I’ve justed had a ‘trash out’ of my room and have aquired an extensive and useless collection of CD-ROMs. The type of CDs you are given ‘free’ with computer magazines packed with games and utilities to use on your PC. What am I to do with them. Shall I just trash them or keep the more colourful ones and use them as coasters? I’ll probably keep some of the CD cases as I have some music CDs that are without cases. Can CD-ROMS be recycled I wonder? Sorry for talking a load of dribble.:rolleyes:
Anyhow. Blah Blah Blah. No one would want them anyway.
i sold a bunch of used old demo games on cd that come with game mags on ebay once.
I sold 25 CDs full of games for $15US.
my wife has a daycare that love old useless cds. they usually have the cds paint on them and hang like a mobile.
I can top that. I found an old storage box full of 5.25" floppy discs from Computes! PC Magazine. My old 386 is the only 5.25" drive in the house. I checked them all and they all work. These range in age from 11/87 - 10/89!!
The only semi-neat game on them is Laser Chess. You have a regular chess board with angled mirrors and a lser beam.
oops. i mean…
they usually have the kids paint on them[cds]…
i actually have some old 5.25’ disks for my apple ii.
5 of them. but there’s no way to test them.
odyssey was my favorite along with summer games.
I still like my solar furnace idea…
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Old CDs (CD-ROMs and music CDs) make very good splash guards for small men.
(Or so I’m told. It’s not possible for me to have any first-hand experience about this subject.)
You could always microwave them and make cool looking fractal patterns on them!
If you get really board, you can snap one in half, take it to your IT person and tell them that it was the last backup of the project you were working on and if they can help you get the data back.
If you play it just right, they will feel so sorry for you. Then later they’ll tell your co-workers what a wanker you are. Then when your coworkers tell you what the IT person said, you can go, “duh! I so played him/her!”
I mean if you get like, really really bored!
-Sandwriter
Old geezer voice
CDs! Floppy Disks! Luxury!
Ee. When I were a lad, I 'ad cassettes, I did! They made screechy noises, they did, and if you ‘ad bad cables connectin’ to yer compooooter, you 'ad to begin again, sometimes up to ten minutes per load!
Cassettes? Ah, but we had it tough! I’ve got paper-cut scars from punch-cards!
Well, not really.
My mom hangs 'em on the trees in the front yard as Christmas decorations. She also uses them as reflectors on some strings of big Christmas lights.
Plus, of course, numerous coasters. But they also make good, practically unbreakable travel mirrors and they’re not bad for catching candle drippings either.
I use one as a shaving mirror in the shower. It’s light, shiny, I can hold it on one hand and if I drop it, no pointy shards near my bare feet.
I found that 19/32 inch (Sorry, US measurements) K&S tubing makes a great ‘spine’ or ‘spindle’ for a stack of old demo CD (the fit is very tight, so you get a nice friction fit - you may want to epoxy the top and bottom CDs to the tube though). Stack enough (say 30-40+), and you have a decently heavy enough base to support light artwork, or holder for photos, bill holders, or keys (what I made), or a small lamp (run the cord through the tubing), etc. I guess you could make a candle/tea-light holder too, although I’m not certain that’s a good idea.
Note I also added some buckshot in the tube (sealed, of course), just to be certain nothing tips over.