RE: ibm 3130 printer disposal

It's an eight year-old (or so) workgroup printer.  Technology has changed so
much since then that it has been worthless for some time.  When you consider
that PC's have no resale value in 1-2 years, and AS/400's become boat
anchors in less than 4 years, its not surprising that a laser printer would
age comparably.  A year after we bought our 3130 we wanted to get rid of it
because the consumables were so expensive, and comparable printers were so
much cheaper to run.  We couldn't give away our 2-3 year-old 3130 in 1999.

You can't just throw it in the dump either.  There's a computer in there.
The 3130 runs off a built in PC processor with a hard drive.  Our engineer
told us it was running OS/2 under the covers.  You'll have to find a
computer disposal service or recycle it properly on your own.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: James H H Lampert [mailto:jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 7:40 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: ibm 3130 printer disposal


> A 3130 is a laser printer that IBM sold many moons ago.  Mine is a token
> ring network attachment.  That is the biggest downfall to anyone wanting
> it.

Pity. If somebody were giving away functioning Twinax laser printers,
either free or cheap, for which we could still get consumables, I'd be
interested.

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JHHL