[geeks] Another $previousOrkPlace Story

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Apr 3 23:29:16 CST 2002


On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:22:57PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> Of course, I need to pay bills and write code first, but I'll keep it in
> mind when I get the cash and need for a cluster of old SPARCs.

No, you misunderstand.  Come get it off my porch, and you can *have* it. 8-)

> I'm sure he didn't.  I'm actually fairly positive that what he thought
> was:
>   "You know, Jonathan spends just about all of his expendable income on
>    really cool high-powered toys, and he gets incredible deals on some
>    of that stuff.  He'll -really- miss a switch, since he probably got
>    it for cheap and won't be able to find it at that price again."
> I could've been a token-ring concentrator, and he'd probably still have
> tried to sell it, as he probably never even looked up any info on it.

Just wait until he sells something to a customer that *isnt* a switch, and
it fries some ethernet cards...

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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