14 Feb
2002
14 Feb
'02
2:04 p.m.
If these computers were still useful and interesting,
they wouldn't be
candidates for the crusher. Likewise, if there were any real value in those
cars to which you refer, someone would figure out a way to profit from them.
If they look good, it's probably the typcial "appearance over substance."
That is SO not true. (was this flame bait? did I just fall for it?!?)
For instance, there is a perfectly good, running 1992 Toyota Celica
sitting in my fire department lot waiting for us to tear it apart. It
runs, fine... the only thing wrong with it is the catalytic converter is
bad so it fails emissions testing during inspection. The owner used that
as an excuse to buy a new car, and donated this one to us. Book value,
$4,000.
We will be tearing it to shreds Wednesday and then our scrapper will haul
it off to his yard on a flat bed.
So no... just because it has real value, doesn't mean it will be used for
that value.
Frankly, I am a little amazed you can participate on a list like this and
NOT have an intimate understanding of how many perfectly usable computers
are sent to the junk yard all the time. (I have a garage full of working
LC5xx macs that are being cleaned up and given to people that can't
afford a computer... they were all pulled from a school dumpster... if
they hadn't been pulled out by a wise computer enthusiast, they would be
in a land fill by now)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>