[NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, January 8, 2010

[Robert A. Donaldson]

Dear Mac friends:

Many thanks to John Hamill, Tucker Trainor, Nathan Brentzel and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center yesterday.

We took a break from shoveling snow to fire up the workbenches at the CRC to begin a new year of refurbishing Macs. We had to wade our way in through a month's worth of Mac donations that have been accumulating since we took off for the holiday season.

We quickly learned that quite possibly everyone in Pittsburgh with a broken Blue-and-White G3 Tower dropped it off at Goodwill in the past four weeks; we de-manufactured 12 of them. We also tested and consigned for recycling 10 17-inch Apple CRT Studio Displays. We also just happened to refurbish four Macs to bring our all-time total to 2,292.

I hate to revisit an old topic, but we really are critically short of Mac ADB keyboards and mice. We have just over 100 keyboards in stock, but are quickly approaching 300 refurbished Macs in stock.

This will be a particularly difficult issue for use as Dave Sevick's newly-formed Mac Missionaries will be purchasing our refurbished Macs from Goodwill to distribute through the organization's developing programs.

A lack of keyboards and mice will limit how much Goodwill can sell, regardless of the number of Macs available.

Please check those closets and drawers, and pass the word to friends.....

Our next scheduled workday is Friday, January 15.

I'm delighted to tell you that construction along East Carson St. in front of Goodwill has been completed, and the street is wider. In the immortal words of Kevin Bacon in Animal House, "All is well."

We hope to see you on Friday!

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