Fw: Tell your friends: Free hardware

From: Robert F. Schaefer <rschaefe_at_gcfn.org>
Date: Sun Dec 1 19:28:00 2002

Culled from c.s.s.h... No affiliation, replys to author, yadda yadda
yadda...

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "bolt thrower" <tucansam_at_whodis.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,misc.forsale.computers.workstati
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Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 8:18 PM
Subject: Tell your friends: Free hardware


> i have a bunch of free sun, sgi, cisco, and other gear that i need to get
> rid of. you have to come get it. i'm not going to reserve anything, you
> show up here first, you get to take whatever you want. bring a truck --
> hell, bring two! i am in petaluma, california, 70 minutes north of san
> fran, in sonoma county. i'm home in the evenings. next sunday, anything
> that is left is going to the dump, so please, PLEASE come and take this
> stuff away.
>
> * one sgi 20" monitor, granite, with cable and remote, works perfectly. i
> was using it on my indigo. i am keeping my indigo boxed up for use later,
> but can't really see keeping this giant monitor around.
>
> * one same as above with a little blur in one of the corners. i don't
> know which of the two monitors it is (i am dumb and didn't mark the bad
> one) and i don't have an sgi readily available to test it. come and take
> your chances, or just grab both. please?
>
> * one sun 16" monitor with cable. had it on my ultra2. works fine. a
> little small by today's standards, and just a tad on the dim side, works
> great.
>
> * sun a1000 disk array. with three trays, a gang of 2gb disks in sleds,
> some extra controller parts, some cables, and whatever else i can come up
> with. it powers up. lots of drives spin and it sounds cool. that's all
> i know.
>
> * a bunch of SPARC stuff. keyboards, mice, whatever. I have a SPARCcard
> somewhere. I'm not sure if it works, but it sure looks cool. ome and
> get it and hang it in your cube. you boss will give you a raise for being
> such a geek.
>
> * some token ring and fddi stuff. concentrators and cables and nics and
> what not.
>
> * whatever ethernet stuff i can find (little netgear type hubs, swithces,
> blah blah)
>
> i have a whole closet full of stuff that i am cleaning out so i may post a
> follow up to this message if i find more big stuff. otherwise basically
> you can expect to find a large pile of crap sitting in the middle of my
> living room, and you and some pals can come and get whatever you want.
> the more you take the happier you'll be, i promise. if you come and take
> _all_ of it, you will be destined to live a long life, and beautiful women
> will want to be with you.
>
> its all free, but if you feel compelled to give me something in return, i
> am looking for reloading equipment and 9mm and .40 S&W ammo. beer is
> always good, too.
>
> yay!
>
> email me at jmw _at_ panix _dot_ com to arrange for you to come up here.
> if you don't live in the bay area but know someone who does, send this to
> them, ok?
>
> thanks.
Received on Sun Dec 01 2002 - 19:28:00 GMT