[NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, January 22, 2010

[Milana Bizic]

Congratulations to these hard-working GENIUSES!  
And I love reading these reports!  Factual, but humorous as well.
Great job, Bob!  Great job all you special friends!!!!


Mim xoxooxox


On Jan 22, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Robert A. Donaldson wrote:

> Dear Mac friends:
> 
> Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, and Bob Wray for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center today. 
> 
> It's ALIVE.....
> 
> Today Rich Fitzgibbon and Charlie Hutchens did our first double transplant of G4 iMacs. To the casual observer, it appeared as brain surgery without all the cleanliness. Rich had one 17-inch model open on one bench, and Charlie had another, the donor with a dead logic board, open on the next bench.
> 
> After incorporating working parts from the donor, Rich carefully spread the fresh thermal paste and sealed the bottom. He plugged it in, and BOING!
> 
> This fine specimen is a 17-inch G4 iMac with an 80 gb hard drive, 1.0 gb RAM, a combo optical drive and Airport Extreme (G). Our tag number is 8693. Tell your friends... :-)
> 
> The donor sits on a shelf awaiting to give its 17-inch screen to a future surgery....
> 
> Our new knowledge wasn't confined to the workbench. At lunch we learned Charlie has mistakenly been using the ladies room at Cafe Davido for over a year now. Charlie expects new glasses to be in the works any day now...
> 
> We refurbished 11 Macs, but one of our 13 de-manufactured Macs had been previously refurbished by us, so our counter deducts it. Frankly, we don't think it's fair to be penalized like this, but Patrick Cranston made the rules when he designed the database. :-)
> 
> We also re-imaged two Macs from store returns. Our all-time total in now 2,308.
> 
> The weekly harping about not having enough keyboards and mice now commences:
> 
> Goodwill took in two dozen Macs this week, but only 10 USB keyboards and five USB mice. Yep. We still need them...
> 
> Our next scheduled workday is Friday, January 29. We'll be concentrating on Power Mac G4 Towers.
> 
> We hope to see you there!
> 
> Robert A. Donaldson
> radonaldson at mac.com
> (H) 412-922-3303
> (M) 412-477-9188
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