25 May
2001
25 May
'01
8:25 p.m.
> Shoot! Usually they just pull and trash the
hard drive :-( I don't
> know what happens to the books but it's rare to get manuals with ANYTHING
> that gets surplused. I've heard rumors that because of copyright laws (or
> some othe lame reason) they can't "re-sell" the manuals and have to
destroy
> them. Does anyone know what the exact reason is?
Routinely at the university surplus places I go to, all the "paper" stuff
goes in the trash. My first stop in such places is of course the trash, but
the practice goes too far up the chain so that most "paper" goes in the
local trash can, and isn't passed along with the equipment unless its a
bunch of clean the closet boxes of junk.
Recent finds include a set of boxed Sun manuals, DeskSparq apparently for
the IPX (which I have a few of in my collection).
Recent non finds, a big two shelf vertical filing cabinet "thing" came in,
but instead of folders each shelf was fitted with a row of floppy storage
boxes, freshly dumped of course.