Hello All!

I love the thrift store! Especially Habitat for Humanity on 75% off day,

Last month I got the computer I run my BBS off of, and an LCD flat screen monitor for $7.50.

Today found me a NICE Dell flatscreen monitor, "One with a cool swivel stand that telescopes and fits nicely between my Dell Laptop and my other monitor" and an older compaq presario laptop for $2.50, Everything has worked well so far. just needed cleaning.. I do need to find a power adapter for the old laptop though.

Now I have a Dual moniter setup on my Debian 8 Jesse dell system and it rocks! loving it, Now I can call my system TriPod, but I thing Angus had a copyright on that.. SO I shall call The Debian system Zaphod, and the BBS system "Dummie" since it runs XP and is slow as Zaphods lower head :)

HAhahah..

Pisssss..... But it was 99 cents.. lol

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Re: Thrift Store
By: kk4qbn to All on Tue Dec 13 2016 06:44 pm

I love the thrift store! Especially Habitat for Humanity on 75% off day,

Last month I got the computer I run my BBS off of, and an LCD flat screen monitor for $7.50.

Today found me a NICE Dell flatscreen monitor, "One with a cool swivel stand that telescopes and fits nicely between my Dell Laptop and my other monitor" and an older compaq presario laptop for $2.50, Everything has worked well so far. just needed cleaning.. I do need to find a power adapter for the old laptop though.

Man, I really wish our thrift stores would have such awesome finds like that. I have looked in a couple of Goodwills here and all they have are just junk. I had one find for my two kids that was an awesome deal (a play set was on sale at Goodwill for ~$30, retail is about ~$150), but nothing in the electronics department. :(

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Re: Thrift Store
By: jagossel to kk4qbn on Tue Dec 13 2016 08:46 pm

Man, I really wish our thrift stores would have such awesome finds like that. I have looked in a couple of Goodwills here and all they have are just junk. I had one find for my two kids that was an awesome deal (a play set was on sale at Goodwill for ~$30, retail is about ~$150), but nothing in the electronics department. :(

I have to drive about 40 miles south of me to Cartersville to do it, but its worth it.. anytime any of the Goodwill, or Salvation Army around here get any computer gear they think they are sitting on a gold mine and price it at an awful price, I understand why though, because the idiots around here buy it as soon as it hits the floor. So I take a trip to cartersville about twice a week just to go thrift shopping. dude, they have thrift shops down there that GIVE dvds away, so of course these are the stores I make sure that I donate my items to. :)

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On 2016-12-14 01:44 AM, kk4qbn wrote:

Hello All!

I love the thrift store! Especially Habitat for Humanity on 75% off day,

Last month I got the computer I run my BBS off of, and an LCD flat screen monitor for $7.50.

Today found me a NICE Dell flatscreen monitor, "One with a cool swivel stand that telescopes and fits nicely between my Dell Laptop and my other monitor" and an older compaq presario laptop for $2.50, Everything has worked well so far. just needed cleaning.. I do need to find a power adapter for the old laptop though.

Now I have a Dual moniter setup on my Debian 8 Jesse dell system and it rocks!
loving it, Now I can call my system TriPod, but I thing Angus had a copyright on that.. SO I shall call The Debian system Zaphod, and the BBS system "Dummie"
since it runs XP and is slow as Zaphods lower head :)

HAhahah..

Pisssss..... But it was 99 cents.. lol

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Macklemore vibes

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Re: Re: Thrift Store
By: Deavmi to kk4qbn on Wed Dec 14 2016 10:40 am

Macklemore vibes

Was wondering if anyone would get it :)

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Re: Re: Thrift Store
By: kk4qbn to Deavmi on Wed Dec 14 2016 08:28 am

Re: Re: Thrift Store
By: Deavmi to kk4qbn on Wed Dec 14 2016 10:40 am

Macklemore vibes

Was wondering if anyone would get it :)

Yea, I got the reference; my wife loves that song. Sometging about having $20 in his pocket and going to "pop some tags" (what it sounds like to me)?

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On 12/13/16, kk4qbn said the following...

Hello All!

I love the thrift store! Especially Habitat for Humanity on 75% off day,

Last month I got the computer I run my BBS off of, and an LCD flat screen monitor for $7.50.

Nice find! Usually the computers at the store around here are $10 or so but are usually missing the side of the case or have been gutted. I did manage
to find an old 486 a few years ago, floppy drives, tape drive and all. I did need to replace the CMOS battery, it forgot everything every time I shut it off.

