eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

2011-05-06 Thread Ted Roche
A couple folks lamented missing the last opportunity. The nice folks at Small Dog Electronics have a no-cost event collecting eWaste and disposing of it responsibly. 21 May, 9 Am - 2 PM, Mall of New Hampshire, Food Court Parking Area Details here: http://www.smalldog.com/ewastenh -- Ted

Re: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

2011-05-06 Thread Joseph Smith
On 05/06/2011 04:19 PM, Ted Roche wrote: A couple folks lamented missing the last opportunity. The nice folks at Small Dog Electronics have a no-cost event collecting eWaste and disposing of it responsibly. 21 May, 9 Am - 2 PM, Mall of New Hampshire, Food Court Parking Area Details here:

Re: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

2011-05-06 Thread Jon maddog Hall
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 17:29 -0400, Joseph Smith wrote: On 05/06/2011 04:19 PM, Ted Roche wrote: A couple folks lamented missing the last opportunity. The nice folks at Small Dog Electronics have a no-cost event collecting eWaste and disposing of it responsibly. 21 May, 9 Am - 2 PM,

Re: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

2011-05-06 Thread Ted Roche
On 05/06/2011 05:29 PM, Joseph Smith wrote: On 05/06/2011 04:19 PM, Ted Roche wrote: Details here: http://www.smalldog.com/ewastenh I found it humerus that they have a bunch of pics of Mac's on the webpage :-) Well, they're pretty and colorful and all, but some of those boxes must be 10

Re: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

2011-05-06 Thread Ted Roche
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote: Their Flickr pages have some amazing pictures of the truckloads of stuff they collected, including giant TVs, CRT and projection, and lots of other junk. Link: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjsk5w6i -- Ted Roche Ted Roche

Re: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

2011-05-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jon \maddog\ Hall mad...@li.org writes: On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 17:29 -0400, Joseph Smith wrote: On 05/06/2011 04:19 PM, Ted Roche wrote: Details here: http://www.smalldog.com/ewastenh I found it humerus that they have a bunch of pics of Mac's on the webpage :-) Well, they are

Re: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

2011-05-06 Thread Jon maddog Hall
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 17:53 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Jon \maddog\ Hall mad...@li.org writes: On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 17:29 -0400, Joseph Smith wrote: On 05/06/2011 04:19 PM, Ted Roche wrote: Details here: http://www.smalldog.com/ewastenh I found it humerus that they have

Re: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

2011-05-06 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Jon maddog Hall mad...@li.org wrote: I still have my old SEARS portable, manual (non-electric) typewriter in my closet. I still have my Corona Model 3 typewriter. Built circa 1920. Just Corona; it was before they merged with Smith. It belonged to my

Re: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

2011-05-06 Thread David Hardy
I took a typing class in high school back in the late 60s and was the only boy in the class. Clever bastard, eh? But I learned to type real well and to this day can manage 51 WPM, no errors. Only drawback was that for years of soldier and cop work, I was the designated report writer. And the

The death of manual typewriters (was: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH)

2011-05-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com writes: I have long since lost track of, or simply lost, the couple of manual typewriters I used to have, and I am given to understand that Olivetti of Italy was/is? the last manufacturer of them. I think I saw this on Slashdot a week or two ago; but,

Re: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

2011-05-06 Thread Dan Jenkins
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Jon maddog Hall mad...@li.org wrote: I still have my old SEARS portable, manual (non-electric) typewriter in my closet. I learned to type on a Royal 10 (a 1919 model, I think). I kept getting my small fingers (I was 5 or 6 years old) stuck between the keys.

Re: The death of manual typewriters (was: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH)

2011-05-06 Thread Jon maddog Hall
The last factory producing manual, non-electric typewriters[15], Godrej and Boyce in Mumbai, India, was closed down in 2011 Uh Oh, I was in Ghana last year and there was a whole raft of people sitting outside the post office with manual typewriters typing up government forms in

Re: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

2011-05-06 Thread Jon maddog Hall
Why, when I was growing up, we didn't even have air! ;-) They tell me I had air, but there was no home air conditioning that anyone could afford, and in Baltimore during the 1950s, that meant hot, humid summer nights for a young kid lying in bed, dripping in sweat. Those were the days

Re: The death of manual typewriters (was: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH)

2011-05-06 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: I think I saw this on Slashdot a week or two ago; but, quoting Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#End_of_an_era: Someone on Slashdot commented that it wasn't the factory that was closing, but the