18 Dec
2000
18 Dec
'00
1:07 a.m.
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Ethan Dicks wrote:
It was "blue tag" day at the thrift store -
50% off. I found this black box
with a 9" crt, telephone and floppy drive. There was a bit of thermal fax
paper hanging out the back and the top lifted off to reveal a paper input
hopper. The whole thing seems to be a piece of office equipment, c. 1990,
consisting of an integrated phone, fax and 8086-based PC.
As a quick aside, I have a thrift store like the one you describe in my
area that has a 50% discount each week based on the color of the price
tag. So if the price tag is blue and the week's color is blue then you
get 50% off. These stores seem to be everywhere, as I also found some
when I was doing lots of work in Raleigh, NC.
So the reason I'm bringing this up is I'm wondering how a chain thrift
store like this operates. They don't seem to be contributing to any
charitable cause, and as far as I can tell, they are just resellers of
people's discarded crap.
Does anyone know how these guys operate?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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