Goodwill Computerworks Museum is open - *

On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:38:47AM -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote: Wrong. This is a "GOODWILL COMPUTERWORKS". A dedicated computer store. *ALL THEY SELL* is computers. All the computers donated to Goodwill across the state are trucked here, where if possible, they're reassembled into working boxes/parts (in the case of PCs), tested, and put out on the shelves for people to buy. 99% of the people coming in are looking for a PC, Mac, parts for same, or a printer or keyboard, etc; they've just recently opened up the "back room" with the old vintage stuff. People that go to the store *are* interested in the museum; they've been doing it to a limited extent for the past 2-3 years (as long as I've been going to the store), but have just recently gotten the room to expand it. When I spoke to one of the employees yesterday, he said that they get offered TONS more stuff that they simply dont have room for, but would love to take. I'm trying to work with them to establish another mailing list of collectors for this stuff - so that if GWCW gets offered a piece of hardware that they dont have the room for, the people on the list can then take a shot at it. If you want the "normal" GoodWill store, where you can buy clothing, coffee pots, old furnitre, etc, the newly expanded and remodeled store is about a half mile up the street. BTW, they have a web site: http://www.goodwillcomputerworks.net/ Bill -- +-------------------\ /-----------------+ | Bill Bradford | www.sunhelp.org | | mrbill(a)mrbill.net | www.decvax.org | | Austin, Texas USA | www.pdp11.org | +-------------------/ \-----------------+