25 Jan
2009
25 Jan
'09
9:45 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Mike Loewen
<mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us> wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Mostly, I find calculators or 1970s clocks, but not much in the area
of on-topic electronics at thrifts in Columbus, but I had some really
good luck with older stuff at St Vincent DePaul's in Madison over the
past 5 years (I just dug out that all-LED clock that I need to refurb
- 100-ish submini LEDs and a double-fistful of CMOS 4000-series
parts).
The closest thing I've seen lately is a Bondi-blue original iMac for
way too much, but then they seem to get $150 for an eMachine, which
boggles me.
... I found a nearly-unused 4L at the nearby
thrift store yesterday.
I had pretty much given up on finding interesting vintage electronics at
Goodwill... ...but I also made a good score last summer: a Data
General LDM-800
line matrix printer for $4.95 (half-price day). There's not a thing wrong
with it, after a couple of alignment procedures. They actually had two of
them, but I only had room for one. :-)
Interesting. We never get stuff like that at our thrifts. I presume
industrial stuff gets recycled in other ways.
-ethan