24 Apr
2012
24 Apr
'12
3:10 p.m.
tis 2012-04-24 klockan 20:20 +0100 skrev Tony Duell:
Be happy that your gov will sell equipment on the 2nd hand market !!
Here in Sweden very little from F?rsvarsmakten including spare equipment
gets out into the 2nd hand market.
Almost every corporation and most in the gov sector sends disused
computers to the SCRAPPERS and later it ends up in R?nnsk?r (a large
gold melting operation)
Personally i live outside of Sk?vde and what do we find here ??
VOLVO who was a big Digital customer (Sk?vde makes car and truck engines
for the world market.)
Nothing of what they decommission gets out into the 2nd hand market. (a
lot of VAX and PDP machines from PDP 11/70 thru VAXserver 4000.)
Completely invisible....
The comment
about the wait involved a requirement that I'd not dealt
with before - namely that of an EUC or End User Certificate. DLA does a
background check to validate that you are a US citizen when the item in
question is prohibited from sale to a foreign national (Demil Q). That
process took 8 wks. Once completed, G/L releases the item to the
shipper. FastTrack shipped it from OH to CA in 10 days.
Are you saying there are export restrictions on an HP2100A? I hate to say
this, but there are plenty of them outside the States....
-tony