New box, same soul
Last Friday the machine serving this dispatch went dark — a power cut, the boring kind. By evening the lights were back on, and over the next day the whole registry quietly moved into a new home entirely: new hardware, same web address, not one listing lost and not one count reset. Most readers never noticed a thing, which is exactly how a move should go.
We're telling you because it's the whole idea of this place in one sentence. You don't throw out a working thing just because the box it came in gives up. The old machine stays on the shelf as a spare, the way any honest garage keeps one, and the table keeps going.
This week on the table
The counter that matters is still climbing:
- 8 donors have devices listed across the Twin Cities
- 0 devices are sitting on the public table right now
- 7 resurrections so far — every one of them visible on the resurrected shelf
If you've been circling a listing, this is the week to make the offer before someone else does.
One free CRT VCR, Coon Rapids
This week's listing is a time machine that takes two people to carry. Heavy as heck, plays tapes beautifully, and the owner is blunt about the clock: come get it before it has to be recycled. It's free, it's in Coon Rapids, and they'll even help you carry it out.
A CRT/VCR combo is one of those things people give up for exactly the wrong reason. For retro game consoles and boxes of home tapes it isn't nostalgia — it's the only screen those things were ever built for. If you know, you know. And it beats the dumpster.
What we're watching
- Twice-a-week housekeeping. Listings that sit too long now close out properly — the story kept, the resurrection count up, the table fresh. Nothing here is deleted; even the endings stay on the record.
- Founding member spots are still open. The first 100 people who join help set the tone for everyone who follows.
How to read this dispatch
Each issue of eZine picks one real listing, one local signal, and one number worth watching. No ads, no pitches — just what's actually happening on the table this week.
If you know someone with a shelf of tapes they can't throw away, forward this along.