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Old 8th March 2005 | 14:35
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drauk
 
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'Serious' hardware - free to a good home

We've got some hardware that is no longer useful to us, of which we would like to dispose. These are Sun 220R servers, with 400Mhz SPARC processors, 1Gb of memory, twin 9Gb disks. They cost about £25,000 about 4 years ago. Alas, they are worth very very little second hand. They would be perfect for someone who wants to learn about Unix (Solaris or Linux) or as a mail server, network file server, etc.

Free to a good home. My definition of 'good' would be a hardworking student, a school, a club or some such. Someone who is just going to flog it on eBay doesn't qualify!

A few other notes:

They are LOUD. You won't want it running in your office under your desk, in your study at home or on the chest of draws in your bedroom.

They are HEAVY. You need two people to lift them for more than a few seconds.

They are BIG. I will not post them - you'll have to come and pick them up (by car - you won't get far on the bus with one of these).

Reply to this thread with an outline of your intended usage and I'll get back to you.
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