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Article #5890Re: Silicon Valley Dumpster Crawl: The ideal Hacker Holiday?
From: John Logajan
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 15:32
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 15:32
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mwtilden@watmath.waterloo.edu (M.W.Tilden, Hardware) writes: >As an undergrad I supplemented a good part of my electronics needs >by jumping around dumpsters outside various University technical buildings. > >I got to thinking though, just imagine what the dumpsters around silicon >valley contain and would they be accessible to, say, a group of guys >on a 'crawl' from place to place with a small U-Haul. Ah, the difference the profit motive makes. Where I work (a for profit company) all scrap is collected and sold to scrap dealers. Paper, dead PC boards, obsolete PC boards and equipment -- everything. They only get pennies on the pound for it, however. -- - John Logajan @ Network Systems; 7600 Boone Ave; Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 - logajan@ns.network.com, 612-424-4888, Fax 612-424-2853
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!noc!ns!logajan From: logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Silicon Valley Dumpster Crawl: The ideal Hacker Holiday? Message-ID: <1990Aug29.153224.10538@ns.network.com> Date: 29 Aug 90 15:32:24 GMT References: <1990Aug27.174333.15870@watmath.waterloo.edu> Organization: Network Systems Corporation Lines: 18