9 Feb
2000
9 Feb
'00
11:59 a.m.
At 01:17 PM 2/9/00 -0800, Mark Price wrote:
Our apartment complex's dumpster is a good source
for home electronica (a
13" B&W TV, a cassette deck, a receiver reeking of cigarettes when warmed
up, 2 boom boxes, all in working order...), but I've come across only one PC
(clone 386). Who has good dumpsters for finding computers? Retailers?
Universities?
I live in a tiny town of 6,000 people. My local mom-and-pop computer
store (repair, Internet, service, they do it all) routinely tosses out
semi-dead motherboards (the serial port got zapped, no one wants a
separate serial card, so it's history), too-small hard drives,
working VGA-ish monitors, etc. I can't imagine what a larger
repair shop would routinely toss.
- John