In a message dated 10/25/99 9:32:34 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
lemay(a)cs.umn.edu writes:
Well, it looks like the University of Minnesota is
having another
beautiful U day... this is something the latest U president came up with
a few years ago, basically instead of departments on campus having to
pay to dispose of old and obsolete equipment, on a Beautiful U day, they
put out tons of bins all over campus, and the departments can toss in all
the old computers and such they want, and the university will pay the
disposal fees (as opposed to the individual departments paying).
Anyways, this means there may be jems appearing soon. For example,
I just saw a HP 85 out in the hallway, I assume someone is jumping
the gun on cleaning their areas... Is anyone dieing to have a HP 85?
is there anything else I should be looking for? In the past few years,
I usualy have seen at least one Apple ][+, IBM PS/2's, etc.
sure would be nice to have all the memory simms out the PS/2s that get thrown
out... Unfortunately, they always seem to command a premium price. if you
can't grab entire machines, even cards or memory or even hard drives would be
worth getting.