The Solid Waste Alternative Program (SWAP) Shop sells used university stuff every Friday. I shop there sometimes to get parts for the Doomsday Machine I'm building. This week I'm going to list some of the extra-cool stuff I've found, how much it cost, and how I got it home.
Date | Cool Stuff | Price | How I got it home |
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Sunday December 27, 1998 | Power cord - ths was actually a big tangle of power cords and other types of cords. | $3.00 | I think I just stuffed them in my backpack. |
Monday December 28, 1998 | Short token ring cable - a real interesting piece of computer network history. | Free! | I just stuffed it in my backpack. |
Tuesday December 29, 1998 | A bunch of round bottom flasks | $7.00 | I wraped them in bags and placed them carefully in my backpack. |
Wednesday December 30, 1998 | A TV with some missing buttons and "UW HOUSING" painted on the top. | $15.00 | I left it there until I could come back with a car to pick it up. |
Thursday December 31, 1998 | Two Apple 800k 3.5 inch floppy drives, an old Cabletron MRX 10BaseT hub with a blown fuse, and some wires. | $3.00 | I put the disk drives and wires in my backpack and carried the hub to class with me. |
Friday January 1, 1999 | Two Macintosh SE's, an old Apple 5.25 floppy drive, and a bunch of wires | $6.00 | I left them there until after biology class when I came back with a car. |
Saturday January 2, 1999 | An old Macintosh keyboard (the old ones withough F-keys) | $7.00 | I put it in my bag and went to biology class |