On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:06:12AM +0200, jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
> > > I've grown out of my "computers bigger than I am" phase
> > I hope that I will never grow up. ;-)
>
> Well, part of it was realizing that a lot of the machines I collected
> because they were free/cheap/gonna-be-tossed were doing nothing but
> taking up (needed) space in the garage. I will NOT toss anything that
> I can give away, however - I gave away a bunch of 4/330s, 4/630s, etc,
> and tried to give away the 4/690 backplane/blower/power supplies for
> two years before I gave up and gave it to the trash man.
If there was a chassis, and you were closer to me, I would have taken that
system. It sucks that you are almost 2,000 miles from me.
> > I know of some people that reused empty cabinet sized computer
> > enclosures. The VAX-Bar is the most famos. There is somebody in the
> > Netherlands, that puted a refrigerator in the enclosure of a dead SGI
> > Challenge. The same was made by some people at a german Sun office for
> > internal use...
>
> If I had the time, etc..
*sigh* Same here.
Peace... Sridhar
Received on Fri Sep 21 2001 - 13:57:28 BST
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