[Cialug] free and not free hardware

Nathan C. Smith smith at ipmvs.com
Wed Dec 14 18:59:17 CST 2005


They were all fair-weather fans and turned their backs on cobalt when sun
pulled the plug.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave J. Hala Jr. [mailto:dave at 58ghz.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:49 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] free and not free hardware


On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 17:36, Dave Weis wrote:
> Not Free:
> Cobalt Raq2, capable of running debian, have orignal hard drive and
> another drive that has original install, $20

Wow, you are definitely not proud of that Cobalt Raq2... Everytime I see one
for sale the owners are really "Proud" of them and want what seems like a
billion dollars for them...

> IBM Netfinity 4000R 1U server, probably P3 in the 500-600 mhz range, 
> 256
> megs, 2 9 gig scsi, only one bracket, $50
> 
> Free:
> FreeGate 1U rackmount "appliance thing", has two removable drives, 
> looked
> like 10 gig or so, not sure what it is or how to crack it
> DLink DWL-900AP+, mostly working, probably needs firmware update
> 
> Strong preference given to people that can retrieve these fastest,
> preferably tonight.
> 
> dave
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