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| msknight:
Just watched the 10 years of dumpster diving and I was wondering what happens to all that equipment. Is it sold, given to good causes... it has to go somewhere or else Dave would have drowned in equipment years ago! |
| .RC.:
I think he owns a time and relative dimension in space storage cupboard |
| EPAIII:
My question is, HOW DO YOU FIND THOSE DUMPSTERS? I have never seen equipment like that in a dumpster. |
| Gyro:
I think it's a dumpster in less than the literal sense. |
| Stray Electron:
I can't speak for Dave but I've picked up a LOT of excess equipment over the years and most of what I didn't want to keep ended up on Ebay. That paid for my hobbies and then some. There were a few people that were always looking for things like DEC computer parts and after a while I started selling the DEC stuff directly to them. I never dumpster dived as such but I started searching out companies that got the surplus from the universities, NASA and large USG contractors and I made friends with the owners and they let me go through the stuff that they otherwise would have stripped for the precious metals or just sold as mixed scrap. I bought anything that I was interested in and anything that looked like something that someone else might want. From the looks of most of the electronic stuff on E-Greed I would say that most of it came from Dumpster Divers and they have have no clue what it is. |
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