Beautiful U day

From: SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com <(SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com)>
Date: Mon Oct 25 21:36:07 1999

In a message dated 10/25/99 9:32:34 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
lemay_at_cs.umn.edu writes:

> 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.
>
sure would be nice to have all the memory simms out the PS/2s that get thrown
out... Unfortunately, they always seem to command a premium price. if you
can't grab entire machines, even cards or memory or even hard drives would be
worth getting.
Received on Mon Oct 25 1999 - 21:36:07 BST