RE: Speaking of old hardware

I would suggest perhaps donating them to your local high school computer
lab.  Those would be great training boxes for the kids to learn on.  If
you look at the tax rules you might even be able to get a decent
write-off, depending on how you depreciated them.

Kevin

:$s/worry/happy/g 

 

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:42 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Speaking of old hardware
> 
> Anybody need any Cobalt RaQs?  I unracked a few today.  And 
> by RaQs, I mean RaQs (not RaQ2, RaQ3, etc., although they 
> were running the RaQ2 software).
> 
> :-)
> 
> Seriously though, what do ISPs do with obsolete hardware in general?
> RaQs don't even have enough sheet metal to make it worth 
> trying to sell them for scrap.  Who wants 10G (and slow) IDE 
> hard drives?  I think the MIPS CPU in my TiVo is more 
> powerful than the one in the RaQ.
> 
> We're not supposed to just throw it all in the dump, but what 
> else can we do.  We've got a storage unit full of RaQs, MAX 
> 4000s, USR Total Controls, SA600 ATM switches, Cisco 2501s, and more.
> --
> Chris Adams <[email protected]>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services 
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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