Scrapping hardware to get it off the book

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Fri Nov 30 12:56:21 2001

  Sounds familar. Siemens was the company that shipped the disks back to
the US from Germany!

    Joe

At 12:17 PM 11/30/01 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 11/30/01 6:20:17 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>rigdonj_at_intellistar.net writes:
>
>
> must have cost them 50 times that to ship them back from Germany
>
>
> The BIIN computers we scrapped were originally air freighted from Germany.
>We opend the crates and took them apart. They were brand new, but Intel and
>Siemens didn't want them out there. This was a certified destruction
>contract otherwise I would have kept one. I already had all the SW. I bet
>the cost to scrap ratio was more like 5000 to 1. Siemens lost a bunch of
>money on that project. (Intel owned 5% and Siemens 95%.)
>
> Paxton
> Astoria, OR
Received on Fri Nov 30 2001 - 12:56:21 GMT

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