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Goodwill store finds
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.
I almost went to one in Richmond, VA last week, but I didn't have the time for it, sadly.