21 Aug
2000
21 Aug
'00
10 a.m.
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:38:47AM -0700, Sellam
Ismail wrote:
Unfortunately in the Toronto area Goodwill has stopped taking
computer donations. I'd found a lot of goodies there over the years.
At one point there were about 15 DEC Rainbows in the main store.
One could only hope that the Goodwill regional management here
was as bright as the ones in which there are Goodwill
Computerworks stores.
As a result I'm sure the previous corporate donations are now
going into landfill.
ciao larry
lgwalker(a)look.ca
walkers(a)altavista.net
bigwalk(a)xoommail.com
I think the last thing that folks going into a
Goodwill store (the
majority of which are there to buy items of necessity) are
interested in is a computer museum.
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