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Have you ever taken something home from a workplace without permission, to keep it? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Big or small, cheap or expensive.

Did you find any specific use for the item?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Way back in '99 I was a student worker for the IT group at uni. We were decommissioning about 350 486 machines. Once the drives were cleared they were taken off the books and we were told to take them to the dumpster.

Very few made the dumpster. I ended up with about 14 of them. I did a whole lotta of network projects, setup routers on them, and even had a pile as a coffee table for a bit.

They ran like champs for a long time, but eventually didn't make the long move to another house in about 2005.