given to the contractors had along a 50'+ long wall, floor to ceiling stacks of
surplus PC's. At the same time most of the school districts in the State, except
for the relatively rich districts, were crying because they couldn't put at least
one computer in each class room. I mentioned this to a couple of people in who
should have been able to do something about this, say transfer the surplus to
the department of education. They were still there 5 years later when they were
totally out dated and sold as scrap for pennies on the dollar.
At 09:12 PM 3/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Herb Chong said:
> who is responsible for surplusing equipment?
Oh, that's done by the group that has the equipment. But then it's essentially gone (unless they pull it back out of surplus under the same conditions as before). It will sit on a shelf somewhere for years and eventually be included in a pallet for auction, where it might be sitting with monochrome monitors, old pumps, a broken leak detector, parts of a PDP-11, etc. Then likely bought by a professional buyer of government surplus, who'd probably sell everything else for the scrap value and put the camera on eBay.
The whole system, including business trips, is carefully designed so that no employees can get any benefit or have any fun from working for the government.
> Herb..... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory L. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 11:20 > Subject: Spotmatic at Work > > > > But this is NIST, part of the US gummint. That means, due to efforts to > > keep people from abusing The System, the only possible way I could get my > > hands on it is if it were surplused, then if one day perhaps years from > > now those items are sold at auction, and I happen to be around to win the > > bid.
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