Sad experience

Hmm sounds like you could have just walked out with them and no one would know what to do - is it shoplifting if it wasn't for sale? Would they even know if it was theirs? The wonders of the learned beauracracy. -> -----Original Message----- -> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of John Foust -> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 4:01 PM -> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> Subject: Sad experience -> -> -> -> Today at the UW-Madison surplus sale, a favorite haunt, -> I found a box containing eight or nine software boxes. -> -> Sure enough, it looked like a complete set of all the -> software from IBM that shipped with the original IBM PC -> circa 1982: DOS 1.1, 2.0 and the full UCSD p-System, including -> FORTRAN, the assembler and Pascal. Everything pristine. -> All disks in place. The shrinkwrap was still around a -> few of the boxes. -> -> No price on the box, so I search for the Pricing Guy. -> "Sorry, we can't sell software." I knew about this -> policy - the University destroys all the software it -> can no longer use. I'm sad that I found the item on -> the sale floor but can't buy it. He refers me to Boss #1. -> -> He says "we can't sell that, how did that get out here? -> Go talk to Boss #2." Boss #2 says "Three dollars." -> Back to Pricing Guy. I say, "Boss #2 said three bucks." -> Boss #1 is still within earshot, he says "Boss #2 can't -> do that." (So why did you send me to him?) -> -> Boss #1 takes the box and heads for the back room, -> where the disks will be "recycled" and the manuals -> shredded. -> -> - John -> www.threedee.com/jcm ->