13 Jan
2003
13 Jan
'03
2:19 p.m.
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
More than that, IBM destroyed a lot of trade-ins and off-lease
hardware, in order to keep the new market up. They _say_ they no longer
do so.
Doc
Just an
observation - this does show how DECcentric this list (and
really, most of the big iron retrocomputing folks) is. There have been a
You've made this comment before, and while I totally agree with it, I
think there are also possible reasons for it :
1) DEC machines tended to be owned, IBM machines were often rented -> DEC
machines were not returned when they were no longer needed, but were
pushed into storerooms, etc. Whereupon mad hackers found them