In some email I received from Michael J. Miller Jr., sie wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Gene Buckle wrote:
> 
> > > As a interesting note, the company I work at just crushes old sparc 
> > > stations and Ultra1 due to the contract they have with Sun. What a waste.
> > > 
> > ....and you'd better be snatching the ram and sbus cards from them before
> > hand. :)
> 
> When I worked at Sun as a contractor in the early 90's they did this to all
> their internal machines as well.  Rumors ran rampant that a lot of people
> were taking the old systems home instead of turning them in because of 
> this.  At the time Sun didn't do much in the way of property tracking, so
> it was easy for people to get away with.  
> 
> I suspect a fair number of the older systems still floating around out
> there came from Sun originally.

Someone sent me this pic:

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/junksuns.jpg

It's his own stock pile of "spare parts" (doesn't seem inclined to
want to part with any of it so don't ask me for an email address)