Locating older systems & parts... (was: RE: making disk images)

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thu Mar 6 08:59:00 2003

  Forget the salvation army and trift stores. Most of them toss the OLD stuff and only keep the PCs. Go find a scrapper in your area. That's where you find the really interesting stuff. And the prices are a lot better too.

    Joe

At 08:37 AM 3/6/03 -0500, you wrote:
>I was going to ask about where people are frequenting to find treasure.
>
>Where I am now, most of the Salvation Army/Goodwill thrifts have big "NO
>COMPUTERS!!!" signs out front so they won't even take them in just to toss
>them.
>
>dc
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tillman, Edward" <Edward.Tillman_at_valero.com>
>To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:45 AM
>Subject: Locating older systems & parts... (was: RE: making disk images)
>
>
>> Most of the Salvation Army, Good Will and other similar stores in San
>> Antonio tend to throw away computers and parts. But, you never know when
>> that's going to happen, so ya gotta dive their dumpsters daily. Often,
>all
>> you come away with is the stench. (Why do they always seem to park these
>> places next to Class-D or 1-star restaurants?!)
Received on Thu Mar 06 2003 - 08:59:00 GMT