21 Sep
2001
21 Sep
'01
6:57 a.m.
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
*sigh* Same here.
Peace... Sridhar
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:06:12AM +0200,
jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
Well, part of it was realizing that a lot of the machines I collected
because they were free/cheap/gonna-be-tossed were doing nothing but
taking up (needed) space in the garage. I will NOT toss anything that
I can give away, however - I gave away a bunch of 4/330s, 4/630s, etc,
and tried to give away the 4/690 backplane/blower/power supplies for
two years before I gave up and gave it to the trash man.
If there was a chassis, and you were closer to me, I would have taken that
system. It sucks that you are almost 2,000 miles from me.
I've
grown out of my "computers bigger than I am" phase
I hope that I will
never grow up. ;-) I know of some
people that reused empty cabinet sized computer
enclosures. The VAX-Bar is the most famos. There is somebody in the
Netherlands, that puted a refrigerator in the enclosure of a dead SGI
Challenge. The same was made by some people at a german Sun office for
internal use...
If I had the time, etc..