2 May
2013
2 May
'13
6:31 p.m.
At 02:59 PM 5/2/2013, you wrote:
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".
Any idea where it goes? Cascade Asset Management in Madison?
That place in Eau Claire mentioned a few weeks ago?
I know it's sad, but I don't know how it could be any other way.
If you want lots of people to give you stuff, you need to have a business
model to accept it all. If so, you need to have a way to dispose
of most of it. You can't afford to have a model that promises the
givers that their hard drives will be erased at the same time you
want to charge a decent price for an original software-filled drive
to the classic computer collector. You don't want to deal with the
people who will return to you angry because they can't install
Windows 7 on that Mac Plus. On top of it all, the only way to make
it all profitable is to scrap most of it for copper, iron, lead,
and gold.
- John