knightwise wrote to tassiebob <=-
So nice to here i'm not the only dumpster diver here. Whenever I go to
the local recycling park I love to snoop around in the boxes. Had a
good haul before christmas: 2 Lenovo Thinkstations (all-in-one
machines), 27 inch screen, I5, 8 gig ram and some spinning rust;
Swapped 'm out with 2 small SSD's and punched linux on them. Gonna give them away to some kids who don't have a lot of cash at home so they can
do their homework online.
(...), but I'm always more interested in the e-waste drop-off.Do you know anything about the cyberciruja movement? Translation to english would be: cyberbums.
So nice to here i'm not the only dumpster diver here. Whenever I go t the local recycling park I love to snoop around in the boxes. Had aI have a great tech thrift store near me. I've bought a lot of great tech there, but I'm always more interested in the e-waste drop-off. I saw 3
We used to have a FreeGeek here in the Vancouver area, which I used to love to visit to check out stuff. Unfortunately they closed down a few years ago. I have not been able to find a good place to look for old hardware. Is anyone here from the Vancouver area know of a good place to visit for this?
Hey neighbor; I'm in the PDX area. I also <3 FreeGeek - they still have their PDX location... I used to meet the PLUG [Portland Linux Users
Group] in one of their offices once a month - they do less public sales since covid, but I think they still sell online.
Its a bit of a drive, but we have a GREAT gem for retro computers [and other electronics] in RE-PC. Theres two locations; Tukwila, WA and Seattle, WA. The place is AWESOME; the one in Tukwila even has a cool vintage computing museum;
neoshock wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
We used to have a FreeGeek here in the Vancouver area, which I used to love to visit to check out stuff. Unfortunately they closed down a few years ago. I have not been able to find a good place to look for old hardware. Is anyone here from the Vancouver area know of a good place
to visit for this?
paulie420 wrote to neoshock <=-
Its a bit of a drive, but we have a GREAT gem for retro computers [and other electronics] in RE-PC. Theres two locations; Tukwila, WA and Seattle, WA. The place is AWESOME; the one in Tukwila even has a cool vintage computing museum;
https://youtu.be/O3aOOV8XeOs?si=_hoxJeXIeDZwn0pm
LOL, I should have been a little more clear, I'm in Vancouver, Canada. However I have visited RePC many years ago, and yes I should
definitively make another visit. Great Video BTW!
I went to their web site, I'm jealous that you have something so close.
We had two places that have since gone - Weirdstuff Warehouse and Halted Specialties. Both had huge spaces full of stuff. WW more computer-based, Halted more on the electronics side.
I remember seeing whole phone systems, Sun shoebox cases stacked 5 feet tall, RS/6000s, HP 3000s, 4-post racks, lots of intel servers, and thinkpads.
Ahhh; lol. I've visited Vanc B.C. and love it - got robbed for an ounce of weed just 10min into my stay!! :P
It was fun, tho - I was there around 10 years ago when one of the dispensaries was set on fire and burned to the ground...
knightwise wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Do you keep all your digital finds or ? .... I find a lot of fun in restoring them, playing around with them a little but then i mostly
give them away to charity or to kids who have a hard time getting
access to computers.
paulie420 wrote to neoshock <=-
LOL, I should have been a little more clear, I'm in Vancouver, Canada. However I have visited RePC many years ago, and yes I should
definitively make another visit. Great Video BTW!
Ahhh; lol. I've visited Vanc B.C. and love it - got robbed for an ounce
of weed just 10min into my stay!! :P
paulie420 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
They recently had some Sun systems - I am wanting to get one sooooo
bad. RE-PC is GREAT... if you want untested stuff, its pennies - but
they do know whats 'popular' and those [crappy even] Sun systems were priced just out of bargain pricing; $200 IIRC...
Also, if you want tested stuff you can find motherboards for 286, 386, 486, etc - but you pay... all-in-all its still a winter wonderland...
I recently bought a Dell enterprise switch for around $100 w/ SFP+
ports - but you gotta keep checking back as they change inventory
often.
Its an awesome place. :P
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Ahhh; lol. I've visited Vanc B.C. and love it - got robbed for an oun weed just 10min into my stay!! :P
It was fun, tho - I was there around 10 years ago when one of the dispensaries was set on fire and burned to the ground...
Did everyone in the area get high? :P
Old suns were great servers, not so much as desktops these days. Get an old Sparc 2/5/10/20 or an Ultra 1 or 2, run it headless (or don't run
the GUI) and it'd serve hundreds of clients a day.
I do salvage a lot of parts. Managed to pick out a broken Dell Alienware gaming machine. Salvaged a fast 1 tb nvme drive, 32 gigs of DDR 4 memory and a massive external power supply. Managed to sell off the powersupply on craigslist and keeping the spare parts when I want to upgrade one if
my own machines.
paulie420 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
In today land, I was thinking of running the GUI OS; not that it would
run great or whatnot - but I think it would be best for just
refurbishing a Sun computer in 2025...
knightwise wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I have some "home lab" gear that I have lying around too. Some old clunkers to test things on. I don't have a lot of networking gear and
run most of my test VM's on a I9 desktop.
In today land, I was thinking of running the GUI OS; not that it woul run great or whatnot - but I think it would be best for just refurbishing a Sun computer in 2025...
Yeah, a Sparc 5 would run CDE just fine and render some simple web
pages. Definitely would be a fun experience.
tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
If you're going to set up a SPARC 5 in 2025, then do what god
and Bill Joy intended and run SunOS 4 with OpenWindows.
tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
If you're going to set up a SPARC 5 in 2025, then do what god
and Bill Joy intended and run SunOS 4 with OpenWindows.
Forgive me, i'm pretty new to BBS'ing and am still finding out how properly reply to messages and post new ones.
One of the things I find frightening whenever I "secretly adopt some digital puppy's from the recycling-pound" is that you sometimes get very very personal insights into peoples lives. These things are often packed with haddrives filled to the brim with information that could lead to identity theft. I used to snoop around on some of those drives, but recently i've started to yank them out right away and secure-erase them. I don't even wanna know what is on there. Passwords, personal documents, scan of their social security number, personal foto's, working email accounts ... (not to mention data from third parties).. Gives me the shivers.
Do you keep all your digital finds or ? .... I find a lot of fun in restoring them, playing around with them a little but then i mostly give them away to charity or to kids who have a hard time getting access to computers.
Knightwise
Host of the knightwise.com podcast
www.knightwise.com
... "The fact that nobody understands you doesn't make you an artist." –Unkno
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That said though, I know I'm going to end up frustrated trying to get anything
before christmas: 2 Lenovo Thinkstations (all-in-one machines), 27 inch screen, I5, 8 gig ram and some spinning rust; Swapped 'm out with 2 sma SSD's and punched linux on them. Gonna give them away to some kids who have a lot of cash at home so they can do their homework online.That is AWESOME! What a way to give back to your community. I wonder if
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