Favorite Dumpster Dive (was: RE: [SunRescue] Sun3 emulation?)

[Gil Young]

I lived through the same with a gould firebreather, the license ran up for 
the beast and it went bye-bye.  I learned about it too late to dumpster 
dive for it :(.   Speaking of which, what was your favorite dumpster dive 
finds?

For me it was a quantel minicomputer, a PDP-11 rack with the lead weights 
still in the bottom.

Once at a silent auction, for 27 cents, I picked up an old IBM copier that 
was 6.5 feet long and weighed more than my truck.  I carried it in the back 
of my truck (a VW Diesel Pickup) about 4 miles too.  Ended up taking it 
apart and scrapping it.

At the same auction (and for the same price) I picked up an older AGFA high 
quality pre-printing machine.  It had about 3 dozen high quality lenses in 
it on spin trays and it still worked!

Gil

At 08:47 AM 5/2/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >> hardware; I know of 20+ 3/80's that hit the scrapper before I could do
> >> anything about it.
> > <horrified screech from da bald man> "Noooooooooooooo!"
> > -Pete
>
>because i was in a meeting, i missed the chance to save three DEC 3000/300LX
>boxes, a DEC 3000/700 and three VRC21-HA monitors.  what a complete fscking
>waste.
>
>because i didn't have $2500 handy (like i've got that to spare, although i 
>wish
>i had at the time) i had to watch two VAX 6000-410 boxes and a cabinet of 
>disks
>go off to the scrapper.
>
>pissed? me? of _course_ not.</sarcasm>
>
>-brian
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