15 Apr
1999
15 Apr
'99
5:28 a.m.
I used to admire your brash freshness and sense of
social justice but now I
must question which brand of the new Soviet mafia you are enamored of .
Correct me if I'm wrong Max but I believe you live in NYC. Are you
telling me
that everyone in NYC has a computer who desires one ? This glut of computers
that you had "fun" destroying, was there really any attempt to distribute
them
to the various communities and people who might desire a computer?
The Goodwill near me just got 600 computers from Pacific Bell, all 486 and
older, most in pretty good shape. The result is that a LOT more only
slightly wanky 486 boxes are getting tossed in the scrappers bin. Goodwill
won't take a 386, or if it gets in the product stream it goes either to the
scrapper or the huge AS-IS morning auction of bins of stuff only loosely
sorted by category.
However painfull you may find it personally, it only takes a TINY bit wrong
to make an old computer have negative value except as scrap or parts.