Used Technology

If you live or work in the Kitchener/Waterloo area and your organization is looking to dispose of any of the following equipment, please contact me (Charles) at The Working Centre's Computer Recycling Project: http://www.theworkingcentre.org/cr/ . Normally we charge to take in any of this equipment because of the recycling costs associated with this equipment, but we're a bit tight on these items and would be happy to wave the fee we'd normally charge. Laser Printers * HP 1100, 1100A Laser Printers (& proprietary parallel cords) * HP 2300 Laser Printers * HP 4200 Laser Printers Please note the condition of each item (whether it's working or not -- we still might accept non-working models of these printers for parts). We're also looking for working notebook power supplies for the following models of notebooks: * Thinkpad A31

At The Working Centre's Computer Recycling we offer computers with Ubuntu Linux installed (System Unit, Monitor, Keyboard, power cords, mouse, everything you need to get going) from $30+. Systems start at PIII 600MHz with 256MB RAM and a 10GB hard drive, basic, but enough to get started. So far we've been doing stock installs of Ubuntu 8.10, which leaves me customizing the distribution by installing things like codecs, autologin, etc. I've been working on setting up a Drupal portal for volunteers to learn to do these things. Once the portal is done I'm going to make it available both in our remaster of Ubuntu and here online.

A couple of volunteers from The Working Centre Computer Recycling Project and I started a podcast, Tech Data, last Saturday after the shop closed. The first episode I put out myself a few weeks ago, but last week, John, Andrew and I got together and recorded a second episode. I've managed to edit about half the podcast. The second episode should be out by Saturday. Check out the podcast here: http://www.charlesmccolm.com/podcast/

The other day I met with other members of our organization's IT crew and it occurred to me that Computer Recycling was short on some items that might seem plentiful in today's environment. Our most wanted list goes something like this: Clean USB Keyboards Clean USB Mice SDRAM and DDR-SDRAM in 128, 256, and 512MB configurations Hard drives 10GB and larger An oscilloscope for the shop HP Laserjet 2100 and 2300 printers Working speakers with all parts If you have any of these items available in the Kitchener/Waterloo area please contact us as per the link below: http://www.theworkingcentre.org/at/comp_recycling/comp_recycling.html