Re:Come and Get ‘Em – Storage Pods That Is
by jopsen on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @12:57AM
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Isn't cheap abandoned hardware readily available at most flee markets, garage sales, etc?
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It seems like Europeans recycle their electronics much more thoroughly than Americans.
That makes me a very sad retro geek.
There is lots of recycling and second hand in the united states. I can find a lot of toasters, very few computer parts. If I were to offer my old tech parts, I would get very few people who even knew what they were. In a bigger area like Boston, you can have a healthy exchange, but not in 50,000-people-ville, USA.
I think what you are lamenting is population density in the US vs EU.
You have a point. There are a couple million people in Ireland and one working Tektronix 4014 terminal. I would expect to be a hundred of them in the US, which doesn't seem that far off ;-)
We should have more DEC terminals though. We had a factory in Galway.