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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
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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