Old Tivos still in demand

[dougo]

I posted a message to FreeCycle last night offering my old Phillips brand Tivo series 1 (30 hours). Within minutes I had a response, and I've gotten about 10 more responses since then. (I've been trying to post TAKEN messages but they haven't been going through. I guess the moderator is out.) I'm really pretty surprised; it doesn't have a lifetime subscription, so you'd still have to pay the $12.95/month to use it for more than just time-based recording. And the Series 1 is not really supported by Tivo any more, so if you want any new features you'd need the Series 2. And you can get a factory-renewed 80 hour Series 2 from Tivo.com for free with a subscription. But apparently there's still some demand for just a plain old manual digital recorder. So if you're planning to unload your old one, you can probably get a few bucks for it.

I also have a couple old PCs to get rid of (and a 14" CRT monitor), but no one seems interested in those. I figured at least the CD-ROM drives and the cases would be salvageable. Anyone know where/how to donate old PCs in the Boston area? I could bring them to the MIT Flea but I don't really feel like sitting around at a table.

Comments

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Good to know. I may want to (or worse, need to) replace my Series I.

You may want to look into donating the old computers to schools. You don't have anything like FreeGeek out there, do you?

[suspect-device1.livejournal.com]

send them to me ; )

[nosrednayduj]

What does "a 14 inch CRT monitor" mean? Could I hook it up to an old PC running windows 95? We have a 15 inch monitor for the kids PC, and some day it might break. Most of their games run in VGA mode anyway so it hardly matters the size, and bigger is silly looking.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Yep, it has a VGA cable. I can bring it into work on Monday if you want it.

[cubes.livejournal.com]

The series 1 units can be hacked in many interesting ways that the series 2's cannot (that's why I'm hanging on to mine despite its fried modem).

[dianamp04.livejournal.com]

I know a way the school I used to work for got computers was through the National Cristina Foundation, they accept donations, though I dunno if your computers meet the minimum requirements. It says they have drop off places in every state, but I don't know if the one around here is convenient. https://www.cristina.org/

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pointer. Looks like they only take Pentium II and later, but maybe they'll take my mystery box.