computer bits.

[Eric Gjerde <gjerde@mn.mediaone.net>]

well, having lurked on this list forever, (and apologies if this is
being sent in HTML- I am just borrowing this email client at the moment)
I am amazed at how wacky some people get over free hardware.

HOWEVER- this is your lucky day. the girlfriend is finally tired of all
the junk I have, so I am going to be basically giving away alot of
(wonderful) crap. this includes but is not limited to memory, (of many
various sorts), scsi & ide hard drives, lots of drive cables of all
sorts, some sundry old processors, I think there's a couple mobos of the
133 and under variety; a couple 486 era boxes, in various states of
disrepair, some pentium machines, again in various states of disrepair (
i have all the bits, really, just don't want them/need them) some funky
I/O cards (relatively nice Adaptec VL-BUS scsi controller, anyone?) and
other weirdness. also several different 68k macs, which all have quite a
bit of memory and are for the most part together. also some odd
assortments of crappy software. quite a few crappy ISA ethernet cards.
quite a few token ring cards. HP JetDirect cards, for token ring,
ethernet, AppleTalk, and ethernet/appletalk. modems. lots of pcmcia
modems. lots of junk.

I also have some items that I really can't bear to part with for free; a
21" radius monitor, a DPT SmartCache III cache/raid card (EISA, doesn't
have the raid module, but still it is I believe a dual or possibly
triple channel card; has 4mb ECC cache, kinda spiffy. neat blinking
lights on it.this works with Linux, as well.) some sundry EISA bits- I
have two proliant 1000's, so I have quite a few cards and compaq
paraphenalia(sp?) if anyone is interested. also an empty proliant 1000
chassis, which still has the keys and everything (you know, other than
being devoid of a power supply or anything else of that nature. I
debated throwing a deskpro XL mobo in there, it kinda looks like it
would *just* fit, if you are interested.) umm... lots of 8mb simms,
there's really no use for them sadly, I have been using them as
keychains and whatnot. also have lots of patch cables (well, cat5 cables
of between 6' to 18'.) lots of little mac to PC vid connectors. some
keyboards and mice of different sorts. possibly 6? laptop hard drives,
from 200mb to 1.3 gig.

Now here comes the real tricky part where I mention the catch.

I would really prefer to give this stuff to people who can't afford to
buy new things, and who are going to use this for linux or any OSS based
operating system. I really think the first part is more important
though; I think if you are a programmer for some company somewhere
raking in contract dollars, you really don't need some free memory. go
buy some. but if you are a student using linux or say you KNOW someone
who can't afford a computer but could really use one for themselves or
their kids, then I'm willing to give stuff away. including maybe a
monitor and a printer or something; I like to help people like that.
don't argue.

I'm also doing this because dragnet.org is out of business. sucky.

anyhow, if you are interested (for real) and are willing to be patient
and/or come pick up stuff, please email me at freelinuxstuff@email.com .
yes, I am fully aware it's a web mailbox, and I'm sorry, but it's just a
matter of not wanting to receive lots of mail at work... Last time I
gave stuff away about a year ago I got just tons of silly requests for
months. please don't email me asking me if I can do something for you
unless it's really worth the time... If i'm giving you something I'm not
going to format a disk, or fix something up, or even find all the screws
for you, unless it's really something that's worth doing, like setting
up a first PC for a little kid, and then I'd do it and throw in a
*shudder* MS OS license and disk and maybe a CDROM to boot. and a modem.
or whatever.

sorry for the long rant. I really want to support the linux community,
and if you know people who could use a machine for linux, or whatever...
you get the idea. I'm also willing to give laptops to high school
students to use w/ linux. and i'm flexible on that. thanks for your time
guys!

-Eric