Date   : Fri, 27 Sep 1985 16:01:52 EDT (Fri)
From   : Jeff Edelheit <edelheit@MITRE.ARPA>
Subject: Re: want ads in mailing lists

Earl - Excess hardware disposal is handled by GSA.  GSA is notified
by Agency X that it has ABC as excess.  GSA collects all of the 
notifications for one month and then publishes what is available, 
general condition of the hdw and who has declared it surplus.  Agency
Y contacts X and if Y decides they want it, Y contacts GSA and claims
ABC.  If no Fed Agency claims the hardware, States & munnicipals get
next shot, followed by schools, with for profits getting last chance.

Generally, if it isn't claimed by the school level, it isn't worth much.
I remember an old Honeywell mainframe that was picked-up by a little old
man.  He cut all the cables with a hacksaw and was not very gentle in the
way he was dismembering it.  When we protested, saying that it did work, but
if he continued the way he was going that it wouldn't work, his response
was that it wasn't a computer as far as he was concerned: "It is just
of gold on circuit boards and I am going after the gold".

Regards,

Jeff