[tech] Old sun gear

[Matt Didcoe]

Anyone want anything off this list? Contact Andrew directly.

> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Andrew Shackleton <andyshack at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Oh yeah, theres a small amount of cisco gear. none available gb although it may be of use for someone building a prac lab. some bits do have a few gb "uplinks?" i forget what theyre called. maybe some WICS kicking around still and some old 16xx routers.
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>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Andrew Shackleton <andyshack at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> No delay at all. I left that for your logs as 5am was getting a bit too late to be looking for the UCC mailing list.
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>>> I'm LLB at Murdoch and I was on UWA campus yesterday which reminded me of the UCC.. I think I was last up there 15 years ago. Dispense had jolt.
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>>> Long story short this gear as I'm sure you know is heavy and there is little market for old enterprise technology about in Perth, most of it's not viable to even bother selling although it does pain me that it would just end up as unrecycled landfill. I would keep it although I just dont have the time for it anymore.
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>>> I don't have a list of what is being disposed of although off the top of my head there are some e450's all fully loaded with spares.. one is brand new (despite being 10 years old) 220s, 280s etc (these crunch code fast, I think they are SpacrcII IIRC) , The quad cpu 4u versions of the 450's, ah there are at least 5 A1000 arrays and there should be a loaded fiber san t3 somewhere.
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>>> I noticed reading your freshers guide that you have 2 x u80's.. I also have 2 of those kicking although I do recall ditching one of the ram expansion boards from one unit. They do however have some form of fancy video cards.
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>>> There are also some sunrays, some still new in boxes for the avid collector if there is one amongst you.. I sadly dont have any cards kicking around for them for hot desking (which i find very cool, works over wan too although theyre $2 on ebay)
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>>> Moving on from there there are some V2xx's v240s SparcIII dual cpu and a fully loaded v880, i think it has 64 gig ram. These units still have some commercial value and i'm tossing up what to do with them. There must be at least 50 spare scsi drives ranging from 18 - 72gb.
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>>> Theres also some 1u pizza box p4's and a few 4u loaded dual xeons w scsi raid. now that i think of it theres some compaq dl 2u's although they are p3's.. and a dell 4u something..
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>>> I'm keen to join up with the club as Id like to have a tinker with some basic robotics and ill be on campus anyway. If the robogeeks want to work something out with the psychologically disturbed sun / unix crowd I'm more than happy to trade some of the decent gear. the rest of it is free. (and if all else fails you can have the lot.)
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>>> I'm sure theres a lot more than that kicking around, i just havent been paying it much attention as of late.
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>>> There are also some genuine sun racks. 42U, purple with dual power dist. They do look cool and i will miss them.
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>>> As i remember there are also some d1000 arrays although i should get the data off of them first. maybe interested parties may like to give me a hand. ZFS as i'm sure youre familiar with is an incredible file system.
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>>> Lots of scsi cables.. stacks of spares inc ram.
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>>> Ill head down to the data centre tomorrow and see what else is kicking around.
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>>> Apart from trade / barter for the better gear, this equipment is only being offered with the impression that members are not going to be taking it solely for resale or commercial use. That wouldnt be cool. Know what I mean ?
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>>> Let me know if any of that sounds interesting. Its currently located in Melville and im even happy to help with moving some of it. I;ve got a truck and trailer. Get the freshers to carry it up the stairs into the ucc if any of its heading that way though please :)
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>>> On a side note, there are also about 300 brand new CB style external speakers. someone must want a few of these. (Take them all, please, they are still neatly boxed in packs of 50 i think) Theres also a few m3 of esoteric electronics equipment. Ill have to sort it out to whats exactly in there.
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>>> I knew I shouldn't have thrown out 100 mini lcd screens last week. I had just been tripping over them for a few months. Sorry.
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>>> Oh, there's also 2 x 21" crt sun monitors. they came with the u80's and Ive been holding onto them for uber high res photo work although they can also go.
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>>> If you want to touch base feel free to drop me a line : 0404 2100 40
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>>> More than happy to assist interested parties / UCC setup some of it as there are a few knacks and tricks that can really stump new players.
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>>> Do you have a refurbish program for those that cant afford a pc ? There are some p4 desktops hanging around that need the boot. have to get the junior to nuke them first though.
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>>> all gear generally has fcals and will run iSCSI if anyone wants to have a play with that..
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>>> Thats a bit of a jumbled email although i've been out in the sun all day and i only managed two hours of downtime last night.
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>>> I dont have the time to be nuking all the data although ill be happy after a discussion with anyone interested to come to some arrangement for them to assist. I cant hand over half an old data centre of data without some assurances. A handshake will probably due with a threat of legal action ;)
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>>> Thanks again for touching base. im up in subi if you want a coffee. What additional sun gear is the club interested in acquiring and ill see if its down there.
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>>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Matt Didcoe <president at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
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>>>> Hey Andy,
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>>>> Sorry for the delay - just catching up with everything on IRC...was in
>>>> at work this morning doing downtime!
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>>>> Do you have a list of what gear you have going? If you could send
>>>> something through, I can bounce it around and see if there's anything
>>>> the club or one of the members might like.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Matt
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>>>> --
>>>> Matt Didcoe
>>>> President, University Computer Club
>>>> president at ucc.asn.au
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