Magnus on Tue, 8 Jul 2003 22:35:18 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Tech jobs and politics, and IT diploma mills



On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 10:12 PM, William H. Magill wrote:

Keeping old machines running for "historical" or "fond memories" reasons is a far cry from passing them off to others as "computers." (I have enough of them in the basement myself.)

What do you think pays for parts for the toys? I've restored & resold literally hundreds of old PC's in my spare time, PC's that would be thrown out by most people (which is how I got them) but embraced by someone who only had $50-$75 to spend on the family computer.


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