[Ipg-smz] Recycling CDs & DVDs

[Ken Gagne]

> (But if somebody knows otherwise, name that recipient!)

Hit up Jason Scott <jscott at archive.org>, freerange archivist at the Internet Archive. For a long time, he was collecting AOL CDs. If those trifles have value, then surely something in Tom's collection does as well.

I trust the IA to keep them out of the landfill, too.

-Ken

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, at 10:43 PM, Daniel Dern wrote:
> 
> > On 1/16/19 8:13 PM, Ken Gagne wrote:
> >> If the discs have non-confidential information (i.e., they're commercial in 
> >> nature), you may consider donating them to the Internet Archive.
> 
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2019, Tom Henderson wrote:
> > Technically, some of them are licensed products. And there's over 2000 of 
> > them, easily.
> 
> The same suggestion might be made wrt the Computer Museum and/or other 
> tech object archives... but that in turn requires, if nothing else, 
> triaging software discs from data and junkers, which, I'm sure, is itself
> a large thankless effort, and even then, odds are no archive will want 
> said large batch. (But if somebody knows otherwise, name that recipient!)
> 
> 2nd prize: We all send our old CDs/DVDs there :-)
> 
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