From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 2 1: 5:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFCCD37B99A for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 01:05:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0089.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.192.89]) by eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA25001 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 01:05:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA02836 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 01:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 01:04:17 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Looking at for Cheap Boxes Message-ID: <20000702010416.A2760@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm in the market for a couple of cheap IBM-compatible boxes. I'm sick of rebooting to change OSs. I just ran into these guys who are selling what looks like the kind of thing I'm interested in, http://www.deepspacetech.com/Hardware/systems.htm That is, ol' Pentium systems for $50 or so. Hmmm... Old NextStep systems being sold by a company in MD. Can you said Fed Gov't surplus? From what I see, it looks good, Pentiums, SCSI card is well supported, but I wonder about this "Cogent e+" LAN combo. All I have been able to guess at is that it _might_ be using a DEC chipset (on a DEC machine, hard to believe), but which one and if it is widely supported, I dunno. Anyone know what that is? And does "combo" mean UTP, BNC, and AUI (or some pairing)? On the other hand, if there are any of you in the Bay Area who are trying to dump old Pentiums or even 486s, let me know. I'd be happy to take a couple off your hands. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message