3 Dec
1999
3 Dec
'99
12:26 a.m.
At 08:21 PM 12/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>FWIW: If he's under an "assured destruct" contract, and you're
buying from
>>him,
>>then you both can be in a lot of hot water if the wrong people find out.
>
>OTHOH I have gotten things that were scrapped under "assured destruct"
>contracts because the definition of "destruct" is "cannot be
reconstituted
>to work in the original application."
That's essentually what the DOD requires now. I think their wording is
that it "can't be used for it's intended purpose." But many scrappers
are
absoulutely forbidden to sell ANY circuit cards one some contacts no matter
who made it or what it's for. I know one scrapper that is also forbidden
to sell ANY intact components, even resistors and the like.
Joe
under those terms taking the PDP-8/M
out of a
machine tool "destroys" the machine tool because without its brain
it won't work anymore. But the PDP-8 still does :-)
Thanks for that info Chuck.
Most of the minis/boards I am pulling out I will try and restrict to
University/Factory systems. I don't want to get in any trouble... but.. How
the heck does he know which system should be destroyed or not?? (If you saw
the place you would understand).
If I do get the nerve to purchase a *huge* supercomputer from him (if it
comes from a manufacturer) then I really can't resell it...
--Chuck