Delightful. I left with 2 like new books about GWBasic and QBasic. Plus 3 solid old atx cases with guts inside. Plus reference to TCMakers, and reminiscence of long gone similar efforts. All for $15 but I left $40. As a fat old farmer in bib overalls I got pushed out by the intro tour of 20 newbie volunteers. They need more space for fat old farmers. For me, the books were a real find, but my new volunteer friend thought I was crazy. I remember when Basic on a hacked Altair 8800 board and cassette tape was new. And I tell the story how Finland's ftp://garbo.uwasa/msdos was full of hardware drivers when a SWede Finnish student decided to package them into an Intel platform Unix. Linus Torvalds was a product of his time and environment. So now we have next generation micro-micro hardware boards. And Basic still won't die. I am delighted to see recycled innovation is alive. J Cruit wrote: > Best folks on Earth, saved me when we needed to do forensics on an old > old machine providing us with an old cga monitor and some 5 1/4 floppies > all for free. > > On Dec 21, 2017 6:16 PM, "Ryan Coleman" <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz > <mailto:ryan.coleman at cwis.biz>> wrote: > > FreeGeek is where I go to give my old hardware new life (donated > upwards of $5,000 in gear there over the last five years) and also > go to find random one-offs I’m missing like 36-48” 4-pin molex power > cords. > > It’s a great place. > > As for a single volunteer (out of hundreds) I’m not surprised. There > are many people that go in and out and some are old mainframe guys > and some are 20-somethings in college. > > > > On Dec 21, 2017, at 7:14 AM, Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com > <mailto:eng at pinenet.com>> wrote: > > > > in south Minneapolis was fun to visit last Saturday. They combine > education, PC recycling and resale, and Linux introduction. They > rely on volunteers. They install XUbuntu Linux for new users. > Speaking with a long time volunteer, he seemed not to have heard > about TCLUG. > > > > My big urban adventure also included an inquiry regarding anybody > doing circuit board fabrication. I was referred to TwinCities Makers > dot org, a few blocks from Free Geeks. Their web site describes > interests that include soldering and Arduino. > > > > Both community groups were housed in nice old industrial structures. > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >