8 Feb
2006
8 Feb
'06
11:11 p.m.
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
When I was at university (both undergrad and grad
student), I had
permission to 'skip dive' (same thing as dumpster diving, I guess).
Over here we still have. If only there was a bit of an announcement
before...would sometimes save dangerous stunts. I once dug back to
the bottom of a nearly half-filled container to rescue a Sun Ultra 1
*and* had it snatched away minutes later while I was getting a cart
to haul away my stuff. Bummer.
Among the things I recovered were :
An HP2100A minicomputer with 7900 disk (that was in poor condtiion
as it landed on the front panel) and paper tape reader
Broken trim and bad harddisks are alas common consequences of people
treating as trash what they consider trash. Nearly made me jump down
from a 2nd floor window when I heard the racket and saw
somebody
hurtling a Sun IPX into that same skip so hard it broke open!
I also missed several boxes of VMEbus cards that day.
My best and biggest dumpster pick up to now was a Sun SPARCserver 1000.
It was piled atop a fully loaded skip so I had to stand on the maybe 4"
wide side rail clinging to the rim and carefully balance it on the wall
so I could jump down and get it.
Note on dumpsters on private property:
Over here in Europe you often only have to ring the bell and ask and
you get invited to help yourself to whatever you want from there -
that's how it usually works for me.
Cheers,
--
Arno Kletzander
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8 Feb
8 Feb
11:26 p.m.
On 2/9/2006 at 8:11 AM Arno Kletzander wrote:
Note on dumpsters on private property:
Over here in Europe you often only have to ring the bell and ask and
you get invited to help yourself to whatever you want from there -
that's how it usually works for me.
Many of the larger firms (read: the ones with really good stuff to throw
out) employ a hydraulic compactor to reduce the volume of trash. I cannot
imagine for one second any facilities person allowing you near such a
device. Most of the really good equipment that I've seen people get was
done by arrangement with the facilities staff to have the aforementioned
goodie mysteriously disappear off the loading dock before hitting the
dumpster. A little cash can sometimes result in great favors.
Cheers,
Chuck
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