Subj : Am I the only one dumpster diving ?
To   : knightbbs
From : Spectre
Date : Mon May 23 2022 14:00:00

 kn> For some reason I regularly hunt down old compters at the local recycling

I regularly trundle past our local waste transfer station.  They used to have
a free for all where all the gear was dumped in a bin or two and you could
just have at it.  Unfortunately as these things go, people were running off
with the RAM and CPUs so they put the kibosh on that, and made it so that you
weren't allowed to open the boxes cost per box was $5 so it wasn't to bad..
that lasted for a bit but people kept opening them up and leaving a mess.  So
the stopped that completely, and you have to wait for someone to decide what
they think they might be able to shift through their "recycle store".
Unfortunately this is a really low percentage of the stuff that comes
through, and tends to just be PeeCee stuff. So not so good any more.

I used to know a couple of locations, mostly with IT businesses that would
regularly throw out a heap of stuff at the end of each financial year.  They
would have serious dumpsters, like 12 cubic metres or more... everything from
antique terminals, an IBM 3270 went past, and all sorts of other stuff,
truckloads of cabling the works.  I'm not in decent enough shape to try and
manage that kind of dumpster diving anymore.  With a knackered back, I'd
probably last lifting/moving half a dozen items, and I'd have to reach for
the serious pain relief.

It was always a good time though, you never knew what you were going to see,
if it worked... all the rest...

Spec


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