A few of us were standing about talking in the hallway between our radio museum
and the ham club, and I happened to notice a small module of PCBs in the trash
bin. Unable to resist finding out what it was (or more accurately: what it once
had been) I reached in and pulled it out.
Turned out it
One day my girlfriend came home and told me she'd seen some people dumping
what looked like circuit boards into a dumpster just a few blocks from our
apartment. We took a drive over and there are at least a dozen ADM-3/a
logic boards. Best yet: *all the chips were socketed*. And when I
acquired
> I have gotten some of my best stuff from the trash ... One day I will never
I suspect a lot of us have
When I was at university I had official permision to skip-dive (dumpster dive).
Got
all sorts of things. Pulled my HP2100A + 7900 drive + paper tape reader right
out
of a skip. Nearly d
I have gotten some of my best stuff from the trash ... One day I will never
forget when I was doing my undergrad... the CS department had just gotten
their own building (previously EE/CS shared a building) and they were
cleaning house and moving out ... it was incredible; the gallery on each of
the
