Re: Used Equipment

Jim,

Very well said.  Kudos.

Dare

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Langston" <jlangston@conexfreight.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: Used Equipment


> I had an old F45 that was taken in trade for an upgrade.
> We also had an expansion unit that held the DASD,
> tape drive, 8" floppy (or however big that thing was) and
> an external 8mm tape drive.
>
> The 8mm tape was moved to our new box, and the rest
> was stuck in a closet.  After a few months of calling around,
> I couldn't get anyone who wanted it.  I even called a metal
> scrap yard to pick it up, they never showed up.
>
> I wound up dismantling it and tossing it in the dumpster
> piecemeal.  I woulda taken it home and stuck it in the
> back yard for my kids to play in, but I take the train and
> I don't think I'd have much luck getting it aboard 8-)
>
> At this point you are probably looking more at how much
> it will cost you to get rid of it, not how much someone will
> give you for it.
>
> Consider, would you take someone's 286 computer?  I have
> a Toshiba T1600 laptop that used to be my bosses.  It has like
> 1 meg of memory, 20 megs hd, etc...  I just keep it around because
> it has an old version of norton disk doctor on it, and I use it
> to revive defective floppies.
>
> Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
>
> Patrick Townsend wrote:
>
> > You might try Pace/Butler (no association with us): 405-840-5515
> > Patrick
> >
> > Lurton Keel wrote:
> > >
> > > A business acquaintance recently replaced an old rack AS/400
(B/D/E-35?)
> > > with a 720.  They now have the old system and a 9370 that they need to
get
> > > rid of.  To date, they can find no one that wants the systems.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a used equipment dealer?
> > >
>
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