[ale] [OT] Great Geek Giveaway!

[Brandon Wood]

You would do this while I am 600 miles away on vacation. You are in league
with my wife, I know it!

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the interest of regaining my basement and my sanity, I am bequeathing a
> large quantity of geekly items to ALE'rs who show up and haul away this
> stuff:
>
> desktops
> laptops
> rackmounts
> monitors
> cables
> phones (a really cool Linux phone!)
> scsi gear
> connectors
> rackmount slides
> flotsam and jetsam
> assorted parts
> motherboards
> keyboards
> mice
> ram
> cpu's
> add-on cards of various types
> hard drives
> printers
> printer network cards
> UPS systems
> cases
> stuff I don't recall the purpose of
>
> the list goes on and on and on and...
>
> Basically I want to convert my man cave into a pub so the tech has to go.
>
> 99% of this stuff will be $0.00
>
> A smattering will be a few $$ (the SAS fan out cables will be $20, a few
> other items will be $5, some will be $1 as this lot is brand new, unopened
> stuff).
>
> At last count I had 50+ PC's in my house. This is just nuts!
>
> Most of the systems run fine. Some may be for parts only. As the price is
> right, have a blast!
>
> I hope to have this extravaganza Saturday June 18 starting after coffee
> (9ish) until it's gone or I tap my keg and give up.
>
> NOTE: As I'm not sure I've compacted the stuff into a single area yet, I
> may need to assist is sorting and picking (i.e. I may have some bits in the
> free pile that I need to hang onto as I just did a huge grab and haul to
> start the process and was getting kind of sloppy near the end :-) and the
> area will get crowded soon so I'm going to limit the number of people in the
> basement at any time to whatever makes sense (so be patient!). I have a
> handtruck and will have the dogs in their crates so the back gate can be
> opened.
>
> If someone wants to offer ca$h for the entire pile, I'm listening :-)
>
> --
> --
> James P. Kinney III
>
> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> - *2011 Noam Chomsky*
>
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