5 Jan
1998
5 Jan
'98
10:57 p.m.
they go to landfill. You see, at our local landfills
there is a company
called Revolve that has scavenging rights, and rescues all this stuff.
I've picked up a Tandy CoCo 3 with box, manuals and some software, a
Commodore 64 with Datasette, music keyboard overlay, manuals, software and
box, a Commodore 128, a Commodore 1541-II and 1571 floppy drive,a BBC Model
B with floppy drive, an Atari 1024STfm with monitor, a Amstrad CPC464 with
monitor and an Apple IIe with disk drive, all for about $5 to $10 each.
All of them except the Atari ST worked fine at first switch-on (the ST
still doesn't work - I suspect a memory fault). I also managed to pick
up four Vectrex cartridges for $2. It's now got to the point that
people often drop their stuff off directly at Revolve rather than
dumping it at the landfill (especially now the local government has
instituted a fee to dump stuff at the landfill).
Of course, the only problem is that since all the stuff is stored outside
you have to get to it before the rain hits...
You lucky beggar! I wish there was something like that around here
(central England)!
Rain is not as bad as many people think. The water is (fairly) pure,
and things often only need drying. When I upgraded my Commodore 8296 to
an 8296D, the parts came from a machine in the skip at work - some of
them I had to dig out of the snow...
Philip.