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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
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Organization: Network Systems Corporation
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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.


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