Re: Disposing of a 720 -- MIDRANGE-L

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You can't dump it. The power supplies and batteries in there (big heavy batteries!) contain lots of hazardous stuff. I have accepted several 6xx and 7xx systems at Frankeni and used various components of them as spare parts, others in the creation of Frankie and friends, and then recycled most of the steel, aluminum, and copper. The batteries and such go to companies who can recycle or properly dispose of them.

You're about 100 miles from the FrankenLab so we may be able to make a deal but I usually like to see a few usable cards and drives in there to increase the 'salvage value' of the machine making it worth my while.

- Larry

daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

We've got an old 720 that we've ripped the disk drives out of. As far as what's left (cabinet, cards, power supply, etc.) are there any components that would legally preventing us from dumping it in the landfill? By hazardous I mean anything that might contain mercury or other toxic substances. We've also got an old dysfunctional twinax terminal that needs to go. Is there anything wrong with dumping that too?

Dave Parnin

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