At 12:30 AM 4/21/04 -0400, you wrote:
>Torquil MacCorkle, III wrote:
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>>>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4125609808
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>>That is *SICK*. I wonder who did the mutilation, if this man did it........
>>must. repress. rage...
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>>Thanks,
>>Torquil MacCorkle, III
>>Lexington, Virginia
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> One thing to remember is that sometimes for equipment to meet the
>definition of scrapped, it has to be irrepairably damaged.
That's true. Some government agencies require that "items be destroyed
beyond it's intended usage". To some surplus managers that means that it
has to be shredded but others they simply take the systems apart and sell
the units individually.
Joe
For
>instance, IBM has a strict rule that boards that are scrapped for tax
>purposes have to be shredded. And when I've been in Austin Electronics,
>I've run across boards that have connectors cut off so they can't be
>used for their original purpose (tin connectors, so I know no one was
>going for the gold).
>
> While I don't support that kind of mutilation of historically
>interesting equipment, do you think it could be such a situation?
>
> --jc
>
>
Received on Wed Apr 21 2004 - 09:24:38 BST