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I still see computers in Windows 7. The only people throwing computers out would be large corpos. And the ones in question are already on their way out as they're 5+ years old at this point. (1st Gen ryzen & pre-9th Gen Intel core i)
those sound modern and desirable to me.
maybe we can get those on the cheap and install linux on them?
Look for surplus sales, many large orgs (esp. universities) have them periodically throughout the year. I got a PC for $50 years ago, and it worked, it just wasn't modern.
I recommend at least upgrading the PSU though, since the ones that have tend to suck, and consider getting a new case as well since a standard PSU may not fit and they're certainly not big enough to hold a GPU.
Some friend in college in the 00s got a 4 foot high stack of 3com hubs for like 10 bucks each from the university surplus.
Did they resell them? I can't think of any other reason to buy that many...
Yeah, listed them on eBay if I recall. The also got a switch and a few other things.