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Monitors

They had quite the system for unloading old TVs and computer and monitors and stuff at the recycling day at the Bayside Expo Center parking lot today - you drove up, popped the trunk, a couple guys emptied it out and a bunch of other guys put the stuff on pallets and wrapped it up.

We thought we had a lot of stuff - two old printers, a PC (took out the 5 1/4-inch Lemmings disk first, though), a laptop, a TV and various oddments (routers, modem cards, a mouse), but the woman ahead of us had an entire van full of monitors and TVs.

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Sad to see it get shrink-wrapped to a palette of junk.

Looks like an original or Fat Mac.

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Well, more likely to be a Mac Plus, really. But yes, it's certainly a pre-1987 model.

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looks like the original 128k to me.

Oh for the days we put together a weekly newspaper - Deerfield Valley News, Vermont - using four of these, cabled together with one 20 megabyte hard drive.

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The Mac 128K, 512K, 512KE, and Plus (and a few obscure variants, like the Mac ED) all had extremely similar looking cases. There's not enough detail in that photo to narrow it down any further. I wish that these recycling events would post pictures and just store the stuff briefly so that collectors could rescue the good stuff.

And yeah, I've got one of those HD20 hard drives that attached to the floppy port because SCSI wasn't available until the Plus came out. Good times. Kids today just don't know what it was like, upgrading memory by plugging in individual ICs, and when hundreds of kB was a lot.

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I thought this was only for computers and electronics...

why was that woman throwing out an aquarium?

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Oh, Wall-E.

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i wish they had these more than once a year!

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For a second I thought you meant my brother's old band (he was the drummer) and I got all excited to tell him about this post - then I remembered the game.

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Lots of little bouncy guys with green hair falling to their doom - unless you can help!

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