15 Mar
2007
15 Mar
'07
3:56 p.m.
Jim Battle wrote:
I've had it with the Computerworks in Austin.
Please let me rant;
nobody else will appreciate it.
http://www.austingoodwill.org/crs/store%20locater%20pages/ComputerWorks.html
Phew, I feel better. Now I need to write a rant to the goodwill
organization to enlighten them on the subject.
Don't bother. Right before they moved from the old location somebody
donated a complete MV-II. I offered to list the config and get it
running for them, and after talking to the general manager, the bottom
line was "Don't bother. It'll never get powered up again."
What goes into that so-called Museum seems dictated solely by the
value determined by Completed Listings on Ebay. If there aren't any, it
obviously has no value.
If I need a SCSI cable or a cheap CDROM drive or low-end AGP video
card, I go up there. That's about all they're worth anymore.
It wasn't always like this. I walked in one day and walked out with
a VS4000/VLC and its VT320 for $5. My IBM tabletop 9-track cost $10
(and a near-hernia!)
PS: Doc Shipley, don't bother driving to MC Howard
to get the kaypro 10,
if you were. I have a nicer one that I'm still sitting on for you to
collect some day.
Heh. I was there when you were. I saw the Apples on the way out and
wondered how I missed them when I went in.
I can't say enough good things about those guys. Mel spent about 20
minutes in the storeroom today, finding me a $3 part.
I'll get with you offlist about the Kaypro.
Doc