getting rid of old desktop computer with big monitor. help !

[adammusic]

im getting rid of this old hp desktop computer i have. its got a cd burner and intel celeron d processor and a big huge old hunky monitor. no keyboard.

tried listing it on ebay and undercharged for shipping. so i didnt ship it. itll cost like 150$ to ship it.

i was just gonna go throw the monitor in the dumpster but read its bad for the environment.

i found a site to donate but i think its too old too donate.

what the hell can i do with it?

trash it ?

it still works and has windows xp on it but i dont have a disk to do a system restore on it.

 

[appledyl]

You can give it to a computer waste company or a junkyard. Junkyards always take my monitors! heeheehee.

 

[Jason Beck]

Give it to a charity, Catholic, Mormon, whatever. Some needy kid will get it for 50 bucks or less.

 

[fernandovalente]

You may use it as a home server.

 

[solchitlins]

Put it on craigslist.
Maybe some student would like to throw Linux on it to mess around with.

I did when I took a Linux class because I didn't want to mess with putting it on my pc.

At worst put it in the free section as a free on the curb alert.

for example
" I put my old pc on the curb at xxxx, I will delete ad when it's gone"

oh yeah almost forgot.
zero out the harddrive, reformat it at-least. Who knows what personal information is on there.

 

[Zombie Acorn]

I just go to the local recycling center, we just dumped 20 or so computers there last week.