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Ooh! I've always wanted to buy up busted units auctioned off on ebay or something and try to make the best unit I can out of the scrap. That would be fun. If only I had more room in our garage then I might be able to... Actually there is the boat-garage/workshop-y area that has plenty of room. But I also don't have a job rn... So...

I see a little problem with this experiment of yours. The brony community is a bit different from many other communities out there, and even more alien compared to a broad population. Been in the fandom for years, and there's a constant amongst grown up bronies and pegasisters; we are a bunch of geeks who have from a decent to a good amount of knowledge regarding computer science. Veteran bronies are more prone to know at least how to program in at least 2 languages (which also implies they know some basics on computer resource management). If you "time travel" back to 2011, you'll be surprised at how many different games were produced by one-pony dev "teams". Many of us had made a game or two back in the day even if it was just a console text filled adventure game. We also made plugins for web browsers, applications for many different things and even build up websites working together.

Either way, if we were to leave adult bronies out of the range, now that would be more interesting. How many new bloods are geeks too? Did the constant survive the evolution of our ranks? Is the modern brony community as tech savvy as the first iteration of the phenomena from the early days?

Here in the UK you have to pay for old systems to be properly disposed of; for that reason, you might be able to find some companies to sell you a bunch of broken or even just outdated machines (sans hard drives, obviously) for some token sum like £1 - because they have negative value.