30 Oct
2005
30 Oct
'05
4:56 a.m.
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:12:55 +0200, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>
wrote:
vrs wrote:
I remember a case when an NCR Century was dropped onto the pier in an
unloading accident. The packing crate was splintered, and the insurance
agent immediately wrote it off. A couple of NCR CEs bought it as scrap,
straightened the bent brackets holding the core modules, and had it up and
running in short time. I think they made a tidy profit on that.
--
-bv
From: "Bob Bradlee" <Bob at
BRADLEE.ORG>
Most IBM retail kit (the stuff they use for EPOS) would survive that
quite happily. You might want to reseat some cables and reboot, just
like we tell the people in the stores to do.
In the referb center we pushed them off moving
vans and
No wonder there are so few of these machines left ;-)!
(I have always heard that the van should be stopped, and the machine
lowered slowly :-).)
Vince