funkytoad
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Well, I was walking down the street this morning when I saw it. A simple newspaper article on the front page of the Daily Olympian. I picked it up and saw a photo of hundreds of computers piled up in the parking lot of Ingersoll Stadium at Olympia High School. One computer stuck out at me, a lone Mac IIsi sitting atop a stack of PCs and monitors. So naturally I grabbed a dead monitor and a couple of scanners jumped into the car, and did what any sane MLAer would do, Performed a rescue mission. When I pulled up, this is what I saw: http://tubeurl.com/recycling/'>http://tubeurl.com/recycling/ (there are few good photos to look at there). I quickly scouted out a Revision B iMac G3 and placed it my trunk before the staff saw. I walked a ways into the pile to set my stuff down, I found the IIsi from the front page of the paper and put that in my trunk. At that moment another man was arguing about the fate of a G4 Tower (pictured) they assured him it would be sold not for scrap. They had started sorting what they were keeping and what they would be scrapping. Now the woman in charge of the operation was well aware of what I was attempting to do. I continued to wander through the stacks as I scouted out an Apple IIe and a Revision A iMac G3. I talked the woman into letting me take these, but she was very specific that nothing else was to be taken. I saw other macs being loaded onto trucks and asked of there fate, she informed me that they will be stored in the Tacoma warehouse until cataloged, and sold, after which they will be recycled if not claimed. It was annoying that she wouldn't let me take them there. Anyway, I call upon the MLAers of the NorthWest to help save these macs from sure doom. The ones from this event were picked up by MIC Total Recycle. They will be going to the warehouse at 3627 S. 54th St. Tacoma, Washington 98049. They also have a location up in Kent at: 520 Bridges Ave S. Kent, Washington 98032. There is yet another office in Forest Grove, Oregon. 1280 Fern Hill Road Forest Grove, Oregon 97116. Thanks for reading all that.
Photos of the event can be found here:
http://tubeurl.com/recycling/ Maybe you can scout out a few machines?
Photos of my new computers:
http://tubeurl.com/saved (Photos of all of them are in the photo stream)
So bottom line, I saved:
iMac G3 Rev. A (Bondi Blue) MacOS 8.6
iMac G3 Rev. B (Graphite) OSX 10.3
Macintosh IIsi
Apple IIe
Apple Color Monitor IIe
Photos of the event can be found here:
http://tubeurl.com/recycling/ Maybe you can scout out a few machines?
Photos of my new computers:
http://tubeurl.com/saved (Photos of all of them are in the photo stream)
So bottom line, I saved:
iMac G3 Rev. A (Bondi Blue) MacOS 8.6
iMac G3 Rev. B (Graphite) OSX 10.3
Macintosh IIsi
Apple IIe
Apple Color Monitor IIe