25 Jan
2009
25 Jan
'09
9:43 a.m.
You are lucky; the thrift stores I inhabit here in San Diego won't sell if there
isn't a price tag. They hold it to the next day and price it overnight...which is a
BIG bore if I really want it and have to come back the next day - which won't be
seniors 50% off day, of course :)
The coup I recall is the TI microLaser Win/4 I picked up at a thrift store closing for a
dollar. It had been at $7, and $15 before that; I figured I could take a chance at a cuppa
coffee price. It was incompatible with Linux, and Windoze except for 95 AND XP! Funny that
long list of releases no one ever wrote a driver for, and then to do it for XP. Anyway, it
had a good toner and innards and has served perfectly well for about three years.
Vern Wright
--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
Subject: Thrift store score: HP LJ4L
To: classiccmp at classiccmp.org
Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 8:07 AM
After years of looking at an HP LJ4L I got at the Uni
surplus that
someone had removed the fuser from, I found a nearly-unused
4L at the
nearby thrift store yesterday. It printed the test page
without a
burp, but was on the shelf without a price. I found
someone to get it
priced and walked out a happy customer $6 later.
The only thing it's missing is a right-angle IEC power
cord to fit
behind the access door, but it works well enough with a
straight-in
cable.
-ethan