[simpits-chat] Ridiculous Purchase of the day

[Brian Sikkema]

Hehehe, will do.

Right now I'm grappling with the fact that they didn't clear the login, so I
can't get on the machine. But I found some instructions on how to get around
that, I'm just waiting on my CD-ROM drive so I can actually do it.

Brian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Buckle" <geneb at deltasoft.com>
To: "Non-tech or other tech related messages for Simpits"
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Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [simpits-chat] Ridiculous Purchase of the day


> Cool.  :)
>
> If you need help with it let me know.  I'm using a $50 Sparc 10 off of
> eBay for my nameserver. :)
>
> g.
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Brian Sikkema wrote:
>
> > So our school was having a surplus sale today, all sorts of crazy stuff.
So I picked myself up a Sun SPARCStation IPC + keyboard + monitor for $17.
:)
> >
> > It only had 480mb of hard drive space, though, and only a disk drive, so
I got a couple of external hard drives off eBay, and I'm bidding on an
external CDROM drive (it did have a SCSI port). I made a mistake with the
hard drives, though... first off, I bid on the 200mb one before I checked
the sellers other auctions and saw he had a 520mb drive (which is why I'm
getting 2), and I also failed to notice he was in Canada, which means I'm
paying almost $35 in shipping for $9 worth of stuff... ah well, live and
learn, I guess. I also didn't realize how big these drives are (package is
40x45x45cm). So that didn't help.
> >
> > But still, I now have a working Sun box! :)
> >
> > Brian
>
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