On 5/10/2022 5:31 AM, fcewen00 wrote:
While nowhere near as old as some of you folks, my collections contain (somewhere in our storage) is my 1984 Mac, a NeXT machine, and a B-box that I ¡. Purloined from Lexmark a lifetime ago. ?The running joke was that if you wanted to steal a chair you put printers and computers et all and pushed them out on a chair.
Walgreens used to scrap computers and let us take any components if we wanted them. Hard drives were the only stickler, but it could be managed if you DoD wiped them. However, I was able to get some RAM upgrades, and some free CD/DVD combo drives. Also grabbed a CMOS battery at one point.
They also used to throw out scanners with the slightest defect, I took a top of the line scanner that was going to be tossed into e-scrap, when all I needed to fix it was a little piece of scotch tape to hold the white backing on the lid. However, we couldn't send it out to a store taped together so it was going to be scrapped.
That was a decade ago and the thing is still a good scanner today.
