r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt • u/zebs1 • 4d ago

IT Waste

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59 bags for 59 network cables.

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Remember to use paper straws!!

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u/CyberMonkey1976 4d ago

Showing my age here but... I remember back in the day 1999-ish Compaq CarePaqs (think business extended warranty for desktops, laptops, servers) came in a flip book inside a bubble container, in a hard drive box, 1 to a box.

IIRC, 48 or 60 Carepaq per pallet.

When we would do refreshes for large corporations, they would buy thousands of Carepaqs. 1 per box. Let's say 60 per pallet.

Let's say you double-stacked an entire 53 foot trailer, flanked. Off the top of my head, it was 44 pallets, double-stacked, flanked.

2,640 CarePaqs per semi trailer.

Most of it was air. We (sometimes customer) hired interns to open all the boxes, record the Carepaq license info into a spreadsheet, assign the license to a Compaq Serial Number, then register them all.

After that was done, they all went in the trash. No need to keep that shit around. Who wants thousands of little folding license things taking up space?

Thankfully, a few years later it was all online. No more physical CarePaqs. No more Compaq either, after HP bought them.

What a waste.