NH/VT area goodies...

-------------------------------------------- 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(a)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(a)whoopis.com -- do NOT reply to the list, I won't get your message. Thanks! -- MB