28 Nov
2001
28 Nov
'01
6:58 a.m.
It's time for a group of us to find the Utah
landfill
where they dumped the Lisa inventory 15 years ago...
Since you can find undecayed hotdogs from the 1960s
in a landfill, I'm thinking the Lisas should be well
preserved...
I think I read somewhere, that Apple had guards watching the landfill
until they were satisfied that all the lisa's had been crushed beyond
hope. But who knows, that could just be a story, and they may all be
sitting in a pile somewhere waiting to be booted.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
28 Nov
28 Nov
7:23 a.m.
I understand discontinuing a product but could never quite figure out why
you would actually destroy equipment. I mean what is the point?
George
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George L. Rachor Jr. george(a)rachors.com
Hillsboro, Oregon http://rachors.com
United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Chris wrote:
I think I read somewhere, that Apple had guards
watching the landfill
until they were satisfied that all the lisa's had been crushed beyond
hope. But who knows, that could just be a story, and they may all be
sitting in a pile somewhere waiting to be booted.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
11:15 a.m.
--- "George Leo Rachor Jr." <george(a)racsys.rt.rain.com> wrote:
I understand discontinuing a product but could never
quite figure out why
you would actually destroy equipment. I mean what is the point?
Scrapping them off the books for tax purposes, in all likelyhood. We
used to have to physically destroy our COMBOARDs before we could write
them off. If we were ever audited and happened to have product that
was logged as scrap, but hadn't been, we would have been in a world
of hurt from either the County Tax officials or perhaps the IRS.
It sucks, but if you scrap hardware, you have to render it useless.
-ethan
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29 Nov
29 Nov
10:14 p.m.
"George Leo Rachor Jr." wrote:
I understand discontinuing a product but could never
quite
figure out why you would actually destroy equipment. I mean
what is the point?
Because someone, if they got their hands on it, would try to
send in that old drive a second time for another free new
upgrade one, even though they weren't entitled to it. In their
position, I'd destroy them in a heartbeat. They represented a
future potential liability.
Ian
"They got two good eyes, and they still can't see ..."
George
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George L. Rachor Jr. george(a)rachors.com
Hillsboro, Oregon http://rachors.com
United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Chris wrote:
> I think I read somewhere, that Apple had guards watching the landfill
> until they were satisfied that all the lisa's had been crushed beyond
> hope. But who knows, that could just be a story, and they may all be
> sitting in a pile somewhere waiting to be booted.
>
> -chris
>
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
>
30 Nov
30 Nov
8:42 a.m.
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