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Re: Weekend Garage Sale Score

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On 2011-10-17 22:15:03 +0000, Kevin Dady said:

> On Oct 17, 9:05 am, IUnknown <stevement...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My wife and I like the drive around and go to garage sales
>> occasionally.
>> 
>> I have been looking for a stereo receiver for my garage - and well,
>> she just likes to shop. We figure that why throw something away when
>> it could still have life - and mostly, I am just cheap.
>> 
>> So, after finding a suitable stereo receiver (Sony - $10), we hit a
>> couple of other garage sales and are just about to head home for the
>> day. We hit the last house, and are perusing the inventory. The wife
>> locates an old hello kitty cordless phone, and my son says 'Dad -
>> there is some apple stuff over here'.
>> 
>> I wander over to the cardboard box containing an old HP deskjet style
>> printer.... and there is a PC-style keyboard and mouse in there -
>> apple branded with an ADB connector. My son asked what they wanted for
>> it.....
>> 
>> 'Give me a $1 and you can take it'.
>> 
>> So, I walked away with a great (working) full-size ADB keyboard for
>> $1. Gotta love garage sales. The sad thing is that it would have ended
>> up in a dumpster otherwise.....   How much of this great stuff ended
>> up in landfills?
>> 
>> This is an ebay auction showing the keyboard type. For $1, it was a
>> steal :)
>> 
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/AppleDesign-Keyboard-M2980-Use-Apple-II-GS-FX...
> 
> heh the only luck I have had at a yardsale (outside of my dec386 lappy
> but in apple terms) was someone had a bag of old mouses, in there was
> 1 ADB mouse, I asked how much the bag was and got 40$ and that was
> including 2 dumpy looking CRT VGA monitors and a broken compaq pentium
> chunk of ...  with no exceptions, all or nothing,  I told her good
> luck and left.

I've never had any luck at yard sales, and it's been a few years since 
any Apple II-related stuff showed up at the local thrift stores.  Ten 
years ago, that wasn't the case -- I could walk out of any charity 
store around here with an armload of A2 gear for ~ US $20.  In fact, I 
got my first Transwarp in a GS from one of those places.  The whole 
machine cost me $15.  (How's that card working these days, Ed? ;))

Those days are long gone though.  Either people are recycling 
everything "responsibly", as was suggested above, or it has become 
common knowledge that you can actually make a few dollars on this stuff 
through eBay instead of just donating it.  And, at least one thrift 
chain automatically trashes anything that won't run at least Windows 98 
or Mac OS 9.

-- 
- Mike

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Weekend Garage Sale Score IUnknown <stevementzer@gmail.com> - 2011-10-17 07:05 -0700
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  Re: Weekend Garage Sale Score kynrek <kynrek@gmail.com> - 2011-10-17 10:30 -0700
  Re: Weekend Garage Sale Score Kevin Dady <kevin@hackaday.com> - 2011-10-17 15:15 -0700
    Re: Weekend Garage Sale Score Mike Maginnis <mmaginnis@gmail.com> - 2011-10-18 09:18 -0600
      Re: Weekend Garage Sale Score Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2011-10-18 15:20 -0400
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  Re: Weekend Garage Sale Score Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-18 08:02 -0700
    Re: Weekend Garage Sale Score IUnknown <stevementzer@gmail.com> - 2011-10-18 08:24 -0700
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    Re: Weekend Garage Sale Score Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 08:00 -0700
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