[rescue] dumpster-diving news ($35,000)

[Leslie Connally]

just read this on cover of new NetworkWorld:

http://napps.nwfusion.com/compendium/archives/00000179.html

Compendium:

It's amazing what some people throw out

By Adam Gaffin
Network World Fusion, 07/02/02

DealMac has a forum on the best things dumpster divers have found in the
trash. Among them: Various Macintoshes, monitors and a rack-mounted RS/6000
server. But the winner has to be the guy who worked at a place in 1996
where they swapped out the main CPUs boards for its printers and just
dumped the main CPUs in trash boxes in the hall:

I picked one up just to take a look to see how they were made. I was
looking at the board and I spied ZIP memory, a form of high speed SDRAM, I
took down the
number and called a memory recycler I saw in the back of MacWeek magazine.
Well lo and behold they said they would give me $100 a piece for each one I
sent them, there was 16 per board and I had 20 boards sitting in and around
my office! They wanted the whole board so they could remove them without
damage. I packed them up and used the company's own UPS account to ship
them off, two weeks later I recieved a check for $35,000! There was also
other types of memory on the boards I wasn't aware of! Bought some cool
stuff and invested the rest! Yes, told the IRS and took the hit!

link:
http://dealmac.com/forums/read.html?f=1&i=792325&t=792325