You should frame that picture and hang it on your wall.

I went to an auction one time and ended up with a 2400 baud modem about the size of two or three large pizza boxes stacked on top of one another. It weighed about ten pounds, and I bought it because I thought it was the coolest thing ever. It sat on a shelf in my garage for five years before, in a weak moment, I threw it away.

I still regret it.

The obvious answer is that there wasn't any good stuff because Flack beat you to it.

Fucker's just playing it cool.

I think you did exactly what Flack would have done. You can't let 'em know up front that you're interested in the stuff -- otherwise management will catch on and they'll start some "selling old crap to employees" program. You did the right thing; turn your nose up at it as it goes by, excuse yourself, and then run out and dig around in the trash when nobody's looking! ;)

My problem is, I save things "because somebody else need them", but nobody ever does. I probably would have been out there prying floppy drives and CMOS batteries out of that 386 for somebody who could use them.

So I'm at work today and out of the corner of my eye I spot the maintenance guy trundling a hand cart full of yellowed beige plastic things towards the general direction of the dumpster. Now, the phrase 'yellowed beige plastic' should immediately strike a chord with some of our regular members.
Yes, the hand cart is loaded with old computer equipment. I watch as he proceeds down the aisle way and opens the overhead door.
It seems we have some big-wig customers coming in and they want to flush out all the old stuff that's just been lying around for the past twenty years.

So now I'm getting that retro computer goodness is being flushed away before my very eyes feeling. and I ask myself What Would Flack Do?

So during lunch I went out and had a quick dumpster dive.

Results were disappointing. A couple old monitors, something that could have been an AT 386* and a couple of storage boxes.

THE
BUMMER
AARDVARK


*
3.5 floppy and a CD drive in the front . Serial and parallel card in the back. Nothing to get worked up about.