[SunRescue] Suns going to the junkyard

[t12]

Yup, sounds like big-computer-company-trash syndrome.

Recently I was down at Cisco HQ, and noticed millions of signs about
'Frugility', with little writings about how not buying plane tickets in
advance costs them a million a year. Then I mosy over to their dumpster,
and find about $14mil worth of equipment in it. Lotsa unopened,
still-in-wrapper kina stuff. Its real sad, especially since i believe they
destory all their tech trash.. not sure on that tho

-t12





On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Bjrn Ramqvist wrote:

> I just have to share with you. Something horrible...
> 
> I talked to one of our biggest sponsors the other day, Sun, to see if I
> could get my hands on any equipment for our computer club. Sure, I got
> to the person responsible for taking care of trade-ins, which happen
> alot.
> He had been away for a week so I couln't reach him until the other day.
> He told me "a pity you couldn't reach me earlier, cause then I could
> have saved alot of equipment for you".
> 
> Apparently they dumped almost _two_full_trucks_ with equipment for
> recycling.
> He said it included some 150+ SS4/5 and atleast 50+ SS10!
> 
> Can anyone imagine, how I almost a sudden was ready to burst into
> tears?!?
> He percistently told me I didn't want the machines. Apparently they've
> been so beaten up by the shipment, that they looked more like they've
> been dropped from the 5th floor or something.
> 
> 
> (The story has a happy ending though)
> 
> The only advice he could give me, was to talk to Suns customers instead.
> If I could manage to pick up equipment at their place instead, and just
> inform Sun of whatever serialnumbers/models involved (to give the
> customer it's fair "trade-in"), we sure could get the equipment for
> free! Heck, sounds like a wonderful deal, so I did.
> Right now I'm waiting for a call to confirm that we have "green light"
> to go get whatever stuff available.
> I'll tell more about this later, when it's arriving.
> 
> 
> 
>         /Regards, Bjorn
> 
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