Sad experience

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Fri Jul 20 16:01:25 2001

Today at the UW-Madison surplus sale, a favorite haunt,
I found a box containing eight or nine software boxes.

Sure enough, it looked like a complete set of all the
software from IBM that shipped with the original IBM PC
circa 1982: DOS 1.1, 2.0 and the full UCSD p-System, including
FORTRAN, the assembler and Pascal. Everything pristine.
All disks in place. The shrinkwrap was still around a
few of the boxes.

No price on the box, so I search for the Pricing Guy.
"Sorry, we can't sell software." I knew about this
policy - the University destroys all the software it
can no longer use. I'm sad that I found the item on
the sale floor but can't buy it. He refers me to Boss #1.

He says "we can't sell that, how did that get out here?
Go talk to Boss #2." Boss #2 says "Three dollars."
Back to Pricing Guy. I say, "Boss #2 said three bucks."
Boss #1 is still within earshot, he says "Boss #2 can't
do that." (So why did you send me to him?)

Boss #1 takes the box and heads for the back room,
where the disks will be "recycled" and the manuals
shredded.

- John
www.threedee.com/jcm
Received on Fri Jul 20 2001 - 16:01:25 BST

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