2 May
2013
2 May
'13
1:53 p.m.
On Thu, 2 May 2013, Jules Richardson wrote:
They just had an e-waste recycling event in town;
different company to the
one that did such an event once before. Last time I was allowed to check for
vintage systems, but there wasn't anything useful there - just few-years-old
PCs.
This time around there was an entire dumpster full of vintage Apple hardware,
but I wasn't allowed anywhere near it - it all goes back to Wisconsin for
"processing". Apparently they do occasionally ebay some vintage items, but
the way this lot had just been tossed into the dumpster makes me think that
it's all off to the crusher. (and of course there was the Disk II drive that
I need, sitting right on the top of the pile!)
When such an event comes around in this area, I'll sometimes place an
ad in the local Craiglist and Freecycle, asking people to consider
donating their vintage equipment, rather than recycling it. I've acquired
a few pieces of equipment from those.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/