Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!edelheit@MITRE.ARPA From: edelheit@MITRE.ARPA (Jeff Edelheit) Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: want ads in mailing lists Message-ID: <1780@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 23:43:48 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1780 Posted: Fri Sep 27 23:43:48 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 11:22:10 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 19 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