Possibly OT: FW: Vintage Laptops Wanted

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun Jun 6 23:07:36 2004

>
> 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

I'm with Bob on this one....

OK, they may not want any real classics (and anyone who gives them any
original Mac portables, HP110s, HP Portable+'s, HX20s, PX4s, PX8s, etc is
sick in the head!), but even modern laptops can be useful, or can have
useful bits extracted from them.

I suppose it's OK if the machines were going in the recycling [1] bin
anyway, but if they're currently in the hands of collectors presumably
that's not the case.

[1] The only 'recycling' that should be done to a computer is at the
microcode level (obscure PERQ-related joke concerning writing to the
control store and the fact that the current microinstruction is sort-of
executed twice).

> 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?

Most likely :-(

-tony
Received on Sun Jun 06 2004 - 23:07:36 BST