IBM 540MB old hard drive

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Hi Jim,
 
I'm going to the City of Chicago recycling center on Goose Island this weekend to dump some old monitors. I'll let you know if there is anything interesting there. Otherwise, as you say, the thrift stores in Chicago are worthless. I had much better luck with the dumpster out behind a local computer repair place near Northeastern Illinois University (5600 N, 3500W) until they moved. From the junk discarded, it looked like they had contracts to service copy machines and some document scanning systems, as well as PC's. You might want to leave word with places like that about what you are interested in.
 
Bob

P.S. Jim, my email to trixter at oldskool.org was bounced with the following message:
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:33:59 -0500
From: Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org>
Subject: Re: IBM 540MB old hard drive
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Paxton Hoag wrote:
> In Portland Oregon I would try the Free Geeks Thrift Store on 10th St
> east side 2 blocks south of Hawthorn.
> 
> In Eugene Oregon I would look at NextStep Recycling thrift store. They
> often have 2 inch hard drives but I haven't looked at them.
Are there any of these kinds of stores in the Chicagoland area?  The 
only one I know of is Software Re-Runs, but that's more of a repair shop 
than a recycler/thrift.
I have had *zero* out of at least 20 goodwill store successes (99% of 
the computer stuff is old VGA monitors) so that's out in this area.
-- 
Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org)