Pennsylvania Conquests

[geeko]

I'm up visiting my dad in PA for the summer, and I needed parts for some computers I'm working on, so I went to the local recycling center. When I walked in I saw a Performa 6115CD in it's box, with all its original accessories. I asked the guy about it and was told that I could take it for $10. The Performa seems to work, but I think that when I was unpacking the monitor I dropped it out of its box about two or three inches, and I think it is broken (when I press the power button on the monitor the orange light next to it comes on, but nothing else). I also looked around more, and they had some Power Mac G4s there, and I got a DP 533MHZ with 512MB RAM and a PCI wireless G card for $5. It now has a 120GB harddrive and is happily running Leopard. I also got two apple keyboards, but nothing really special there. Anyway, it was a great haul for $21 :lol: !

Today I'm going somewhere where there are two iMacs and apparently a bunch of Mac Classics that if another Apple enthusiast (anyone from here, the place is just outside of Lancaster?) and I do not want will go in the dumpster, I'll post back soon with the results of that trip.

 

[Bunsen]

a DP 533MHZ with 512MB RAM and a PCI wireless G card for $5

That's pretty special!

Good luck on tomorrow's sortie

 

[olePigeon]

You'd think the Bay Area would be a hotbed for recycled Apple items, but all he computer recyclers I've called say that people aren't allowed to go through their items. They're all there strictly to be torn apart and sorted.

Might be a California law. Whatever it is, it sucks. So many good computers completely thrashed.

 

[geeko]

Yeah, I'd have though that you would have the most luck also. I think that here the recycling place in privately owned, so they can just do what ever they want with the computers they get. If FL the recycling center is part of the county, and the only reason I get the computers is because I "work" for them. The center up here also had a 400Mhz G4, same price, and some quicksilvers for $20, but I don't think I'm gonna get them.

 

[Scott Baret]

Which area of PA was this recycler in? (I'm from Pittsburgh, on the west side of the state--if someone wanted the Mac in Lancaster I wouldn't be of much help, as it's on the east side).

 

[geeko]

Yeah, all these are in Lancaster too, it wouldn't be worth the trip just to pick them up. My Dad lives about an hour outside of Lancaster, and I'm visiting for a month, and I'm loading up on the Macs here } .