Subj : Re: Am I the only one dum
To   : ACMEBBS
From : Spectre
Date : Tue May 24 2022 16:37:00

 AC> 20+ years ago...worked for a company which used old Toshiba satellite
 AC> laptops. They were running DOS 6.22 for a Medicaid provider in Arizona.
 AC> They just threw them out...rather than sell them to the employees. Going
 AC> through a merger at the time...they just bought new.

I don't know how it works over there, but here it was cheaper for a company
to literally throw them out, rather than sell them to employees or otherwise,
as it gave them a better tax write off, otherwise you had to declare what
happened to the assets and what was realised on them and worry about having
to fork out more tax on the sales.

Slightly differently, a company I worked for briefly had a number of PDET's
off hand not sure what that actually stands for but they were used to stock
counting during stock takes. They appears to use either 8088 or 186
processors, and loaded DR-DOS, 5.0 I think from memory.. also had the thing
of being able to transfer settings from a functional one to one that'd
dropped its settings for whatever reason.

Spec


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