help requested in Arkansas rescue

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: help requested in Arkansas rescue
>   From: "Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com>
>   Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:43:50 -0400
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Gordon JC Pearce" <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>
>To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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>Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:26 AM
>Subject: Re: help requested in Arkansas rescue
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>> Does the storage locker cost less than the equivalent amount of aggro
>> from dragging a Cray home?  How many peace offerings has it saved you?
>>
>> Gordon
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>What would be the point of having the machine in a storage locker unpowered
>and far enough away that you will rarely go there to look at it rust?

One good reason is that someday resources will appear to fully utilize it.
That can also be read as keeping it from the scrap heap until such time.

The other which is ugly is people storing and loosing to financial 
disaster or other physical disaster(weather, flood or fire) large amounts
of hardware that end up as scrap.

I've had to pass on gathering some hardware for lack of long term supportable
space and in other cases where I've collected more than I could sold off excess
so it would not be lost to the trash.  I've also had hardware that I did trash
as likley of little to no value historically or as $$$ (mostly PCs of the late
XT clone and AT clones and the 386s).  To me long term supportable space for 
systems and board is stuff that can be accessed fairly easily and allows actual
test, repair and use.



Allison