In a message dated 8/2/2012 7:45:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jerry@tr2.com writes:
*** I wonder if any of it got shipped to the third world? I bet there are
plenty of clinics out there that would *love* to have some old, obsolete,
unreliable MRI machines....
No, I doubt it. Most companies trash it and take a write off. It goes to
companies who strip them down and sell parts individually. Years ago a
friend of mine got the name "Dumpster Diver". He worked for Perkin Elmer and
they would just throw the old 8877 spectrometers in the dumpster when they
were retired. He would retrieve them and bring them home. At one time he
had as many as 5 complete units which we later converted to 6 and 2 meter
amps for the VHF contest station. I think 2 or 3 still remain in the crypt
waiting for some other use. Imagine just heaving that stuff in a
dumpster? Also they would throw out half full rolls of wire with as many as
500
feet of unused wire of all sorts. Another buddy of mine retrieved all that
wire and has it stacked up in his garage. he was also a Perkin Elmer
employee.
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