On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Bruce Lane wrote:
  I was scanning the web during lunch, and I came across
a most
 interesting entry. Check this out...
        
http://www.hopco.com/surplus/s_free.htm 
I tried to move quickly given that collectible-computer dealers are known
to lurk and strike based on these tips.  Alas:
<<
Unfortunately, you're a couple months late :( I've got to find time to
update that list and remove that stuff.  This represented 20+years of
collection of "stuff" from the company I founded in 1973 (not HOPCO,
another one), and others there wanted to shut down the storage facility we
were using.  Well, they wanted to shut it down for a long time, that's why
I listed the free stuff.  It all went into a couple of BIG (30'x8'x6')
dumpsters this Summer.  I hated to see it go, but the "metal mongers" came
and picked a lot of it back out for the scrap metal value alone.  Sure
wish it could have gone to someone into electronics like you.
 > 
(sniff.)
-- Doug