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Re: What have you found on the "side of the road"?
« on: May 16, 2010, 01:03:08 PM »
- a VIC-20
- a TRS-80 CoCo2
- a Vectrex
- about a dozen PCs of various configurations
- a non working Commodore 1702 monitor (didn't keep it after trying to repair it).
- an Amiga 500 in the box that someone was going to throw out (but wasn't quite in the dumpster).

In general I really like these new e-waste recycling programs.  They get rid of the piles of old PCs that no-one wants anyway.  However, they really suck for people who collect old retro-computers (like Commodores).  In the pre-e-waste days, people might have actually donated them to Goodwill or tried to sell them at a garage sale - where it might have ended up in the hands of a responsible collector/restorer.

Now, they just haul down that vintage Amiga or PET computer to the e-waste and gladly hand it over along with the four year old PC to be mascerated and salvaged for the gold, etc.
Music I've made using Amigas and other retro-instruments: http://theovoids.bandcamp.com