. Not sure a 8mb card is useful though.

 

[aarontpx]

Not sure a 8mb card is useful though.

You can fit like what...1 high rez digital photo on that?

 

[phucheneh]

http://www.memory4less.com/m4l_item...3&origin=pla&gclid=CJygmePwy7YCFQvnnAodsHEAcA

That was my first Google result.






...however, all the following results lead me to believe that there was, in fact, not any kind of ridiculous shortage of adapters for old expansion slot to old memory card. So I doubt yours is worth anything.

But it is definitely not useless. Still a lot of CF cameras out there. SLR's used it for the longest amount of time. For a reason I do not know, most continued to use it even after SD became a universal standard for point and shoots.

And laptops still sometimes had PCMCIA slots (usually in addition to PCIE) when Windows Vista came out. I think they're pretty much dead as of Win7, though.

 

[Leros]

Wait for electronics recycling day and recycle it.

 

[phucheneh]

Throw it in a ditch.

Yep.

 

[Franz316]

Your county might come around different days of the month and pick up electronics. Look on their waste disposal website.

 

[blankslate]

Wait for electronics recycling day and recycle it.

^this

At least some of the materials that make up the items are recyclable.

 

[phucheneh]

You can recycle garbage into other garbage.

I'm all eco-green and shit.

 

[MaxPayne63]

Throw them in the trash along with your dead CFLs.

 

[OverVolt]

Throw them in the trash along with your dead CFLs.

Its more compact to smash all the CFLs first.

 

[Mixolydian]

I'm all eco-green and shit.

Whoa, badass! The most important thing is to make sure everyone else knows it!

 

[dawp]

ancient electronics to me means something like one of those old tube radios that takes a minute to warm up.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Trade it in at BestBuy. They were giving $5 for any piece of electronics a few weeks ago.

 

[lk2500]

Best Buy will take most of that stuff at the Customer Service desk. Check their recycling page.

 

[jaqie]

you might get $5 plus shipping through ebay or craigslist. Barring that, find an ecycler bin to toss it into.

I regularly work with systems as old as 386, so I do know what the old stuff can be worth.
For example, 4MB 30 pin simms can get you $5 a piece or more. a 386 motherboard bare can get you $30 plus shipping. a vesa local bus video card can get you $20-120 depending on which one.

 

[dabuddha]

God I'm such a hoarder of electronics. I've got boxes full of old computer parts in my basement that I haven't been able to get myself to dispose of yet. Hard to let go!

 

[IronWing]

I send mine to Ghana.

 

[Saint Nick]

I give a lot of stuff away on CL. Just gave away a nice Gateway and Dell desktop last night

 

[blackangst1]

Wait for electronics recycling day and recycle it.

And it'll end up in Ghana. Very disturbing article and video.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

But it is definitely not useless. Still a lot of CF cameras out there. SLR's used it for the longest amount of time. For a reason I do not know, most continued to use it even after SD became a universal standard for point and shoots.

It's (even now) still a lot faster. Hires photos = bigger files. RAW photos = biggerer files. So the faster your disk I/O, the faster you can take the next shot.

A Class 10 or better SD card will do the job, though.

It's only been fairly recently that I've started noticing high end cameras without CF.

 

[manimal]

ancient tech belongs on the history channel

because!

 

[PrototypeZ]

Get enough stuff together and sell it to a scrapper or a scrap yard that accepts e-waste. Other alternatives are processing it yourself, but you need a crap load of stuff to get a meaningful return.

Tons of parts have some gold, silver, platinum group metals, copper, etc. There are ways to strip boards, contacts, and various parts to get good yield. Then process the waste and recover the precious metals.

 

[Slew Foot]

Find some hipsters.