15 Mar
2007
15 Mar
'07
3:42 p.m.
The Goodwill asis store. There is one in Portland and
one in Salem
Oregon. It is worse than that. They fill bins of stuff, 3 foot by 8
foot on wheels. Everyone who can get close (20 or so people) lines up
on both sides and at the given signal everything gets gone through,
shredded almost immediatly.
Paxton,
The one I'm talking about is in Hillsboro, it's on TV highway across from
Fred Meyers, next to "Movies on TV". Is the one in Portland still in the
old Textile factory? I managed years ago to get a nice Apple IIe enhanced
and a box of Victrola records there.
I bought an Intel IPDs from the thrift store there. It
sat for months
with me showing the only interest. I bought an Ultra one once but they
wouldn't sell me the drives, pulled them right in front of me. At
least I got the mounting screws and carriers. Mostly they build and
sell linux boxes.
Why on earth did they pull the drives? They wouldn't be able to use SCA
drives.
Currently my favorite thrift store is NextStep in
Eugene. They sell
old software at reasonable prices. And have some older apple stuff.
Have you found any good sources for DEC HW in Salem? I notice quite a bit
shows up on eBay that is located there. I really don't make it out of my
area, so haven't gone scouting around down there. For that matter there is
a store near me that is supposed to be good, but I've not checked out their
new location.
Zane