Fw: Control Data Cyber 960 rescue interest?

From: James B. DiGriz <jbdigriz_at_dragonsweb.org>
Date: Wed Nov 14 15:53:52 2001

Ian Koller wrote:

> Eric Dittman wrote:
>
>
>>preserve the system at no cost to the state and University.
>>
>
> You must offer them cash for it, because if they don't sell it,
> it is at a cost to the state and the university.
>
>



1800 sq. ft. of prime floorspace occupied by idle hardware is a much
greater cost to the state.

The real question for the state is whether it gets more value from
paying extra for deinstallation to transfer or sell it as a used 960,
than from just tearing it out and selling it for scrap.

Unless somebody can make a generous, contingent endowment to the
University, or something of that nature, it'll probably hinge on what
kind of bids DOAS thinks it can get for deinstallation vs. plain removal.

That's where to attack the problem, although it may or may not take
input from interested parties for the dollars-and-cents value of
intangibles such as historical interest, educational value, state pride,
and so on, to be taken into acount. Somebody has to plug the options
into the ERP package, if nothing else, if you follow me.

jbdigriz
Received on Wed Nov 14 2001 - 15:53:52 GMT