When we receive our patients they all go through a thorough and careful process, and we are usually able to give them a longer, healthier life.

Sometimes the sheer numbers overload our facilities and so we firstly carry out a quick triage of all the incoming patients. Some of the better Windows 7 and 8 machines go straight to the operating theatre for a Windows 10 upgrade to give them a new lease of life. Core 2 Duo patients are deemed to need palliative care but we euthanise them with the dismantling process. There is rarely a need to keep doner parts from them for other sick PCs. Some of the Windows XP patients are still quite healthy after quite a long life and a few humans like and need their company. We give them a new lease of life with a wipe, an operating system reload, and sometimes a little cosmetic surgery.

During the triage we find that some patients are DOA, in some cases it is because they have been butchered for parts.

It is disappointing that we get some patients who have led an unhealthy life. They quite obviously have been cooped up in a dusty environment and kept working all day and all night. This leads to overheating and possibly to a premature death.

We do the best we can with all our patients by reviving them and ensuring that they can be a healthy part of the home and the workplace. However, it is quite depressing to see that some of them will never again be gainfully employed. A very satisfying part of our job, on the other hand, is to take some of the geriatric computers into our care. We know full well that they will never be employed again but being so interesting we keep them ourselves for the good company they provide, or we pass them on to those who will lavish them with love and care and attention.