The OU IT Store is providing free cleaning and disposal of old university-owned computer hardware this week as part of their “Spring Clean-up” initiative.
University employees with out-of-date or dysfunctional equipment can e-mail OU Information Technology and arrange a pick-up time.
The OU IT Store normally charges $65 for erasing information from items over 6-years-old, but will provide the service free of charge through Friday.
OU IT spokesman Nicholas Key said there are two reasons for the clean-up campaign.
“The first function is a green function,” Key explained. “All of the items that are dropped off we send to be recycled or trashed in an environmentally positive way. The other function of this is that we wipe [the memory] to Department of Defense standards so if there is any proprietary information we get that information.”
Key said the clean-up is for departmental computers of any age, make or model.
University employees can arrange a pick-up time by sending an e-mail to itstore@ou.edu.
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