Finding Vintage Computers - A Primer

From: Olminkhof <jolminkh_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au>
Date: Tue May 16 04:58:31 2000

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Good stuff Sellam.


Some comments:
I think you under emphasise the garbage system. I have a PDP8L that came
from a dumpster at a university.

Here in Australia we also have "Council Cleanups" where periodically the
local municipal councils pick up assorted larger rubbish if it is left by
the side of the road on a predetermined Monday a few times a year. The
result is lots of pickings during the preceding weekend. Unfortunately one
needs to cruise around all day as the good looking stuff goes very quickly.

In some places there are also "tip shops" where authorised scroungers (often
charities) sell goods collected from a garbage tip (or "dump" in American).
Around here we have establishments with names like Junktastic Park and
Reverse Garbage.

Do we want to mention the term Dumpster Diving in a primer?

Hans
Received on Tue May 16 2000 - 04:58:31 BST