This pilot fish has a side business of helping home users set up their new PCs, so he often ends up with the unwanted older machines to dispose of.

And that’s fine with his mother-in-law, who runs her church’s annual fundraising carnival. “For many years, I’d spruce up one of these systems and donate it to the carnival’s ‘white elephant’ silent auction,” says fish.

“Part of the donation involved my setting up the machine at the sale to make sure everything was working OK, so they could demonstrate to potential bidders that it was working just fine.”

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