I hit some of the same places except garage sales. Just look out for private thrift and talk with the manager must are willing to work with if you take it by the load and not try to pick out just the ones you want. I can get real low prices by working it that way, must times they don't have that much. I talk to people at the goodwills that I meet there and give them one of my cards my wife made. These cards id me as a Computer Collector and gives my home phone and e-mail address. These cards have gotten me alot of free items. Well good luck and Keep Computing !! At 10:54 AM 10/23/97 -0400, you wrote: (Delaware) I hit garage sales (pretty slim pickin's), swap meets, Salvation Army and Goodwill. A local chemical company has a surplus disposition center that parcels out a limited number of PC and Mac systems. In addition, there's a twice-weekly Goodwill that has occasionally yielded something useful.