Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Dec 2018

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:

...
  On 12/17/2018 04:02 PM, Richard Loken via cctalk
wrote:
  I have immediate access to four Alphaservers, an
RA8000 raid server, and 
 the associated fibre switches in need of a new home. 
 Where are the servers located?  Are they in Athabasca, Alberta Canada near 
 you? 
Yes, they are within 1/2 mile of me...  In Athabasca, Alberta Canada

...
  Is the owner keeping the raw disks or are they disks
staying in sleds / 
 enclosures?  Read:  Are the enclosures sans-disks available? 
I can get the sleds if they are of use to you.  These machines all use the
narrow HP Storage Works carriers not the wide blue or green ones.

...
   They can be
had for free but shipping will most assuridly not be free. 
 Does it need to move as a single lot?  Or is someone (you?) willing to passel 
 things out (assuming everything moves relatively quickly)? 
All the dispersal, packing, and shipping will be done by me.  The owner
wants no part of it.  I am willing to send small quantities of things
hither and yon.  Shipping a DS15 will be hard work but possible, shipping
an ES45 will be seriously hard.  I am unwilling to box and ship the
RA8000/HSG80 but I am willing to part it out.

Anybody who wants to come visit Athabasca with a 1/2 ton truck can have the
whole lot including the 7 foot rack or a subset of the whole.  I would be
thrilled not to have to pack and ship stuff.

-- 
   Richard Loken VE6BSV         	  : "...underneath those tuques we wear,
   Athabasca, Alberta Canada       : our heads are naked!"
   ** rlloken at telus.net **         :    - Arthur Black