On 14 Feb 2002, R. D. Davis wrote:
> "Recycled" is a politically correct term for the brutal destruction of
> useful, interesting and historically meaningful, equipment.
If you want a shitload of 286, 386 and 486 computers then they're all
yours. Send your address to gifts in kind and they'll probably be happy
to dump them on your driveway.
> Typical of those short-sighted charitable organizations that rely on
> the destruction of history and useful, well-made, equipment for their
> own survival. Doesn't this organization also collect cars from people
> under false pretenses and then have perfectly useable older cars
> scrapped?
Why don't you send them the money they need to hire the mechanics and buy
the parts needed to bring any automobile that gets donated to them back to
complete operating condition? This includes money for complete new
chassis and bodies, engines, tires, etc., as I'm sure a lot of cars they
get are complete piles of crap. Unless you want those dumped on your
driveway too?
> I've seen some extremely nice looking, rust-free, apparently
> well-maintained, older cars (e.g., late 1960's to late 1970's), with
> good interiors, new tires, etc. sitting in a junkyard with stickers
> from such charities on their windshields. These are cars that are
> driveable, that donors thought were going to be put to good use, which
> are being destroyed by the lame-brained cretins (and that's an
> extremly kind description of them) at those charities. Alas, such
> cars are often scrapped, at least in Maryland, within a week's time,
> so there's not even much time to obtain parts from them. It's my
> understanding that the titles to such cars are kept by the
> lame-brained cretins at those charities so that the classic cars can't
> be put back on the road.
I'm sure if you investigated this beyond your own myopic assumptions you'd
probably discover that there's a very good economic reason why these cars
get scrapped.
> Now, these charities are seeking to destroy another rare commodity:
> older computers for which parts are becoming difficult to find. An
> idea: perhaps we should begin finding ways to recycle those charities
> and put an end to the damage they're doing.
Perhaps we should create a charity that seeks to educate ignorant spaz's
who seem to think that nothing created by the hand of man should ever be
scrapped for any reason.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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