>I will gladly keep my eyes open for a set for you. At auction this only
>cost me $10 because no one there wanted Mac stuff.
Thanks.
>As to were I get this stuff it's mostly at thrift's and auctions (the best
>are schools and tech businesses
The trifts around here never have anything that great, also tend to be
expensive, and one of them won't even sell CPUs, just the rest of the
stuff that went with it. (I finally got official word as to what happens
when someone drops off a computer.. they told me it isn't an issue, they
refuse them at the door, and they now chain off the lot at night and
Sundays when they are closed so people can't drop off stuff and leave).
Schools around here don't seem to auction things publically (once in a
while they do them privately inside the school, but for the most part,
they just throw stuff out... but at least I made a contact with someone
at the school board of one of the local towns and told them to cut it
out, if they are chucking things, give them to me, I'll take care of
removal and disposal... they liked the idea as it reduced their costs,
but I haven't heard from them since... maybe they just haven't tossed
anything since I contacted them, I'll have to give them another call
soon).
And businesses... humm... around here, there are a few Pharmacutical
companies, that is about it of size... and they destroy anything being
disposed of (I tried REALLY REALLY hard to get stuff from one that was
doing a major upgrade... they were literally throwing out brand new 15"
LCD screens because they upped everyone to 17"s before all of the 15"
were given out... but their policy dictated that they must be destroyed,
so they were cracking them all before chucking them in the dumpster... I
have a friend that works at the place, and he said it was killing him to
do it and he and I made a number of calls to see if at the very least
they would donate them to a local school or something... and people
wonder why drugs cost so much in the USA!!).
So it sounds like I am just in a crappy part of the country for computer
salvage. I'll have to start poking around for other auctions... and maybe
make a trip to the local land of landfills and see if any of the yards
get machines they want to have removed.
But at least I have been on the right track... I'm just going to have to
try harder in the future. Thanks for the tips.
-chris
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