[SunRescue] RE: Suns going to the junkyard

[t12]

*Glancing at the cisco7000+hssi+atm-ds3 next to desk*

Friends on the tossing crews also helps alot. 

I've been wanting to find a way to get schools to toss out (free, and to
me and others intrested) some of the neater 'donated' equipment. My old
highschool in san francisco had some nice stuff, a few (nasa!) IRIS I's, a
VaxServer3600, some non-descript sun machines, etc. Incredibly old, but
very intresting machines.

-t12


On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Earl Baugh wrote:

> Yeah, being on the "tossing" crew works out pretty well.  I
> had a roommate in college who, with a friend, worked at an
> IBM PC repair depot (in the early '80's).  They had rules for 
> repairing machines, which included "maximum" time limits for
> trying to resolve various problems.  If you got to the time, 
> you were to pull any of the boards in question, and put them into 
> a "bin" and replace with new boards, until the machine got working.
> When the bin was full, they were to put the boards into a burlap
> bag, take it out the back door of the building, and pound on
> the bag with a sledge hammer.  A lot of "working" but misconfigured
> boards met their demise this way.  But, some boards managed to
> escape, and hide in my friends cars which, for some strange 
> reason, they had decided to park behind the building....8-)
> (Monitors also were subject to similar treatment...)
> 
> Helped build quite a few PC's from these escaped parts....
> 
> Earl
> 
> >Message: 28
> >Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:19:25 -0500 (EST)
> >From: Lyndon Griffin <lgriffin at BSD4US.ORG>
> >To: "'rescue at sunhelp.org'" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: RE: Re(2): [SunRescue] Suns going to the junkyard
> >Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> >
> >The best way to get around problems like these it to get assigned to the
> >tossing crews ;)  (speaking from military experience, of course)
> >
> ><:)  Lyndon Griffin
> >http://www.bsd4us.org
> >
> >On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, scohen - Stephen Cohen wrote:
> >
> >> Mike Nicewonger writes - 
> >> > ... they said they can't give any of it away cuz it might
> >> >look like they are favoring somebody over someone else.
> >> 
> >> They lied.  It's because they don't want to suffer the burden of having to prove they're not favoring anyone in the case that their hands are called.  Particularly for government, it doesn't want to set up the mechanism through which to prove non-favoritism.  It's really cheaper to simply toss it.
> >> 
> >> Mindless, isn't it?
> >> 
> 
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