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Posted by: olePigeon on 2012-03-01 17:27:49
Local recycler today had a box of free software. Nearly all of it was older Mac software. I was surprised to find boxed and fully complete copies of 8 Ball Deluxe Pinball, Loony Labyrinth, Crystal Caliburn, and Myst. Also got Stuffit Com terminal software and some older Mac II era spreadsheet or database software. All of those for free. 🙂
Also got an Iomega Floptical drive. No media for it, though. It works as both a floppy drive and a floptical drive, which holds 21MBs of storage. Kind of cool to have a SCSI floppy drive. 🙂
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2012-03-01 21:14:03
Sounds cool, havn't been to a recycler in about a year (none close by that sell to the public).
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Posted by: waynestewart on 2012-03-01 21:39:06
Getting a floptical is nice, even without the media.
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Posted by: TheIanMan85 on 2012-03-01 22:39:06
All cool stuff! Free old software is always nice. Actually, free software in general is nice. I had forgotten about the Floptical drive, I haven't seen one in years!
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Posted by: gobabushka on 2012-03-02 07:15:37
i used to get amazing things from my local recycler, Com-Cycle (AERC Recycling), but they now have new manager, and the new policy is that if they dont know how to test it, they dont sell it. Which includes Apple II's and the like. 🙁
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Posted by: Cosmo on 2012-03-02 07:49:09
Nice find!
Our local recycling center (where you can just drop off things) don't even sell anything, nor let people take anything out. That's a shame. I giess that's matter of safety. I am waiting for a recycling store to open close to my work (they are in a process of moving). Guess how many times i will drive to home a bit longer way :lol:
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Posted by: BGoins12 on 2012-03-02 07:55:57
Our county recycling center sucks. They will not let you pick through anything, even if you try to bribe them with $$. That, and they can't do it either because they will be charged with theft of "County Property".
It even says on the wall "All items dropped off at the recycling center become the property of Lorain County, and cannot be removed."
There's numerous times we've went there to drop paint and such off and there's TONS of good computers sitting there. We don't have any privately owned recycling centers around here.
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Posted by: IIfx on 2012-03-02 11:57:54
I hate recyclers. Instead of giving these items 1 last chance it ends up exactly like this:
NO YOU CANT HAS
WE PROTECT ENVIROMENT
-proceeds to dispose of computer in chinese dump-
End
Now, its not allways how it is, but it sure feels like it.
I am sure there are good recyclers that actually disassemble these machines down to the elements cleanly and they become reincarnated as toasters, but, lets face it, there is a scandal in this whole idea of a disposable society.
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Posted by: jruschme on 2012-03-02 12:10:40
I was pleasantly surprised to recently learn that items sent to our county's e-recycling center go to Goodwill.
Now if I could just figure out where the nearest Goodwill Computerwerks is.
JR
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Posted by: BGoins12 on 2012-03-02 12:15:00
Lucky... our Goodwills refuse to accept computers.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2012-03-02 13:25:05
We don't have a Goodwill computer store anywhere near me, but I do have 2 pretty darn good recyclers.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2012-03-02 13:26:10
Found drivers for my Iomega Flopitcal at the Mac Driver Museum. Gonna give it a try on my IIci when I get home.
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Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-03-02 15:05:48
I just found out that Eugene, OR now has a Goodwill Computer Store.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2012-03-03 12:43:15
Yay, it works! 😀 Reads 1.4MB floppies. Doesn't read 800k, though, but worth a try.
Since it doesn't have an auto-eject mechanism, I have to manual eject the floppy first, then eject it from System 7. A little weird, but it works. 🙂
Now I need to find a pack of 21MB floppies. 🙂
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Posted by: MacJunky on 2012-03-03 14:33:11
I hate recyclers. Instead of giving these items 1 last chance it ends up exactly like this:NO YOU CANT HAS
WE PROTECT ENVIROMENT
-proceeds to dispose of computer in chinese dump-
End Around here if something comes in and the person is asked recycle/refurbish/reuse/etc the following happens:Recycle only - NO TOUCHING. Straight onto a pallet.(or into a pile awaiting a pallet)
Anything else - Can touch. But the reality is that despite something being "good" it is almost all stock & low end and there is limited space for inventory. You cannot hold everything in the hopes that one person will come around, who knows what that part/computer is and where to find drivers/OS; only buying a few things every couple months.
So setup on ebay you say? That is a pretty big effort and requires extra staff and a TON of time, materials, etc.
And if you are going to sell anything you kinda need to test it first. This requires having lots of other (proprietary or obscure)components on hand taking up even more space and time. This person/people also need to know wth they are doing too. Selling something as-is can easily result in annoyed customers who then say "how hard is it to test ____? morons." Or people who have no idea what they are getting into when they buy something old/obscure. You cannot provide any tech support either. If you did you would need more staff with more training etc.
All with the hope that some single person every few months *might* drop buy and *might* buy a couple things.
I am sure there are good recyclers that actually disassemble these machines down to the elements cleanly and they become reincarnated as toasters, but, lets face it, there is a scandal in this whole idea of a disposable society. Around here, we send them to a smelter in this province.. so we are fairly certain that things are handled properly. |
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