Demand for old computers by commercial organisations?

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Thu Jan 15 10:12:53 1998

On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 kevan_at_heydon.org wrote:

> Has this happened to anyone else:
>
> Tonight someone is travelling half the country to pick up and borrow
> one of my old computers, so that they can port a legacy system they
> have to PCs.

<snippage>

Well, yes. At least after a fashion, although so far the only org. that I
have had to *loan* a computer to has been Microsoft. B^} I frequently
get requests from various places and orgs. for assistance in recovering
data from old systems for conversion to PCs and such.

-jim
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