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Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix ... by m463 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @02:30AM (#25890109)
There used to be a place in Mountain View called Weird Stuff Warehouse full of systems of all eras.

Walking down the aisles it filled you with both fascination and melancholy.

They would sell exotic yet thoroughly obsolete $10,000 SGI systems, and also semi-obsolete $20 add-in cards for $1.

It was sort of like a cross between the great pyramids and the star wars trash compactor.

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Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix ... by fwipsy on Sunday January 24, 2021 @11:07AM (#25893096)
That place was awesome and I got some good stuff there, but I always wondered how they made rent for a huge place like that. My hypothesis was that they actually got paid by companies to haul away stuff for recycling, but then instead of recycling it they let it pile up.
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