[Noisebridge-discuss] possible electronic equipment donation from the Exploratorium

Zach Hanna chezbut at gmail.com
Fri Jul 23 20:19:19 UTC 2010


Michael,
would you or anyone you know be interested in old rackmount and tower rigs?
PII xeon; pretty sturdy, 4psu's each. Scsi raid.



On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Michael Shiloh
<michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>wrote:

> And whatever NB doesn't want, I can likely use at The Crucible, so I
> think it's pretty safe to take it all.
>
> Michael
>
> Mark Cohen wrote:
> >
> >  From what I know, the Exploratorium is closing down its electronics lab
> > because nothing has been done with it. My friend said that the gear is
> > old and likely battered up a little. But much likely works, or can
> > easily be repaired.
> >
> > I say go for it, we could always use things like variacs, bench power
> > supplies and freq counters.
> >
> > /Mark
> >
> >
> > On Oct 8, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Praveen Sinha wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com
> >> <mailto:rachel at xtreme.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>     Types of gear include bench power supplies, variacs, oscilloscopes,
> >>     frequency counters, vintage multimeters, function generators,
> >>     frequency
> >>     vector meters, etc.  A lot of it was donated by HP/Agilent. We'll be
> >>     doing a walkthru of the components this week, and will have a full
> >>     list
> >>     after that.
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm not an advocate of getting vintage junk in, but if it's recent and
> >> useful, we shoudl totally get it.  This may also be a good way of
> >> building a "wanted equipment" list for noisebridge even if we decide
> >> we aren't interested...
> >>
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