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Goodwill store finds
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Hrududu
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Well hopefully yours works out better than mine. I did the same thing a few years back (bought a NOS toner for my Select 360 off eBay) and the wiper blade was dried out and broken leaving streaks on all my pages. I gave up on it and got a reconditioned one for $45 and its worked great ever since. When I got my 12/640PS I skipped eBay entirely and bought a toner from the same site. I have a feeling those NOS toners on eBay are just too old by now.
Hrududu
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Sorry to hear that. Wish I would have seen your thread sooner so I could have warned you about my experience. Good luck in your hunt for a new LaserWriter! Personally, I love both of mine (360 & 12/640) and have had pretty good fortune with them. I did trash my old LaserWriter IINT a few weeks ago, but that nasty old thing never did work right. If you do decide to get a remanufactured toner, here is a link to the site I used for mine. Nothing but good things to say about them. http://www.performancetoner.com/apple--toner-cartridges.html
(I know, a year late...)
What Mike meant is that Goodwill has been consolidating their used computer business in specialty stores called "ComputerWorks". They are still Goodwill. But what they do is take all the computer donations from an entire city and send them to one single store which is the Goodwill Computerworks store. The the Computerworks store crushes everything of any interest and puts out a little bit of PC crap at prices picked off of Ebay, so you might as well just have shopped at Ebay in the first place.
That's the way it is in Austin and San Antonio Texas now. Mike's in Houston so I imagine Houston is the same way as well. I wonder if Goodwill is organized by state. The Computerworks stores might not be nationwide, or might be confined to large cities.
The sad thing is that when Goodwill first did this, they had great Mac stuff. I got a bunch of Daystar cards and a 9150 and a couple of SE/30s and even a few Radius Thunder IV GX cards at Goodwill. Of course, the 68K donation were also more common back in that time frame.
And they had boxes of old Mac parts/cards/logic boards.
Now there's never anything Mac out except "recent" models, G4 and newer. I'm sure they still must get some donations of older material, but none of it is available and there's no way to get a look in the huge space behind the store.
quinterro
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Just did a quick look-up for one in NC, and there is one in Charlotte. They claim to have older computers and game systems as well.
http://www.goodwillsp.org/computerworks.html
http://www.goodwillsp.org/computerworks.html
datamonger
New member
I remember back in 2002, I found an old compact Macintosh complete with keyboard and mouse, external hard drive, printer, and a ton of software, all on floppies, for $30. I tried to get the money from my dad, but he, for some reason, had an extreme hatred for Macs and refused to give me the money. A couple of days later, my mom, who was doing her weekend drill for the National Guard when I initially found the computer, said she would buy it for me. Sadly, it was gone.
Scott Baret
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Volunteering with the Goodwill ComputerWorks is always fun. If you need any service hours for school or church, it's a great way to pick them up, and even if you don't (or you're no longer a student), it's still fun to know you're using your talents to help others.
During my college years, I had no Friday classes for a few semesters, so I volunteered to do exactly that with the local Goodwill. I helped with the Apple division, which has fixed over 2000 Macs to be sold and donated over about eight years. Most of those Macs have been iMac G3s.
We did get some interesting deliveries. There was an almost new PowerBook G4 (back when the MacBooks first came out), a few boxed iMacs/eMacs, an SE, and an Apple IIe with a DuoDisk drive. Our Goodwill sells these as collector's computers, but charges a lot of money for them. It is possible to score a few goodies at the Goodwill Computer Store though--I've bought several boxes of DS/DD diskettes there (and have actually sold a few of those boxes to fellow forum members). I may get down to that store again sometime soon if anyone wants me to look for more...
Still, when you go down to work, you have to forget about getting freebies. You have to go in with the attitude of helping others, not the intent of posting something neat in the Conquests forum.
During my college years, I had no Friday classes for a few semesters, so I volunteered to do exactly that with the local Goodwill. I helped with the Apple division, which has fixed over 2000 Macs to be sold and donated over about eight years. Most of those Macs have been iMac G3s.
We did get some interesting deliveries. There was an almost new PowerBook G4 (back when the MacBooks first came out), a few boxed iMacs/eMacs, an SE, and an Apple IIe with a DuoDisk drive. Our Goodwill sells these as collector's computers, but charges a lot of money for them. It is possible to score a few goodies at the Goodwill Computer Store though--I've bought several boxes of DS/DD diskettes there (and have actually sold a few of those boxes to fellow forum members). I may get down to that store again sometime soon if anyone wants me to look for more...
Still, when you go down to work, you have to forget about getting freebies. You have to go in with the attitude of helping others, not the intent of posting something neat in the Conquests forum.
techfury90
Well-known member
I almost went to one in Richmond, VA last week, but I didn't have the time for it, sadly.