Immortal

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Re: Re: Thrift Store
By: Immortal to kk4qbn on Wed Dec 14 2016 10:18 am

I'm curious to know what you wound up doing with the 486. DOS gaming rig? OS/2?

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Immortal wrote to kk4qbn <=-

Nice find! Usually the computers at the store around here are $10 or
so but are usually missing the side of the case or have been gutted. I did manage to find an old 486 a few years ago, floppy drives, tape
drive and all. I did need to replace the CMOS battery, it forgot everything every time I shut it off.

Here, they stopped accepting and selling electrical goods for some reason of safety regulations. :(


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On 12/14/16, mr_chris said the following...

I'm curious to know what you wound up doing with the 486. DOS gaming
rig? OS/2?

I used it as a gaming rig for awhile and then it disappeared somewhere along the line when we moved. :(

Immortal

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On 12/14/16, mr_chris said the following...

I'm curious to know what you wound up doing with the 486. DOS gaming
rig? OS/2?

I used it as a gaming rig for awhile and then it disappeared somewhere along the line when we moved. :(

Immortal

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Re: Re: Thrift Store
By: jagossel to kk4qbn on Wed Dec 14 2016 08:52 am

Macklemore vibes

Was wondering if anyone would get it :)

I was wondering about that line... lol

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Re: Re: Thrift Store
By: jagossel to kk4qbn on Wed Dec 14 2016 08:52 am

Re: Re: Thrift Store
By: kk4qbn to Deavmi on Wed Dec 14 2016 08:28 am

Re: Re: Thrift Store
By: Deavmi to kk4qbn on Wed Dec 14 2016 10:40 am

Macklemore vibes

Was wondering if anyone would get it :)

Yea, I got the reference; my wife loves that song. Sometging about having $2

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in his pocket and going to "pop some tags" (what it sounds like to me)?

Lol. Imma' pop dem tags (we never really know what they say in songs these days)

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I love the thrift store! Especially Habitat for Humanity on 75% off day,

Last month I got the computer I run my BBS off of, and an LCD flat screen monitor for $7.50.

Today found me a NICE Dell flatscreen monitor, "One with a cool swivel stand that telescopes and fits nicely between my Dell Laptop and my other monitor" and an older compaq presario laptop for $2.50, Everything has worked well so far. just needed cleaning.. I do need to find a power adapter for the old laptop though.

It would be nice to find working computer stuff in thrift stores. My local Goodwills and other stores sometimes have computers and monitors and such, but I don't really trust it enough to buy from most thrift stores. I imagine many people donate computer stuff because it isn't fully working. However, there is a store in my area (called Free Geek) that takes computer donations and restores them and sells them, and I think they typically have some good deals on PCs.

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On 2017/03/21 7:38 PM, Nightfox wrote:

I love the thrift store! Especially Habitat for Humanity on 75% off day,

Last month I got the computer I run my BBS off of, and an LCD flat screen
monitor for $7.50.

Today found me a NICE Dell flatscreen monitor, "One with a cool swivel stand >> that telescopes and fits nicely between my Dell Laptop and my other monitor" >> and an older compaq presario laptop for $2.50, Everything has worked well so >> far. just needed cleaning.. I do need to find a power adapter for the old
laptop though.

It would be nice to find working computer stuff in thrift stores. My local Goodwills and other stores sometimes have computers and monitors and such, but
I don't really trust it enough to buy from most thrift stores. I imagine many
people donate computer stuff because it isn't fully working. However, there is
a store in my area (called Free Geek) that takes computer donations and restores them and sells them, and I think they typically have some good deals on PCs.

Nightfox

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I;ve heard of Free Geek. They're awesome.

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Re: Thrift Store
By: Nightfox to kk4qbn on Tue Mar 21 2017 09:38 am

It would be nice to find working computer stuff in thrift stores. My local Goodwills and other stores sometimes have computers and monitors and such, but I don't really trust it enough to buy from most thrift stores. I imagine many people donate computer stuff because it isn't fully working.

you can go on shopgoodwill.com

i see a lot of 4 i5's for 200 bucks. i dont know if they are selling all 4 but you have to pay shipping which is a lot. they say they tested them but they are also 'as is'
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Re: Thrift Store
By: Mro to Nightfox on Tue Mar 21 2017 09:14 pm

you can go on shopgoodwill.com

i see a lot of 4 i5's for 200 bucks. i dont know if they are selling all 4 but you have to pay shipping which is a lot. they say they tested them but they are also 'as is'

Interesting, I didn't know Goodwill took the time to catalog their stuff for a web site.

