[NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update October 2, 2009

[Robert A. Donaldson]

Dear Mac friends:

Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, Tucker Trainor, and  
Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center  
today.

Despite the one-week layoff to dodge the G-20 headache, we managed to  
shake off the rust and have another productive day. We refurbished 27  
Macs and only had to de-manufacture five. We re-imaged another four  
from the ComputerWorks store. Adding the swell G5 iMac Marty Swartz  
raised to life from Capacitor Death, our all-time total is now 2,189.

We also begun preparing for a shipment of 50 iMacs being purchased  
from Goodwill by The Nyadire Connection, a Methodist mission in  
Nyadire, Zimbabwe. We've got the iMacs set aside, and are collecting  
mice, keyboards and power cords for packing. We've collected the  
appropriate Apple updates for our disk image and burned them on CDs  
for the new owners to update the iMacs in Zimbabwe.

With this shipment, we will have a critical shortage of Apple mice,  
and to a lesser extent, keyboards. We do not have enough of either to  
supply the iMacs we have already refurbished. Please check those  
closets and drawers....

A construction note: It's still there, only it's even worse. You know  
what to do :-)

We will have our next workday on Friday, October 9. Hope to see you  
there!


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