Possibly OT: FW: Vintage Laptops Wanted

From: Teo Zenios <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Sun Jun 6 07:00:16 2004

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From: "R. D. Davis" <rdd_at_rddavis.org>
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Subject: Re: Possibly OT: FW: Vintage Laptops Wanted


> Quothe Erik S. Klein, from writings of Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at
01:30:02PM -0700:
> > TGI Friday's restaurants. We are about to remodel all 500+ of our
> > domestic TGI Friday's restaurants with an updated decor package, to
> > include vintage laptops. Can you help me? Please let me know.
>
> That is indeed a sick thought; a perverse waste of laptops. Darned
> biz'droids... mumble, grumble... What will become of those laptops
> when they remodel the restaraunts again and no longer want them?
> Recycling bins or landfills?
>
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Well I don't think he needs working laptops, and his version of vintage and
ours are probably not the same. What's wrong with selling him dead Pentium
laptops that would otherwise get tossed or recycled anyway? I don't think he
is asking for 500 portable vintage macs or stuff like that.
Received on Sun Jun 06 2004 - 07:00:16 BST