[X4U] Recycling Mac's

[Jim Scott]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 5:53 PM, William Morse wrote:

> Hi Jim-
>
> Where are you located?
>
> Bill
> On Feb 8, 2007, at 8:47 PM, Jim Scott wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 8, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Rod Duncan wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Guess the moral of the story is don't take "no" for an answer  
>>> when it comes to recycling our old Mac's. The old cliche...  
>>> someone's garbage is another's treasure still holds.
>>>
>>> Rod
>>
>> I've found new homes for more than 500 older Macs in the last 4.5  
>> years of my retirement. I've placed hundreds of 520-5400 all-in- 
>> ones everywhere from K-3 classrooms to needy kid's homes, and the  
>> like. Developmentally challenged kids up into their early teens  
>> seem to be especially comfortable using these older Macs. I find  
>> the Macs, clean/fix them, then load a fresh copy of the  
>> appropriate OS and a special software pack of about 80 freeware/ 
>> shareware/abandonware learning games and programs from the early  
>> '90s I've developed. The feedback I get from the new owners of  
>> these repurposed Macs is more rewarding than any paychecks I ever  
>> got. Plus it's nice to know that when these Macs do go to their  
>> final resting place, they will have been thoroughly and completely  
>> used up, not just determined to be obsolete for today's mainstream  
>> tasks.
>>
>> Jim
>> _______________________________________________

Bill,

I'm in Eureka, CA, about as far west as you can get in the lower 48.

Jim