Re: S36 emulation mode

The charities they had contacted did not want it.  The gent who pitched it 
into the dumpster used to have an iSeries in his home years ago.  (He 
actually was the local branch for a software firm years ago.  Him and 
another fellow worked in his basement.)

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 





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--- rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> One local company actually pitched their iSeries into the dumpster after
> they green streaked it with a upgrade.  Didn't want to mess with Ebay.

Not very good "due diligence".  Hopefully, it was a privately owned
company with the owner's knowledge of this.  Especially if it was an
iSeries (connotating something newer than an older AS/400).  In any case,
a rather poor corporate citizen example as a role model:  Dumping
functional equipment into a landfill, while also denying a local charity
or educational institution (tax deduction!) an opportunity to utilize
superior computing technology.  Rob, were there any opportunities for IT
staff to take it home?

Note that I am not a bean counter, and have no idea what role depreciation
and other IRS rules may have had to make it more worthwhile to dump it
rather than sell it or donate it.

Had a client a few years ago that still had several 9404 (? 2-drawer file
cabinet sized) CISC boxes in storage from several years prior with v3r1 on
them.  The VP of IT would not let them dispose of them until after they
had researched resale values.  I remember that it was difficult to get any
of the resellers they had contacted to provide something on their
letterhead with something that said that the boxes were worthless.


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