Better have a strong stomach for this...

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:34:46 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 22 April 2005 10:24, William Donzelli wrote:
> > > > Check out all four pages in the link under this photo (from
> > > > CNET): http://tinyurl.com/9e6le
> > >
> > > Yes...recycling...bad thing...wouldn't want that...
> >
> > I wouldn't be so upset if I couldn't see a Sun E5x00/6x00 rack
> > sitting there in the forground, a system that's probably still worth
> > >$1k, or
> > at least a few hundred $$, and still a fairly desirable system.  I
> > don't mind them recycling stuff that can't be resold to other people
> > for use, but when you start pitching perfectly sellable machines to
> > the shredder, perhaps you need to rethink your methods...
> 
> So find that place and offer them money for the stuff before they
> shred it.
> 

I've been around said operations before.  Often you have to be a bonded
employee to even see what's on the floor.  And you'll NEVER be allowed
to take anything off the floor in anything bigger than granular size. 
They sign NDA's with the places that ship them the gear, therefore the
machines don't need to be 'decomissioned' or the data wiped because a
secured, bonded disposal site is guaranteed to destroy it.