9 Dec
2002
9 Dec
'02
11:27 a.m.
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
Well, it's certainly a reasonable price to pay if
you're the US military
and you need one of these. What I want to know, and this is perhaps
ignorance on my part of how this works wrt to these sorts of things,
exactly what are these boxes doing up for grabs on the free market in
Dubai?
The US military has had a base in Dubai since at least the first Gulf
fiasco.
I mean, assuming for a moment that these are systems
which could
be used as spares for gear in service--thereby justifying the quoted
price--how exactly would they end up NIB in non-US gov't hands to be
offered for sale?
Lots of US military stuff ends up on the surplus market. Computers such
as these, things like gas masks and flak jackets, shoulder-fired surface
to air missile launchers, basic stuff like that.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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