[SunRescue] (way OT): Pallets

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Damn good series (honor harrington).  I'll also agree with the rest of
that comment, I almost got a sun rack (someone beat me to it) and did get
many other goodies that a local shop was throwing out.  Anyone know if
linux supports the older sbus multiport serial cards?
	Nick

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Mike Hebel wrote:

> True most of us work in the IT field and get cast-offs but a big part of
> most of the equipment I get is just keeping my ears open.  I only rarely buy
> things.
> 
> For instance - how I got the Macs, an Alpha, quite a few VT terminals, as
> well as some other stuff:
> I was helping a good friend of mine with his system at home and happened to
> mention to his father that I was a packrat at heart.  His eyes lit up and
> said "We're throwing some stuff out at work want to stop buy and take a look
> at it?".  Now even had I not worked in the IT field he probably would have
> said this because he knows how much of a computer enthusiast I am.
> Regardless my friend and I went to his office with my friend's pickup and
> basically reduced a 30 foot diameter pile of equipment to 1/3 it's size by
> the time we were done.  Thus I ended up with 6 Quadra(s) of various types
> and 6 Mac SE(s) of various types as well as quite a few more pieces of
> equipment.  (I even got a couple of easily repaired chairs for my home
> office.)
> 
> You just have to keep your feelers out there and draw things to you.
> 
> "What we don't have we'll make.  What we can't make we'll borrow.  What we
> can't borrow we'll steal." - Honor Harrington, On Basilisk Station.
> 
> As for the Mac I'm not interested unless it's PPC in nature.  (I have far
> too many 68K Macs.)
> ;-)
> 
> Mike Hebel