[GreenKeys] Crawford Generating Station Teletypes, Chicago...

[Dave Horsfall]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> The corporate attitude, beancounter-wise, is that if something is 
> donated then it must have value, and hence has to appear on the books as 
> an asset (and valued accordingly); it's easier (for them) to toss out 
> "junk" and write it off.

Something I forgot to mention: some corporations take the attitude that if 
something is to be disposed of, then it must be utterly destroyed e.g. 
crushed, as otherwise it may still be of value to someone, and that upsets 
the bean-counters.

Corporate bods are not like you and me...  That said, I was fortunate to 
work in a place where I got first dibs on anything about to be thrown out 
(mostly computer stuff) and was allowed to go dumpster-diving :-)

I even got a nice 40MHz dual-trace CRO out of it (long story).

-- Dave VK2KFU