I built a computer for a friend almost 20 years ago, and I never thought I would see it again. Well, surprise, surprise, I worked with that friend 20 years later, and he was finally ready to retire.
He brought it into the office so I could back up the decades of information he had accumulated on it.
The computer itself had seen better days, but it still powered up and allowed me to get all the files off the computer. It’s not sitting there waiting to be recycled, though part of me wants to keep it alive as perhaps a file server …