Beautiful U day

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Mon Oct 25 21:31:55 1999

Well, it looks like the University of Minnesota is having another
beautiful U day... this is something the latest U president came up with
a few years ago, basically instead of departments on campus having to
pay to dispose of old and obsolete equipment, on a Beautiful U day, they
put out tons of bins all over campus, and the departments can toss in all
the old computers and such they want, and the university will pay the
disposal fees (as opposed to the individual departments paying).

Anyways, this means there may be jems appearing soon. For example,
I just saw a HP 85 out in the hallway, I assume someone is jumping
the gun on cleaning their areas... Is anyone dieing to have a HP 85?
is there anything else I should be looking for? In the past few years,
I usualy have seen at least one Apple ][+, IBM PS/2's, etc.

Unfortunately, I'm severely strapped for space, so anything i grab, i would
have to dispose of fairly soon. Obviously, if i see anything extremely rare
i will grab it, but I dont know about stuff like the HP 85, or calculators,
etc. So, I guess i'll just have to see whats available, grab it, and
then post it to the list quickly. For those near the U of Minnesota
Minneapolis campus, beautiful U day is this Wednesday. I imagine the
como recycling lot will fill up with stuff very soon now (thats where
I found my PDP 8/e 2 weeks ago).

Anyways, just a heads up for those in or near minneapolis, and I guess an
offer to trade a HP 85 (i'll ask if they are tossing it tomorrow, i
already informed my janitor friends in that area that i want it).

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Mon Oct 25 1999 - 21:31:55 BST