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Article #5909Re: Silicon Valley Dumpster Crawl: The ideal Hacker Holiday?
From: David B. Thomas
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 1990 04:31
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 1990 04:31
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hbg6@citek.mcdphx.mot.com writes: >Speaking only of Motorola here in Phoenix, all of the good stuff is >disposed of in one of two ways; all of the circuit boards (that we build >here) and the scrap components are saved and sent to a precious metals >reclaim place. It's upsetting to think of all of that stuff being >ground to powder. :-( I regularly go to a local salvage auction, and it's AMAZING how high the crates of old circuit boards are bid. We're talking $1000 or so! I think the people who buy them get the gold and stuff out of them. And here I thought it would be a cheap source of spare parts. Hah! David
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!unmvax!bbx!yenta!dt From: dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Silicon Valley Dumpster Crawl: The ideal Hacker Holiday? Message-ID: <1768@yenta.alb.nm.us> Date: 30 Aug 90 04:31:41 GMT References: <13518@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> Organization: yenta unix pc, Rio Rancho, NM Lines: 14