Just heard over the radio that there will be an e-waste drive at Knoxville's Fairgrounds two weeks from Saturday. And that will be that.

A couple years ago, we inherited a piece of nondescript hardware from the estate of our departed neighbor Otis. Dad had no idea what the black box was, so he had me go through the paces of finding out. It was a satellite receiver box from DirecTV. Since we neither had cable nor a satellite dish it was pretty much useless to us, although it was ( Read more... )

My dad, once again, liberated a TV set on its way to the recycler. This one is a 1991 RCA model built for HOTEL use. Two remotes, with various degrees of functionality. So Dad wanted me to figure out how to reset it so it would work with a converter box ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago (the week before Halloween) I was on a drive and passed by a yard sale and I noticed a camcorder among the offerings. With the switch from tape to DVD format, a lot of tape-based camcorders are out there and unused, and I was thinking if it could be possible to buy one and remove the tape output hardware and replace it with ( Read more... )

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