Terminal bashing (Re: POSIX bashing)

[Bob Bondi]

In article <chuck.672623199 at mrcnext> chuck at mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (charles bridgeland) writes:
>peter at ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>>> many Datamedia 1521 terminals to whoever auctions them off. They'd
>>> simply SMASH the screens, and throw them away.
>
>>(I'm sorry, but this is insane. Your Government In Action)

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>indeed, my place of work is shortly going to be tossing many of their old 
>ibm pcs--like, right out in the dumpster.  they never have done anything
>with them that a c64 couldn't do, but they've been replaced with model
>30s and 50, w/ color and hd--gotta have the latest.
>
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We have bunches of XT's that we are getting rid of. Turns out our legal
group found it would cost us more to do all the paperwork and accounting
and tax preperation stuff than to just toss them out! So toss them we are.