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I was in a thread elsewhere that discussed this same issue and I also
thought that shipping used PCs makes perfect sense. The problem is the
actual cost of the used PCs when other overheads are taken into account.
Appended is an excerpt from an email I wrote concerning this:-
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I have been down this "used p.c. road" to a very great extent. In fact,
I spent several days in the Chicago area with a first class outfit that
supplies good used p.c.'s to the Illinois school system. They come
licensed by Microsoft with a later Windows 2000 o.s. and a monitor for
about $150. FOB C
To My learned, advanced and updated colleagues on this forum.
It is not my intention to divert the current discussions or even to draw
you back on issues that you may have already probably discussed in the
past.
I still get back to the first issue I earlier raised on procurement of
the so called
