[sdiy] Major Score in the Dumpster at work! (university thread)

[James Husted]

A friend of mine worked in the Media lab at the local University, The music
department put their EMU modular on the internal list, and he bought it for
his department for $300, That's right, $300. I was the guy who sold it to
the University (I worked at the company that were the local E-mu dealers)
for $45,000! I always wondered what ever happened to it. This is where you
always find the old VCS3 or Synthi AKSs.
-James
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James Husted                        The ErsatZ Planet
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"Welcome to the first day of the rest of your money."


on 12/18/01 1:37 AM, Rainer Buchty at buchty at cs.tum.edu wrote:

>> Where I live, the local university auctions old equipment to the public. The
>> local state government does the same. Why don't companies, and more
>> universities, do this sort of thing?
> 
> At our university outdated equipment has first to be announced internally
> so that chairs with lesser money can afford at least that stuff. Since
> equipment usually is declared to be outdated when really nobody has any
> use for it anymore - but the protocol dictates that the announcement/offer
> has to be valid for a certain, ridiculously long time - it finally ends
> with the stuff being thrown away.
> 
> *Then* it ends in well known baskets in the basement where the recycling
> company often complains that all they get is metal casing and
> depopulated PCBs cause everything else has been recycled already by
> students :)
> 
> Rainer