Finds in Houston

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Tue Aug 7 23:31:24 2001

>On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
>
>> Sorry my point here is that they will charge you $60 to $125 for a
>> monitor with no guarantee and no return. They used to charge 10 to 20
>> dollars and you had 7 days to bring it back.
>
>I don't know if this has anything to do with their pricing, but monitors
>are becoming a huge toxic waste problem. The folks at the Alameda County
>Computer Resource Center (www.accrc.org) where the VCF collection is
>stored have started charging $10 for every monitor received as required by
>a new state law enacted earlier this year in an emergency session. The
>state of California is trying to work with them to ease the burden. It
>has to do with storage of toxic waste.
>
>Nobody wants monitors anymore...especially old or dead ones.

Not exactly. Certain people are still buying monitors working or not. One
of my friends just brokered a deal on 3,000 old apple monitors. Not nice
big ones either, but old 14" monitors.
Received on Tue Aug 07 2001 - 23:31:24 BST