Things!

[John8520]

Today I got to rummage in a very cool place. My dad knows the guy that does the surplus for the building that he (my dad) has an office with, at ECu. Apparently the things that aren't worth giving to surplus for profit, like cables and weird bits and pieces, this guy gets to keep and do whatever he wants with. Today I got to go there, as I was helping my dad out with one of the computers there, mostly data migration and some various little things, and he said "Oh! John! I just thought of a place you might like to see!"

And what a place it was. Imagine a room, with four or five cabinets and lots of wide filecabinets. This is stuff the guy can't beg people to take away, so he was more than happy to see me take an armload away.

Here's what I got-

- Targus USB keyboard, NIB

- Logitech Marble Trackball mouse, USB

- 2x USB-Infrared adapters, in box

- 2x 256MB PC133 RAM

- 1x 128MB PC100 RAM, nib

- 2x 512MB DDR2 RAM

- 2x Mac - VGA adapters, the ones with the dipswitches

- 1x VGA male-male gender changer

- 1x Socket 370 - Slot 1 slotket adapter, in box

- 1x 15' purple ethernet cable, in plastic

- 1x processor cooler & heatsink, in box

- 1x USB type a to type b cable

- 1x linksys USB wifi-g adapter

- 1x kensington laptop lock, nib

- 1x wireless logitech mouse, nib

- 1x mac-pc serial adapter

All pretty handy stuff. The best thing is all the stuff, aside from the RAM and boxed items, has several duplications, I saw at least 6 mac-vga adapters alone.

Unfortunately it's not legal for me to sell it or give it away, otherwise I'd have gotten more mac stuff. :/

 

[30pin]

Nice haul!!!

 

[paws]

Can't have to many what'sit->thingimajig adaptors... they ALWAYS end up coming in useful.

 

[Mike Richardson]

Unfortunately it's not legal for me to sell it or give it away, otherwise I'd have gotten more mac stuff. :/

How's it not legal?

 

[John8520]

"Technically" the university still owns this stuff and "technically" if anyone were to find any record of it and want it back they would go to the surplus guy who would then either say they got trashed or I got them. However, since nothing, and I mean nothing, but monitors, towers/boxes, and printers ever get an ID tag on them they have no way to track the other stuff, they don't really care as long as people like me, and the surplussers, don't sell it for profit. I can't give it away because then the university has no record, even if just a word-of-mouth record, of who has it, and they can't trust that it might get sold in it end.

When it comes down too it, it probably makes no difference, I just don't want ECU breathing down my neck because I sold, or more likely lost and just cant find, a $0.50 adapter... :

 

[johnsonfromwisconsin]

I wouldn't accept any "conquest" without the express idea that the stuff was now mine. I mean, did he give you the stuff or is he he essentially having you store it for him free of charge until someone there wants it?

 

[John8520]

Well, considering I don't plan on doing anything but using them, I'm not too concerned about anything happening. Plus, as I said, the chance that they'll want it back is one of those "negative infinity minus one" type things. Nobody cares about the stuff.