| I dunno if it qualifies as a "hobby", perhaps more a pastime, but for the last two years I have been kept busy cannibalising and refurbishing old cast off computers to be donated to the needy. My customers range from 7 years old to 93 with the latter being quite a prolific writer of local history books. I also do internet setups and basic lessons for the elderly, there's few things more rewarding than enabling a pair of great grandparents to see their latest family addition in real time, who was born 2000 miles away.
The local recycling service drops off one to three units a week, I give them a quick test and reformat the drives then load the basics, with further loading once the users needs are known. The units not suitable for re use are cannibalised for handy bits 'n' pieces and returned to the recycler. He also has two of my units in his office.
I've also built several cheap but efficient file servers out of excess hard drives for the local history group. And next time you drop and lose that weeny little screw out of your DVD burner, give me a call, I've got squillions of them.
Last edited by senojekips; April 24th, 2008 at 00:39.
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