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From: robertb@june.cs.washington.edu (Robert Bedichek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: NEC Hard Drive
Message-ID: <7324@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 89 17:38:16 GMT
References: <15@dbase.UUCP> <8400010@gistdev>
Reply-To: robertb@uw-june.UUCP (Robert Bedichek)
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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In article <8400010@gistdev> you write:

>=> Written  7:13 pm  Feb 13, 1989 by dbase.UUCP!marc
>=> I have recently accquired  a NEC  hard Disk, unfortunately it did't 
>=> come with any docs, and the person I got it form does'nt know anything
>=> about it.

>This sort of statement always irritates me.  Did you buy it from a thief,
>or did you buy it from someone who bought it from a thief?  There are good
>excuses (but no good reasons) for not having documentation for it, but
>there's no excuse for 'not knowing anything about it'.  I am sick of seeing
>notes that basically say 'I got a real bargain deal on <hardware>, but the
>guy I got it from couldn't tell me anything about it, and of course I didn't
>ask any questions, let alone call the police.  Can I get the docs for it
>from the net for free?  Thanks loads, suckers.'  I'm also sick of seeing
>notes about bargain deals on <hardware> at auctions, swap meets, etc.
>
>Dirk Pellett
>INTERNET: dlp%gistdev@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu

I used to work for Intel and go to Intel scrap sales.  There were a lot
of good deals there, almost never documentation for the stuff, and I'm
sure none of it was stolen!  I sometimes sold the stuff that I couldn't
use at flea markets a few years after I bought it at the scrap sales
for what I paid for it.  Tektronix also sold a lot of scrap to
employees, also usually without documentation.

I think that you are too quick to flame this guy.  Also, I suspect most
people who steal stuff are not the types that show up at computer flea
markets.  Sure, there are bound to be exceptions, but my guess is that
it's rare.

	Rob Bedichek

(Dirk, I had to trim your FLAME ON/FLAME OFF and your UUCP address so
that rn would accept this followup.  At first it complained that I had
included more text than I had written.  A generally good feature, I
suppose, but a hassle this time.)