[rescue] old crufty hardware...

Joshua D. Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Jun 20 09:50:31 CDT 2001


Need a router?  Just drop a second ethernet into that machine.  Otherwise,
I personally would anonymously dump it in the hallway of a near by
computer science department.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> Heh - I was poking arond in my basement, and came across an old 386dx40 I
> threw FreeBSD on, only to see if it would work. The install was done over a
> 14.4K modem dial-up, all I had to do was boot off of one floppy, then answer
> some questions, give it my PPP dialup number/userid/passwd, and then next
> day (12+ hours later), FreeBSD was installed.
> 
> That was Sept. 1997.
> 
> Yesh! I haven't powered it up since Dec. 1997 - whopping 540 Meg HD, 16 Meg
> RAM, and a 14" monitor... I can't decide what to do with it... ;^)
> 
> Ken
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 9:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [rescue] RESCUE ALERT: Sun 3 on ebay, York PA area
> 
> 
> > Actually, that is only about an hour from me.  Someone has already bid on
> > it.  I'll have to keep an eye on that auction.
> >
> > --
> > Joshua Boyd
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Gil Young wrote:
> >
> > > Never close to me, but perhaps to someone?  Cheap, cool vintage stuff if
> you can pick up....
> > >
> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1247690965
> > >
> > >
> > > Gil Young
> > > Call Sign: KG4KVX
> > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
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> > > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
> > >
> > >
> >
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