sad to report...

[Don North]

When I worked for DEC back in the late 70s / early 80s, they had a 
wonderful scrap / salvage center in the Mill complex (basement of 
building 5 IIRC) that sold off  'scrapped' DEC parts to employees that 
would have otherwise gone to the smelter. Just about anything DEC made 
could show up there (albeit in pieces, not whole systems).

I seem to remember that DEC mgmt finally shut it down when they 
discovered that some employees were internally buying new DEC equipment, 
dismantling it and sending the pieces to 'scrap', where they would then 
go buy them for 'personal' use at a deep discount (I think the person 
running the salvage operation would put this good stuff aside when it 
arrived, for a small fee, of course).

I don't think it ever reopened after this fiasco.

William Donzelli wrote:

>>my company that i work for has just decommissioned an hp9000 system 
>>for scrap and 11 dec vt420's circa 1991, unopened, with keyboards. 
>>they did not give option on taking them or buying them =/
>>don't you hate it when the bean counters get involved because they 
>>think the scrappers will not be jerks and resell what they get 
>>instead of doing their jobs and just scrapping it and keeping it from 
>>the employees for personal use?
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>The problem tends to be the employees reselling the surplus. And after
>that, little underground networks within the company form up to make sure
>that certain items are decommissioned and go to certain employees. You can
>see where this is going.
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>Yes, it sucks, and some bad eggs in your company probably spoiled it for
>everyone.
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>Also,  it seems to me that every so often someone comes up with new
>VT420s, anyway...
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>William Donzelli
>aw288 at osfn.org
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