X-10 (was Re: controlling power)

I've gotten tons of stuff like that from my last two employers - offered to test and/or repair for some overtime but they just wanted to get rid of the stuff. I presently have a Dell 17" monitor I use in the shop that was thrown out by day shift and I reclaimed - needed a tweek on the brightness pot and it's been fine for the last year. Like wise I got 2 4.3gb Microplis SCSI drives that were "defective" but only needed someone that knew how they are supposed to be terminated to make them work right. They're my main drives for my RAID array in my Dell 486 server (with Kingston Turbochip 133). -> -----Original Message----- -> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks -> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 2:30 PM -> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> Subject: Re: X-10 (was Re: controlling power) -> > I pawed through the boxes, too, but after seeing "reject" written on -> > 80% of the items, I opted not to waste any more time. -> -> Me, too, although I have bought items at Dayton marked -> "defective" - got a -> 3Com 3c905 that way for free - the seller threw it in as a -> freebie because -> I bought _something_ from him - took it home, plugged it in and am still -> using it. I suspected that the thing that was most likely to be -> defective -> was the bench-tech who tested it. I was right. Doesn't mean I want to -> test 200 lamp modules, though. -> -> -ethan