Computer Museum of America on Tuesday night's PBS NOVA (fwd)

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Wed Feb 6 15:47:00 2002

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 Innfogra_at_aol.com wrote:

> When I had my warehouse I rented equipment to movies. Usually had a set
> designer come through and pick out equipment. Then negotiated a price for the
> rental. They usually picked it up and returned it. It did not need to be
> running equipment, it just had to look good. Generally they took good care of
> it. A couple of times they wanted computer equipment to destroy. They did
> break a copier once but paid for it quickly and fairly.

  I've rented my RS6ks out for classes a couple of times. Never again.
The last time, a 43P came back with an administrative password and a
boot password set on the firmware. As nearly as I can find out, even
removing the clock battery won't unset the admin password. Fortunately,
I did the classroom setup and knew where that box was, so the teaching
facility knew which student to lean on. The admin password was fuckyou.
Pretty much ended equipment leasing for me.

        Doc
Received on Wed Feb 06 2002 - 15:47:00 GMT