Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

[R0b0t1]

On Wednesday, September 6, 2017, R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 6, 2017, Brendan Horan <brendan@×××××.hk> wrote:
>> Hi R0b0t1,
>>
>> Sounds good to me.
>> Shipping a 30kg+ system by it self will not be cheep.
>> This is originally why I had the idea to ship all the systems together.
>>
>
> I thought so. Shipping will still be cheaper than a used unit from
someone else, so thank you.
>

Sorry, still a tad excited and I forgot to finish again.

If you want to ship all the servers at once I might be able to find homes
for them stateside, but it looks like other people are already interested.
Also my budget isn't gigantic and that much weight that far is likely to be
expensive.

>> Specs are :
>>
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_sm/1/872/ENUS8203-_h01/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en
>>
>> Sorry its a single 4-core CPU.
>>
>
> That is fine. I did not expect to come into a 40+ core POWER server any
time soon. The cheaper servers are about as rare as the expensive ones.
>
>> Lets talk about shipping options, I am open to suggestions and ideas.
>>
>
> If you do not mind I am moving to a private message to discuss this. In
short, time is not too important so the cheapest of the carriers available
to you would work.
>
> I should be able to buy postage and transmit it to you if you have a box
and scale ready.
>
>> Thanks
>> Brendan (irc : undersys)
>>
>>
>> ----- On 6 Sep, 2017, at 2:04 PM, R0b0t1 r030t1@×××××.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I would very much appreciate it if I could claim the IBM Power server.
>>>> I have been interested in IBM's Power architecture and its supporting
>>>> hardware for quite a while now. There are not many machines sold on
>>>> the secondhand market and I do not have the funds to purchase one in
>>>> that way.
>>>
>>> Sorry for the follow-up. To clarify, I expect to be able to cover the
>>> cost of shipping.
>>>
>>>> The specs are mostly irrelevant as long as it has a Power
>>>> CPU, but they would be nice to know.
>>>>
>>>> The use for the machine would be to experiment with the novel
>>>> architecture while maintaining it with Gentoo, which would likely
>>>> spill over into providing support for Gentoo on IBM Power.
>>>>
>>>> I will try to catch you on IRC, but hopefully you receive this message
as well.
>>>>
>>>> Respectfully,
>>> >      R0b0t1
>>
>>