A hypothetical

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Tue Dec 11 00:28:33 2001

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Tothwolf wrote:
>
> > University of Texas surplus auctions were a good place to find old
> > gear up till Texas passed a bill regarding the sale of used computer
> > equipment from government agencies. Now they send all the old computer
> > gear to the prison system.
>
> Hm. I got a *bunch* of classiccmp stuff from an University of Texas
> auction earlier this spring. Maybe the prisons did not want the stuff.

Which auction? The Houston surplus people interpret the bill's text as
meaning *all* computer stuff, instead of just stuff that is worth resale.
They send everything from a goldfish bowl Mac or Apple II to an AS-400 IBM
mainframe to the prisons. The bill is written quite vague too, I'll look
and see if I can find the link for it that I had.

-Toth
Received on Tue Dec 11 2001 - 00:28:33 GMT