Fw: Control Data Cyber 960 rescue interest?

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Wed Nov 14 15:18:15 2001

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, James B. DiGriz wrote:

> Eric Dittman wrote:
>
> >>As regards any rescue efforts, I want to implore everyone not to besiege
> >>hapless admins in the Ga. University System with requests for
> >>information, machines, etc. USG cannot sell or transfer state property
> >>itself. We should be grateful for any support they can lend a rescue
> >>effort, but all this has to go through the state Dept. of Adminstrative
> >>Services, so let's don't put our friends behind the eight-ball, ok?

        <snip>

> Yes, those are excellent suggestions and wlll no doubt come into play at
> some point, in some fashion, but the best way I see to approach this is
> as a standard service procurement contract, through DOAS. At this point,
> actually getting the property is secondary to seeing that it remains
> worth getting. USG has nothing say about that once the DOAS contractor
> shows up to remove it. That's what I'm focusing on right now. Bidding on
> it at auction will be the easy part.

Perhaps the `saviour' effort might succed better if couched in terms of
a bid to DOAS to remove, haul away, and preserve the machine in
operational form if such could be put together.

                                                 - don
Received on Wed Nov 14 2001 - 15:18:15 GMT