Re: FWD:Light pens anyone?

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Rich Brearley wrote:

> We are restructuring our back work room and find that we have hundreds of PC 
>light pen assemblies for PCs once used in clinical workstations.  Does anyone 
>have an idea of how we may sell these?  Just trying to see if we can get them 
>to someone who can use them before summarily trashing this expensive stuff.
>

The accountant in me first asks: what's the current book value after 
depreciation? Then I ask myself what's the value of donation to some charitable 
outfit you don't like that you want to dump a worthless, outdated, piece of 
hardware onto.  JUST KIDDING! (on the second part)  Then you have to ask, 
what's the
cost to dump this at the local land fill.  Then you call a local community 
college or voch-tech and ask if they will take them off your hands for training 
purposes.

(tongue still sort of in cheek) Let's face it, in this day and age, if it's 
over 5 years old...it's boat anchor. :)  Although I spent last weekend at a 
local chapter of Big Brother/Big Sister that is running a network of 486sx/33 
WFWG 3.11 over DOS 5.0 with a NT 3.51 server that would LOVE a decent donation!
You could find an organization to capitalize on the equipment, but it may 
require the expertise on implementation/training to give it any real value.  
Could be good PR for the donating company.

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