Proper disposal of equipment: was Re: S36 emulation mode -- MIDRANGE-L

FYI -

In some jurisdictions there are laws about equipment disposal that require
you to have a disposal certificate for equipment that is thrown away.

The regulatory agency reserves the right to audit you periodically to see if
you have disposed of this equipment in the proper fashion, and *not* having
a disposal certificate can lead to some *very* stiff fines.

During our IT audit (over the last two weeks), one of the auditors told us a
story about a company that was fined $ 250,000.00 for improper equipment
disposal.

Check the local laws before disposal in a dumpster!

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 2:19 PM
Subject: 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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