Where Do Computers Go When They Die?; Into the Attic, Under the Ping-Pong Table -- but Hardly Ever Into the Trash

IF Americans treated dead people the way they treat dead computers, their basements and closets would be cluttered with family corpses. Under many a desk, there would be a cadaver crammed into the arch meant for knees. Whole warehouses and offices would function as ad hoc mausoleums. And only the diligent few, whether out of conscience or lack of space, would dispose of the departed properly. The rest, unable to let go or to find a proper resting place, would offer excuses like, ''He cost me...

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