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In the early 90's, my Bride considered the pile of computers around my desk. "Why not just get one big one?" Fast forward a couple weeks where I was shopping
by heelix 4y ago
In the early 90's, my Bride considered the pile of computers around my desk. "Why not just get one big one?" Fast forward a couple weeks where I was shopping at the Lockheed outlet store - and found a Sun 3/280s and 19" wide, 8' tall rack for $25. She was not amused to have a 'big one' the size of a fridge in our tiny apartment.
That old server has gone through many, many incarnations of hardware.
- kvandy 4y agoWhat did you run on it?
- geerlingguy 4y agoHaha you were technically correct, the best kind!
- rexreed 4y agoIs there a website or link for more details on that Lockheed store?
- heelix 4y agoI think it closed down when they shut down the factories here in the Minneapolis area (Eagan). It was a neat place, at the time.
- systems_glitch 4y agoStill have the Sun3? :P
- heelix 4y agoJust the shell, but it is loved. :) Will be housing a new threadripper next, when AMD gets around to the zen 4 releases. https://i.imgur.com/S5F31qW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/S5F31qW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SpMMPXQ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SpMMPXQ.jpg The magic had already left the old Sun hardware, when we tried it.
- systems_glitch 4y agoProbably why it was surplussed. Pretty much all of that era stuff requires hacking to go, nowadays.
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- rawoke083600 4y agoMan I will say it ! Before Apple made beautiful computers... Sun made very pretty machines (for that era !) I always wanted one of those purple beasts :D
- dmd 4y agoMy wife came into our relationship with not just one, not just two, but THREE NeXTcubes. I negotiated her down to one actually-working one and one decorative one, and gave away the third.
- toast0 4y agoI had a proliant 7000 (quad pentium II xeon) for a while, it was 16U and as loud as three vacuum cleaners. The spouse was very happy when that disappeared.
- triggercut 4y agoAbout 20 years ago I moved into a tiny studio with my first serious girlfriend. She didn't appreciate the beautiful sounds of my 1980's IBM Model M keyboard I'd been using since I was 5. Probably more so since I usually worked late into the night. Given another gripe was the significant amount of floor/deskspace used by my two 19" CRT monitors, I compromised, and replaced the Model M with some $20 logitech thing, throwing the M out in the trash. I really regret that decision.
- King-Aaron 4y agoLockheed Outlet Store - as in, Lockheed Martin?
- NegativeLatency 4y agoUsed to be a Boeing surplus store in Seattle found some great stuff there too. Bookshelves, desks, old and new machine tooling, gigantic wrenches
- toast0 4y agoBoeing does a lot of surplusing through EHLI Auctions [1] these days. Prices aren't always great, and I'm not sure I've seen machine tooling or huge wrenches, but big batches of office and workshop stuff marked boeing surplus from time to time. [1] https://cyberauctions.com/Auctions.php https://cyberauctions.com/Auctions.php
- vetinari 4y agoSimilarly, GE does it through Link Warehouse (https://www.linkwarehouse.com/ https://www.linkwarehouse.com/), but it is geared towards industrial equipment. I haven't noticed any office stuff.