Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix.misc:199 misc.forsale.computers:10216 comp.misc:12589 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!kodak!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc,misc.forsale.computers,comp.misc Subject: Re: Altos 586 Worth? Message-ID: Date: 17 May 91 17:39:54 GMT References: <1991May15.154308.5070@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1991May17.045655.11152@compu.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Followup-To: comp.misc Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15 In article <1991May17.045655.11152@compu.com> fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) writes: > How about a hundred bucks to be kind. We simply tell the customer to trash > them when they upgrade to real computers. AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!! How about donating them to someone? A school or something? Give them away to the poor kid down the street with a Commodore 64? I'm still utterly flabbergasted at the tendency for companies to trash perfectly good equipment just because they don't need it any more. And at the same time there are people willing to pay several tens of dollars for a CP/M box just so they can call local BBSes with more than a 40 line screen. -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"