Picked up job at electronic recycling center

-----Original Message----- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of devin davison via cctalk Sent: 30 October 2017 03:40 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Picked up job at electronic recycling center I recently picked up a job at an electronic recycling center. Harris is right around the corner from us, as well as a bunch of technical schools and aerospace related businesses. All of thier old stuff ends up at the shop to be resold as surplus or broken down and scrapped. There tends to be to much to process, and inside space is limited. Excess equipment is stored outside in tents, and it goes to crap quite quickly unfortunately. The humidity and rain destroys stuff outside quickly. I am uncertain of how many requests I will get, but if anyone is looking for something in particular, please send me an email and I will keep an eye out for you. The place is a goldmine, and a lot of nice older gear is going to waste because the store owners do not know what it is. Examples of stuff that comes in are old microcomputers like the c64, nice 486 like machines with good isa cards in them, TONS of HP and tectronics test equipment, ham radio gear, you name it. There is a ton of good stuff here, i am trying to find some a good home before it gets stripped out. Some of this stuff works fine, the tandy 1000 computer I picked up this weekend works flawlessly for example. Other things are in a broken or parts state, but within reach of repair. There is a lot of new gear there as well, not many machines come in with nice graphics cards in them, but tons of workstations with lots of ram and hard drives are common. We get so many servers they are broken down almost immediately unless they are particularly new or unique in some way. Lets see how busy my inbox gets, if you are in need of something, please send me an email, i can keep an eye out for it and hopefully be of service.I work on Saturdays, that is the day i will be on site to look for things. Stuff will be priced as surplus/used. Hopefully i can be of use and keep some of this stuff out of the scrap pile.