Refurbishing OLD computer or Go for Tiny NUC

I dismantled over 15 computers (Almost All IBM discarded from America) and bought two new PCs one parotable and on ATX tower. Portable one with Windows I gave to my wife. I do not know what happened to it. I never service a Windows PC.

Other ATX with two one terabyte SATS disk is in working order but left it at home.

I migrated to two NUCs one for me and one for my son both booting Linux.

They are cute and energy saving fanlesd computers.

My point is these old computers consume lot of Electricity and indirectly contribute to Global Warming.

Besides with electricity bills going up in Ceylon using these old PCs do not contribute to national wealth an wellbeing.

I somebody gives you an old computer say NO, Thank You.

Yes one of my classmates who was a retired teacher was given an old computer and he did not know how to operate it without an operating system.

I volunteered and fixed a date to install Linux System.

It was bit newer to my fist Intel PC but there was no way to recover it and I told him discard it. I think he put some money on it and but I did not ask.

I asked him to buy a new cellphone which he did and his son lost in a while commuting to Colombo. Could not recover it. Finally I gave one of my old cellphones which I bought in Singapore but never used it for his day to day calls.

This guy was my Dhamma Teacher.

He was pretty good.