>i can see where this is going... and i cant resist it... >Where can i get old cheap computers / parts? >(no, really) > >-Joel van Velden Well, you get a job in the comercial cleaning industry and you keep your eyes open. On Friday I scored four Toshiba notebooks (two T1950's, a T3400 and a T2000) that were being turfed out by a place in Newmarket. Two of them run fine. The third one may be repairable and I don't have a power supply for the fourth. In the last month I have picked up five working VGA monitors (one is a little faded, the other four are great). One had a pin bent over in the data cable plug - straightened it out, runs fine. The month before I found two working Panasonic laser printers that were being thrown out, plus an HP Pavilion Pentium-class computer (no RAM, no processor) the IDE ports on the motherboard had died so I chucked in an ISA IDE card and away it went (it's now part of the cluster). Plus an old DEC machine that I scraped for the SCSI hdd and CDROM. Plus a network bridge. And a couple of terminal servers (anyone know if you can get a DEC 200 terminal server running under Linux?) And if you came to the February meeting on clustering, most of that cluster came from a wastetaker out near College Hill... Oh, and that 12-port hub was from a company that moved out and left it behind... and the network cables, and most of the network cards... God I love my job! How many 486's do you want? Wayne ------------------------------------------------------------------- To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.
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