Japanese computers

[Bjørn]

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:12:55 +0200, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>  
wrote:

> vrs wrote:
>> From: "Bob Bradlee" <Bob at BRADLEE.ORG>
>>
>>> In the referb center we pushed them off moving vans and
>>   No wonder there are so few of these machines left ;-)!
>>  (I have always heard that the van should be stopped, and the machine  
>> lowered slowly :-).)
>>      Vince
>
> Most IBM retail kit (the stuff they use for EPOS) would survive that  
> quite happily.  You might want to reseat some cables and reboot, just  
> like we tell the people in the stores to do.
>
I remember a case when an NCR Century was dropped onto the pier in an  
unloading accident. The packing crate was splintered, and the insurance  
agent immediately wrote it off. A couple of NCR CEs bought it as scrap,  
straightened the bent brackets holding the core modules, and had it up and  
running in short time. I think they made a tidy profit on that.

-- 
-bv