Re: Weekend Garage Sale Score

[joltenjoe <joltenjoe@gmail.com>]

On Oct 18, 11:18 am, Mike Maginnis <mmagin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011-10-17 22:15:03 +0000, Kevin Dady said:
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> > 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.
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> >> 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.
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> >> 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'.
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> >> 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.....
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> >> 'Give me a $1 and you can take it'.
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> >> 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?
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> >> This is an ebay auction showing the keyboard type. For $1, it was a
> >> steal :)
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> >>http://www.ebay.com/itm/AppleDesign-Keyboard-M2980-Use-Apple-II-GS-FX...
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> > heh the only luck I have had at a yardsale (outside of my dec386 lappy
> > but in apple terms) was someone had a bag of old mouses, in there was
> > 1 ADB mouse, I asked how much the bag was and got 40$ 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.
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> 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? ;))
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> 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.
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> - Mike
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Last December I picked up a IIGS system complete with original boxes,
monitor, drives, AE ram keeper, kingston gs system saver, tons of
programming books and software.  all I had to do was pick it up.  The
owner had to get them out of his basement or his wife was going to
pitch and he decided he'd rather give away free.  It was an awesome
haul.  He meticulously packed in the boxes and kept everything
together.  I was originally just going for the hardcover Apple IIGS
books but got a few thrills as I opened up each box and found
something else.