Idiotic people who do not know the value of classic equipment

From: Ram Meenakshisundaram <rmeenaks_at_olf.com>
Date: Fri Oct 20 09:44:08 2000

Hi,

A friend of mine works for a robotics engineering firm who were heavy
users of transputers. Well, the moved away from transputers a while
back and are using PCs to do all their vision calculations, etc. I
asked him to hold on to all of the unwanted transputer equipment (T801
trams with 4Megs of memory, B008s, PowerPC Trams, etc, etc) and he
agreed to it. Well, when he was on vacation, the company decided to
clean up their old equipment and throw away all of their so-called
junk. They threw away graphics board that were brand-new still in the
box, tons of UPSs still new, i860 processors, C004s, trams, tram boards,
etc, etc. All really good and quite expensive stuff. He promised me he
will look for other transputer stuff that may be lying around after the
cleanup, but this really really BITES!

Ram
Received on Fri Oct 20 2000 - 09:44:08 BST