15 Jun
2007
15 Jun
'07
6:43 p.m.
Interesting - they do state: "If you still have
this item please
contact Government Liquidation within 19 working days to coordinate
the return of this property." So what happens if you do not 'have'
this item any more.
This is exactly what End Use Certificates are for. They track the item
until it is destroyed.
In some cases of the past, with no EUC and the military knocking on
the door of someone who scraps an item, the result generally is not
horrible - they usually just want the important parts.
Extremely rarely does one get the Black Helicopter treatment.
--
Will
15 Jun
15 Jun
6:59 p.m.
When I was a kid, I used to deal with the John Meshna
company. They sold great electronic surplus.
Supposedly, the government once sold a lot of
Sidewinder missile IR seeker heads to them, which they
then sold to hobbyists. These were highly classified
at the time, and this was a big boo-boo. Meshna
turned over their buyer records, and the government
recovered the parts.
--Bill
7:46 p.m.
On 6/15/07, William Maddox <wmaddox at pacbell.net> wrote:
When I was a kid, I used to deal with the John Meshna
company. They sold great electronic surplus.
Supposedly, the government once sold a lot of
Sidewinder missile IR seeker heads to them, which they
then sold to hobbyists. These were highly classified
at the time, and this was a big boo-boo. Meshna
turned over their buyer records, and the government
recovered the parts.
--Bill
I bought a big lot of circuit boards and small mechanical servos from a TI
plant's employee surplus store once. I wasn't an employee but as an
employee of a contractor on site, I was allowed access to the store. I was
planning on salvaging chips from the boards. The next week the manager over
the store and a couple of other serious looking people from TI showed up in
the section I was working and asked my the disposition of the boards and
servos. I explained that I had de-soldered some of the boards but had the
chips and still had not done anything with the servos.
They met me at my house a hour later and took the box of boards, servos,
salvaged chips and all hardware from that lot. The boards and servos were
from Paveway bomb kits. The next day I was refunded my
original purchase
price, given a $100 store credit and a new in box TI99/4A.
--
www.blackcube.org - The Texas State Home for Wayward and Orphaned Computers
11:01 p.m.
On 15 Jun 2007 at 15:59, William Maddox wrote:
When I was a kid, I used to deal with the John Meshna
company. They sold great electronic surplus.
Supposedly, the government once sold a lot of
Sidewinder missile IR seeker heads to them, which they
then sold to hobbyists. These were highly classified
at the time, and this was a big boo-boo. Meshna
turned over their buyer records, and the government
recovered the parts.
Hey, I remember the sales circular! I was sore tempted to buy one...
Cheers,
Chuck
17 Jun
17 Jun
7:15 p.m.
When I was a
kid, I used to deal with the John Meshna
company. They sold great electronic surplus.
Supposedly, the government once sold a lot of
Sidewinder missile IR seeker heads to them, which they
then sold to hobbyists. These were highly classified
at the time, and this was a big boo-boo. Meshna
turned over their buyer records, and the government
recovered the parts.
Hey, I remember the sales circular! I was sore tempted to buy one...
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