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Coming up on hands-on tech, let's take a look at what to do when a computer is so old

that there's really nothing you can do with it except get rid of it.

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Hello and welcome to this spooky episode of Hands on Tech. It is October. Happy October to you.

And today, we are kicking things off

with a question from a lovely listener who wants to know what to do with some old machines.

Let's take a look at this question from Lori. Lori writes, I have had many Macs over the years,

and I need to get rid of them safely. Some are as old as the G3 and G4 and G5,

and one is an IMAQ 2013 that just stopped working one day. I know I could remove the hard drives

from the towers, but the IMA is closed. Is it secure to send the IMA to Apple to recycle,

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