Nightfox

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Re: Thrift Store
By: Nightfox to Mro on Tue Mar 21 2017 20:20:08

Re: Thrift Store
By: Mro to Nightfox on Tue Mar 21 2017 09:14 pm

you can go on shopgoodwill.com

i see a lot of 4 i5's for 200 bucks. i dont know if they are selling al but you have to pay shipping which is a lot. they say they tested them they are also 'as is'

Interesting, I didn't know Goodwill took the time to catalog their stuff for web site.

Nightfox

No trift store where I live. Only a flea market. It's been so long I don't know if they have computer store. I know they have lots of clothes though. I'll post an update or make a post in the summer about it

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Re: Thrift Store
By: Bigbangnet to Nightfox on Wed Mar 22 2017 07:51 pm

Re: Thrift Store
By: Nightfox to Mro on Tue Mar 21 2017 20:20:08

Re: Thrift Store
By: Mro to Nightfox on Tue Mar 21 2017 09:14 pm

you can go on shopgoodwill.com

i see a lot of 4 i5's for 200 bucks. i dont know if they are selling but you have to pay shipping which is a lot. they say they tested th they are also 'as is'

Interesting, I didn't know Goodwill took the time to catalog their stuff web site.

Nightfox

No trift store where I live. Only a flea market. It's been so long I don't k if they have computer store. I know they have lots of clothes though. I'll p an update or make a post in the summer about it

I went into the Goodwill thrift store by me for the 1st time today, they had several led monitors for $2.50 each, one was a Dell I almost bought it.

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On 2017-03-23 06:35 AM, Denn Gray wrote:

Re: Thrift Store
By: Bigbangnet to Nightfox on Wed Mar 22 2017 07:51 pm

Re: Thrift Store
By: Nightfox to Mro on Tue Mar 21 2017 20:20:08

Re: Thrift Store
By: Mro to Nightfox on Tue Mar 21 2017 09:14 pm

you can go on shopgoodwill.com

i see a lot of 4 i5's for 200 bucks. i dont know if they are selling
but you have to pay shipping which is a lot. they say they tested th
they are also 'as is'

Interesting, I didn't know Goodwill took the time to catalog their stuff
web site.

Nightfox

No trift store where I live. Only a flea market. It's been so long I don't k
if they have computer store. I know they have lots of clothes though. I'll p
an update or make a post in the summer about it

I went into the Goodwill thrift store by me for the 1st time today, they had several led monitors for $2.50 each, one was a Dell I almost bought it.

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Re: Thrift Store
By: Denn Gray to Bigbangnet on Wed Mar 22 2017 10:35 pm

I went into the Goodwill thrift store by me for the 1st time today, they had several led monitors for $2.50 each, one was a Dell I almost bought it.

It's great to know my local sanitation company can take e-waste for free in our recycling bins equal to a desktop PC or 17" monitor, so I can buy a $2.50 monitor and toss it if it doesn't work. :)

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Re: Re: Thrift Store
By: Deavmi to Denn Gray on Thu Mar 23 2017 07:12 pm

In America things are so damn cheap. In South Africa everything is an investment.

Its not always that way, I have to drive to Atlanta practically to get a deal on anything, Anytime a thrift store in this area gets their hands on anything electronic, they think they have landed in a gold mine.. It's crazy, I've seen them price stuff for more than you can buy it new.

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Re: Thrift Store
By: Poindexter Fortran to Denn Gray on Thu Mar 23 2017 04:07 pm

I went into the Goodwill thrift store by me for the 1st time today,
they had several led monitors for $2.50 each, one was a Dell I
almost bought it.

Most places let you test them, if it turns on and you can get to a menu, than it usually should work, thats been my experience anyway.

I've bought four led monitors, one being a Dell 17" with a very nice telescopic swiveling type stand that allowes me to move the monitor pretty much all over my desktop, have'nt payed over 5 dollars for any one of them and all are still working great.

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NIGHTFOX wrote to MRO <=-

Interesting, I didn't know Goodwill took the time to catalog their
stuff for a web site.

Not everything, just the things that might bring more than just a few
bucks in the store. I've never found a comic book in one, but I've
seen several old comics on the site.


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