Subj : Re: Am I the only one dum
To   : Spectre
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue May 24 2022 07:05:00

-=> Spectre wrote to ACMEBBS <=-

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

 Around here, computer assets are normally depreciated - instead of
 being added to the books as an expense and the one-time cost included
 in operating expenses, they're treated as assets and the cost
 depreciated monthly over 3-4 years.

 At the end of the depreciation period (which, if you're smart,
 coincides with your service warranty period) you have a system that's
 off warranty and with a book value of 0 at the end.

 Most companies don't want to deal with either legal data retention
 issues by releasing old hardware, or licensing issues. Realistically,
 they'd need to wipe the drives before releasing them.

 I'm getting to be more of a fan of computer leases. That way, you
 don't muck around with depreciation, and at the end of three years,
 you roll the lease into a new one. The department obtaining the lease
 just needs to include the lease cost in their operating expense
 budget monthly and not have a big hit every 3 years.

 With laptops that aren't easily upgraded, it just makes sense.








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

 Sp> Spec


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