One of the less bad routes is to a local hackspace/makerspace. My local one has had a Tek 2245 , a Telequipment DM63, and lots of drawers of components.
A problem is that youngsters think digital==good, and analogue=="where's the autoset button?".
Overall I think it is best to dispose of /stuff/ while you can. There's an ebayer in the UK who does that with an accurate description of what does and doesn't work.
I'd love to be let loose in his manshed - two walls of glowing Tek/HP equipment. As it was I picked up a couple of CRTs for ?10 (one worked, one didn't) and a Tek 485 with an entertaining intermittent fault that I eventually traced.
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On 09/12/18 01:16, John Griessen wrote:
On 12/8/18 6:36 PM, toby@... wrote:
The "wife seeks to get rid of 97 of husband's instruments by Sunday,
local pickup only", that we see semi-regularly now, is far from the
worst case scenario.
WCS = surviving wife driving tractor over instruments?
WCS = Son calling the "got junk?" company?
WCS = survivors putting craigslist ad for $500 per instrument, and one sells, rest go to estate sale buyer for $75.
WCS = daughter delegates to her daughter, who calls local donations nonprofit that is expert at appraising silverware and furniture and clothing.? Instruments go to Salvation Army and are forwarded to e-waste company.
etc, etc...
