This just makes me sad :(

[som99]

Well when i walked home a few days ago I saw this in the ditch of the road and made me a bit sad why throw it away when u can give it all to me
//som99 (proud member of the CrK)

[Linchpin]

Proberbly didnt work... mine dont any more!

Still sad tho

[Wilse]

A metaphor for the current Amiga situation?

[som99]

Sorry for adding this offtopic message now but Wilse I like your name if its Robert same as mine

Well this picture just shows me peoples disrespect for the nostalgic amiga

[coldfish]

I hope you put it in a recycle bin.

 :-)

[sir_inferno]

coldfish wrote:
I hope you put it in a recycle bin.

 :-)

don't you mean "trashcan"  :-D

[odin]

Aaaaw :-(.

[Tatsu]

Yes, people in general are strange. I found a fully working 128D in the wasteyard. I visited it regulary a period on my life, the electronics section that is. My 28" stereo TV , stereo tranciever and my 19" monitor all came from the dump too, all fully working.
At my work, they have decided to exchange several old monitors with tft ones. Many of them are high quality 21" I asked if i could have one, but NO. They where going to destruction, nowhere else. I can't understand what's going on inside such a persons head. And here in Sweden, companies must PAY to throw electronics away.

[rdolores]

Perils of prosperity. People always want the latest and newest, even when what we already have is more than enough for our needs.

I haven't purchased a new computer since the early 1990's, partly because I've been waiting for a new Amiga.  But also because I changed careers to the IT field. Since then, I have always been in a position where I am responsible for getting rid of what the companies I'm working for consider obsolete, usually equipment that is about 4 years old here in the U.S.

I've given out over a hundred computers (I've lost exact count). And I've kept a couple dozen for myself. Except for some classic Macs, most of them have been WIntel machines. I've converted several of them into Amigas using Amithlon and WinUAE (Amiga Forever) because that was the computer that I've had the most fun with. I've saved a lot of money by opting out of the computer rat race of having to upgrade every 3 or 4 years.

Also, here in the States, we have something called Craigslist.com. You can go there to your locality, and into the computer section, and type "free" in the search field to see what people are giving away. A five-year old computer is still modern enough to do anything you need to do today except for extreme gaming.

[Tomas]

Yes, people in general are strange. I found a fully working 128D in the wasteyard. I visited it regulary a period on my life, the electronics section that is. My 28" stereo TV , stereo tranciever and my 19" monitor all came from the dump too, all fully working.

I am like you there... My last pc was basicly built from trash. My laptop that use all day i also found and the only reason it was throwed out was that it had been replaced with newer systems. I also found my monitors which was 19-21" like for example a sony trinitron 21", a Nokia 447Xpro and so on..
I also found 2 brand new proson speakers a year or so ago, which was apparantly thrown out by a electronic store called Siba. One of them had not even been packaged out while the other one had a small cosmetic scratch in the wood, which was hardly noticable at all. I sure as hell would have had no problem buying it for a small discount and i dont know if i would even have complained if i had bought it for full price.

I also know someone who work at a recycle center and you wont believe what he picks with himself home. What he found most recently was a fully working 32inch lcd tv, a Toshiba sp6000 laptop "1.2ghz pIII with 256meg ram" and a projector that has only been running for somewhere between 300-400 hours. The problem with the laptop was that the cable going to the lcd had loosened and this was fixed in less than 5mins.

Why not sell this for a discount or give it away to someone needing it?

I have only found one Amiga though... And that was a a500 with an a590 disk"sadly no psu, so the a590 is unusable for me so far" The a500 was fully working but the memory expansion seemed to have died from battery leakage.

[alenppc]

There is only one thing you can do:

find two Windows 95 floppies (or any version CD-ROMs), crush them and throw them next to that poor floppy as an act of revenge. ;-)

Over here people haven't started throwing away 19" monitors yet, most of them are 14" and you can usually buy them for $5-10 at secondhand stores... Would be nice if I could replace some of my old monitors with 19" ones though, but I suspect I will have to wait a few more years... :-)