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EXTREEM EDITION : goodwill and thrift finds !

well over time i have seen and bought very interesting things from goodwill , heres what i have so far ....

1 a in box ibm pc jr needing new ram , never used for 40 $

2 a mac lc 3 intact laying in a bin for 15 $ works great , had a lt of games on the hdd :D

3 a fully working rev a apple ii e with disk drives . now have a floppy emu , highly recommend people get on , its  very useful .

4 a atari 520 st works , built a psu with my dad , works , i have no disk drives of any kind for it . found it in a goodwill (the same one as the lc iii ) on top of a treadmill .

5 a brand new compaq armada 1573dm . dam , the battery still holds a charge for hours .

6 a imac g5 and powermac g5 for 50$

7 a powerbook g4 titanium . the thing is made of bad luck .

craiglist finds

1 a powerbook g3 with os9 : 20 $ and a 30$ samsung galaxy tab 8

secret tech shop finds

1 a free ibook g3 , only runs on battery

2 powerbook 5300 , works with other goodies

3 apple newton message pad 120 broken , will not power on , but when probing it , it has power

4 a apple newton mate (repaired screen cable)

5 a whole pallet of vintage apple ! 

5a a mac classic 2 (recapped)

5b a quadra 700 works , with chainsaw like hdd and awesome graphics card w/ software 

5c (the 2 above are what i have bought out of the pallet 

5d a mac ii , odd graphics card . 

5e a apple 2gs . had no upgrades

5f  2x apple iici , they found a good home , now used as a gaming computer (both recapped)

5g 2x apple mac lc 1 , they are sold as a bundle on the counter , one works , the other needs a recap

pc's 

1  rescued 286 going to the dump , free works with a hdd (yes a scsi 50 pin hdd)

2 a great for gaming pentium 166 computer for scrap . works fine , have it ext to my modern custom pc .

3 lots of hard drives from 50 pin scsi to micro ssd for notebooks 

4 powerbok 145 (selling on ebay for 20 $ someday ) screen issue , broken ribbon cable . good motherboard .

5 a very rare hp omnibook 300 with a and 386 25  low power with 4 aa batteries (the thing runs win 3.1 in b&w )

thats it for now ....... 

msc :



 

olePigeon

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Wow, quite the haul.  None of the Goodwills in my area have any computer stuff.  When they do, they're usually Pentium 3 Dells.

 

Carboy7

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Last thing I saw? A Windows XP... CALCULATOR.

Nothing actually good, except for the usual monitor.

 

techknight

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the local goodwill here doesnt sell computers. I see keyboards and monitors all the time. No towers. Policy :(

 

insaneboy

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goodwill here sells computers and peripherals,  one store has most of it, no HDDs  generally crappy worthless stuff.    That store and others also have small displays with tested/shrink wrapped stuff that's sold at retail prices.  anything rare, vintage, of any value goes straight to eBay. 

 

asaggynoodle

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Mine here doesn't have any computers either. Not sure what the policy is, but after months of no success I've given up.

Now, when it comes to peripherals and other cables etc, that might find itself more evident. There always seems to be dozens of keyboards and other odd-ends.

 

Juror22

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Goodwill here only has computer peripherals, but they are priced a little crazy (but consistently) e.g

New programable USB gaming mouse - $2.99

Original Microsoft Optical Mouse - $2.99

Crappy Generic PS2 Mouse - $2.99

I've also gotten external floppy and CD drives that went with vintage PC laptops.  Never any Mac things though.

 
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