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LastChanceHotel
23rd November 2006, 22:17
Hello all.

I have four old machines getting in my way here - they're all roughly 500MHz - and I need rid of them.

If anyone wants them, feel free to reply to this thread stating when you can collect. You'll need to provide your own transport to Dorchester Avenue. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=g12+0eg&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=55.891534,-4.31076&spn=0.008363,0.027122&om=1&iwloc=addr
First come, first served.

They all appear to be working machines, but are untested - I will provide some RAM in each of them though, as this was formerly missing.

All have hard drives, CDROM drives (some have CD burners!), and all other essentials, and would make nice linux boxes to learn on. Sadly I have no use for them, as I'm using much better, faster servers in real datacenters for development work.

If these aren't gone in a week, they're headed to the tip.

LastChanceHotel
DAve
24th November 2006, 10:54
If these aren't gone in a week, they're headed to the tip.
Any chance of giving them to charity/recycling them or something if they're not claimed? There's an obscene amount of energy required to make a PC, just binning it is really wasteful.
GingerPrinz
24th November 2006, 13:18
You should advertise them on freeshare or Gumtree Jan, they're both good ways of getting rid of unwanted e-waste without it going to landfill.
LastChanceHotel
24th November 2006, 14:11
I'll freecycle it after 2 days then, I just figured you guys might want first choice :)
GingerPrinz
25th November 2006, 12:51
MATE!!!! You're in danger of being sued using terms like "freecycle". Don't you know that the Californian Freecycle group sued the pants off of EVERYONE using the name, so they now have to go by "freeshare".
Sid
25th November 2006, 13:57
I'll take the fastest one going with a cd burner if that's fine. Also, if the cases are ATX I'll take one case. Message me on MSN when you're around.

I'm going to make a dedicated pr0n box.


Edit: These aren't the computers we took for Pause are they? What is happening with rest of them? Can't remember how many we took, but I thought it was more than 4.
Ross2006
27th November 2006, 21:34
hey, you got any hard drives i can take for a mess around, well experiment
LastChanceHotel
27th November 2006, 23:08
Edit: These aren't the computers we took for Pause are they? What is happening with rest of them? Can't remember how many we took, but I thought it was more than 4.

They're the ones that got lobbed over the fence (well, Sid lobbed one, everyone else was sensible :D) after that night out at the QM.

There were 7 corpses taken home, one was an empty case, another is headed to Yega (the fast 1.2ghz Duron machine), another got raided for an ATX motherboard size comparison for my Amstrad project and that's it. When can you collect?
LastChanceHotel
27th November 2006, 23:09
hey, you got any hard drives i can take for a mess around, well experiment

Yep, got a vintage 130MB IDE hard disk here if you want it. You gonna be around in glasgow sometime?
LastChanceHotel
27th November 2006, 23:10
MATE!!!! You're in danger of being sued using terms like "freecycle". Don't you know that the Californian Freecycle group sued the pants off of EVERYONE using the name, so they now have to go by "freeshare".

Yes, I know this. However I've been part of freecycle for much longer than the new name change.

Lastchance
Exuus
30th November 2006, 13:41
I'll take one or two of them if there's any left. My girlfriend lives just round the corner.