@JimS - You often wonder about stuff like that, not classic related but my borther in law works at the local college and there is a lot of PC gear being thrown out. Most of it only 5 years old. Still good enough for internet and possibly some low end gaming.
Where I work for the Navy they're throwing out servers that are only about 5 years old too, many have a lot of life left in them. Most of the stuff I can't get my hands on though, I just think what a waste.
There's always that thought in the back of my mind that someone somewhere is throwing out Amiga gear, and me thinking how can I find out where it's happening :-/
Yeah, I see one of the local universities periodically advertising their surplus pc gear on Craigslist. I guess they have one of those same pole buildings on the fringe of the campus for the salvage yard. My old alma mater, Michigan State, has an entire building dedicated to recycling stuff. They were ahead of the curve, since they've been doing it since I was a student back in the 70s.
I can see the military being a bit paranoid... Back when I was a field engineer for Burroughs one of the software guys told me of his time servicing a military mainframe installation. He said they'd bring him core dumps to read with big holes cut into them. They'd also buy and destroy a defective core stack (actual cores!) rather than send it back for repair.
I haven't found the Amiga Graveyard either... even the local craigslist seems to have dried up lately.
