a2fan@hotmail.com wrote:
"Free computer to good home. Apple IIGS, not PC or Mac compatible, hate to throw it away" I always check out those ads. I've opened a lot of cases, and sometimes I'd get extra lucky.
Be glad you don't live in Burlington, VT. We've been in a huge "green" electronics disposal spasm for the past three years, while simultaneously all the Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc. stores stopped accepting computers. The net is all the good stuff has been ground up for precious metal reclamation.