Sure, we don't have to destroy every 5260 in the name of progress -- but we also don't need to preserve every Mac ever made, purely because they're Macs. That's just like saying we need to preserve every Dell computer ever made, purely because they're Dells.

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Crush all the CRTs you want - we definitely have a glut of those. Most of the time, pallets of monitors only go for $5 or $10 each on the auctions. Get some metals out of those.

We are talking about entire useful computers though - you can use them to type and draw and e-mail and maybe even a little bit of web browsing, you can play old games on them, if someone just takes the time to load a bit of software you can have a super cheap useful computer! The Power Mac 5xxx, used to go for so cheap that I could buy a pallet of them, with keyboard and mice and power cables and sell ENTIRE systems for $5 each, with AppleWorks or something like that loaded on them, useful system you can buy for spare change you have lying around. A useful computer, that's a lot better than a bunch of crappy metal, or even worse the computers going to India or China so little kids can breathe in some f'ked up smoke.

I have the knowledge and desire to take the Power Macs and make them into useful systems that people will gladly buy and enjoy, but instead this recycler is buying them up so he can make $5.