Can old computers be economically refurbished?
• No. It is not economically feasible to refurbish old systems. • First, as computer performance levels continue to improve, today s advances usually cannot be installed on older machines. • Second, as operating systems improve, they usually will not run on older machines. • Third, as application software advances, these new, more sophisticated software usually will not run on older machines. • Finally, there is no way to economically cleanse data from old computers; it is much less expensive to pay to destroy the machine and re-cycle the materials, than it is to cleanse the data from an old system that may not even find a new home.
