That place bit me hard. I had a too-big microcomputer collection that came with me from San Jose to Austin in 2004. At first I would drop by Computer Works wh

That place bit me hard. I had a too-big microcomputer collection that came with me from San Jose to Austin in 2004. At first I would drop by Computer Works when I was passing by, but it was almost never open, a bad sign. My wife prevailed on me to reduce my collection, so I thought of them. I had fully work HP-85 (except the tape drive), HP-86, and HP-87 computers, with manuals, disk drives, many ROM options, manuals, and software. It had taken me about five years of haunting ebay and bay area HAMfests to collect it all. When I went to Computer Works, the guy at the register said to donate at the regular Goodwill next door. I was leery, but OK, it is their shop. I drove around the back, told the guy this was donations for the Computer Works and that everything was organized into groups -- hardware/software specific for a given machine was together. I started unloading my car into piles, and on the third or fourth trip I noticed that the receiving guy completely ignored me and had taken all the printed material and chucked it into a huge bin along with all the other random books and magazines they collected. I just about blew a gasket, but I promised my wife I would get rid of it. I came back a few times in subsequent months, and it never showed up in the museum, and it never showed up on their "for sale" section. I assume it all got recycled.