CorporateRec's/ag nitrate's adventure

[Platypus]

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

) 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

 

[minendo]

Damn and I was planning on going to that.

 

[agnitrate]

Except we didn't win any of the Sun machines

Anybody got any that you want to send us?

-silver

 

[Platypus]

We were thinking of talking in just acronyms all day haha. Someone send us a sun machine

 

Originally posted by: agnitrate
Except we didn't win any of the Sun machines

Anybody got any that you want to send us?

-silver

After seeing what you got, im gonna give that a hell no.

 

[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

 

[Platypus]

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

 

[Pepsi90919]

what's the specs on the processors and motherboards andrewtron


and monitors

 

[Platypus]

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


and monitors

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

 

[AkumaX]

in a different context...

pics?

 

[SSP]

I would've kept the cat 5 cable.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: AkumaX
in a different context...

pics?

We had a digital cam there, maybe someone got a pic. I'll ask around.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

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


and monitors

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

your task now is to assemble 30 or so servers for no apparent reason

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

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


and monitors

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

your task now is to assemble 30 or so servers for no apparent reason

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.

 

[Pepsi90919]

sweet

 

[Citation]

Drew, I wanna see a pic of your case, Bri tells me its pretty badass.


-Cit