[tech] Computery Items for Disposal

David Adam zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Jul 11 20:47:32 AWST 2018


On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Felix von Perger wrote:
> As a follow-up to the recent "Tech Busybee", we have produced a list of the
> miscellaneous computery thingamies which we intend to dispose of on the 21st
> July (which is the date of our next busybee).
> 
> If you are interested in having any of these things, feel free to bring it up
> on Discord/IRC and place dibs on anything you might want to take yourself and
> make sure you attend the upcoming busybee to help out and pick it up.
> 
>  * 000 & 001: PS2/VGA KVM switches

One of those is mine - the Compaq one. I can collect at some stage.

>  * 002: Packeteer PacketShaper 2500
>  * 003: Packeteer 6500 series

Might be worth trying to eBay these two.

>  * 016: Unknown thing with knobs
>  * 017: Electron Gun Monitor

These always got kept as props to make things look more +~cOmPuT3rY~+
when required.

>  * 027: Cisco WS-C2948G 48-port "Gigabit" switch from last millenium

Belongs to Adrian Chadd, who is in the USA.

>  * 036: SunFire V480 4RU server

Parts out of this are eBayable.

>  * 041: 5*Sun JavaStation

Bin these. We never got them working properly.

>  * 043: Controller electronics & stepper motors for telescope which was
>    on top of Physics building in the late 1900s (which has since been
>    moved elsewhere in WA)

Probably should be returned to the original owners, if we can work out 
where the telescope has gone. We took it down in about 2009 IIRC.

>  * 050: windows 95 era PC with turbo button and dual 3.5" floppy drives

Isn't this the EEPROM burner?

[DAA]


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