10-20-2019, 12:07 AM
PeterB wrote:
Actually it's not all (really) mine. A lot of it is discards from my institution, where I just said ... nahhh, just can't let that go into the dumpster.
My institution simply won't allow that. It HAS to go to surplus and they sell it (but not to us!) or dispose of it. When they toss stuff they hire some guy with a truck who supposedly hauls it to the landfill. I've always found it interesting that they don't have our guys and our truck haul stuff to the dump, but there it is. I lost a number of old Macs that way years ago. And, interestingly enough, I bought some old Macs (for almost nothing) from a sister institution years ago. It was a struggle to keep our people from putting our college id tags on those computers but they finally figured it out.