Free hardware

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Ansar Mohammed <ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

Thanks very much for offering these systems.
Reuse is better than recycling.

I've always felt that the more detail you include in your offer, the
more likely an appropriate taker will come forward.

| its a pair of Sun *Ultrasparc* 10s. 1gb RAM and 2x80GB HD.

Those sound quite useable.  It might be worth mentioning which CPUs
they have and which video systems they have.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_10>

I must resist: I already have an Ultra 5 that I'm not using.

I notice that this link doesn't work any longer:
<https://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U5/U5.html>
I hope Oracle hasn't eaten too much of the online documentation.

| They have Sun PCI Cards in them. SunPCI cards are basically a seperate x86
| PC in a PCI slot of the Sparc (akin to a blade). that uses the disks on the
| Sparc 10 for storage.

Which SunPCI card do they have?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunPCi>


Don't take peoples comments about your phone seriously -- they're just
joking.  As we discussed on this list, no mainstream phone is open.
The fact that Meego, WebOS, and Android are built on Linux hasn't been
that liberating.
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