Upon the date 12:25 PM 10/28/99 -0700, Ethan Dicks said something like:
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>--- John B <dylanb_at_sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> >Well... reasonable cuts both ways. Perhaps I should have said, "I want to
>> >gouge them, but not so much they buy one from someone else... how bad can
>> >I make it hurt?" Is that better? ;-)
>> >
>>
>> I wonder if they will make YOU *hurt* when they go to get rid of the
>> equipment they have.
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>I used to work there. I *can't* get the cool stuff out. All of it goes in
>containers to scrappers. They have a room with three 11/44's, TC11's on
>each and several TU55's. I was unable to get any cooperation in rescuing
>any of it when the room gets emptied.
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>I watched as a box with 100+ UNIBUS boards was loaded onto a forklift, core
>boards on top. It all went to the melter.
>
>They are a large company with inflexible large company policied. I have no
>pity for Lucent.
Agreed. I watched as a whole pallet of really nice IC's (DAC's, ADC's,
Z80B's, LSTTL, etc., etc.) went into the dumpster at work with the company
Comptroller standing close keeping his myopic evil eye on the rest of us
irritated engineers as we were watching in disgust. It was inventory
excess, obsolete material, etc. and the company beancounters wanted to
destroy it as a tax write-off. The company only had 180 employees. Even
small is brainless :-) Sheesh.
Regards, Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
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Received on Thu Oct 28 1999 - 16:37:24 BST