[NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, March 13

[Robert A. Donaldson]

Dear Mac friends:

Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Tucker
Trainor, Bob Wray and Dave Sevick for joining me at
the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center today.

Today was another great day. We refurbished 24 Macs to increase our  
all-time refurbished total to 1,786. We only had to de-manufacture  
four Macs into components for recycling.

We're still working on the 400-Mac donation from the Keystone Oaks  
School District, which took very good care of their computers. They  
have a very low failure rate. If you run into a Keystone Oaks board  
member or administrator, please tell them thanks.

For those of you who may be looking for a good G4 Tower capable of  
running Leopard, we be working on an excellent candidate next Friday.  
It's a Mirror Drive Door Tower with a SuperDrive AND a Combo Drive, an  
80 gb hard drive, and over a gig of RAM. We'll be testing a 17-inch  
flat panel ADC Apple Studio Display to pair with it. This is NOT the  
model with 800 FireWire. If all goes well, it will be in the store by  
the end of the day.

We'll have another work day next Friday, March 20.

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.

Entry is only from the South 26th St. entrance. We cannot enter the
ComputerWorks Store and go through the back door as we used to.

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. The log book now has a separate tab
section just for our members to sign in and out.

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