[ale] Hmmm....

[Jeff Hubbs]

I have been Jim's Goodwill and that is how I came to have a Hadoop 
cluster in my house.

Speaking of Goodwill, it seems like they all will *take* PCs but few put 
any up for sale. I scored a couple of decently usable LCD monitors at 
the GW in Athens last year. The one in Macon has been the only one I've 
seen in the past few years that regularly puts PCs up for sale. One of 
my best scores lately was a quad Xeon Dell with hardware RAID; it was 
sitting on the pavement next to an electronics recycling trailer at the 
Dekalb government complex on Memorial Drive. There was nothing wrong 
with it other than its Windows installation which was quickly done away 
with.

On 5/12/19 7:52 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> More of a "please reuse my old stuff before I send it to Goodwill" 
> than a swap. Or the reciprocal portion is a happy "Thanks!". :-)
>
> On May 12, 2019 12:33:18 AM EDT, Jeffrey Brown 
> <jeffreydbrown at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     I have never attended a meeting, owing more to social anxiety (and
>     now distance) than any other factor. I like the idea of free old
>     gear, but might a "swap" create a feeling of a reciprocal
>     obligation to bring something to contribute? Might that not have
>     the reverse effect, or at least negate any benefit?
>
>
>     Jeffrey D. Brown
>     GPG/PGP Public Key ID: A05E4182
>     ("It's an older key, sir, but it checks out.")
>
>
>     On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 7:06 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org
>     <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
>
>         Wondering if old hardware giveaways at ale meetings would
>         boost attendance.
>
>         Thoughts on a hardware swap?
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