I just bought a building which had several generations of old computers stored in different parts of it. I collected them all and put in one room which is pretty full, about the size of a bedroom. Also has a main frame. Should I get a highschool kid to strip it all out for me and send to Ewasted or just let some local shop take it for basically nothing? There are no pentiums, sticks of rams or hard drives (tape drives?) but there are plenty of ribbon cables, motherboards and power supplies / line conditioners.
I'm intrigued by scrapping and enjoy this type of work but have a pretty high opportunity cost for my time and am super busy. I need to get the building cleaned out and rented but hate to let this treasure go as trash. What do you think? Given the age, do I need to worry about mercury, lead and radioactive sludge?
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