[Gllug] OT: Swapping ThinkPad 560E for a Sparc 5

[Richard Cottrill]

What happened to the GLLUG wiki? I recall Janet was doing bits and pieces there... Wouldn't a 
wiki be a good way to implement this sort of thing. Imposing a schema on the entries 
(wanted/offered) could help searching (both manual and automated) and notification of 
people. I don't know if a wiki allows that sort of mandatory schema/notification, but I believe 
they're pretty flexible. Notification could be done via a page scraper email script if nothing else.

Just a thought on the topic.

Richard

Quoting Formi <formi at blueyonder.co.uk>:

> 
> Thanks, I wasn't aware of the last bit, about the detection of
> keyboard/monitor.
> 
> But as I said I prefer all the bits, I'm thinking right now I don't
> believe it is really easy to find keyboards/mice, so I prefer to
> have them just in case in the future I decide to use it as a desktop.
> 
> I shouldn't mention I have to move a lot of stuff before being able
> to get to my bed...
> 
> Well I also have a desktop buried under some tons of clothes, that I
> wouldn't mind getting rid of:
> 
> AMD K6-500
> Asus P5A motherboard
> 128Mb Ram, 30GB hard disk
> Matrox Mystique 220
> 17" Monitor, 3Com NIC Soundblaster 128PCI
> 
> That is basically collecting dust when I'm not installing mdk or
> freebsd, used just as a nfs server.
> 
> By the way it's just an idea, but I'm thinking about setting up a
> "junk swap site" for the gllug + lonix people...
> 
> If somebody has ideas about how to implement this, mail me.
> 
> 
> Formi
> FreeBSD 4.7 ThinkPad 570
> Linux Registered User #235743
> 
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Ian Northeast wrote:
> 
> > Formi wrote:
> > >
> > >  Sorry, but one of the things I want to avoid is having to hunt for
> bits.
> > >  And none of those sparc 5s are complete. If you prefer I send you £30
> and
> > >  you send me back one machine ready to plug, and use.
> >
> > True, I think 10 quid even for an SS5 is pushing it a bit for a
> > reasonable one. You should be able to find one fairly cheap though,
> > certainly for less than your TP is worth.
> >
> > The problem with your plan is that it depends on someone on this
> > relatively small list both having an old SPARC they don't want and
> > wanting a rather crap laptop. This isn't very likely IMO. For instance,
> > my old SPARC isn't quite up to what you want, I don't want to get rid of
> > it and I have no use for another low spec laptop, I already have three.
> >
> > You might have a bit more luck on uk.adverts.computer, a much wider
> > audience if less specialised. There are a lot of dealers there, and you
> > are offering quite a good deal.
> >
> > BTW why do you want a keyboard, no monitor and a serial cable? I assume
> > you want the serial cable to connect a console; if so you don't need a
> > keyboard. A SPARC uses the presence or absence of a keyboard to decide
> > whether to use its own keyboard/monitor as the console or the serial
> > port. If there's a keyboard attached it will try to use the frame buffer
> > as the output device.
> >
> > Regards, Ian
> >
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