[NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Feb. 14

[Robert A. Donaldson]

Dear Mac friends:

Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, Tucker  
Trainor, and Bob Wray for joining me at the Goodwill Computer  
Recycling Center last Friday, February 13. As always, Marty Swartz  
works at home on our Mac laptops and shows up from time to time to  
drop off his contributions to the bottom line.

We refurbished 8 more Macs, and counting Marty's recent work, our all- 
time total is now 1,682.

We'll have another work day this Friday, February 20. By then we hope  
to learn how successful our recent word-of-mouth/email campaign to  
make people aware of the Goodwill ComputerWorks store Mac offerings  
has been. We worked hard on Friday to make a good supply of OS 9 and  
OS X iMacs available to the store sales people.

As a gentle reminder, please note Goodwill has finally re-instituted  
the security procedures they were using in the Lawrenceville facility  
before the CRC moved to the South Side. Security cameras have been  
activated, and the metal detector at the exit has been switched on and  
staffed.

We are asked to stop at the reception desk at the main lobby to sign  
in to get a volunteer badge, then sign in to the log book at the CRC  
entrance at the metal detector.

We followed these procedures when we were in the Lawrenceville  
building, and it's taken Goodwill some time to re-install all the  
devices to cover the area with video surveillance.

These measures are to make sure data on disk drives does not get out  
of the building before the drives can be securely erased or destroyed.  
Goodwill is serious about this, as everyone should be. Any incident of  
data from the drives they are entrusted to wipe or destroy getting out  
would destroy the credibility of their operation, and lead to people  
sending computers elsewhere for recycling.

So please, check in. It takes two minutes, and we're not in any hurry.

Hope to see you there!


Robert A. Donaldson
radonaldson at mac.com
(H) 412-922-3303
(M) 412-477-9188