A friend of mine works for a smaller company that gave the
obsolete computers to the employees. The catch was that
due to Microsofts lawyers, they felt it necessary to format the
hard drives first. A PC without an OS isn't of much use to
many people. The cost of legal copy of win9.x exceeds the
value of the PC.
On 10 Aug 01, at 12:04, Howard Schwartz wrote:
> This question may be an old one related to previous texts:
>
> I worked at Bank of America Securities once, and that year they switched
> all their Dec PCs for Compaq PCs. I asked the DEC technician what he or
> his company was going to do with the old DECs?
>
> He was pretty sure they would just throw the keyboards and mice away, and
> he thought there was a chance the rest of the machines would receive
> roughly the same treatment.
>
> Another company I worked for - I think it was Sun - did have an employee
> sale where employees had a chance to buy older workstations cheap before
> they went the way of the landfill(?).
>
> What to large companies and/or their hardware suppliers do with ``old,
> outdated'' pcs (you know a year old with CPUs of only 500Mhz) when they
> upgrade? And why are there not movements to salvage more of them?
>
>
> Howard Schwartz
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