Goodwill Computer Works.
Everything except Microsoft Office and the Commodore Modem is shrinkwrapped, brand new in box.
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Huge Shrinkwrapped NIB Software Haul
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Goodwill Computer Works.
Everything except Microsoft Office and the Commodore Modem is shrinkwrapped, brand new in box.
They were arbitrarily priced from $2-$6 each. I pretty much cleaned them out of shrinkwrapped Mac software. I did turn down some non-shrinkwrapped software because I don't know if the boxes are really complete or not.
I also got 4 Mac Printer/Serial cables that were NIB for $2 each.
I would guess they got all of this from the same donation, although I still don't know who the hell buys software and never opens it.
Plenty of businesses would buy multiple copies of business software and just open one and install that set on all their machines (in the 80's and early 90's).
Be careful with the games since many retailers would reseal them after the employees copied the disks or used them as demo's. Plenty of collectors seem to buy shrinkwrapped games and keep them that way, I generally open them up the second I get them and look inside (and make disk images of the software).
Be careful with the games since many retailers would reseal them after the employees copied the disks or used them as demo's. Plenty of collectors seem to buy shrinkwrapped games and keep them that way, I generally open them up the second I get them and look inside (and make disk images of the software).
You wouldn't have any interest in parting with the copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator, would you? 
For old software I look at thrift stores, Goodwill is ok for old DOS games once in a while, and Village Discount Outlet thrift is good for mac software once in a while.@Unknown_K
Where exactly do you live in Ohio and do you know of any places to get old Macs (GoodWill, etc...)?
For machines find the local recyclers and become friendly with them. Learn the scrap rates and give them 50% more and you can pretty much have anything there. My collection has grown quite a bit over the last year by going to the recycler, and they let me look around without escort.
I am in Youngstown, OH. Larger cities should have larger recycling centers.
You need to check the thrifts and recyclers weekly, most of the time you find little or nothing others you get floods of good stuff.
I have a good arrangement with the local recycler... for beige stuff: $5 for pizza box Macs/small monitors, $10 for larger Macs/monitors, and he will make sure that I get at least one hard drive for each Mac. I'll check all the Macs and then he'll go in the back and grab a bunch of SCSI hard drives.
Houston has free electronics recycling and I get my stuff from the recycler that the city sells to. If your city doesn't have free electronics recycling then more stuff tends to show up in the thrift stores.
I'm not sure if I want to open any of the boxes...
I have a few circa-1984 boxes like MacProject and the first version of AppleShare, that are still shrinkwrapped. Extremely rare stuff.
Actually I have two shrinkwrapped HyperCard Dev Kits. One is for sale if anyone is interested.
I have seen that before. I still have several copies of Microsoft Project and Office 98 for Mac that came from a company. Most of the Project boxes are sealed new in box and I have actually sold two of them at $25 each, to two different large companies, who I suppose needed to open the old file formats.
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