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.

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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).