Finds in Houston

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Wed Aug 8 03:20:36 2001

>> 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.
>
>3000 untested Apple monitors? Good lord....What for?

Apparently they ship them up to Canada to build houses out of. The CRT
makes an incredible insulator, and spray on a bit of stucco and nobody
knows whats underneath.

Actually the two stories I have heard are that they are being reused, or
some kind of special metal recovery is done.
Received on Wed Aug 08 2001 - 03:20:36 BST