> On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:38:47AM -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > I think the last thing that folks going into a Goodwill store (the
> > majority of which are there to buy items of necessity) are
> > interested in is a computer museum.
>
> Wrong.
>
> This is a "GOODWILL COMPUTERWORKS". A dedicated computer store.
>
> *ALL THEY SELL* is computers. All the computers donated to Goodwill
> across the state are trucked here, where if possible, they're
> reassembled into working boxes/parts (in the case of PCs), tested, and
> put out on the shelves for people to buy. 99% of the people coming in
> are looking for a PC, Mac, parts for same, or a printer or keyboard,
> etc; they've just recently opened up the "back room" with the old
> vintage stuff.
>
> People that go to the store *are* interested in the museum; they've
> been doing it to a limited extent for the past 2-3 years (as long as
> I've been going to the store), but have just recently gotten the room
> to expand it.
>
> When I spoke to one of the employees yesterday, he said that they get
> offered TONS more stuff that they simply dont have room for, but would
> love to take. I'm trying to work with them to establish another
> mailing list of collectors for this stuff - so that if GWCW gets
> offered a piece of hardware that they dont have the room for, the
> people on the list can then take a shot at it.
>
> If you want the "normal" GoodWill store, where you can buy clothing,
> coffee pots, old furnitre, etc, the newly expanded and remodeled store
> is about a half mile up the street.
>
> BTW, they have a web site:
>
> http://www.goodwillcomputerworks.net/
>
> Bill
>
Unfortunately in the Toronto area Goodwill has stopped taking
computer donations. I'd found a lot of goodies there over the years.
At one point there were about 15 DEC Rainbows in the main store.
One could only hope that the Goodwill regional management here
was as bright as the ones in which there are Goodwill
Computerworks stores.
As a result I'm sure the previous corporate donations are now
going into landfill.
ciao larry
lgwalker_at_look.ca
walkers_at_altavista.net
bigwalk_at_xoommail.com
Received on Mon Aug 21 2000 - 17:00:22 BST