3. Something you got for free, rescuing it from certain destruction in the process. These are the "liberations" or "rescues". These can range from getting a computer a school was about to throw away from someone you know in the IT department all the way to physically pulling a system out of a dumpster.

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I did a dumpster pull once. It was back in 2007 at Spring Branch ISD. I had purchased several lots of Macs from the auctions but arrived late to pick up the last pallet. They said whatever wasn't claimed would be thrown away, so we checked the dumpster. My pallet wasn't thrown away, but I saw a Workgroup Server 8150 just casually tossed in there, as well as a 5400/180 motherboard. We came back the next morning (at 8 AM when they opened, to ensure our pallet wasn't thrown away) and collected the pallet.