Re: Re: [OT] Gateway Monitor Repair

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

I'm with you on that one Keith - that's why I've still got Socket 7
motherboards, and P90 CPU's floating around in my spares bins!  I still had
a half-dozen 486 PC's in the loft until about 18 months ago... (They still
working OK Ant?)

Paul G.





>From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] Gateway Monitor Repair
>Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 13:33:23 -0000
>
>Sometimes I wish I was a criminal !
>
>I dont even dispose of stuff that partially works or could work.
>Thats why I own so much crap^H^H^H^H potentially useful stuff !
>
>Last year I gave a mono video to the guy who changed the heads on my
>Nicam machine. It wasnt worth anything and kept throwing a drive belt
>off (probably just needed a new belt) but I didnt want to chuck it in
>the skip. I figured that he could either, sell it, scrap it, or use
>it as a loaner when people had their video in for repair.
>
>What really annoys me is that a couple of months ago I dumped 2
>monitors that would only run VGA because I needed the space and
>wanted to run at SVGA minimum. Since then, the SVGA monitor that I
>use for working on PC's has died so I am now short of a monitor.
>
>See.... I knew I shouldnt have got rid of them :-(
>
>Keith "SkipDiver" Doxey  :-)
>
>
>
>--- In ukha_d@y..., Scott Crowther <scrowther@i...> wrote:
> > Not only is this sad, it should be deemed criminal if they fully
>work.
> >
> > I know various charities and community groups who'd benefit from
>these
> > things, not to mention recycle-IT.
> >
> > shame, real shame...
> >
> > Scott
> >
>
>


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