Sad experience

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri Jul 20 17:20:14 2001

Hmm sounds like you could have just walked out with them and no one would
know what to do - is it shoplifting if it wasn't for sale? Would they even
know if it was theirs? The wonders of the learned beauracracy.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of John Foust
-> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 4:01 PM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Sad experience
->
->
->
-> Today at the UW-Madison surplus sale, a favorite haunt,
-> I found a box containing eight or nine software boxes.
->
-> Sure enough, it looked like a complete set of all the
-> software from IBM that shipped with the original IBM PC
-> circa 1982: DOS 1.1, 2.0 and the full UCSD p-System, including
-> FORTRAN, the assembler and Pascal. Everything pristine.
-> All disks in place. The shrinkwrap was still around a
-> few of the boxes.
->
-> No price on the box, so I search for the Pricing Guy.
-> "Sorry, we can't sell software." I knew about this
-> policy - the University destroys all the software it
-> can no longer use. I'm sad that I found the item on
-> the sale floor but can't buy it. He refers me to Boss #1.
->
-> He says "we can't sell that, how did that get out here?
-> Go talk to Boss #2." Boss #2 says "Three dollars."
-> Back to Pricing Guy. I say, "Boss #2 said three bucks."
-> Boss #1 is still within earshot, he says "Boss #2 can't
-> do that." (So why did you send me to him?)
->
-> Boss #1 takes the box and heads for the back room,
-> where the disks will be "recycled" and the manuals
-> shredded.
->
-> - John
-> www.threedee.com/jcm
->
Received on Fri Jul 20 2001 - 17:20:14 BST