17 Nov
2002
17 Nov
'02
5:07 p.m.
Quothe Hans B Pufal, from writings of Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:31:34PM +0100:
Of course insurance value and actual market price are
two different
things, and we had many a lively discussion about how to value the old
irreplaceable machines.
Ah yes, the arguments between the sensible who rightly claim that
these machines are not to be valued monetarily but in hack value by
those who will trade them and give them away versus those [#&*@#%@*!]
who collect them not for the fun of hacking on them, but for expected
monetary rewards if, or when, the value increases over time. The
later will result in the eventual destruction, or ensured uselessness,
of compters, which will end up being stored away, unused, never
modified and never repaired if they are used and cease to function,
typically wasting away in some storage area somewhere waiting for the
next auction.
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