Subj : Re: Am I the only one dumpster diving ?
To   : Spectre
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon May 23 2022 06:47:00

-=> Spectre wrote to knightbbs <=-

 Sp> I used to know a couple of locations, mostly with IT businesses that
 Sp> would regularly throw out a heap of stuff at the end of each financial
 Sp> year.

 I went to work a couple of years ago, and on my first day, my boss,
 the CIO, told me what a mess I was walking into. He had to "kick some
 ass" before I got in to get rid of tons of crap that the previous
 manager left lying around.

 "We had 3 pallets of IBM PC XTs and ATs. 3 pallets!

 I gulped.

 They'd all gone to e-waste, and he'd gotten nothing for them. He
 probably paid to have them hauled off and thought he'd gotten a favor
 because they were so old.

 I wept inside.

 All that remained was one Model M keyboard and DOS 3.3 documentation
 in those 3-ring pressed-board binders.






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