On 05/02/2013 03:53 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
On Thu, 2 May 2013, Jules Richardson wrote:
They just had an e-waste recycling event in town;
different company to
the one that did such an event once before. Last time I was allowed to
check for vintage systems, but there wasn't anything useful there - just
few-years-old PCs.
This time around there was an entire dumpster full of vintage Apple
hardware, but I wasn't allowed anywhere near it - it all goes back to
Wisconsin for "processing". Apparently they do occasionally ebay some
vintage items, but the way this lot had just been tossed into the
dumpster makes me think that it's all off to the crusher. (and of course
there was the Disk II drive that I need, sitting right on the top of the
pile!)
When such an event comes around in this area, I'll sometimes place an
ad in the local Craiglist and Freecycle, asking people to consider donating
their vintage equipment, rather than recycling it. I've acquired a few
pieces of equipment from those.
Yeah, I was a little late in getting word out to some of the local facebook
groups, which is where folk seem to be moving lots of items (of any kind)
these days (even though it's an incredibly bad UI for that kind of thing; I
think people just find it convenient as they're sat on facebook a lot
anyway and don't have to put effort into visiting a different website).
Freecycle around here is pretty much dead (maybe two or three posts a
month). Craigslist might be a good bet, though.
What I really need is a way of getting the word out that I'm interested in
this kind of stuff at any time, not when I just happen to mention it on
<wherever>. Back when I lived in the UK, a lot of people knew that I was
into this kind of stuff and would send other people in my direction when
they happened to mention that they had something (a bit like Zane's comment
about vintage things just randomly showing up!) - but it took a long time
to get to that point, and it's harder here because it's the middle of
nowhere and never was a high-tech area. Maybe I just need to paint a sign
on the side of the van or something :-)
cheers
Jules