New finds at a school auction

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Mon Jul 2 17:48:32 2001

>Wednesday of this week I went to a school auction and came away 3 new in

>the stuff that they will be trashing. You could buy a lot for $1
>(sometimes the lot would have over 100 items in it), the prices were
>right but just too much stuff.

Sad but true. Half the time the stuff isn't palletized correctly, and
everything on the bottom is squeeshed (not broken, but say all the metal
panels on the apple II's bent, keys off etc.). In the past I have taken the
time to scrap out whole pallets, but ONLY when I can see some examples of
decent contents poking out the back of the computers.

Last time I went through two pallets, and took away about a grocery bags
worth of cards, mostly that I now would not keep any more of. What made it
worthwhile were about a dozen or so nice cards, 3 high speed SCSI, some
workstation cards, larger ram cards, and 3 or 4 very clean units, one of
which had an internal hard drive.

What made it work was that I was able to pillage the pallets on site, ie
take what I wanted and leave the rest on the pallets stacked as I found it.
The only other option I would be agreeable too is to completely scrap the
units I didn't want, with access to a dumpster for the cases.
Received on Mon Jul 02 2001 - 17:48:32 BST