I Volunteer constantly at the salvation army looking for such things to show up. The local salvation army office is a mess. Anything remotely heavy looking is scrapped if they do not know what it is. They would rather have $5 in hand for scrap rather than try to find out what something is, what it is worth, and trying to find someone that will buy it, and then they wonder why they cant pay the bills at the end of the month. Goodwill is a bit different, everything gets collected and sent to a main sorting facility (ive never been in there), i imagine it is a similar story though, a big scrap pile full of all the old machines i could ever want, on their way to be scrapped because they do not want to bother selling them. I have tried to get into the goodwill sorting place a couple of times. They are not too friendly.They want thier scrap money, and they do not want people looking around. Alot of interesting stuff gets sent in to salvation and gets scrapped. It is apparent they do not plan to hire me, i try to make it known that I am the guy that buys all the old computer stuff, so at least they give me a call if something really interesting gets sent in. Ive gotten some pretty neat old ibm stuff, disk packs, big floppys, etc but nothing anywhere close to a hp 1000. --Devin On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 2:32 PM, <mark at markesystems.com> wrote: