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CorporateRec's/ag nitrate's adventure

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Well myself (drew) and ag nitrate(brian) went to purdue's linux user group meeting for some free food and the chance to win a solaris machine that I so desperately needed. After installing debian on a few machines, (mostly red hate
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) we noticed a sign for "FREE computer parts" from a consulting firm that was going under. Brian and I looked at each other and said oh hell yes let's go. So we got another guy there with a huge flatbed truck to go with us to this place about 3 miles away. In all we picked up about 10 monitors, 6 cases (one a huge old IBM server case that is so badass which I kept) 2 complete pentium machines, 5 handfulls of IDE cables, ton's of old memory, 5 motherboards complete with processors, 50 keyboards, 5 old mice, 10 or so NICs, ton's of mounting hardware, a huge box of cat5 cable, an old AGP video accelerator, and ton's of other random stuff that I cannot even remember. I felt like PAB taking such a huge amount of stuff for free, it was awesome. We had tons of fun doing this, and seeing all those geeks faces light up with the prospect of free stuff. We were the heros of the day 😛
 
Originally posted by: agnitrate
Except we didn't win any of the Sun machines 🙁

Anybody got any that you want to send us? 😀

-silver
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After seeing what you got, im gonna give that a hell no.😉😀
 
Hey, I personally didn't get anything. We gave it to the group.

I really don't need old keyboards/monitors/motherboards since I have nothing to really run them with.
However...... a SPARC server? I COULD use that 🙂 For educational purposes only of course...

-silver
 
Originally posted by: agnitrate
Hey, I personally didn't get anything. We gave it to the group.

I really don't need old keyboards/monitors/motherboards since I have nothing to really run them with.
However...... a SPARC server? I COULD use that 🙂 For educational purposes only of course...

-silver
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😀
 
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
what's the specs on the processors and motherboards andrewtron


and monitors
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Nothing you'd really want. Old cyrix and pentium chips. However the guy who drove us got some pentium2 chips and AMD k6's

The monitors weren't bad, just like 15 inch or so, decently new
 
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
what's the specs on the processors and motherboards andrewtron


and monitors
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Nothing you'd really want. Old cyrix and pentium chips. However the guy who drove us got some pentium2 chips and AMD k6's

The monitors weren't bad, just like 15 inch or so, decently new
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your task now is to assemble 30 or so servers for no apparent reason
 
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
what's the specs on the processors and motherboards andrewtron


and monitors
Click to expand...

Nothing you'd really want. Old cyrix and pentium chips. However the guy who drove us got some pentium2 chips and AMD k6's

The monitors weren't bad, just like 15 inch or so, decently new
Click to expand...

your task now is to assemble 30 or so servers for no apparent reason
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Haha the guy that went with us is making a cluster. I am making a server out of that IBM machine. It's going to rival God himself.


😀
 
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