OT: Re: Time to declare State of Massachusetts the ENEMY! He

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Thu Apr 15 05:28:40 1999

> I used to admire your brash freshness and sense of social justice but now I
>must question which brand of the new Soviet mafia you are enamored of .
> Correct me if I'm wrong Max but I believe you live in NYC. Are you
>telling me
>that everyone in NYC has a computer who desires one ? This glut of computers
>that you had "fun" destroying, was there really any attempt to distribute
>them
>to the various communities and people who might desire a computer?

The Goodwill near me just got 600 computers from Pacific Bell, all 486 and
older, most in pretty good shape. The result is that a LOT more only
slightly wanky 486 boxes are getting tossed in the scrappers bin. Goodwill
won't take a 386, or if it gets in the product stream it goes either to the
scrapper or the huge AS-IS morning auction of bins of stuff only loosely
sorted by category.

However painfull you may find it personally, it only takes a TINY bit wrong
to make an old computer have negative value except as scrap or parts.
Received on Thu Apr 15 1999 - 05:28:40 BST