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

[Richard Knoppow]

    A lot of this happened to equipment that was leased under 
license like early motion picture sound recording equipment. When 
it was taken out of service it was destroyed. The reason was that 
the manufacturers did not want it to fall into the hands of those 
who would use it without paying the royalties. From their 
standpoint it makes sense but there is not much of historical 
value left.

On 11/1/2018 8:28 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 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

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Richard Knoppow
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