<div dir='auto'>Thank you Steve, this is very useful information to have.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 6, 2017 3:28 AM, "Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font face="Arial"><strong>Warm Greetings To GTALUG,</strong></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">There is a Toronto-based non-profit ISP -- Toronto
Free-Net </font><a href="http://www.torfree.net/"><font size="2" face="Arial">http://www.torfree.net/</font></a><font size="2" face="Arial"> that
provides a free limited dial-up ISP service, and inexpensive dial-up and faster
services.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I use torfree as my backup dial-up ISP, in case my
paid dial-up ISP has a service interruption.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Toronto Free-Net welcomes donations of many kinds
of computer and communications (and other) equipment:</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.torfree.net/pitch/contribute-equipment.html">http://www.torfree.net/pitch/contribute-equipment.html</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><strong>Steve</strong></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">* * *</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Steve Petrie, P.Eng.</font></div>
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<div><a href="http://aspetrie.net/"><font size="2" face="Arial">http://aspetrie.net/</font></a><br /><font size="2" face="Arial">Oakville,
Ontario, Canada<br />(905) 847-3253<br /></font><a href="mailto:apetrie@aspetrie.net"><font size="2" face="Arial">apetrie@aspetrie.net</font></a><br /></div>
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<div style="font:10pt 'arial';background:#e4e4e4"><b>From:</b>
<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">Ansar Mohammed via
talk</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt 'arial'"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:alvin@netvel.net">Alvin Starr</a> ; <a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">GTALUG Talk</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt 'arial'"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 05, 2017 8:32
PM</div>
<div style="font:10pt 'arial'"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [GTALUG] computer to a good
home.</div>
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<div>I also have a DELL 2950 with 500GB of SCSI disks and dual gigE. It can't
run either VMWare or Hyper-V, but its great for disk IO.</div>
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<div class="elided-text">On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Alvin Starr via talk
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br />
<blockquote style="border-left:#ccc 1px solid;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">I was using this system as a file server for a number of
years.<br /><br />The motherboard is a Asus SLI/KFN5-D with 2 AMD quad core
Optron CPU's with something like 12G of ram.<br /><br />It also has a 3wear
8port raid controller with 8 SATA cables.<br /><br />The motherboard and case
are ok but the power supply had a problem and in trying to fix it managed to
fry the drives and drive enclosures.<br /><br />There are 2 4 drive SATA holders
and 5 drive SATA holder but unfortunately the back-plane electronics look to
be fried.<br /><br />If someone wants it they are welcome to it otherwise it
will be going to the recycling dumpster.<font color="#888888"><br /><br /><br />-- <br />Alvin Starr
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