I've found that the best cities to find stuff in, however, are Burbank and North Hollywood because there are so many Film and Video production houses that dump their old hardware. A few of the systems I've bought from thrift shops actually had the original receipts from when they were bought by Disney in 1990/etc.

I work in NoHo and there's a thrift store right next to my building where I have a pretty good rapport with the people who work there. That's the first step, get to know the proprieters and let them know you're looking for macs. They'll let you know when they get new stuff, and they'll often given you a discount if you continually buy stuff from them.

So far that's my only hookup, but I am looking into other avenues. My mother-in-law is a teacher down in San Diego and she used to get me SE's and others, but I haven't been down to SD in a while so I haven't had a chance to get anything through her lately. There is also the possibility of government surplus warehouses/auctions. When I lived in Miami there was a great warehouse that sold old county owned goods for next to nothing, and I'm hoping to find something like it here.

Anyway, glad to see a local on the boards! I have to get around to spreading more of our flyers around the LA college campuses (etc.) to get more LA people on here.

P.S. - I forgot, there use to be a pretty cool used computer store called "Re-Compute" on Van Nuys Blvd. in Panorama City that had a boat load of 68k's. However, they went under within the last year and I haven't been able to track down who they sold all their remaining inventory to, or whether they just trashed it.

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A little bit further north on Van Nuys in Panorama City is a Goodwill Computer Center where they usually have some 68k and PPC Macs in stock. I think they are located two blocks past Roscoe Blvd in the shopping center on the right. That's where I liberated my Quadra 950 about half a year ago. I was also able to score some nubus cards: a RasterOps 24STV video card with Moviepak daughtercard, a Farallon 590 network card, and PLI QuickSCSI 2 SCSI adapter card. I was also able to find a Daystar PDS cache card, at least that's what I think it is. The Quadra had 52 MB RAM and 1 GB Hard Drive with a bunch of graphics applications still on it from the last owner. There are several other Goodwill Computer Stores in the LA area listed on http://www.lagoodwill.org/ . Along with a keyboard and mouse, it all cost about $50-60.

You could also try Salvation Army Stores. I found a Quicktake 150 with its box and manuals, for just $24, at the one located at Roscoe and Canoga in Canoga Park.

You might also try USC's Surplus Store in downtown LA. It's located on the Grand Ave side of USC's off campus parking center. I've seen some macs in there, but I am not sure of their prices.

I hope this can help you out.

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But hey, glad to see another local member on here! Do you belong to any MUGs? I've been thinking of joining the one here in Canyon Country where I live and spreading the word about our Army.

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2x LC II's
2x IIci's (both had cache cards and no nubus cards, one had no RAM and the other had 4 SIMMS of unknown size)
2x Performa 550's (one was complete, the other was missing the Mobo and any HDD's)
1x IIsi
1x LC475
1x Quadra 630 (no CD-ROM)

also...

4x apple RGB Monitors
1x Apple Multiscan 14" (built-in speakers)
1x Apple Personal Laser Writer
1x Apple Personal Laser Writer LS
A least 12 Apple ADB keyboards (ADK's, ADB 1 & 2's, Extendeds, etc.)
1x Macally ADB extended keyboard
1x Apple Graphite USB keyboard and mouse (from the graphite iMac and the first gen. G4 towers)

The most expensize item is th USB keyboard and mouse, which they wanted $30 for. Everything else is definitely $20 or less. There were alot of power cables, but I didn;t see any ADB mice and only a couple ADB or serial cables. There was also a serial PhoneNet adapter floating around.

Oh yeah, and you're probably wondering what I bought? I nabbed a Quadra 840 A/V for $14.

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Oh yeah, and you're probably wondering what I bought? I nabbed a Quadra 840 A/V for $14.

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#1 - The guy who runs the computer "department" frowns on opening up the cases to see what's inside. I'm not telling you not to, just don't be surprised when he asks you to stop.

#2 - There's a shelf with a power strip labelled as a testing station. If you use it, and the guy who runs the department sees you using it, the store will charge you more for the item. Again, I'm not telling you not to test the stuff, just do it discreetly and quickly and you can still get the "as-is" prices.

As far as new macs, last I checked they had a SE with a screen dimmer and a 256-grey hand-op ADB scanner in additional to the other stuff I listed.

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You also might approach the local colleges. UCLA for instance.

Most every Kinkos has a few Macs, maybe the employees take them when they get old, but who knows?

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