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Kramden would be my suggestion if you are in North Carolina, USA: http://kramden.org/donate-a-computer/

I'm in California. Used computers are used to prop up open doors ;-)

Since you're in California, you may have good luck contacting Green Citizen: http://www.greencitizen.com/locations/

Depending on how one is to interpret the "donate" verb; whether it should be to a charity that will use them, a charity that can sell them or just to not put them in the landfill.

Yes, thank you. Recycling is the default place they will go if nobody takes them. A pity - they are very well built and have decent specs. I was hoping they might still work for somebody.

I think there are a couple of moving parts to that request: shipping is a real thing (at least the servers that I've touched are not something I'd want to put in UPS), a facility would need racks and a place to keep the noise away, plus staff that are used to dealing with rackmounts, and finally the eternal problem of connecting with the audience who haven't read this post.

In some ways, giving(?) them to an e-cycler that puts them on eBay is addressing that last problem, it just robs you of the tax write-off.

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