[ale] Hardware Announcement

[JackM]

Business or pleasure?

"Christopher S. Adams" wrote:
> 
> how many of those 486's does he have?  i'm interested in about 20 of them
> (cluster cluster :)
> 
> Chris
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jennifer Taylor" <JMTaylor at wpo.co.chatham.ga.us>
> To: <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 8:31 PM
> Subject: [ale] Hardware Announcement
> 
> > ** Low Priority **
> >
> > This guy I know who buys old hardware at auctions just called me up.  He's
> in Savannah.  He's got a ton of 486s, low end pentium, right now he's got
> lots of SCSI stuff, printers,  about 300 monitors etc.  It's all
> may-or-may-not work stuff, but last time I bought from him I got 10 WYSE
> xterminals w/monitors, 3 HP Laserjet IIIs, 3 HP server cases with various
> and sundry motherboards, about 10 1 GB SCSI drives, a SCSI CDROM, and god
> knows what all else for $300.  A Volvo wagon and a pickup truck full of
> stuff.
> >
> > Pentium 75 & 100s for $25 (that's motherboard, case, and chip mainly) and
> 486/66 motherboard and chip for $2.  Linux geek's bonanza.  I can pick up a
> whole bunch of stuff and arrange to get it whoever is interested if you want
> to tell me what you're looking for, or I can give you directions if you are
> able to get to Savannah in the next day or two.  Thing is, he scraps out
> most of it, especially the low end stuff, so you have to hurry up or you'll
> find that you *could* have gotten this excellent deal but he's already
> pulled the chip and memory and sold it for scrap.
> >
> > If any of you do any rebuilding to sell overseas or give to charities,
> this is a great place to get stuff for it.   The real geek in me just
> writhes in pain to see all this perfecty working stuff be scrapped when poor
> children in africa NEED LINUX!!  ;)
> >
> > jenn
> >
> >
> >
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