8 Jul
2004
8 Jul
'04
7:03 p.m.
On Do, 8 juli, 2004 11:58 pm, Pete Turnbull zei:
Now, alas, that's illegal. There are too many
regulations about
disposal of electrical waste, electrical safety testing, and
liabilities, so we are required to have a totally enclosed skip that's
padlocked. Nowadays we would have to rely on the grapevine to let
interested parties know in advance so they can intercept items of
interest between the back door and the skip. Not that we would be so
irresponsible as to allow any dangerous items, eg terminal servers,
hubs, or PCs to go astray, of course.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Some 10 years ago when it was time to get rid of the old equipment
from the offices, they did send an email around telling
that it was
on display and everybody could buy it. Proces varied from a few
guilders
($0.50) for some boxes of floppies to about a hundred guilders ($50) for
a Apple laserwriter or Sun IPX.
You should have seen the mass of employees waiting more than half an hour
outside waiting to get in.
Among the stuff that did not go was a complete FDDI setup (sorry Pete)
we once used as a test environment for the new network planned at
that time.
Ed