Alfonso Baz wrote:
We forgot to take the garbage out last week so when I found out I was going to have to make a trip to the dump I got all excited! An opportunity to fossick through electronic junk! Imagine my disappointment when I arrived at the landfill only to find mostly seagulls and discarded packaging ;(
Ah, yes! Well, you NEVER know what you'll come across. I go through the dumpsters here at Washington University when I have the time and inclination. One day it will be pizza boxes, the next day, a pile of digital oscilloscopes. I flipped a Nicolet transient digitizer on eBay for $100, all I had to do was clean the plastic in front of the CRT. I got an HP 100 MSa/sec 2 chan digital scope in perfect working order, but I'm going to KEEP that one! I got a complete SGI IRIS workstation with one bad board, and a guy in Germany sent me all the boards out of his system for a nominal fee. Tons of other stuff, from full rolls of wire to big metal pieces for the scrap bin in the shop. A bunch of usable, but a little old Pentium computers, some I am still using. A bunch of really fine CAD/CAM monitors that are still in use on some of my computers. But, you'll never know what will be there on any trip. Jon ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
