What to do with old OS install media?

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Published on 2009-12-07T00:31:56Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 13:51 UTC
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I'm doing an end-of-the-year clean up and found some old OS install media - Mac OS X 10.3.5, Windows 2000, Windows XP. It seems wrong to just throw them out but they can't have a home with me anymore.

Is there some place I can donate them to? Anyone know of anyone collecting this stuff for posterity?

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