20 Dec
2005
20 Dec
'05
8:25 p.m.
Scott Stevens wrote:
I can think of one good reason to remove them, and that is if you suspect
that the assets records at the company are not all that they should be. I
am asusming, of course, that you did obtain the machine legally, but if
you were later found to have a machine with a 'foo company' asset label,
and if there were no records that you'd actually bought it from them,
you could have a lot of explaining to do.
Does others here also value some of their
equipment for the asset
tags on it? I have gear from places like the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory for instance.
Yep - I tend to try and leave those on if they're something interesting, even
if I'm cleaning the rest of the machine up as much as possible. Partly to aid
my own memory too, because I can never remember where
I got half my stuff
from! :-)
Why does it matter who previously used a machine? It's the same machine,
isn't it? To me computers are interesting becuase of how they work, what
they do, etc, not who used them.
On a related note, there's also something nice about finding signed
documentation once owned by well-known staff at the company which produced
I think I've told this story before, but anyway... Shortly after I got
my P850, I met some people from the Philips research labs, and
half-jokingly asked if they had any documentation. I was very pleased
when, a few days later, a parcel arrived containing some user and
technical manuals for related machines, including the P851. The P851 User
manual had a name writeen in ballpoint on the cover.
About 15 years later, a P851 and P854 were offered via the CCS. I lept at
the chance and contacted the owner without delay. He was happy for me to
take them on, so I went down and collected a P851, P854, floppy drives,
spare boards, and yet more documentation.
The point of mentioning this now? The chap I got them from was the person
who'd written his name on the cover of that user manual :-)
-tony