5 Jun
2010
5 Jun
'10
3:24 p.m.
Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 05/06/2010 04:42, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Hmm, similar thing happened at my uni with Indys at around the same time -
except the machines were bolted down, but the thieves cut holes in the tops of
the cases and pulled the RAM out that way.
cheers
Jules
DRAM in the 80's was a scarce commodity in
the US, when the government
imposed anti-dumping penalties on the big Asian makers. It was pretty
ugly; there were even some break-ins in Silicon Valley for the sole
purpose of stealing DRAM.
I have an SGI Indy that was free thanks to that. It must have been
about 15 years ago, when they were fairly new, and our department bought
a whole lot for a new lab.