Post by @xenotar

@FuzzyAleks@infosec.exchange Intel and AMD used to do that; I still have the 386 book and chips, plus several AMD manuals on PALs. Intel went even further—at the end of the year, they would donate surplus stock to universities. Our research group's first 8087 was a donation from them; I still have it to this day. 3Com donated a 3C503 card for our first 386BSD 0.1 gateway. Those were the days.