I'm posting on behalf of Marion....
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>
> CALLING NH/VT COLLECTORS:
>
> There's a nonprofit organization called WinCycle in Windsor, Vermont
> that receives all of a local university's unwanted computer equipment,
> which they then fix up and sell or donate to people and schools who
> can't afford new machines. I've been volunteering there weekly for a
> few months and it's really quite an operation.
>
> This has been a rough year -- burglaries, management upheavals, rising
> costs -- and to top it off, they just found out that they have to
> vacate their corner of the warehouse by the end of September, because
> the warehouse owner found a tenant who wants the entire building, and
> the rental agreement is only month-to-month. We've got to start moving
> stuff out of there and into another building just down the street,
> pronto, and the new building is less than half the space we have now.
>
> To get an idea of what we're dealing with, take a look at this:
> http://www.wincycle.org/images/wc-panorama.jpg
>
> Anything that isn't considered saleable (i.e., new enough to surf the
> web and run MS Office) will be scrapped if someone doesn't take it at
> scrap cost (25 cents a pound?) and some will simply be given away with
> the request that you make a donation of whatever you can. There are
> tons and TONS of perfectly-intact but old machines that need a home!
> I've taken home nearly fifty old Macs but I can't store any more.
> There's PC hardware too, and printers, monitors, keyboards, mice, hard
> drives, networking gear, software, manuals, peripherals, other internal
> and external parts, enough SCSI cables to circle the Earth, etc.
>
> Please forward this to anyone within driving distance that you can
> think might be interested. Parents, please ask your schools if they
> need bulk quantities of stuff; we can most likely deliver locally, if
> needed. Any other institutions or organizations (churches, charities,
> etc.) you can think of that might be interested in loading up in bulk,
> please tell them to contact us -- they can email Tim Cary
> <caryconsulting_at_direcway.com> or me.
>
> More general info about WinCycle here: http://www.wincycle.org but the
> price list is basically null and void at this point because of our
> desperate situation. If you need further info than what's on the
> website, please email mbates_at_whoopis.com -- do NOT reply to the list, I
> won't get your message.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- MB
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