Subj : Re: Am I the only one dum
To   : Spectre
From : ACMEBBS
Date : Tue May 24 2022 19:42:00

-=> On Tue May 24 16:37:00 2022, Spectre wrote to ACMEBBS <=-

 >  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.

Looks like that was what happened.

Forgot to mention they fired me at this same time. 2 weeks before this...they called a meeting where they talked about auditors were coming in...so get all the pirated software you have off the systems. They didn't want to loose a quarter of a million again that year. They fired me...changed the passcode to their help desk software as soon as I got home that evening from a pay phone on the way home. After that...made a call to the BSA (Business Software Alliance). Explained about the meeting 2 weeks earlier. Never heard what happened after this...but with their past...should be assured they went in there with a finer comb than the previous year.
 
 > 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.

Wonder how much the software cost originally...to then be replaced. Wouldn't surprise me if they went to Windows 3.1 & wondered why they kept erroring out so much. Too bad they didn't head to OS/2 with Win-OS/2 where this issue wouldn't happened or if so...as often.

.... I'm not a complete idiot, some of the parts are missing!
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