Best 'find' in someone else's...

Best 'find' in someone else's trash? "In 1996 when RAM was like gold, the company I used to work for upgraded our QMS Postscript network printers. The swapped out the main CPU boards and piled the old ones in boxes marked 'Trash' in the empty hallway leading to my office, I picked one up just to take a look to see how they were made. I was looking at the board and I spied ZIP memory, a form of high speed SDRAM, I took down the number and called a memory recycler I saw in the back of MacWeek magazine. Well lo and behold they said they would give me $100 a piece for each one I sent them, there was 16 per board and I had 20 boards sitting in and around my office! They wanted the whole board so they could remove them without damage. I packed them up and used the company's own UPS account to ship them off, two weeks later I recieved a check for $35,000! There was also other types of memory on the boards I wasn't aware of! "

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Posted: July 01, 2002