22 Apr
2005
22 Apr
'05
10:03 p.m.
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:34:46 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
I've been around said operations before. Often you have to be a bonded
employee to even see what's on the floor. And you'll NEVER be allowed
to take anything off the floor in anything bigger than granular size.
They sign NDA's with the places that ship them the gear, therefore the
machines don't need to be 'decomissioned' or the data wiped because a
secured, bonded disposal site is guaranteed to destroy it.
On Friday 22 April 2005 10:24, William Donzelli
wrote:
I wouldn't be so upset if I couldn't see a Sun E5x00/6x00 rack
sitting there in the forground, a system that's probably still worth
So find that place and offer them money for the stuff before they
shred it.
Check out
all four pages in the link under this photo (from
CNET): http://tinyurl.com/9e6le
Yes...recycling...bad thing...wouldn't want that... $1k, or
at least a few hundred $$, and
still a fairly desirable system. I
don't mind them recycling stuff that can't be resold to other people
for use, but when you start pitching perfectly sellable machines to
the shredder, perhaps you need to rethink your methods...