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

[Michael Shiloh]

Thanks very much Zach, but I think I'm ok for now. I've had a number of 
computers donated recently and I'm in pretty good shape.

Michael

On 07/23/2010 01:19 PM, Zach Hanna wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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>
>      >> <mailto: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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