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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
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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