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pcernie

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Old computers 'cost taxman £11bn'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/europe/8405101.stm


	Quote: Latest estimates suggest that £11.2bn of the £27.7bn owed in March this year is unlikely to be collected.

Now, I'm wondering if that was just the money for March

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Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:31 am

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Re: Old computers 'cost taxman £11bn'

They should try working where I am... Most of the machines are still 256MB Athlon XP 1.2Ghz! :shock:

They can't even run Windows XP effectively, let alone run something like MS Office 2003 on it!

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Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:25 am

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Re: Old computers 'cost taxman £11bn'

My old work used to have the same issue. Thankfully they realised that Pentium III's weren't up to the job and hey got Athlon 64's instead.

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Re: Old computers 'cost taxman £11bn'

Pentium IIIs? We still have a couple of 286s pottering along under one desk and they threw out some Pentium and Pentium II machines this year! :shock:

We still have an original IBM PC dual floppy in the cupboard! :lol:

Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:45 pm

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