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From: CHRIS_PATRIC_SMOLINSKI@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Silicon Valley Dumpster Crawl: The ideal Hacker Holiday?
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Date: 3 Sep 90 01:29:02 GMT
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This may sound amazing, but from what I've read so far, it seems that
East Coast trashing is a lot more fun (and profitable) than Silicon Valley
trashing.

Here in the Baltimore / DC area, there are several major software houses,
all of which threw out vast quantities of software, including wrapped
packages (in addition to returns).  You can imagine the profit margin on
sesuch software.

You want to get hardware?  Forget the manufacturers.  Go right to stores.
Computerlands around here throw out stuff left and right.  Hard drives,
logic boards (IBM and Mac), cards, etc.  Someone upgrades from EGA to VGA?
Goes from an old 20 meg HD to a 80?  Out into the dumpster it goes.
Truly incredible.  We assembled several systems this way.  Watch out for
the "substrate"! (Trasher term for dumpster goo!)