Rare Apples, eBay, Goodwill

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It must be the area you live in, I have gotten Sun's, Next's, Vax, HP's, 
AS400's and missed on some SOL's plus a few other S100 systems at my local 
Goodwill.  John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chad Fernandez" <fernande at internet1.net>
To: <General at internet1.net>; "and Off-Topic Posts" 
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Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: Rare Apples, eBay, Goodwill


> My local Goodwill stores still have some computer stuff.  However, I 
> notice lots of printers, and monitors.  I suspect they are tossing many of 
> the actual computers.  I asked one of the employees about it.  He said 
> they they could only sell them for about 99 cents..... I'm thinking that's 
> better than throwing them away!  Besides, I bet they could get more than 
> 99 cents for many of them.  If they don't put them out, they are 
> garunteeing they won't sell them.
>
> I suppose it's also possible that they actually do get more printers and 
> monitors than cpus.  Thinking about it now, I gave Goodwill about 3 or 4 
> printers last year, but no cpus.  They do have cpus sometimes, but they're 
> usually old store bought PC's or very old no name PCs, or older Macs.  I 
> haven't seen a Microchannel PS/2 or an Apple // in a long time. I've never 
> seen anything like a Vax or Sun equipment at Goodwill.
>
> They always seem to have a few old crappy monitors..... do they breed? 
> I've found a few nicer ones.  In fact, this 17" Dell with Trinitron tube 
> came from Goodwill.  It was $30.  I also got my HP LJ 4L from Goodwill. It 
> was only $5, with manual, and in nice shape!
>
> Chad Fernandez
> Michigan, USA
>
>
>
> Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>> Charity shops in the US are increasingly not carrying computer goods,
>> mainly because if they end up being unsaleable crap they have to pay high
>> disposal fees.
>>
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