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Article #5945Re: Silicon Valley Dumpster Crawl: The ideal Hacker Holiday?
From: Todd Day
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 1990 14:34
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 1990 14:34
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Seems that no one mentioned going thru the trash of the company they work for. My boss has made a hobby of this. He did this at Hughes and Northrop and found some very interesting stuff... including classified materials! Here at Applied Magnetics, there are certain business groups that is famous for throwing away choice pieces of equipment. Lotsa stuff we end up using in R&D. This certain business group caught wind of this and even wanted to charge us for the material it had already written off! Yeah, right... well, we won that one. I've even found low tech things like chairs that only needed minor repairs plus casters, and now they are good as new. My boss has several connections in all the right places and people so he knows in advance when good stuff is going in the trash. Sometimes he can get them to not throw it away, but other times, they go through the ritual of putting in the can just so they can legitimitly (sp?) write it off... -- Todd Day | todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us | ucsbcsl!ivucsb!todd "I believed what I was told, I thought it was a good life, I thought I was happy. Then I found something that changed it all..." --- Anonymous, 2112
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell!pacbell.com!ucsd!hub.ucsb.edu!ivucsb!todd From: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Silicon Valley Dumpster Crawl: The ideal Hacker Holiday? Message-ID: <1990Aug31.143403.4909@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> Date: 31 Aug 90 14:34:03 GMT Organization: QuickSilver Rallye Team, Santa Barbara, CA Lines: 25