[rescue] Death of a PDP-11/Clueless office people...

[Dave McGuire]

  Jesus.

  Dude...we ALL want your wife to change jobs.

  Can you salvage anything at all?  Even components will be
worthwhile.

    -Dave

On February 3, Mike Hebel wrote:
> <RANT>
> I just saw one of my most horrifying sight yet rescuing hardware.
> 
> A dumpster with a cut-up PDP-11CS in it.  They cut wires, broke
> boards, and then just discarded it with all the other trash.
> About the only thing that was intact was the brown metal case side/top.
> 
> It was from my wife's place of business, (she feels really bad that she
> didn't know it was worth anything to anyone), and the
> windows/networking woman there said "It's a piece of junk!  Just throw
> it out!" so they cut it up and tossed it.
> 
> The cluelessness of that office just amazes me.  They let a guy who
> regularly locks up their network of _Macs_ run the network/database
> stuff, the have FileMaker Pro up to 150,000 entries in one table and
> think that's ok, they gave keychains as Christmas bonus gifts, they
> didn't buy a maintenance contract on the Canon printing beast, and
> yet...they spent $700/chair for 6 Aerons for the conference room.
> 
> On top of everything else the main database guy gave my wife, the data
> entry person, the ability to import/merge tables in the database - and
> then blamed her when things screwed up.
> 
> I so want my wife to change jobs.
> *sigh* Maybe I can teach her programming...
> 
> </RANT>
> 
> Mike Hebel                       mailto:nimitz at owc.net
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf