[clug] Homes for old hardware?

[Adam Baxter]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2024, at 14:08, Luke Mewburn via linux wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm cleaning up a bunch of old hardware I have.
>
> Before I take it to eWaste at the tip in Mitchell, I thought I'd ask
> here if people were either interested, or knew of places that might be
> interested it some/all of it?

The green shed shouldn't put it all in landfill - I think they do try to sell some stuff on.

> There's a mix of 10-25yo x86 servers and associated parts including:
> NICs, serial cards, SCSI cards, DVD burners, FDDs, SCSI tape drives
> (DDS4 & other?), tapes for the tape drives, RAM, network cables, etc.
> There's even some SCSI cards from old Sparc servers.
>

Will take a couple of (PCI? PCIe?) NICs, RAM, and at least 2 DVD burners.

> I could make and supply a more accurate catalog if there was some interest
> (no point cataloging if it's going to the tip)..
>

I have some interest but don't spend too much time on my behalf - I shouldn't be accumulating too much.

> I'm not sure there's much interest in this any more, even
> the older retrocomputing stuff.
>

The Sizzle forums and OCAU are also worth asking on.

> Let me know either here or off list.
>
> (I'm in the inner North in Canberra, but everything is 20 minutes away,
> and I sometimes drive to Sydney or Melbourne)

--Adam