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<p>'Like a liquor store for alcoholics.'</p>
<p>Thanks for the warning. Fortunately, the University that's just
up the street from me auctions its stuff off. This beats the hell
out of walking through a room full of interesting stuff that I can
do without and impulsively buying it (although a desktop or good
notebook that I can get a hard drive for, and install Linux or
Windows onto wouldn't be THAT bad...)</p>
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<p>I find some of the truly oddest gear there. Some of it doesn't
last long, and you have to be able to make a decision
spontaneously. Brand new trainers in my size for $12.50 is a
no-brainer. A used Dell system for my brother on a "flash sale"
was a no-brainer. 8GB/i7-gen8/1TB/no monitor for $80 was simple;
they're required to put new drives in all their machines as the
old drives are destroyed. There was an enormous power supply,
suitable for powering serious radio gear that I waffled on. They
wanted $45, about 5% of its retail price. Wasn't guaranteed.
Should've bought it. I know the guy that did, and he's
mindlessly happy with it as it worked and had never been
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<p>There are gruesome amounts of dreck there, too. Old text books
with moths. Dorm room art prints of Venice, twenty of them.
Furniture from the Hoover administration. There used to be
endless bicycles in various states of repair until they donated
them to the local community bike project, Several of those bikes
were worth >$5K, but were abandoned by repatriating students
that didn't want to ship them to Lahore or Shenzen. <br>
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<p>There are servers, but the problem is: no hard drives, by
policy. There's lots of Cisco gear, but no passwords, and so
must be fully reset and re-programmed from scratch. They use
proprietary WiFi APs, so none of that. There are miles and
furlongs of cable/cabling, audio gear (mixers, outdoor gear,
mics, etc) but not musical instruments, save pianos. There's
grand and a baby grand right now; the baby grand looks as though
it sat outside in the weather for years, a Baldwin. <br>
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<p>If you're a hoarder, stay away. It's like a liquor store for
alcoholics in this regard. <br>
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<div class="">Oh, man, the one at the U. of Cincinnati was my
favorite Thursday afternoon hangout. So much great stuff...
especially for lovers of vintage computers. That's where I got
the VT-100 dumb terminal and 300 baud modem that got me
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